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that would be very orky. I am now tempted to do that...hmm...

i could imagine grots lining up like kids awaiting their turn on the water slide a the water park ,Orks herding them in , " ere ya go , snotgrot , its a ver fun sliiidy riiide! Jump in now , ere old dis ice cream ," But boss int dat a Bang bomb....whysit ticking ... "er, never mind dat hold it tight . " WEEEEEEEEE"

heh heh heh. I crack myself up. heh heh heh.
hmm. I might so a paper mache of a long balloon, put plasticard plating on it, and hey presto! Anyone got any ideas of how to make a quick cheap zeppellin?

rubgy ball

lol nice image produced there^^

vik

neil101 wrote:rubgy ball

i'll try one. @ ketara- how did you make yours?

PVC would work. Get some 4' PVC, two lengths of four feet and attach a platform between them. Build a superstructure at the back and place 1' PVC smokestacks, two on either side of the structure. Use some FW landing pads and attach some AA guns for defensive use. Have a landing strip of course. I would have a poopdeck in the back on top of the superstructure and another 2' PVC with engine glow/bitz set below the superstructure with a plasticard structure around it. Have lots of fins and that kind of regal ship look to the curves. I'd then install an additional bombardment cannn under the vessel.

aah! I iz confuseded! I'll try a rugby ball. I won't be able to start until 2011, but still...

I await the final decision as to the troop deployment method chosen that winds up working out the best.

I actually speak a poor amount of German, but I must say your work is stellar! You're Zeppelin is fitting of the Kaiser himself.

nice thank you again^^ shattered soul, Schauen Sie wieder mal rein^^

the deployment is still an issue i try to figure out. had a lazy (familiy related) weekend in concerns of working on the airship...went a little wild on ebay.uk and purchased some models you will see in some time in one of my then starting blog to feature army building...

for now i´ve checked some materials to be used for a pedestal, but i think i have to get some more materials as what i have for now wont do alone to support the rather heavy structure. i cant answer the question as how heavy that airhip is curtrently, as we dont own some scales for weighing it...
the plexiglas rods i´ve gor are long enough but i only got two of them and i want to support at least to axis of the ship nit just one so it might be for now in danger of falling to one side when not taken with utmost care...that would kill the point of actually playing with it...

so i hopw tommorrow will bring me an oportunity to actually build the base...

after that i literally have room for tjought to think of a means of deployment...

vik

Parachuters! Have a hole (well, more than just any hole of course) in the bottom with guardsmen crowded around ready to jump. That's how you deploy.

sorry dude i ruled the parachute idea out as it would speak against my (not really psted here but still thought out) fluff...
the bucket and also the antigrav tunnel/pipeline are my most favored ideas...

vik

Cyborg birds?


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err, eagles

nahhh, that would look a bit to much like that wuss frodo taken around by a giant eagle... , my oldest son suggested the use of rockets on backpacks...but to be honest i said i dont want my victorian force not to look like orc boys...


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and as for the cyborg part, well this should be acomplished then by steampowered engines on the back of a IG? weel there not 10feet tall superhumans the are just smartly dressed john does like you and me^^

vik

Kind of complicated but... Start with the stormboys kit. Trim off the dakka (define as you please.) Use the sprue bitz to glue the body of the rocket wide enough to place a guardsman in. Basically, you're extending the width of the rocket. Leave the bottom as that's your thrust. most tank kits and some others have handles like would be used for a handle on an mg. Take the handles and convert the guardsmen's hands to hold them. End result looks like an open one man drop pod witht the gurdsman controlling it as it lands.

I think the buckets would only ba able to carry 5 men in- a very slow method of deployment. I prefer the futurama people- tubes.

at Draglide12

your idea has a certain ring to it...i will give it some more thought...

at shrike...jep, i like that series...even better than simpsons and the opener is always something amusing to look...and i really envisioned it that way so...hmmmm....

argh... the decisions....

well it really boils down to this- which looks more gentlemanly?
one-man drop pods or futurama tubes?

Ogryn of course could just jump...

Ogrn's don't really scream "GENTLEMANLY" at me. Dunno if it's the same for you guys, but...

ah do not tempt me...i am in it for better or worse...
actually the gentleman thing would be to use landing skiffs like in return of the jedis... but this wot happen either as i dont want to build them...well now anyways...argh this would be really the right thing to do...damn...

meh. zeppelin's cooler.
might make one. (for orks)

ah i be to difer, have a look at AIlaros blogs...
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/325355.page

he made true gentleman ogryns...

vik


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yep an orc one would be also a very good one...and you could get lots of reference shots from WOW, in ogrimar they are a sight to see^^

Lol, they look nice, but they're still bone 'eads.

lol as long as they keep quiet no ones to know^^

have you ever seen Treasure Planet? It was a sci-fi adaptaion of Treasure island. The Cyborg in that movie would be a great steampunk captain model for your airship if you could do it. Think he'd take a lot of GS.

ow saw that and also loved the book...a classy one...
do you by chance might hunt for a pic of him?

vik


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so lads and ladys im off now to bed, as its tomorrow st niklas day here in germany and i have to prepare some boots to stuff with toys and sweets to honor the kids cleaning work with their boots...

good n8
vik

One does hope they are not too too gentlemanly, for they would never disembark from the dirigible airship.

"After you."
"No, after you."
"Please, I insist after you."
"You are too kind but humility demands I simply must defer to your priority in entering the deployment tubularity dispension shaft."
and so on and so forth.

pedal powered propellors... one man bicycle helicopters