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lol...yep... where would we be with that hannibal^^

Where's my cigar?

I'll just sit over here and pout while you work your magic Vik.

Hey Viktor the finishe tank is brilliant ,really well polished work you have done there, i have to agree with monkey however that the sleeker version worked better for me , just looked so fast and dangerous , where as this version looks very similar to your other one. either way though its still fantastic work , congrats matey on turning junk in into art again.

lol... no pouting allowed...get back to yer tower!

neil...yep junk art.... as oposed to art brute^^ we are truly making progress here in the art departments^^

pics tonight^^

I am I am..have the day off. I just cut 32 identical plates, now I have to measure and cut 2 more sets of 32 identical plates...

Well Vik any more images? we all want to see!

this is the final setup... it is now all glued in place...i have to add the odd rivet and some touchups armorwise and then the tank is heading straight to paintstation^^ hope i get the work done to get starting painting till weekend...cross fingers for me^^


vik

One more thing to add, you should at leasy have another Vickers in the bow alongside the drivers "Bubble"


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Like this or so.


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Pf course the Lancelot has a bigger driver section, so a small port for that Vickers for yours would fit, and be more WW-I

yeah that is one thing i wanted to do too...place is a tad crwoded but i think the new gun is needed... have to figure out how to mount that one tho...need to make a plan for the patern...probably a four barrel one too?

also i think i have to make a small ring around the vickers guns in the sponsons...they look currently too bland for my liking...

Ball and ring for the front Vik.

Sponsons, maybe that will work/

ok will try that out...will have to go on doing laundary first tho^^

cheers, will read ya in the night!

vik

Okay, catch ya later!

holy hell vik! This stuff is looking fab man!!

Yes, chopping and dropping it has made it a true lowrider tank! looks much better.

Final setup looks best! (Yes, I'm still managing to follow this...)

Keep it up ^^

at shrike: salute, sir yes sir! will keep this up^^

at Arakasi: well no lurking allowed in here...an occasional "sweet" or "awsome" is fully sufficient^^

at bebopdrums2424: honored to have you with us here...well i hope that i don´t ruin it with my usual pain-tjob^^

at dsteingass: well mate i like the sound of a lowrider tank^^ but i think this cool naming wont be later seen on the painted thing^^

at shaso: caught^^



well mates... today was yet again some rivetmania needed^^
also i came to terms with the needed weapon on the fron beside the viewpoint... after some experiments with some plasic bitz and wooden pearls and stuff i came up with a lasgun barrel on a ball sponson...

and i riveted up the tank on some earlier neglected spots...tomorrow the tank hopefully will see the last in riveting and then i think i will prime it...oh almost forgott i have to make the peiscope thingys^^ and then it is primetime^^

here is todays progress:













cheers, vik

I guess you could say that it's... riveting!

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I will now go and hang myself.

no seriously... when i hold that tank in my hand i sometimes think i have gone a bit overboard with the rivets... but then i thought... hey with rivets you can never go too far...er...it´s like the modelers equivalent of a can of pringles...

shrike wrote:I guess you could say that it's... riveting!

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I will now go and hang myself.

Looking good mate , much prefer this streamlined version

thanks to both of ye^^

I have sigged that Vik! to constantly remind YOU of your own doctrine of craftsmanship!

rofl... yup...^^ somehow i tend to be a rivet fetishist...^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:no seriously... when i hold that tank in my hand i sometimes think i have gone a bit overboard with the rivets... but then i thought... hey with rivets you can never go too far...er...it´s like the modelers equivalent of a can of pringles...

^^ too true.

can only too answer with ^^

Looking better Vik. Now what I was looking for was to see a partial ball set in a ringed mounting(more rivets possibly) so the thing would like like




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The MG in the front plate like so.



But with a ring plate riveted to hold it all in.

I wanted to suggest doing something to make the turret less industrial and more steampunk but then I noticed the pattern. Are you going to paint the top as if they were wooden planks?

at crushy:
totaly wood! at least there^^ brass, wood and copper are for me the hallmarks of steampunk... and of course lots and lots of rivets^^

at shaso:
for now it looks just glued on but i will aply pva to make it like you suggested... was part of the plan anyway...it was just that i shoed you the first glued on pics...and after i posted it it fell of anyway^^ thats pva for you^^

That bead looked rather large and heavy, maybe if you have one half that big?