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hmmm that is good looking... all those drillholes...probably doable by aplying plastic glue and then some needlework to the barrels?

Oh no, I wouldn't recommend that! Plain drilling is way better. Pin vise, micro drill bit and go.

hmm looks like guns have been the topic of the day...

Rogue Wolves wrote:hmm looks like guns have been the topic of the day...

Only days that end with "y"...

Nice work there Vik although the scale maybe slightly out but the look is tops now you know what to do it again slightly smaller we have all done it scale can be a real bitch.

That model of yours (in both sense of the word) needs more paint I have to say every time you post him he looks sadder and more rejected show the model some love and finish the paint job lol

I like the second picture of the shotgun that looks bad ass make that next …….. and I hope your GS skills are up to the challenge I want to see those swirly carvings

The glue and pin idea avoid at all cost it seems a good idea but it will melt your plastic and the pin will just pull strands of melted glue every where.

Good luck and look forward to next post …….. with more paint

Pith helmets = telepathic controls, every one knows that

at baiyuan and all the others... i do own micro drills and i too think that is rather the way to go there... tho i will try that methode out in a different way... maybe i get some detailwork done that way that looks like silverwork...not on that already built shotgun but on a new try...a way to somehow get around the GS work^^
one might never know what knowledge can be optained^^

at rawson:

Only days that end with "y"...

LOL

at RW...well ye could have joined, couln´t ye? where have ye been? you have been long absent mate!

at LDD...grant you that... and he looks by far the most rejected mini i have ever done..the look on his face, together with that gesture of the demanding hand...yep...poor sod^^

so i have revisited the idea of making rivets via the holepunch... amd with the sheats of styrene courtesy of dave i now am able to produce them to the millllllions! again!

tho i want to share my expirience with that way of production...:

the material of that thickness gets rather badly warped in multiple way...i tried at first to make the biggest rivets i am ble to make...then i tried the smalest option available...that is by the way still 2mm in diameter to five the biggest...
you see how malformed afterwards the material is...so for filligre work it is not that usefull...well...we´ll see about that...




because a certain project i want to do in the coming days is in need of such fiddle details i need to find a way...so i went and began to drill holes into PC...looks like that:


kind of usefull and with care something could be done that way...

then i started to make my first angled work with PC...created a boxykind of structure...:






pilot is for scale referrence...



and because old habbits die hard i tried my old filligre methode with the PC again... turned out well enoug atm...


thoughts? recommendations...accusations?^^


vik

Hmmm, what are you up to now I wonder Vik?

i could be mean and tell you to read through the last ten or more pages... but i think a good cuppa tea and a bit of a wait will solve this nice and quiet^^

Don't let shaso serve it, american tea is horrible

on topic, the rivet holes look pretty good, and I think the way to stop the material getting deformed is to drill less holes in it (more material needed though)
so instead of, say, 20 holes in a strip, maybe 15, evenly spread out?

the first pic is just wasted material, when making rivets for the rivtes as the sole purpose it is rather not really important what becomes out of the left over... but since i used to do detailwork with the punch too i have to now see how to make it work for me... one thing i will try is getting thinner sheats of PC...that might be the trick...

Come on Vik there is no such thing as wasted PC, that distorted PC is perfect for scratch building scenery or even better for ork scratch builds never repeat never throw anything away

NEVER throw anything away- it can at least be used in rubble!

Sorry going back to steam punk weapons again found this

Elegant yet kicks a punch however you need to get to where you are going to use it first
Hey presto

@Vik- you will probably ruin/dull your holepunch by forcing it through the 1mm plastic card, you really want something thinner. How about the thin clear plastic that is used for report covers, or overhead transparencies, etc. ? Or food packaging plastic (if it will take a glue)

@LDD The Barrel/canister/round magazine is another touch that fits in perfectly with Steampunk! The Piston-drive system is another cool idea to make anything instantly look steampunk, although I'd prefer iron steam tractor wheels

oo i like the look at that bull! and @vik i told ye why i was gone sir! had to film some commercials and such

Dave you picky sod lol……..
Vik wake up your thread being hijacked

Vik's thread is made for hijacking

dsteingass wrote:Vik's thread is made for hijacking

and that's just what it'll do.
Vik's thread is made for hijaking,
and it'll hijack all over you!

Tractor tires you say no iron wheels but tractor never the less
or

How about this for transport


Now how about this or this for transport

at LDD... yeah that shotgun of yours is a true nice find... will use that for a future gun as the main referrence...
as for the tank and the other vehicles... some i know of already... at least once in a week i do a pic search at google for steampunk vehicles, mechs, walker and tank... to come up with new designs... got already quite a collection...

at rawson...classy mate^^ but honestly... i thought that was dave´s necro thread as well or even more^^

at RW... yep i read it... though...earning money...was that ever a ssuitable excuse? thought so^^

as for the wasting PC issue... of course do i collect and recycle all previously used PC to a later terminal use...basing or any other uses... there is no wasted PC...it was just a figure of speach to a short sighted projects pinpoint...^^


well mates... made an effort and tried myself with simple forms... tried to make a bricklicke compartment for my next project...but i realised i don´t do simple...so the current steps are put aside (not wasted...just on the shelf for future use)
and began working on a more octagonal shape...this looks way better... but did atm no pics to let you oggle over... that will have to wait for a further step to follow...i have great expectations for this now...somehow the thing feels already right... the whole project is yet again just a thing that i build as i go with the flow... no planning just moment inspiration...so bear with me on this...

vik

lone dirty dog wrote:How about this for transport

I'd love to see one of those in a heavy gale

yeah... the bus from HP...i thought was just pretty dumb... nevertheless that design jumped to the bigscreen...

Well, HP would never have been anything like the popularity it was if it the characters weren't kids.

well...i see ron i see a kid...i see hermoine and ...(/&(&(/(?(/)...i see harry... i see a buttugly heini that hopefully will never breed... in the first two movies he actually looked quite close to the char but then he looked just mean with a bad... a verrrrry bad haircut...

So for all the lovely vehicles....can we have some links where you got those from?

^ where are those vehicles from anyway.. they are giving me a redfaction type of feeling

Sorry early night last night so no reply as to links as such I just type Rotcud Industries into Goggle images and there you have it……… Good luck

Vik still did not get to see Sherlock Homes she was not in the mood I think I will go on my own at this rate But I saw the second episode of the second series last night pretty good funny in places as well

#pst#Erm vik Im just wandering what is steampunk exactly? On but seriously what is it? It is people dreesed up in victorain clohes with huge great sci-fi like guns?

VIK WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

That's pretty epic... but someone has a little too much time on his hands methinks