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I was but a spectator for that one, but the Imperial side did indeed pull the win against the Necrons.

I will add pictures of the file cuts I made for the muzzle break.

Shas, I just realized I've been gawking at this thread but never spoke...you are a maniac sir! And I appreciate that! Please show us more stunningness!

dsteingass wrote:Shas, I just realized I've been gawking at this thread but never spoke...you are a maniac sir! And I appreciate that! Please show us more stunningness!

Thanks! I just love me some tanks as you can see, and some of the oddest ones possible to boot! I will have the pics soon, right now doing cleaning, of the area, to un-clutter myself. I have seen some of your impressive work that I caught on Vik's thread, amazing buildings and scenery!

I have to agree odd looking tanks have a unique charm imo.

wow, thanks man...I'm blushing, I'm gonna seek your advice in the armor department then in future endeavors!

shingouki wrote:I have to agree odd looking tanks have a unique charm imo.

Hence why I like to make them as well as collect them!

dsteingass wrote:wow, thanks man...I'm blushing, I'm gonna seek your advice in the armor department then in future endeavors!

Hey credit sent where it is due. I like the looks of the buildings you have in gallery. Now you have me blushing as I know there are some other scratch builders with far more experience than myself out there., But I will gladly share what I have learned as I have made the scratch builds and the kits of oddballs.

I found a sprue with end caps on it from an old sentinel kit I parted out for other projects.
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Cap and cannon!
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Muzzle break, I used a semi-curved file, flat on one side, rounded slightly on the other, to get that shape to the slashes of the muzzle break, those will be chaos blacked to make it look hollow.
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Next step shall be the PVA glue rivets.

Haha...it looks rather happy to see me lol
I've been working on my Necromunda structure in realtime, its kinda fun.

Just commented on the thread about it, very nice replacement of card stock with 3d version of plasticard.

Yeah the breaks do seem like smiliey cuts like a Jack-o lantern.


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Hopefully this will get spotted soon.

More work and pics to follow

Aww man! damn the auto-append!..Wow, fan-frakkin-tastic!

Ok, caught up, but forgotten what I've seen Nice to see the old crow family shots, have to pick some of those up sometime.

Loving the T-300 so far, very nice. Nice work on the muzzle breaks too

monkeytroll wrote:Ok, caught up, but forgotten what I've seen Nice to see the old crow family shots, have to pick some of those up sometime.

Loving the T-300 so far, very nice. Nice work on the muzzle breaks too

Thanks Monkeytroll, I had a interview call and meeting online, but can now get back to rivets. Glad you liked the OC family photos as well. Once the T-300 is done, all is paintwork, on it, and other tanks that have been waiting for the full color hits and decals.

dsteingass wrote:Aww man! damn the auto-append!..Wow, fan-frakkin-tastic!

Thanks again. More to come in the next few hours.



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So, I have finally gotten the rivets done.

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As soon as the weather is good, I will spray it with black primer, that will change it's appearance a bit.

I may be able to spray it today
Have to see how the weather holds up.

Wow - I'm stunned by how nice this work is. Thanks for posting so much - hopefully us newbs can keep learning from you.

ChorusLucia wrote:Wow - I'm stunned by how nice this work is. Thanks for posting so much - hopefully us newbs can keep learning from you.

Hey no problem, glad you like the work, and hope it inspires others to make their own models, it winds up far cheaper than some of the resins out there!

For a low costs resin, I would recommend Old Crow, he is sort of overloaded, so be patient you will find the kits he makes worth the extra wait.

But yes, if you want a light weight, plastic heavy tank, these pics hopefully will show, I came up with odd designs in my head, I looked over many old tank pics from the 1920's and 1930's and so forth and got design ideas from those and then mashed them all together is all, and gave the Sci-Fi weapons to them. The pPVA glue rivets are by using an empty plastic cement bottle with a zap-a-gap canula tip(shave down the plastic bottle tip a little), and then practice how big a bubble of glue to use to touch the model, then you should get a rounded rivet as those applied via rivet gun(pnuematic) look. However I do warn you, cutting shapes from plastic will require steady hands, (to avoid cutting self, ) and to get the straightest possible edge(I did all cuts freehanded, next time will be along a metal ruler edge!)

Wow, one of my longest reply posts.

...and far more educational to scratchbuild than a kit (although I do love kits)

dsteingass wrote:...and far more educational to scratchbuild than a kit (although I do love kits)

Oh don't get me wrong, I do like kits as well, but sometimes those forgeworld prices are crazy!


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So, took the T-300 out for a priming when the sun showed itself today. Armoryork Tower black primer is what was on hand.
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All white spots will be covered by shadow gray, or catatchan green


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So, now to do the camo painting!

Alrighty, for all of the devoted followers lurking this thread, I have begun the camo pattern painting, I started with the "Shadow Gray" ( a very french blue like color). I also posed a IG rifleman beside it for a show of just how massive it is and how it can dwarf soldiers when in the field. Once I have enough plastic, maybe a Gorgon like transport based off the rhomboid design treads? Or just a simple platoon hauler akin to the Crassus? Any way, here are the pics of the first color laid out, I will post more when the Catachan Green is applied.

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I hope all are enjoying these views, and please leave comments too if you like, now, how to get the WW-I tunes out of my head?

Looking pretty sweet Shas!

Thanks! and as promised, the green added in.

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wow....so much has happened!!!! boy have i missed out on so much development!!! well... the sentinel caps was a masterstroke of genius proportions! these bits added lots of feel to the tank! i am a bit akward about the rivets...but as you know me i have come to love me own rivets done by my ever trusty holepunch so much^^

the primed tank looked a bit thickly at first.... but when i lokked directly for confirmation at the treads i saw that i was mislead....the priming is a good way yet again to tie in all bits and materials into one fine tuned tank!

ad now you even gone camo...so fast!!! wow...again^^

i feel a tingling sensation as to what you might present today^^

as for a new project of a masstransport.... you know the nice saying? just do it!!! you know we and you just want that^^

cheers my firend!!!

vik

Well, thank you Vik! I make do w/o a hole punch, otherwise, it would be plastic hole-punch rivets instead of the PVA expediency that I came up with after reading of another's use of them. It does however give that feel of modern rivet gun rounded out tops from those.

Yeah, I like the GW new chaos black primer spray as it goes on like a sheer nightgown over the model, Armory however tends to fuzz up a bit, hence the flannel shirt effect on the model.

Finishing up the black squiggles for today's bit and will post pics later tonight, or for your morning flakes!

Transport will be a while into the future, still have so many paint works to do!

funny you should mention flanel... that was the sensation i had too^^

yep the round vs sharp edged rivets discussion^^

looking forward to new squigglies on that tank...

oh and will we see those mentioned greatcoats with new heads anytime soon? that would be nice^^

have a steady hand... i will call it a night for now...

as it is weekend here...it will probably be high noon more likley when i see your updates^^

cheers, vik

Troops will get their new head gear soon enough, and for now the tank has it's third camo color added, next will be the details.

For now, enjoy.
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if you would be an apple automatron i would say you have a nice app for camo downloaded^^ the black lines are sooo cool looking and tie yet again the different colors of your camo so well together!

Looking great!

Viktor von Domm wrote:if you would be an apple automatron i would say you have a nice app for camo downloaded^^ the black lines are sooo cool looking and tie yet again the different colors of your camo so well together!

I see you caught the news of the Apple founder dying, But yeah, as the brain is considered a computer by many, I will accept that compliment for what it is! I have the apps! I even remember US/Nato woodland camo from when I had to refresh the worn out paint on our trucks in my unit. That they do! otherwise, the two colors would look "flat"

dsteingass wrote:Looking great!

Thank you kind sir.

Noe for the metals, and other color details to be painted in, once the machine is ready decals will be next, and then the dirtying!

i heard the news... but can´t say i was that much touched by them... he was ill for quite some time... so... and i am not on the apple hype at all...

but i think the whole ipod business got into mainstream thinking, so much that it even mixed into my comment^^

the whole process of your work is speeding up way fast you know that? wow... you already talk about mudding it up already^^

True, One day Macs may replace PC's, but not yet, they are better for art than the PC's in many ways or so I hear.

Yeah, I am closing in on learning faster processes is all.

learing curve... all right....this sis something i hope to benefit some day too^^