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2011/11/19 18:18:26
Subject: Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
nice man, did you get that wheel of of a toy? it works well
[ "Don't worry, Vik! You have all of your internet friends to keep you company! And, as everyone knows, internet friends are at least one step above imaginary friends "-Rawson
"Does an Ork shiiiit green?" "...Rogue! -you rock!" "Damn you too Rogue!""[TTFN]... That means tittyfething right?""Yep, that's me, a two-dollar whore"-Dsteingass
"... but if we all fail together we can make it look like we´ve won actually.." "...to all killers out there...: my face will hit your fist so hard it´s gonna bleed...your fist that is...""lol....OMG... you are a serial""he knows no pain...nor fear^^ he is a riveteer""yep... some of the dakka chaps here sure made the joints of my jaw quite loose...""er... emailsex... now that at least sounds like the perfect safer sex... but i like mine a bit more...wet""do you know what they call a quarter pounder of a buckte full of rivets in france?" "No...what?" "Rivitz royal"-Viktor von Domm
" I expected to hear gak like that from RW, not you Vik... for shame Sir, for shame"-AnUnearthlyChilde
"We are Vik's private collection of muses for the monkey on his back.....""you, guys are worse than my children......"-mxwllmdr
"Singling one out as odd in a =][_= thread is like going into an asylum, pointing at someone at random and saying "that person's insane""-Shrike
2011/11/19 19:04:45
Subject: Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
it is an actual playmobil steeringwheel...we were lucky on a fleamarket...
Automatically Appended Next Post: also as no one seems to comment after my last one...here is yet another picupdate...aren´t we the productive ones....?savvy?
had to say that again...i am currently watching the movie pirates of the caribean...very inspiring^^
and i primed during the watching the ship...:
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"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2011/11/19 23:01:02
Subject: Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
aye! and even not seen here a second coat has been aplied...i will now let that sit for the night...then i need to make some details to the wood and then the steelparts get painted...after all that (and all the other smaller details too) the whole ship gets covered in PVA again... i do that as a sealing... i guess just varnishing it would rub off in the end when dragged and pished over floor and carpets.,..
So when do the kids get back? (keep forgetting)
good work, keep it up! ^^
hopefully we can get back to steampunk madness soon ^^
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2011/11/19 23:52:01
Subject: Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
Viktor von Domm wrote:aye! and even not seen here a second coat has been aplied...i will now let that sit for the night...then i need to make some details to the wood and then the steelparts get painted...after all that (and all the other smaller details too) the whole ship gets covered in PVA again... i do that as a sealing... i guess just varnishing it would rub off in the end when dragged and pished over floor and carpets.,..
Sounds like a plan
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2011/11/20 00:13:09
Subject: Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
Well at least you didn't start a prjoect like this!
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2011/11/20 06:34:02
Subject: Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
daaaaaamn dude that us AWSOME!!! Ok stein now you know what to get next, but make it an american ship instead!
[ "Don't worry, Vik! You have all of your internet friends to keep you company! And, as everyone knows, internet friends are at least one step above imaginary friends "-Rawson
"Does an Ork shiiiit green?" "...Rogue! -you rock!" "Damn you too Rogue!""[TTFN]... That means tittyfething right?""Yep, that's me, a two-dollar whore"-Dsteingass
"... but if we all fail together we can make it look like we´ve won actually.." "...to all killers out there...: my face will hit your fist so hard it´s gonna bleed...your fist that is...""lol....OMG... you are a serial""he knows no pain...nor fear^^ he is a riveteer""yep... some of the dakka chaps here sure made the joints of my jaw quite loose...""er... emailsex... now that at least sounds like the perfect safer sex... but i like mine a bit more...wet""do you know what they call a quarter pounder of a buckte full of rivets in france?" "No...what?" "Rivitz royal"-Viktor von Domm
" I expected to hear gak like that from RW, not you Vik... for shame Sir, for shame"-AnUnearthlyChilde
"We are Vik's private collection of muses for the monkey on his back.....""you, guys are worse than my children......"-mxwllmdr
"Singling one out as odd in a =][_= thread is like going into an asylum, pointing at someone at random and saying "that person's insane""-Shrike
2011/11/20 09:24:01
Subject: Re:Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
I remember making one of those as a kid... ah, good times...
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2011/11/20 13:02:11
Subject: Re:Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
Ths is my contribution to the Nautical Vessel craze that is storming Dakka.
Yeeaaargh
"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2011/11/20 13:40:29
Subject: Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
The design of the kit baffles me a bit though.
See, it is a six-gun ship, but the two the gun ports to the stern of the ship are blocked by the stairs to the bridge, and they only supply you with 2 cannons, but spaces to mount 4 cannons? WTF?
It looks liek I am going to have to order some more cannons from Bricklink to properly arm her!
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"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2011/11/20 15:23:42
Subject: Re:Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
dave that is a cool closeup... but yeah... i think sometimes the built is not that thought through by lego...i know probably a heretic thought... also: iirc battleships had not enought cannons on board to have all sides fully equiped... also castles and such likes had movable guns... after all how many times does a battleship have to face enemies on both sides? the needed guns would be moved to the needed side...
so gents that day is a bog update day for me... i am currently painting like the devil...like the devil is behind be chasing me..more like^^
only two nights to go and the ship has to be servicable...
so i begun today with darkening the hull yet again...the yesterday colors didn´t swing for me...
after that i blackened the plates to later then metal them up^^
then by a sudden strike of genius^^ i searched for fitting letters in our noodles section in the kitchen...yeah you read right, i used letters noodles for nameplates...that methode is highly recommended by me now...easy raised detail...no GS skills involved...and easy redone if spelled wrong lol
and on the hull already...:
then i finally began painting the aftercastel...blue for my son oskar and yellow for my son felix...their respective favorite colors... giving the ship a slight frenchy style in my opinion...
yellow needs another coat or something tho...
also the interrior of the aftercastel needed painting... i had to face a minor obstacle here... due to the shape of the windows and the lack of space for brush wielding i had to again rely on my inventivness... so i used an old battery powered toothbrush...usually used for cleaning stripped minis... and i have to say quite a good way to cover a surface with paint^^
then i painted the curtains in a fitting red mecharite to match the capuccino colored walls inside...and also i painted the meshed windows with metal too...
from the outside:
and if that wasn´t enough i also completed the metal nametags:
i guess at least one picupdate will happen today...if not more^^
That is just absolutely awsome Vik! Really looking phenomenal!
Yeah, I know you would only have enough cannons to fill one side, but it's the third port that you can't mount a cannon in that bugs me. Why make a third port if you ccan't use it? Generally, unneccessary holes in the hull of a wooden ship are considered a bad thing, lol.
Automatically Appended Next Post: See, they did it right with the big Imperial Flagship kit, wheels on the guns and rails to move them into at the ports.
I'll need to get ahold of one more black hull peice, then I can extend the ship 8 studs and add one more gun and it'll all work out
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"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2011/11/20 15:59:46
Subject: Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2011/11/20 18:49:38
Subject: Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
That is starting to look like a pirate ship, Vik! I'm sure your sons are going to love it (especially having a ship named after them! )
The 104th Vostroyan Mechanized Rawson's Reboot Viktor von Domm: nope... can´t do that for the sake of all lving creatures that dwell on earth....
dsteingass: That's like saying "I forgot to tell you who your real father is"
nerdfest09: Rawson speaks the truth!
2011/11/20 19:05:05
Subject: Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
oo ship is looking great with a slap of paint, and noodles?! never would have thought of that! And stein thats one sweet lego ship, if i could buy all the stuff that i wanted i would fill a house
[ "Don't worry, Vik! You have all of your internet friends to keep you company! And, as everyone knows, internet friends are at least one step above imaginary friends "-Rawson
"Does an Ork shiiiit green?" "...Rogue! -you rock!" "Damn you too Rogue!""[TTFN]... That means tittyfething right?""Yep, that's me, a two-dollar whore"-Dsteingass
"... but if we all fail together we can make it look like we´ve won actually.." "...to all killers out there...: my face will hit your fist so hard it´s gonna bleed...your fist that is...""lol....OMG... you are a serial""he knows no pain...nor fear^^ he is a riveteer""yep... some of the dakka chaps here sure made the joints of my jaw quite loose...""er... emailsex... now that at least sounds like the perfect safer sex... but i like mine a bit more...wet""do you know what they call a quarter pounder of a buckte full of rivets in france?" "No...what?" "Rivitz royal"-Viktor von Domm
" I expected to hear gak like that from RW, not you Vik... for shame Sir, for shame"-AnUnearthlyChilde
"We are Vik's private collection of muses for the monkey on his back.....""you, guys are worse than my children......"-mxwllmdr
"Singling one out as odd in a =][_= thread is like going into an asylum, pointing at someone at random and saying "that person's insane""-Shrike
2011/11/20 20:19:51
Subject: Re:Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
I have to admit Vik, you have me hooked, I just came back from a shopping trip where I scored some Playmobil soldiers (They look like redcoats, but with the blue coats, still supposed to be British sailors/marines or French?) Their flag has Fleur d' lie's or however you spell it, must be French?
My GF liked the Black Pearl so much, she got me the Queen Anne's Revenge! It almost has enough skulls to be a GW product
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"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2011/11/20 22:29:04
Subject: Re:Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
That looks so sweet, and the noodle letters are a stroke of genius!
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2011/11/20 22:45:03
Subject: Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
yup those are the french soldiers of the same period as the redcoats...i recently was researching for playmobil and saw them too...i especially like their old guns...with the bayonets...that is the old fashion style...i think they reproduced it... out of style at least for 10-15 years now... when i was a kid i had quite a few of them...very important for my redcooats back then...^^ oh and one of your soooliers had it´s hat on facing the wrong way...if his arge would see him that way he would shoove him in the tanty for getting a cold due to not having his hat on proper...
thanks zefig!
yep rawson... i am rather banking on that^^
at shaso...yup ploughing the waves is not for the faint of heart^^
at rogue...yep my house is way too full as is... to much of my hobby and my wife says even our kids have too many toys...that is a real bummer for the upcoming christmas...
mates... promised an update.,.. but i worked feverently at the ship and didn´t make any WIP pics...i know first rule for a modeler so i get this as a first offence...? tomorrow i will make daytime pics of the ship...currently i have begun with the flag and it is looking quite nice if i say so myself...^^ also i have completly covered the whole ship in PVA, a thick coat at that and it is even now completly dry...also it gained a nice slick surface so that i am quite confident for the ship to be a good carpet vessel^^
tomorrow there will be only the steering wheel to be painted and then mounted on the bridge...also the flag had to be mounted and to be given the last bits of attention to it...then i think i am done with that big case of wood/glue/tissue/cardboard...
Automatically Appended Next Post: ups... mised you there shrike... thanks mate...the noodles are really something that is worth it... it really will be the think for further scratchbuilds to be used there too...
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i thought about making some benches and a table... but we have both already from playmobil...so i wanted to skip that atm... actually i had the thught too to show some minis that hare trying to capture the bigjobs ship^^
the steam divers are not forgotten... just temporarily hampered^^
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And Damn You Sir!
I have now ordered 6 Playmobil Redcoats (stovepipe hats), and and officer. I have ebay bids on 4 more redcoats, 5 British Royal Guards, a snare drum, trumpet, and flag! (You can't march redcoats without a proper command group!) And I ordered some more French army builder sets. With all the extra accessories and stuff that comes with it all that I won't ever need, Tell your boys to be expecting a Christmas package from Uncle Dave in the US!
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2011/11/22 16:08:55
"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2011/11/22 22:54:40
Subject: Imperial steampunk.... diverting project.... ploughing the waves the pirate way
on a realted (pun intended) subject... i was trying to answer a comment on your blogh yesterday around 20:00 CET when an almost santalike bumping on my door tore me from my PC...and guess who visited me? my family... they are now all BACK!!!! they drove through the after noon to get early at home... and kept it as a secret! boy was i surprised... and i am soooooo glad that they are now all with me again...
i will shortly show you all some pics i did for the assembled troops of my kids...i proped all the existing troops together in all ships i could muster... quite a colorful force through the ages^^
and dave ... i henceforth declare you insane...but for my that is a good mindset^^
"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
My P&M Blog :
That is just absolutely awsome Vik! Really looking phenomenal!
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