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ask and ye shall receive^^

missed your post shaso...

ah the mark IV.... my first tank love^^

the second one is brilliant! rule britania....!!!! what a song for an army! i watched this song every time on the last night of the proms and it send shivers down my spine...!!!!

thanks for that one!

You're welcome. T-300 is catching up!

will have a look... can´t take your word alone for that^^

Hey it's all set for preliminary trial runs w/o the turret!

hmmmm... my wife still hasen´t had time to make them treads... so any movement form my part cant be expected^^

Just hull and turret which are mostly done I saw. She w\should tr\each you the technique

i guess she would love to but honestly i hate that style of repetitive work...gives me the jeewebeewies...

LOL! it helps get your models done! And all that rivet punch work you have done!

i have thought about making treads out of card yet again... but this time with the holepunch for help... to create some patterns...will muse further on this and if something is worthwhile to be posted, i will show you then^^

Cook, always goo d to have alternatives just in case.

yup^^

I say, go with wood on the turret top, upper decking and boiler... it kind of reminds me of the ship called "monitor" used in the American civil war, or the first dreadnought class ships used by the Royal Navy.

I think that a nice oak or very dark mahogany coloured decking would give it a nice luxurious land-ship kind of feel, go with brass trimmings and a dark hull, maybe not red, but a dark grey or black..... then it would fit in with the 32nd (black devils) and you could name it something like the Black Knight, to go alng side your other tank, the Crimson Goddess ( I do not know what name you have chosen, but I like that one)

Work is tanking along full steam ahead on this baby tank, looks like the Von Domm factory is working at maximum efficiency . Love the style already , very creative matey.

Maybe its the turret that does it for me...

Here is a linkie: http://americancivilwar.com/monitor.html

Ah, but the Monitor was truly Iron clad above the water line. The wooden section was all under water if at all any wood was used. But I agree, a good Oak a nice hard wood, like iron oak. Painted planks like a oak wood color and then stained for weather sealing.

There is a competition on a friendly scale between the Von Domm Tank factory and the Lenzabi Tank and Motor Works

monkeytroll wrote:You'll need some objectives.

A terrified guardsman being menaced by a rabbit-squig with sharp, pointy teeth.

or a squig pierced on top of this steam tank turret.

=^.^=

at lone cat:
no harm came to any animals in this production^^


at dantay:
yep i was all in for lots of wood...the reactions of peeps for the steamboiler for excalibur (thats what i called then the big red one^^) were very encouraging! so there will be lots of wood on this one...
black knight... now this sounds nice... and a referrence to the black devils sounds also very promising! and i see where you are coming from with the monitor...yeah the wooden effect will add a good deal to the steampunky feel of the tank...hopefully...^^

at neil:
yeah full steam indeed! in fact if it wasnt for the treads... my wife had a very hard workday today and the treads are thus still undone... and i am too dumb and a half to do that by myself...the tank could be rolling already....
well^^ oh and thanks mate... getting a

very creative matey

from ye is like getting full marks^^

at shaso:
yep von domm tank and associated productions factory is in full swing...today i covered the treads with a supportive band and they are almost ready to get assembled to the main part...

proof will be uploaded shortly...together with latest works...

Jolly good! now to upload the vision block images I have made for the driver and gunner of my beast.

i think i should take some pics of said stuff done today too^^ i am ahead of ye^^...will be looking for yer stuff as well^^

good to see, I think this new tank of yours is coming along faster due to experience gained and familiarity with the materials and concepts. and it is smaller.

also it is way sturdier... a feature that was very important for me... the excalibur is much more fragile than is good for me...the turret of the new one is stabilized with cut up pieces of ...don´t laugh now... toiletpaper rolls cut up to height of the turret to make the top sit on it...will take now some pics...

I have made towers from TP and paper towel rolls

ok mates here comes the update as anounced!

a rounded viewpoint to the front.... note the barrel got filled with glue... later on when painted i will have a nice black hole and not an endless tunnel that i cant paint properly...


second one: i covered the tracks to better support the treads, whatever they may be...when they get glued on...looks like the needed transportband i gather...


topview of the body... as i said lots of rivets added...


the shiny look is from the cardboard that got laminated with PVA... i did that also for a wooden look...i run over with a hard brush when the PVA was curing and got very fine lines thus into the surfaces...hope this will lead to a wooden look...


the upper section of the side got laminated too as also the tracks...this is for sealing the rivets... with my technique to needle them with a spot of PVA and then put them in place, sometimes the rivets come off of rubbed at... thus PVA coat and later on they stay where they should...


now this is my plan B... new shoes for a scratchbuilt tread... what do you think? i did a test version... lots of shoes, glued into place and already primed black and then drybrushed bolgun metal on...you still see some loose shoes there too...i used the holepunch for this job to create a clawlike shoe...

with the tracksystem side by side...


so yer thoughts?

well this is the show and tell of todays amount of work done by von domms tank and associated productions factory...^^

cheers, vik

Vik, that is fantastic! You are truly the Master of the hole punch! go with it...except, make the pointy bits point forwards. I really want one of these!

the pointy...clawlike bitz are meant to be the forward ones.... it is meant to claw its way into the ground...hmmm....we´ll see what i will be using tomorrow... i still would like a go with the macramme...^^

that cardboard tank looks nice good job vik

thanks mate! cardboard is a good material to work with...and PVA too.,.. in combination with some tool you can pretty much create everything^^

I see that you have a good alternative to your track shoe issues. Definitely master of the hole punch!

did you look at the first pic? what do you think about the round viewpoint there?

The viewport is totally badass Vik, that should be fine oak, but trimmed in brass filgree! Put red velvet curtains inside! Ooh and maybe a gaslight searchlight?