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hello lads and ladies!

as promised here are some updated pics of the steamtank:


the blue shade on the tracks is purley caused by lighting an not there in RL...

some shots of the turret and the maingun:





the smokestacks...sooty enough?



like/dislike?
got socks to wash or anything else to add? feel free to leave a comment...^^


cheers, vik

That looks amazing!

I loved the concept but the model now is looking amazing!

thanks mate^^ i am quite flattered^^ tho i have to say i feel a bit proud about it^^ i have yet to get some GS work done to get the second sponson working as for now the stupid mortar/bolters of mine always fall off...average glue didn´t work it seems...

SOUPerb! Really awesome tank mate! Love the colors as well.
Never asked + must have missed it (there are 70 pages lol) how did you do that lovely circular crennelated effect on the armour plates?

thanks mate, wasn´t too sure that you guys would aprove of the dark and sometimes even in RL caramel looking tankhide...but i had to move with the flow and this is what happened^^

as for the

lovely circular crennelated effect on the armour plates

i just used cardboard between a holepunchset and after soe try and error work i worked out some pattern to get the shown effect...i think this might actully work for dark eldars too...somehow the spiky bit of the effect look right up their alley...
here are some earlier tries of the process...:


a failed attempt

and then for the real deal...


one day i will go back to my airship and will of course be revisiting and reusing this technique on the airship!

If I am honest your stuff is really awesome the tank and the airship are very inspiring.

One day I will have to actually get my own Plog started up.

When I have something interesting to do

well...thanks mate...again^^
somehow the stempunk bug had me struck pretty hard and now whenever someone gets to be told what i do for hobby he gets a lecture in steampunk from me^^ i think there can´t be enough peeps around to fall in love with that genre...^^

so feel free to anounce your blog whenever a particular urge strikes you and lets you produce something^^

Have you considered using tin bitz, highlighting up with shining gold to get a reaslly nice brassy effect on the decorative lattice plating and then an almost black/ dark red or brown on the main plating?

Would look cool I think, then it could tie in to the red uniforms of your regiment..... with a behemoth like that who needs camouflage??

That must have taken you Eons! And not to mention require ridiculous precision (With concentric circles it is easy to see a missalignment, i see none!).

I admire your resolve.

lol...at perkustin... there are mannnny irregularities in the fretwork...but i tried to cut down on them beforehand with good measuring...it helped to a point...but when all is set you still have to take the punch in your hand and then is the time where things can gop wrong... but i figured since i used the punched cardboard for other details and so on i could always make new parts with punched out details... after all cardboard i was using was so cheap it was in fact rubbish from art classes in my sons school^^ so in that department i am quite lucky^^
by the way, looks like eons but if i would have worked sharp and focused (a feat i am often unable...lol...) then it would only have taken me the better part of one day...i think the tank could have been finished much quicker...as i truly did^^

at dantay...i think you have a nice idea, the decorative plating might look nice that way, but i also think it might cause a too much business looking "look" for the tank. if i feel that way i might make some stripes at the fron of the tracks...in red and "whitish"...but i guess the most surfaces will stay as is as it is the look fom the classic mark V i want in parts honor a bit...it is my favorite tank design...^^ but i will give your brass recipe a try^^ sounds like this could look quite good...


cheers, vik

dantay_xv wrote:Have you considered using tin bitz, highlighting up with shining gold to get a reaslly nice brassy effect on the decorative lattice plating and then an almost black/ dark red or brown on the main plating?

Would look cool I think, then it could tie in to the red uniforms of your regiment..... with a behemoth like that who needs camouflage??

Thumbs up to this.

Vik, I know it may seem odd, but the contrast between the darker fretwork and the lighter plating on the tank will make the fretwork much more obvious as Decoration. Plus, you can never have too much Brass.

Nicer feel to the metallics there Vik, Now, all it needs is flat black to "soot-it-up" inside and on the upper areas of the stacks showing some of that dark metal you have there, and also a "trail of soot coming out of the upper grill on the engines housing on the rear, also blacking the other parts of the housing as well. Same deal for the flamers as use would scorch when used. Looking good so far buddy!

Viktor von Domm wrote:the smokestacks...sooty enough?

Would probably benefit from stippling black across that fairly obvious border between the black and the metal - otherwise coming along nicely.

The metal colours really benefitted from being darkened, although I personally feel you need to just get it dirtyer.

I have never imagined steam driven technology to be clean technology so it would probably benefit from a bit of oil and grime.

at anvildude...

Vik, I know it may seem odd, but the contrast between the darker fretwork and the lighter plating on the tank will make the fretwork much more obvious as Decoration. Plus, you can never have too much Brass.

so you think i should brassem up the whole fretwork?...hmmmm...could i get some more opinions on that? i have to ease my mind to that idea a bit by all your help^^

at shaso...

Now, all it needs is flat black to "soot-it-up" inside and on the upper areas of the stacks showing some of that dark metal you have there, and also a "trail of soot coming out of the upper grill on the engines housing on the rear, also blacking the other parts of the housing as well. Same deal for the flamers as use would scorch when used

could you possibly show me a more explanaitionary pic of how to do that? seems i have yet to really understand what to do next... sorry seems i reach yet again my limits of speach^^

at arakasi...
stippling with brush or should i use a bit of foam to sponge it on? and i give you that...the border was pretty crude even for me too...and it is in fact the second redo...the first tries looked even worse^^

at asylum_inmate...
i totally see your point...but to tell you the truth i am stretching myself here between posh brits (my stereotype picture of a victorian brit) and a suitable looking steamtechnology... in a way both would cancel out the other in my book...

Stippling brush if you can manage it, otherwise dry brush, though foam might do it if you are very light...

See, the thing is, the high-class people, and the stuff they come into immediate contact with, are clean and fashionable. But anything that's that severely mechanical and does not touch someone of high-class? Those are grimy and dirty, though they were constructed fashionably still.

The dichotomy between classes is one of the defining points of Neo-Victorianism, at least in look- For every posh pith-helmeted safariing Lord just back from bagging a tiger in India, you have a dozen grimy, sweaty, plainly clothed mechanics and craftspeople that run the ships and fix the roads they walk on. For every classy Queen's Agent hiding a Dogworth Custom Deathray in his suit, you have the maids and groundskeepers that keep society running smoothly.

So while the inside of the Steamtank, (and the upper deck of the Zeppelin, for that matter) would be shiny and clean and upholstered in red velvet, the outside would be rusting and muddy and sooty, because they're in the field and don't have servants and specially designed garage bays to clean and maintain the vehicle.

that is one hell of an insight you just provided anvil! and you are right to the small print even! when i remember old historical stories or pics form that time you do get that seperated class hierarchy... like oliver twist or sherlock holmes... if i am not mistaken they would both be of that timeline... and they would sport lots of plushness and even more grimy kids begging or like in my fair lady mr doolittle is a very grimy and down on his luck coal delivery man... this is a side of the whole steampunk scene i for some reason haven´t thought about but now that you´ve pointed it out makes so much more sense to incorporate it in my schemes...thanks anvil and i really do mean it! needed some motivating and supporting insights!

vik

Glad to help! If I can't boggle folks with my Steampunk Ork conversions, I might as well inspire through language!

Also, Danke Vik! Danke shön!

keine ursache^^ and yep it is high time for an update on your orky steaming punks^^

I shall have to share picks of things I have made look heat discolored and burned like I described, but the stacks would leave the darker metal low, but the "crown" and some areas blow would be all black

with added stipling effect in black to blend the lines from metal to soot would you say i managed that effect? also yeah i am totally into guidance pics^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:with added stipling effect in black to blend the lines from metal to soot would you say i managed that effect? also yeah i am totally into guidance pics^^

Well, the main color was "chainmail" which fits Marines as they are effectively space knights. Then I painted a cover of "tin bitz" Kind of that deep brownish metallic, and then chaos black over that, and the results were the following pics
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Got a few more to come out, but these should give an idea.

now i see....there is a "brownish corona underneath the sooted blackness...this is the section that got discolored due heat...the black spots are from the heat AND the smoke...now i understand what i have to do! thanks shaso, that helped a lot! by the way a nice looking speeder^^ and yep SM are pretty much that, space knights in shiny armor...exept mine of course who are all sandy^^

More, I have 9 pics of the speeder total right now.
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Viktor von Domm wrote:now i see....there is a "brownish corona underneath the sooted blackness...this is the section that got discolored due heat...the black spots are from the heat AND the smoke...now i understand what i have to do! thanks shaso, that helped a lot! by the way a nice looking speeder^^ and yep SM are pretty much that, space knights in shiny armor...exept mine of course who are all sandy^^

I also have applied that same technique to all speeder engines I can, Flamers/Heavy flamers/and Melta-weapons

i like the effect, thats a good way to visualize heat and smoke!


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atm i only own some cheap silver which i use for big surfaces as a base coat, then mithril silver and then freshly´boltgun metal... seems i have to get hold of some tin bitz as well^^


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oh and have a good night must be going to bed now...it´s half past one in the night....duh... cheers, vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:that is one hell of an insight you just provided anvil! and you are right to the small print even! when i remember old historical stories or pics form that time you do get that seperated class hierarchy... like oliver twist or sherlock holmes... if i am not mistaken they would both be of that timeline... and they would sport lots of plushness and even more grimy kids begging or like in my fair lady mr doolittle is a very grimy and down on his luck coal delivery man... this is a side of the whole steampunk scene i for some reason haven´t thought about but now that you´ve pointed it out makes so much more sense to incorporate it in my schemes...thanks anvil and i really do mean it! needed some motivating and supporting insights!

vik

Why do you think I provided the tools (or kilts) for some soldiers

I still wouldn't go too grimy Vik unless you want it looking like in the middle of a battle.

Have seen a modern AFV modelled in 1/35 scale that was muddied up and downright mucky. The modeller related that this was how the self propelled gun looked after an exercise, but the first thing when they got back was an order to clean her up!

at jeroen...
yup^^

Why do you think I provided the tools (or kilts) for some soldiers

that reminds me to get going with the tank so that i can direct my attention back again to the böck devils and their queeny...ach me aching back... it is always work...

at chibi...
it is like making the splits... i have to really balance that realism/grimy with the posh/clean...

As long as it is not like one of those cleaning ads where they split the image down the middle with a comparison, before/after!