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 dsteingass wrote:
That's really cool JW! Nice creativity! The only problem is that the rockets would have to fire past the open door, which might be an issue I need something smaller to go in front of the doors. Probably will need to scratchbuild a tube system.

It's a new deployment mechanism... rocket fired Catachans!

They're pretty much already kamakazi troops.

How about using the existing (Dave improved) rappelling bars to support rocket pods, kind of like.

To me it would be very catchan to use what was already there to help build up a weapon mount.

Um why not mount a missile launcher from the sentinel under the front. Make a small gimble mount for it.

Well, the speeder has an under-chin rocket launcher bit already. I was hoping to turn the front winglets into hardpoints.

Problem with rockets up there is the backblast into a very open cargo area... charred Catachan is tasty to Nids, but not desirable for Catachan commanders...

heh..no, I'd use a solid backed launcher, no backblast

What is the "co-pilot" firing? Maybe a missile arrangement on his side only.

I haven't built him yet, the Scout legs are unique there, as he is kneeling on the seat, other leg braced on the floor for firing the Heavy Bolter.

^ Ingenious!

It would be possible to make any kind of hard point/gimble/mount attachment point for any weapon you like from sprue...

Haha Yes..the Doctor of Sprueology knows best there!

oh dave... i see that catachan lovechild of yours and i go *sigh* like when you had a delicious meal and are full of awesome meat and veggies and a tasty sauce... and now your round belly is making all happy noises...

these grapling devices... i am totaly happy to see that done in scratchbuilding... and the skids... amazing... i specially liked how you got rid of the excess of the tubes and it now looks even better because of these angles....

and nerdy... LOL

Yes, with styrene rod (tubing gets squished) the secret is to line up the inside edges of the bends, then snip off the rest on the outside edges. A round file is necessary to smooth out the other bumps but it works pretty well. I sort of learned the technique when building the bumper bar for the Stinger/VAMP/Jeep/Thing


What grappling devices do you mean Vik?

with styrene rod (tubing gets squished)

forgott what rod was named^^...so i used tube

ah... yes... that jeep... when will this one see some lick of paint?


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oh...and

What grappling devices do you mean Vik?

and again speach impediment... i meant the rappelling support
but essentially it is almost the same function

I didn't scratch those, it's a kit part..I just sawed it in half


Paint? I need to figure out the crew and the rear gun first.

ah.... i see you used those "bars" from the lanspeeder and turned them into this gear!... great idea!

Thanks Vik!

seeing this i get reminded of my old playmobil helikopter... the medic one... i wanted to have an army one so i used permant markers to give it camo... brown, green and black... looked quite nice back then... i even had matching soldiers... and there was this rappeling winch...

That looks like a fun toy! lots of swooshability!

I used to do that with green plastic army guys and a sharpie Fun times

ah... yes... back then my mum didn´t allow me those toy soldiers... and comics... she was a bit paranoid about some "violent" stuff... well... my first earned money went directly into comic books... so much for strict upbringing

and a medic heli was allowed... but a military not... good deal she wasn´t that interested what became of my toys


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lots of swooshability

LOL...definatly!

Just saw this online! I really need to get out more eh! but there's some really great ideas and inspirational images on this site, really creepy and oozing suspense! http://cghub.com/images/view/423637/


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I also need to slightly derail dave's thread for a sec if you don't mind? I need some scratch build advice and the depth of interested and skilled persons is at it's peak on here!

The basic premise is this: I am making a Zone Mortalis board and originally i was going space hulk style but the flooring on ZM is larger expanses of space and not confined to narrow corridors, so my original idea involved a slightly raised walkway covered with grating, this won't work now as the boards need to be butted against each other and it needs to flow across to the next one. What do i do? do I cover all the surface of each board in grating and then lay strips of card across it to simulate metal bands to add some detail? i've been googling my little heart out and can't seem to find anything to help so far!

soz Dave for hijacking! I'll send you flowers.....

Mesh everywhere wouldn't look right. I don't think any cheap way will look right. You are trying to mimic expensive purpose-built resin terrain after all...

I'm going to have to do a mock up of a bare tile aren't I? something we can play around with and see what suits? I've days off in a few hours so I may try to get some stuff sorted to show you for appraisal?

I've thought about this idea too, the ZM board. I don't know if anything besides casting and spamming will do it bro...

I know, it's a tricky one to get right, the feel of the board needs to be there with enough free room to move yet enough detail to be exciting, I have a few ideas for it but it depends on my modeling skills if i can do it or not, perhaps after my birthday in Sept I can move forward as I've requested a Chopper II from my folks ;-)

A chopper II is a great help, I got one a while back when they were on sale along with a duplicate it. The chopper is speeding up the work and making builds easier.

Have you thought about using rolled cork for the floor? Paint it grey and it looks like cracked aged concrete. You could also make wall sections out of it and attach plastic for pipes, grills and doors.

What sort of scale are we talking about here. 12" square boards or bigger, or smaller board sections.

Yeah, I mean it's got to be modular in nature, like the ZM stuff right?

So next silly question, whats the budget here, Obviously less than the £90 for 4 x 12" boards. But how cheap?