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For poison Ivy or vines, just make a little run of glue and sprinkle flock or oregano, or whatever basing stuff you have. Once it dries, blow off the excess. It would probably look best if you mix several green flocks.

I ordered it from Lego.com, you can only get it there or at a real Lego store. I never had Playmobil as a kid, it just wasnt sold around here back then, although my neighbor had some I remember, a big flying saucer playset.

i had that one... loved it to pieces, same with my big pirate ship... ah the fod memories...^^

your description is better than mine but it is as i had inteded to do^^ combination of flock and basilikum/oregano sounds great! this will be something that i will enjoy^^
my kids are currently more into the star wars stuff from lego... quite nice really and true to the first movies i have to say... i am one of those guys that still wish lukas wasn´t in it only for the money and hadn´t filmed the other three...horrible stuff^^

Hmmm, I mostly played the Lego at school in my early years. Had no idea it would expand so much!

Nice painting the scenic picture set there Vik!

You've never heard of the Millenium Falcon?

lego is for a company that is around for decades one that has so many licences.... batman, spidey and starwars and also harry potter...oh and dont forgett spongebob^^ they are all over the place and even invent new stuff like spinnig toys that you can battle with... if you ask me mostly the stuff is not worth mentioning but some things like a jawa sandcrawler form lego is quite amazing when you see it brick by brick...
and no this sadly isn´t our childrens room floor^^


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awsomesause!!!!! loved the falcon!!!! best piece of SW ever it even outmacthes the lightsaber!!!


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and when you give such a quote...give it completly^^

"You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. fast enough for you old man"

LOL! all cool!

Liking the stone work Vik.

I also use herbs for foliage.
For an climber covered monumet stone I started with strips of scourer, then added the herbs and finally primed.



Re Lego Star Wars

Good way to get some gaming with the youngsters would be to play Mutants and Death Ray Guns. There is a fanlist of character stats for Star Wars and some guys use the Lego figures to play Ganesha games. Could be a lot of fun.


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Not Star Wars but still great fun:
http://dococks.blogspot.com/

the elves are just priceless chibi! yeah lego for gaming sounds like a great potential! and getting LOS issues would be of no problem as you can raise any model how you like it^^ just put another slob on the base^^

that scourer tip i will definatly try out... ordenary wire would work too don´t you think? by the way did you use sponge parts for the additional fluffy effect there on that stone?

have lots of apointments today ... will hopefully get some things done for the bricks will show you in the evening/night...

Not on this one Vik
Just padded out with the scourer

But am going to cover the mound with shrubs so will possibly use sponge for that. Although am now thinking that I will just use the mound itself to provide the main bulk of the shrubs and keep their tops lower
if you see what I mean

When did your version of the lego Falcon come out dsteingass? i have a version from about 2003 and it looks a little different to yours.

This Lego Falcon just came out this July, you can get it now. LEGO has released SEVEN different kits of the falcon alredy.

seven??? holy crap are they in the mood for selling stuff^^

at chibi... actually no? you knwo my problem with descriptive parts^^

this thread has digressed massively! what about the big red tank??

shasolenzabi wrote:this thread has digressed massively! what about the big red tank??

I think vik's dead again...

the rumors of my alleged death are mostly exaggerated...
tank pics will follow tomorrow and also i hope i can present to you some stony brickwall ruins... for now sans vines but they will come too...oh and the tank is still red^^

hello lads and ladies...a hearty welcome from the lands of never completion...

i have been daydreaming again and since the big red tank is till big red and tanky and a bit boring atm...he is almost finished and thus a tad on the obligatory side for me...
i have been musing a lone big (and red) tank is somewhat not enough for a good emperial army...so i have been playing around with some ideas... namly some smaller tanks to be flanking the big RED and helping her... my main point for such a project is the treads yet again... the paintwork on the red BIG one teached me one thing... foam and spray is something that i cant combine thus i had to prime by hand which bothered me quite much... so i forgone the whole foam treads concept... it being for a smaller outlay of a tank like my version of a leman russ anyway...so i played around in my big head with some ideas and when going for some hobbyrelated shopping i had a vision of some sorts... the outcome you will see in the nxt following pics....as i am totally helpless and clumsy with crochet my wife helped me with these first testmaterials made from cheap packaging string.... two already primed and drybrushed with boltgun metal paint are doen with an art called Macramé... the other non painted versions are done by crochet....

all pics are in two versions to better show the effects of the materials...with and without flash... the string is cheap and able to soak in the paint and thus be a good material for me to work with... also PVA would work very good too with said stuff...

and afterwords behold my design of a smaller steamtank...

you know the drill don´t tell your wife and chumps what silly stuff i did...tell me instead...^^

vik

That may be promising Vik!

thanks mate! so a bracelet done in leather strings in that fashion when i was shopping and imidiatly thought this might work as treads... and string is very cheapo so this is so straight up my alley as anything^^

Wow mate , now you are fusing together a new form of model making. This is ground breaking stuff indeed and should be followed through to completion. A macrame tank track is a completely original thing. Take note people this is creativity at its most pure.

high praise man^^ thanks... and i hope my wife will help me through with this as if i was on my own i would fail this attempt^^ but with herthis might work...we use completly different languages when doing this but thankfully she understood as much so that i could come up with these pieces^^

Macrame tank treads...who'd a thunk it?

Oh, wait a minute, that's right, vik would

Promising start vik, a mix of PVA and paint should get a nice solid feel to them.

She's a keeper Vik!

Interesting solution to your problem Vik! Also, that tank design concept so fitsd your army theme, you could have it as a Leman Russ, but steam powered and of a different shape, very nice!

And remember, you can have a bow mounted Heavy Bolter, or Lascannon on that smaller tank, along with sponsons if you desire! Medium tank project for Vik! I still have yet to make that smaller than Perun, bigger than Leman Tank, maybe this will inspire me to do it.

dsteingass wrote:She's a keeper Vik!

you are absolutley right matey!!!

monkeytroll wrote: a mix of PVA and paint should get a nice solid feel to them.

yup my thoughts exactly^^

shaso wrote:Interesting solution to your problem Vik! Also, that tank design concept so fitsd your army theme, you could have it as a Leman Russ, but steam powered and of a different shape, very nice!

thanks mate!

And remember, you can have a bow mounted Heavy Bolter, or Lascannon on that smaller tank, along with sponsons if you desire!

thought about that too, will have to see if that is doable...the design is currently in MKIII stage it gets a bit trimmed and tuned for working and desgin reasons but the general design is a keeper...lol^^

Medium tank project for Vik! I still have yet to make that smaller than Perun, bigger than Leman Tank, maybe this will inspire me to do it.

we built together the perun and the big red one so this would be only fitting!!!^^




by the way... there were lots of cool names out there from you guys for the big red one... like:

iron maiden
ol' bessy
viktory
iron lung
viktorian pride
The duchess
red lady
The Defiant
The Prince Albert
Pride of the Empress
Big Red
Spirit of the Empire
Scarlett o'hara
Red Devil
Crimson Tide
The cardinal sin
maiden of steel
H.M.T. Indominitable
Her Majesty's Hammer
The Granite Pommie
Imperial Ruby

and now from my wife:
Red Storm

and from me as i am currently thinking about going into the king arthur saga...:
King arthur
Uther pendragon
Excalibur
Lancelot (mostly for Leman russ version...)

it is after all time to name the beast to finally complete her...

Drum rolls as Vik pulls the envelope

lol...would have been your time to have your say^^

As long as Vik doesn't pull the rug...

Now to see what name Vik decides on!

and will the chosen name even be on the list?!!

ps late entry just in

Nigel the Red Tank

if Vik doesn't chose that (and why would he not?) I will write a children's IG book titled the same.

Hey man, all your work is great.
I wont pretend to have read the whole forum, because when pressed for time, I just look at pictures. From what I can fathom, you are doing an english victorian steampunk ww1 era themed battlegroup. If Im right on that, you should try and throw in some highland scotts with kilts! They where big in ww1! That`d be sssiiiiiiiiiccccck!