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@Soo'Vah'Cha:
Size matters after all
Looks cool

When dealing with artillery..size always matters

BTW: Klaus I really like your scratch builds, especially the Zeus, that thing is like a rolling art museum..with guns, my Tau's railguns would have to make leadership tests before shooting at it....it would be a shame to mar all those awesome frescos, also you must be a true madman to paint that many little skulls on it, I would be seeing them in my sleep

Anyway great job, and between the people here I think we will keep the plastic-card companies in business.

don´t know if its because my kids are atm all for firefighters and stuff but that tau scratchbuilt mightyly made me think about a fire engine^^

nevertheless powerful look^^

cheers, vik

For whatever reason the fiendish gods of the warp took control of my modeling station for a month or two and used their daemon-guile to convince me I could build 2.5 Hell Blade fighters out of a drop pod kit and some plasticard. I now have four of these things lying around...

sorry drescher, pics not showing...

Here's a couple of my work in progresses on my deathstrike from a while back.






And with the little details added...

Very nice scratch building everyone, thought I'd best pop one up for a look see

SpDDmN wrote:If you have any scratchbuilt vehicles....show them here


Here's 1 of my Land Raiders 'In the Works'.....built it using cardboard,sponge,pieces of wood & a couple of nuts.
Also my Rhinos,Razorback & 1 of my Drop Pods built with the same materials & a couple of bits from other vehicles

Like a kitchen sponge?

Damn and blast, updated the pictures above so they work ...

Really nice conversions you have.
Here is mine...



Blog here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/310391.page

a94marbo wrote:Really nice conversions you have.
Here is mine...



Blog here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/310391.page

A few more pictures wouldn't go amiss. Excellent work. I wish I had the time to build a Titan

Da Blakboar wrote:

a94marbo wrote:Really nice conversions you have.
Here is mine...


Blog here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/310391.page

A few more pictures wouldn't go amiss. Excellent work. I wish I had the time to build a Titan

Thanks. Look above for the link....

TheDrescher wrote:Damn and blast, updated the pictures above so they work ...

thanks, it was worth the wait...dont know what this should be but it looks cool to me^^

Excellent work chaps


good inspirational thread!

a94marbo wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:

a94marbo wrote:

Agreed.

I'm green with envy of all you guys' modeling skills, awesome thread, very inspirational

^ ''kitchen sponge'' no..LOL! Those 1/4 inch thick sheets with the 'peel n stick' backside.


Further more I played a game today againts a Blood Angels 1650 army & afterwards I got my hands on some bolters....& soon after that they were on my Land Raider Crusader......Bring the pain


Keep those pics & info coming.....looking really good guys

Just a quick pic to show my 'new' Hurrican Bolters

Some seriously nice scratchbuilding here..........So show off your scratchbuilding terrain

Boyz "R" Us wrote:I'm green with envy of all you guys' modeling skills, awesome thread, very inspirational

I saw some of your work on the Looted Wagon thread, it looked like a Leeman Russ turret under going some orkish add ons & very good to boot

Da Blakboar wrote:

Boyz "R" Us wrote:I'm green with envy of all you guys' modeling skills, awesome thread, very inspirational

I saw some of your work on the Looted Wagon thread, it looked like a Leeman Russ turret under going some orkish add ons & very good to boot

Thank you for the kind words of encouragement Da Blakboar, I'm still working on the project but get easily distracted, hope to post some wips soon. If it turns out half as good as your Battlewagon I'll be very happy
The level of commitment given to the projects on this thread is amazing

Ok,so now that my Land Raider is almost done I'm itching for something else........So here it is...well the start of my Whirlwind...copying my Rhino's chassis firstly & then making the missile lauchers......keep watching this space

...& half an hour later it's abit further on....

gosh... your fast...and it deosn´t even look crappy...i must give scratchbuilding tanks a go...

^ Thanx.....it ain't that difficult.....well,I do have the plans for Land Raiders & Rhinos.....but if you can take measurements off a real Tank....it won't take much to scratchbuild.

Whirlwind's missiles are in & exhaust stacks are on & stormbolter,headlights & side doors are mounted....now for some paint & decals....keep watching, I might do a trick

Ailaros wrote:Here are my partially scratchbuilt vehicles. The chimera chassis on the bottom are kit, but the tops and backs aren't

manticore:


exterminator:

Those are great vehicles Ailaros but they are not "scratch built". Rather they are "kit-bashed", which is a distinction I'd like to point out for this thread in general.

"Scratch built" implies taking raw materials (plasticard, tubing, cardboard, etc., etc.) and building something from it, while "kit-bashing" is using components and pieces from one or more kits or commercial products and reconfiguring them, mixing them, or adding to them.

The first implies creation, the second implies modification.

A perhaps subtle but important distinction imho...

Ailaros did say they were only partially Scratch Builds, which is true since the Manticore Launcher and Turret are indeed built from scratch. The one Da BlakBoar posted up there would be a kitbash.

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:Ailaros did say they were only partially Scratch Builds, which is true since the Manticore Launcher and Turret are indeed built from scratch. The one Da BlakBoar posted up there would be a kitbash.

The turret, main hull, machine gunz, boom kannon barrel are scratch built & track links are cast resin. Not much kit on there me thinks