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Well, I was thinking one way or another everything would be wrecked and not used for awhile, as if there had been years of grinding warfare and environmental disaster, also I'd want it not to be too urban so you get to see the effect on the landscape more... so I'm thinking now a tracked vehicle or something with huge wheels, and a large chemical tank, would work better. No point in making a working train I'm afraid. I'll just have to do extra hard work to get my bonus points...

For better or worse, I'm in. My poor neglected t-hawk

Or take your t-hawk, chop it up, scatter it's parts around on some rocks and you've got yourself a prize winning entry!

Epic/Battletech, being in that 1/285 - 1/300 space would be served by Z Scale. And you'd have to haunt eBay to really make that work. But you wouldn't need a lot.

Yeah I might consider it one day but that stuff is expensive and it would be a bit nuts to have a tiny functioning railway going all over your battlefield. Nuts but obviously also awesome.

Well, I was thinking one way or another everything would be wrecked and not used for awhile, as if there had been years of grinding warfare and environmental disaster, also I'd want it not to be too urban so you get to see the effect on the landscape more... so I'm thinking now a tracked vehicle or something with huge wheels, and a large chemical tank, would work better. No point in making a working train I'm afraid. I'll just have to do extra hard work to get my bonus points...

Some sort of work machine? There are already some great examples of giant excavators and mining vehicles around today, I bet in 40k they would have some rather impressive vehicles. I also really like the forgeworld Death Korps mining vehicle, and the page I linked earlier has a few amazing examples of vehicles intended for an Ash Waste Prospector gang - a walking work platform, a runabout etc.

Im in

 Bruticus wrote:

For better or worse, I'm in. My poor neglected t-hawk

Or take your t-hawk, chop it up, scatter it's parts around on some rocks and you've got yourself a prize winning entry!

I'll get my WIP in early if that's okay...





Just an initial layout, may well change as I few ideas that I could use. The truck itself has been a project on hold since the late 90s, was going to be a piece of necromunda scenery, may still become that... The barrels and jerry cans have been in my collection for as many years as well serving as general scenery for Necromunda and various WW2 games...

Looking good. Now all you need to do is take your t-hawk, chop it up, scatter it's parts around on some rocks and you'll be set!

 Bruticus wrote:
Looking good. Now all you need to do is take your t-hawk, chop it up, scatter it's parts around on some rocks and you'll be set!

Are you trying to make me cry... Never going to happen (the t-hawk being chopped up that is...) In fact, just the thought of it...

Well maybe it could have crash landed but survived intact. Maybe just set it a tiny bit on fire?

oh noes! he did crashland his t-hawk... there is no mercy left in this world...

Bruticus made me do it...

hmm.... you should salvage it then at least...


by the way... by the honor of winning this last competition... bruticus... are you aware that you are formally a member of this not too secret society of the LoER? you could for starters add the banner to your sig... just saying

 Bruticus wrote:

Some sort of work machine? There are already some great examples of giant excavators and mining vehicles around today, I bet in 40k they would have some rather impressive vehicles. I also really like the forgeworld Death Korps mining vehicle, and the page I linked earlier has a few amazing examples of vehicles intended for an Ash Waste Prospector gang - a walking work platform, a runabout etc.

Yeah, I was looking at the ash waste prospector gang. I was planning on getting the pegasus chemical plant for terrain bits, which has a lot of oil-refinery looking stuff, but the setting would not be urban, rather in a nightmarish environmental disaster/war zone. So I probably want something I can attach some chemical tanks to.

Talk about runabouts - would love to see someone do something like this...



http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/205838.page

Good work Ruglud, the only good Space Marine is a crashed, burning Space Marine. I think that bit of scenery could use a wreckage trail behind it where it has skidded along and through the ground before coming to a halt. Without one it looks like it has just fallen out of the sky straight down (like the plane from Hot Shots).

add the banner to your sig... just saying

Ah I have sigs turned off so didn't notice this, although I suppose other people can still see mine.

I was planning on getting the pegasus chemical plant for terrain bits, which has a lot of oil-refinery looking stuff, but the setting would not be urban, rather in a nightmarish environmental disaster/war zone. So I probably want something I can attach some chemical tanks to.

I have that pegasus kit, it's good although it comes in millions of parts so takes quite some patience to use. Dsteingass used some on his factory building but used plastruct pipes as well for the longer stretches and I think that is definitely the way to go, looks great. I notice that Ironhands used it on his train as well.

 Bruticus wrote:


I have that pegasus kit, it's good although it comes in millions of parts so takes quite some patience to use. Dsteingass used some on his factory building but used plastruct pipes as well for the longer stretches and I think that is definitely the way to go, looks great. I notice that Ironhands used it on his train as well.

Good news, and I'll keep that in mind about the pipes. I don't mind it coming in a lot of parts... especially when i can order more of a certain type from the bits website.

could someone please tell me if this set would be in scale with 40k ?
http://www.ebay.de/itm/170672191351?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649


i am willing to give a train terrain setting a try... of course this would need some heavy customizations done by me...

Sorry but that's all in German which makes it tricky to figure out, but it looks like the train is 5cm wide and 7-8cm tall, which I would say is probably a bit small for 40k.

(I should probably add that I won't really penalise people for not making trains, I just think a train would be cool but there are plenty of other great ideas out there).

hmmm... the train set for a table was soemthing i carry with me for quite some time... recently i had a hearty and inspiring talk with Gitsplitta about just that... and your comp theme just is one perfect excuse!^^

so... to small you say... well... back to the drawing board again^^

I think the train is too small, not certain though. 40k vehicles tend to be quite chunky looking.

Here are some links that might be useful:

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?242435-Dark-Millenium-Express-40k-Imperial-train-rolling

http://www.warhammer-forum.com/index.php?showtopic=168292 (this is insane)

and this whole forum:

http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?PHPSESSID=bfe209ca938b25a6643be73db42f4ab9&board=46.0

Checking out that last link and Im blown away by this pic!


Theres Necromunda bulkheads off to the side for scale. Someone has to build something like this

More pics here.
http://www.ironhands.com/train.htm

straight question to the last links...


what scale of trainsets should i be looking for when i want to build something for 40k scale? would scale 0 be a bit too large? and of course H0 is too small... so what should i be looking for then?

From what I can tell from those links Scale 0 (US) is about right, I believe thats approx 1:48 - 1:50 in the EU scale.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
straight question to the last links...


what scale of trainsets should i be looking for when i want to build something for 40k scale? would scale 0 be a bit too large? and of course H0 is too small... so what should i be looking for then?

From the way I understand it, O gauge is pretty close to 32mm figure scale, S gauge is the equivalent of 28mm figures... (OO & HO scale are either side of 20mm)

This is a useful link for scale equivalents that I have bookmarked
http://theminiaturespage.com/ref/scales.html

Edit: Ninja'd !!

thanks for your quick help mates!

I'd say O gage for that bulky 40K look...

Im noticing a large amount of trains here.....


And yes- O Scale is what you want! Could go for G, but that might be a bit TOO big for 40k

Almost as cool as trains - civilian aircraft. I love the Arvus lander from Forgeworld but there must be a lot of other aircraft/spacecraft out there, from super heavy cargo lifters to crop dusters, I am sure there are plenty of options in both wrecked and unwrecked states.

How about 40k farmyard vehicles? I am sure they have some pretty crazy crop rotations going on when a single hive has the population of a planet. Wasn't there some sort of giant combine harvester in Eisenhorn?

Not to mention all the xeno vehicles, what's the Eldar equivalent of a cargo lorry? Or a milk float? Don't tell me the Eldar don't have milk floats, probably just buy their soy milk online.

Or military vehicles are good too, I've seen some amazing wrecks made from Leman Russ kits, there is so much extra detail you can add when you are peeling away layers of hull.

Or you can build some scenery around an existing vehicle. Yes a Rhino is boring but one crashed through the front window of a [40k Newsagent equivalent] could be great. Or a Rhino that has been stripped down for parts and then converted into a ramshackle hut.

Something like this?


STEIGER® ROWTRAC™ TRACTOR

that thing is pretty cool, but it doesn't look much an Eldar milk float to me.

Meh, I can see it being turned into a Slaanesh vehicle.