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Thank you Cosimc.

BigBadWolf37 wrote:Those vehicles look awesome!

How long is it taking you to make one? Like roughly from start to how they are now? I keep thinking about trying my hand at making some from plasticard but I can see it taking me forever

Thanks Wolf.

Hmm it is very hard to say becouse I've been doing these every now and then when. Like just when I've been on the mood. Sometimes like 10min in a day and sometimes 2h a day. And sometimes I do many things at the same time so it is hard to estimate how much I've spent total time. But from the start to how they are now I would roughly estimate about 10h of active work. Can be also more or less. Can't really be sure becouse when I grab tools and start making time just flies by.

But you shouldn't worry about taking it forever. Just give it a try and see what it feels like. It is very likely that It will take some time but when you get the "touch" and when you learn all the basics Im sure you'll get faster and your skills will improve. And you don't have to start by building a complete tank from scratch. You can for example buy some gw or other manufacturer plastic kit and some plasticard and start converting it. In that way you get used to using plasticard and get personal looking tanks. And afterall plasticard isn't very expensive so if you can't get anything done you really don't lose much.

But scratchbuilding is rather slow process. Or at least time taking. I've had pretty much "When it is done" approach so far. But if you want get things done faster best way is to make a design and then make templates for it. After you have templates you can just cut all the parts and put the amount of tanks together you want. So mass producting is always faster but I find it also quite boring.

So I would suggest you to buy some plasticard and give it a try.

Painted these three meltagunners today. What do you guys think?

all of them together



mr.scar






The MADman







another coolguy

Very good
loving the tanks btw, looking forward to seeing them finished

Thank you Logan!

Awesome work!

Great berets, cool camo and impressive tanks

I'm just complimenting you, no real advice or critical analysis, but hey!

So far looking sweet , iam lovin the tanks .

WhiteBishop wrote:Awesome work!

Great berets, cool camo and impressive tanks

I'm just complimenting you, no real advice or critical analysis, but hey!

Thanks WhiteBishop! You can say whatever you like. So "just complimenting" is totally fine too. I've never been against compliments.


@slann: Thanks man.

Well its almost done. Maybe add some small details but I think it is pretty done.. Now if anyone has ideas for this tank you better say them now before I start painting it.













Thanks for watching! And please tell me what you think.

Im Guessing these are meant to chimeras, and if so im looking forward to seeing what other ideas you come up with for the other tanks in the codex

Young_Logan wrote:Im Guessing these are meant to chimeras, and if so im looking forward to seeing what other ideas you come up with for the other tanks in the codex

Yeah those are meant to be Chimeras thats correct. I've some ideas for other tanks too. But I think I concentrate on painting now for a moment and maybe finnish that second chimera. Should start building my CCS too if I have enough parts.

That is a lovely tank, great work!

Great paintjobs and conversion ideas! Consider this thread subbed!

@Phoenikuz and Commissar Agro: Thank you guys!




Finally got first squad completed. So the first veteran squad. Bases are now done and added couple tattoos too. Quite happy how these turned out. All feedback is much appreciated and please go give your vote at dakkagallery if you like by klicking the image.

And here are the pictures.












Cheers!

Excellent stuff, I really like your weapon mods. They´re looking perfect for the job!

Nice work Those chimeras are very nice.

Your vets are incredible! lots of character!

Loving the chimera, can't wait to see it painted

Infantry looking very nice too

Thank you guys.

@Illumini: Next I'll painting the second veteran squad and I need to convert and paint the first shocktrooper squad. But chimera shall be painted too. I promise.

Painting is excellent, well done! The Chimera is looking good, properly decked out. Nice work, matey.

Thanks Popsicle!

Here is some more Veterans. The tribal tattoo needs to be little bit fixed but I shall do it. Nothing special again but if afterall it is going to be IG army.. And we will need lots of cannonfodder so..









Thanks for watching. Hope you like it.

Wow, great work. I love the originality of the scratchbuilt Chimeras and the paint scheme on the figures is convincing too.

Thank you Lavuran!

I always love seeing well painted Catachans.

I appreciate!

Just started painting the last three guys of this squad.. I shall post some pics when I get them done.

These guys are looking great!
I espiecially like the "modern" rifles, looking right nifty!

My only gripe (this is just personal preference mind) is the HS on the Ring Copula.
Not the actual weapon, more the fact that it's front facing, as they were originally designed for Anti-Aircraft defence.

But that's just me.
It still looks great!

Some great looking guardsmen you got here I hope that someday I'll be as good painter as you are

Disjointed Entity wrote:These guys are looking great!
I espiecially like the "modern" rifles, looking right nifty!

My only gripe (this is just personal preference mind) is the HS on the Ring Copula.
Not the actual weapon, more the fact that it's front facing, as they were originally designed for Anti-Aircraft defence.

But that's just me.
It still looks great!

Thanks!

Sorry but I didn't quite understand what you meant. So are you saying that HS should be pointing to the sky? Or isn't it supposed to be mounted on Ring? Becouse what I've seen from the pictures it seems that the guns that are meant to be used in anti-aircraft purposes are many times remote operated and are used from inside of the tank with a computer.

But yeah I am not questioning you at all. I've no experience about tanks at all. I've just watched the pictures and read some wikipedia articles. And I know that this tank is far from a perfection. Next time I need to make bigger turret so that there will bee room for all the gun systems and crew. Now the turret is way too small right?

Iamwalrus wrote:Some great looking guardsmen you got here I hope that someday I'll be as good painter as you are

Just keep practising and you'll be good painter for sure! And lets be honest. I am not really that good. There are way more better painters than me. And there is a very good chance that one day you'll be much better than I am. But thanks walrus. I really appreciate your compliment.

Hha, yeah those Russ turrets areaking tiny for such a large calibre barrel!
What I meant was that nearly all the time ring coupola HMG/LMGs were rear facing, pointed toward the sky.
They were used against Infantry, as is example in by the Sherman, but they had to be fired by someone standing behind the turret (It's shown in a Band of Brothers episode I think.)

It did change with larger tanks though, in Vietnam the M58 (is that right?) had a free moving .50cal, but this was technically designed for AA fire, just wasn't needed.

Anyway, enought thread jacking from me!

Disjointed Entity wrote:Hha, yeah those Russ turrets areaking tiny for such a large calibre barrel!
What I meant was that nearly all the time ring coupola HMG/LMGs were rear facing, pointed toward the sky.
They were used against Infantry, as is example in by the Sherman, but they had to be fired by someone standing behind the turret (It's shown in a Band of Brothers episode I think.)

It did change with larger tanks though, in Vietnam the M58 (is that right?) had a free moving .50cal, but this was technically designed for AA fire, just wasn't needed.

Anyway, enought thread jacking from me!

Ok I see. It is always nice to hear how these things are done in reality. Gives some ideas for future builds. Thank you for pointing out this.

No worries my friend! If you get any more little questions on things like that feel free to ask.

I'm a wealth of pointless information