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Vik and his clock-work veteran squad!

the robots as spacemarines? now that is something i haven´t thought about... care to share why you think they would be caount as SM...? tho i want to add...i am open for anything...


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^lol...shaso... tick tock tacticals...

Love the new edition very cute indeed though I am waiting for the paint job to make finale verdict as all the bits and colours are distracting me a bit , I feel this one could do with a clock work K9 to retrieve the corpses as he has that country gent out for a bit of hunting feel to him

a mechdog...now that is a nice idea...i will have to do some research for that... that is why i love this board... mindtank all over^^...and thanks LDD...

and you are totally right... it kind of keeps me from really seeing it too...using not only white plastic makes it indeed hard to see the overall look of the mini...

well what would you like for your army?
- if you want furious assault robots go for khorn or BA
- if you want intense close fire fight go for SW
- if you want zealous robots that go forward every time somebody dies pick BT. which would be nice as you can mix and match robots in one squad although the rules for BT arn't perfect for robots.
- if you want long range fire fights pick vanilla marines
- if you want a lot of big robots with smaller robots go for vannila marines with techpriest and 6 dreadnoughts (big robots) or BA with all the dreadnoughts you can ever want.
- and then there a DA for which i don't have an idea
- and before i forget we have the GK but i can't think of any connection accept there silver, which is a metal, robots are build from metal, robots often appear to be silver.

that should cover everything. might i add that i would go for long range fire power with lots of techpriest, squads and thunderfire cannons.

the thing is robots have a lot of metal and with the back packs you gave them not a lot of people can disagree if you call them count as space marine

Glad I could help

fatty wrote:well what would you like for your army?
- if you want furious assault robots go for khorn or BA
- if you want intense close fire fight go for SW
- if you want zealous robots that go forward every time somebody dies pick BT. which would be nice as you can mix and match robots in one squad although the rules for BT arn't perfect for robots.
- if you want long range fire fights pick vanilla marines
- if you want a lot of big robots with smaller robots go for vannila marines with techpriest and 6 dreadnoughts (big robots) or BA with all the dreadnoughts you can ever want.
- and then there a DA for which i don't have an idea
- and before i forget we have the GK but i can't think of any connection accept there silver, which is a metal, robots are build from metal, robots often appear to be silver.

that should cover everything. might i add that i would go for long range fire power with lots of techpriest, squads and thunderfire cannons.

the thing is robots have a lot of metal and with the back packs you gave them not a lot of people can disagree if you call them count as space marine

that is a very indepth explenation...thank you sir... and all of these make sense... tho i have to say the BA idea strikes me of a very interresting idea... making even bigger robots as counts as dreads...i think that could be easier as i then could work not on such a small scale in the beginning...

and yep, those backpacks sure help to bring a count as SM look along...


at LDD... you did, you did... i already have quite a good picture in my mind how i want that doggy to look like...^^

Will look forward to that one then

Viktor von Domm wrote:


here comes the current walker status quo...:

don´t mind the clothpegs tho...










the toes will see work as promised soon and also there is plenty of other work still needed with it... this is just the merest shapeing of the vessel...

thanks for looking....yours truly vik

wooden barrel boiler. is this based on the real life Stevenson locomotives?



transmission systems please. will it be 'shay geared' or will you connect the leg mechanism directly to the powering piston just like any steam loco?

See this is what happens when I forget to look at other threds, you do something septacular!

It's going to be pistons, apparently- little gearage, more like a Steam variant of a Hydraulic system.

Viktor von Domm wrote:
have you considered making a flamer? or the greanadelauncher...

I didn't see this question yesterday.
I have been working on concepts for flamers and plasms guns, but original ideas are escaping me at the moment. And for a grenade launcher I've been thinking of something similar to the Vietnam era "Bloop" guns the US Army used. Like this:

For my own Steampunk force, I've been either trying to make them like Steam Guns (same template, but with Steam instead of fire- and high powered steam/water jets cut just as well as torches do- They're Burnas) or have a sort of small furnace near the nozzle as the pilot light.

Duh! Steam! like a refreshing slap in the face!
Hmmmm, that opens up a whole new way to look at it! Thanks!

The Rivetto MKII is so cute and deadly at the same time... He reminds me Pinokio for some reason
Nicely done anyway!

at ishkatar...
lol...yep...the whole concept is based loosely on the pinnochio theme... so yep...you are thankfully seeing the motivation behind the loud appearance^^

at anvil and jake...steam guns...as a sort of flamer stand in...good idea!... also one could muse about the idea of a waterpistol filled with acid? same effect really and even the look would be similar...

at hazzer...
yep...it is rather now almost like work getting online^^ so many threads are on my sbed list...and all are so important to me that i want to follow them closley...*wipes brow...*

at jake...love that thump gun...the M79 has a huge history...and i love seing it in movies and tv series of the `80s... nowadays they all use the dumb talon...the m79 had style and a nice "voice"...

at lone cat... that is an interresting question... i think anvil has some good ideas but i stll wonder how i can execute this rather simple plans into a convincing construction.... i am secretly thinking of avoiding the issue... maybe thats why i haven´t made progress for now due to that matter... if i leave that out, then i would hate me for ditching out on that one... i think i have to grow a pair and get on with it^^

at LDD...that dog is coming soonish... you certainly have sparked my ideacentre^^

Vik, you're at post count "9666"... I just noticed while listening to iron maiden's "number of the beast" too

but yeah, keep it up! Hut hut hut!

lol... yep... that is good song^^

and already beyond that number^^... i am biting at the big fifth digit^^

The automatons are great!
I like the new Vik! (I said it before, something has happened to you. Have you been abducted by xenos recently? The must have given you some extra time with the "creativity in plasticcard" anal probe...)

holy... baiyuan... now you are trying to lower our standards as we tried to do yours?^^ lol...anal probe... i am not cartman you know?

well it all started with a longing to make good models...but cardboard didn´t cut it... and my own suply of PC was somehow frustrating... then dave jumped in and got me the current beginning of my stock of PC...which has grown quite nicley...and the material is very good for such small projects...

i guess it is a case of:

"der appetit kommt mit dem essen..." i think i am not able to translate that sufficiently...

While I am at a (comparatively) humble 5000. And I remember the days when I was ahead of you, back when we were both in the 2,000's

Yep, I think it's just the plasticard that's made the difference - cardboard and junk is great for a variety of things, but adding the plastic to the mix has enabled you to get closer to your concepts.

I keep waiting on him to build that Vickers MG, but I don't mind seeing his other stuff develop

Give a talented man a miniature, and he can model for a day. Give a talented man an envelope full of plasticard and sticks, and he can model for a lifetime.

je hebt de smaak te pakken that's one way to translate it but i doubt alot off you can read dutch.

but you can also say you have a thirst for more. it's like whiskey the more you drink the more thirst you get

monkeytroll wrote:Yep, I think it's just the plasticard that's made the difference - cardboard and junk is great for a variety of things, but adding the plastic to the mix has enabled you to get closer to your concepts.

that is the abolute truth... i like the carving and slicing of that material... it is a blessing to the projects...

cardboard is especially fine for large areas... i think i will sometime in the future revisit the cardboard for terrainmaking... there i think it has a great potential...

at shrike...well... i have lost track when the postcount started to explode^^


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dsteingass wrote:I keep waiting on him to build that Vickers MG, but I don't mind seeing his other stuff develop

Give a talented man a miniature, and he can model for a day. Give a talented man an envelope full of plasticard and sticks, and he can model for a lifetime.

...LOL...

and yep^^ that is what happened^^

by the way... terry pratchet used that quote too...

"give a poor man some wood and he is worm for the winter...light him up and he is warm for the rest of his life..."

Yeah, that Jesus guy said something like that too

fatty wrote:je hebt de smaak te pakken that's one way to translate it but i doubt alot off you can read dutch.

but you can also say you have a thirst for more. it's like whiskey the more you drink the more thirst you get

only half true... when i drink to much... it turns the other way around...like


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dsteingass wrote:Yeah, that Jesus guy said something like that too

... that jesus guy... ROFL...

I believe the saying is "give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he can eat for a lifetime"

yeah...but fish...well that is boring...





that thread had way to few vids anyway^^

Not if that fish is... ADMIRAL ACKBAR!