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Really impressive. Just out of curiosity: if you calculated material cost + a reasonable hourly rate for your work at what costs would you roughly arrive for one of these? Regardless if you want to sell or not, I would be interested how big the difference to resin models would be.

 Pyroalchi wrote:
Really impressive. Just out of curiosity: if you calculated material cost + a reasonable hourly rate for your work at what costs would you roughly arrive for one of these? Regardless if you want to sell or not, I would be interested how big the difference to resin models would be.

estimated cost of materials is about 10USD, work time - let's be generous - 28 hours (minimum payment rate here is like 1.5USD ) - 42 USD
total cost is like 50USD


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 Tommygun1918 wrote:
Very nice. I scratched built one years ago out of plastic sheets.
I can still flinch thinking about all those rivets.

rivets are not really is hard to glue - this more boring

second turret is ready

Blows my mind how well you do this

and something new will try to paint this one as carcharodons

Looks cool! What are those round thingis on the left? The road wheels?

 Pyroalchi wrote:
Looks cool! What are those round thingis on the left? The road wheels?

yeap, those are basic details for wheels

Like this, will add some details later - trims for weeks and so on
And details on tracks

Incredible that you even do the individual track links like that!

 Pyroalchi wrote:
Incredible that you even do the individual track links like that!

That's not exactly individual tracks. In fact it's just a flat stripe of paper with holes to mimic real tracks and details to mimic grousers of real tracks. Smoke and mirrors

looks like i finished my whirlwind, time to paint

 bhaad wrote:

That's not exactly individual tracks. In fact it's just a flat stripe of paper with holes to mimic real tracks and details to mimic grousers of real tracks. Smoke and mirrors

I was a bit unprecise. I meant it is amazing that you go into it and add hat amount of details to the tracks

Agreed: the level of detail that you scratchbuild with paper exceeds that of many injection molded kits- and far, far, exceeds the level of detail that the original Rhino kit had (I bought a three pack of 'em, back in the day!).

Always a pleasure to look in here and see what new amazing thing there is to see.

Yep, gotta agree with Meet Cat and Pyroalchi, the level of detail is phenomenal. The Whirlwind looks better than the GW kits

Thank you all it's a nice hobby and it's always interesting to make as much details as possible

Outstanding models, hats off bhaad!

started painting whirlwind
and started building praetor

started painting whirlwind
and a new project - praetor

Started painting Whirlwind
and a new project

That is amazing! Looking forwards to see it painted.

praetor

Baffles me everytime what you do out of paper.

and acrylic putty to cover mistakes

Man, fully painted you would not be able to tell what that is made out of until you picked it up.

How long does a normal sized vehicle take to make?

Adamantium Dodecahedron wrote:
Man, fully painted you would not be able to tell what that is made out of until you picked it up.

How long does a normal sized vehicle take to make?

something like rhino will take 2-3 days, something like leman will require few weeks.
depends on complexity of shapes and level of details

now it starts looking like something

some process
and now i need to make some kind of lift for missile pod

The rocket launcher moves?!? Wait, do not tell me that heavy bolters can also rotate.

 bhaad wrote:


something like rhino will take 2-3 days, something like leman will require few weeks.
depends on complexity of shapes and level of details

I was not aware the Russ was that much detail-rich than a Rhino.

Adamantium Dodecahedron wrote:
The rocket launcher moves?!? Wait, do not tell me that heavy bolters can also rotate.

 bhaad wrote:


something like rhino will take 2-3 days, something like leman will require few weeks.
depends on complexity of shapes and level of details

I was not aware the Russ was that much detail-rich than a Rhino.

I'm just lazy and bigger models force my procrastination to prosper


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Bolters are not moving unfortunately. moving bolters are not so hard to make, but it will be nightmare to paint