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Rampaging Furioso Blood Angel Dreadnought





SC, USA

Hi all. I'm running into an issue with some Rhinos that I am scratchbuilding. The reason I am scratch building them is two fold. A) I have always wanted to use rhinos that looked like down-sized land raiders, and even sawed up a land raider kit years ago just to see if it could be done. It worked beautifully! B) I'm cheap, and the thought of paying out the cash neccessary to get the 10 or so rhinos that I wanted for various armies that I have, but STILL didn't look like I REALLY wanted them to, just made my inner Scrooge twitch a little much.

Don't get me wrong, I like the MkIIc Rhino design, vast improvement over the predecessor. However, it's not like the one I built, not quite what I wanted.

So, I found plans for what I call the Mk IIIC, or what is more commonly known as the "Clouseau" pattern over on BWC-archive:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwc-archive/files/Vehicles/Warhammer%2040k/%27Clouseau%27%20Pattern%20Rhino/

I love it, and it's in the price range I love most, durn near free!

Anyway, to the meat: I was using .5mm plasticard for the rhino bodies. It looks like it may be a bit thin for what I am doing, in that it may not show up as armour plate very well. The structural issues I can get past no problem, but the aesthetics, hmmm. I just came into some styrene signs that I can use, but now THIS stuff looks too thick! It's at LEAST 1.5mm. Probably closer to 1.8mm, but less than 2.00mm. It's gonna make a Rhino look like it'll laugh at lascannons.

The biggest issue is that I am currently not able to access any type of store. What I have is what I have. Should I go ahead and cut out 10 rhinos in the .5, or use the think stuff?

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Homicidal Veteran Blood Angel Assault Marine





Los Angeles

Just my 2 cents...build the main bodies out of the thick stuff, which will the give the model as a whole some stability. Then when you get a chance to get 1mm thick stuff, model up the details/armor later on. I'm thinkin cutting out and assembling 10 scratch built rhino hulls is going to keep you pretty busy until you can access a store.

Worst case, you got paypal? I can pickup and mail you some styrene myself.

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I will magnetize (now doing LED as well) your models for you, send me a DM!

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Rampaging Furioso Blood Angel Dreadnought





SC, USA

You know, that's a damn generous offer Lormax. Not everyone would offer to make time like that. Thank you. However, the main reason I was inaccessible to any stores was that I was, as my sidebar thingee indicates, floating around on a ship off the coast of India. Unless you convinced Santa Claus to do an out of season fly-by of the bridge of the ship, there is no WAY it could have got to me. I got home for about 2 weeks, and made some decisions there, and

As it stands, I am looking at some other options that GW may or may not like (since it involves me not buying $$$$ worth of rhino kits,a dn they are a model company not a games company), so I will refrain from detail. However, you are right, cutting out all those damn things took forever. However, it's really the sponsons that take so much time, not the rest of it. So many damn layers!

Thanks again, buddy. If there's ever anything you need, let me know.

-griz

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Decrepit Dakkanaut






SoCal, USA!

If you bevel the edges and so on, you can get the 2mm sheet styrene to work very nicely.

   
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Swift Swooping Hawk






Scotland

You guys are giving me ideas for my BT army.

By the time V5 comes along, a fully mech BT force will be so much more viable for 40K and Apoc.

I've already got 2 Rhino/Razorbacks, 2 LRC's, 1 Pred Annihilator. They could do with an addition or four, of some scratch built Rhinos.

Fortunately, unlike yourself grizgrin, I don't have too far to go to get different thickneses of plasticard.

Cheers guys.



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Homicidal Veteran Blood Angel Assault Marine





Los Angeles

I was thinking you were on a Navy ship, with an APO address possibly. Would be easy to send ya something there

Either way, glad to hear you got something worked out. I've done a bit of work with scratchbuilding and plasticard so shoot me a PM with your idea and maybe we can bounce some ideas off each other?


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I will magnetize (now doing LED as well) your models for you, send me a DM!

My gallery images show some of my work
 
   
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Deadshot Weapon Moderati





the way these templates usually work involves a lot of layering. This makes it a lot thicker.

I scratched this Rhinofrom beer crate thin card and its very sturdy.



fieldable:
WIP:

sleazy builds a Reaver! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/207555.page 
   
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Thunderhawk Pilot Dropping From Orbit





The wilds of Pennsyltucky

The clouseau pattern rhino is too sweet for words. i haven't even thought of that thing in ages. I remember that Ben Durbin from batreps.com had made a few. It took him so long that he just made a mold and started making them out of resin.

Best of luck.

ender502

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Battleship Captain





Perth

Personally, I'm a big fan of 0.5mm plasticard. And like sleazy says, with some layering it doesn't become a problem. Plus, with the 0.5mm plasticard, you can run it straight through a laserprinter and print the templates directly onto the sheet.

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