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Hi,

Here is an Imperial Guard Chimera I have completely scratch built from paper, cardboard and a chop-stick (and lots of super glue!).











What do you think?

Its nifty but i never understood why people scratch build things -.-

why do you? just curious really not bashing or anything just i know me personally id rather grab me a real chimera and yeah,

victor.IG wrote:Its nifty but i never understood why people scratch build things -.-

why do you? just curious really not bashing or anything just i know me personally id rather grab me a real chimera and yeah,

Perhaps because paper models cost about fifty pence, and plasticard ones perhaps four pounds. I've seen people build an entire armoured company for less than the price of a single Leman Russ

Some also do it for the pleasure and challenge of crafting the model, there are a few chaps like that on the net and their selfbuilds are indistinguishable from a GW model.

Colour me impressed. Amongst an army I doubt the casual observer would notice it was any different from any other Chimera. Nice one!

Thanks!

@ victor.IG- Yodhrin hit the nail right on the head! I could afford one, maybe even two Chimeras, but that leaves me with no money and a rather unimpressive army. However if I scratch build them I could essentially have as many tanks as I like!

I do also really enjoy building them, though the lazy side of me would much rather just skip the work and pick up a GW plastic kit. Unfortunately my wallet thinks otherwise.

40k Pirate wrote:Thanks!

@ victor.IG- Yodhrin hit the nail right on the head! I could afford one, maybe even two Chimeras, but that leaves me with no money and a rather unimpressive army. However if I scratch build them I could essentially have as many tanks as I like!

I do also really enjoy building them, though the lazy side of me would much rather just skip the work and pick up a GW plastic kit. Unfortunately my wallet thinks otherwise.

I have done more scratch building since I lost my job, and only work part time now. It allows for a much more diverse army. At least it does for orks.. Good job on the scratch build..

Pretty good job, although the corners on the sides look a bit messy. I would personally use paper cylinders instead of chopsticks for the rotating mount
how sturdy is it?
maybe try an infantry model next? (it is possible, at least for necrons)

Well, I have tried making a Broadside and Crisis suit, in my opinion though they weren't really that good. I think I'll stick to tanks for a while.

It's a pretty tough Chimera, even though it's a paper model. It's very sturdy and takes hits/knocks/drops very well (it got dropped loads while under construction!). One of my main goals while making this was to make it strong, so I reinforced almost everything with extra cardboard and superglue!

@ruff- Thanks, I completely agree!

Yodhrin wrote:

victor.IG wrote:Its nifty but i never understood why people scratch build things -.-

why do you? just curious really not bashing or anything just i know me personally id rather grab me a real chimera and yeah,

Perhaps because paper models cost about fifty pence, and plasticard ones perhaps four pounds. I've seen people build an entire armoured company for less than the price of a single Leman Russ

Some also do it for the pleasure and challenge of crafting the model, there are a few chaps like that on the net and their selfbuilds are indistinguishable from a GW model.

Its just a lot of fun to scratch build stuff too. By the way awesome work !



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Yodhrin wrote:

victor.IG wrote:Its nifty but i never understood why people scratch build things -.-

why do you? just curious really not bashing or anything just i know me personally id rather grab me a real chimera and yeah,

Perhaps because paper models cost about fifty pence, and plasticard ones perhaps four pounds. I've seen people build an entire armoured company for less than the price of a single Leman Russ

Some also do it for the pleasure and challenge of crafting the model, there are a few chaps like that on the net and their selfbuilds are indistinguishable from a GW model.

Its just a lot of fun to scratch build stuff too. By the way awesome work !

Also, depending on the time invested in building one of these, it would be quite the item when your vehicle gets wrecked you can just smash it right on the board,

unless you're building simple cardboard cut-out proxies, it takes way too much time to build one that looks good to just smash it.
I didnt keep track of how long my monolith has taken so far, but it cant be less than 10-20 hours

40k Pirate wrote:It's a pretty tough Chimera, even though it's a paper model. It's very sturdy and takes hits/knocks/drops very well (it got dropped loads while under construction!). One of my main goals while making this was to make it strong, so I reinforced almost everything with extra cardboard and superglue!

I'd actually recommend PVA glue for joining large surfaces (just be careful of warping from the glue shrinking while drying) and either PVA or something like Tacky Glue for the smaller surfaces/edges

Amazing work! It looks just as good, although the turret looks like someone has sat on on it! Only kidding lol

But the problem with paper models, is you may not be able to use them in GW.

MalikDrako wrote:unless you're building simple cardboard cut-out proxies, it takes way too much time to build one that looks good to just smash it.
I didnt keep track of how long my monolith has taken so far, but it cant be less than 10-20 hours
I'd actually recommend PVA glue for joining large surfaces (just be careful of warping from the glue shrinking while drying) and either PVA or something like Tacky Glue for the smaller surfaces/edges

Seconded. It took ages to make that tank, no one is going to smash my precious! Please post pics when you're done, I'm really interested to see how it turns out. I was thinking of making a Monolith myself (but then I've been thinking of making just about everything at this stage), it looks like a massive project!
EDIT: Sorry, didn't realise you already have uploaded pics!

progreen10 wrote: Amazing work! It looks just as good, although the turret looks like someone has sat on on it! Only kidding lol

But the problem with paper models, is you may not be able to use them in GW.

No problems here, the nearest GW is 12 hours away! We've made our own unofficial gaming group which is more than happy with scratch built models and proxies. In fact, there are actually very few GW products in our 'club' so far.