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hey dave... i also found good use from time to time in these clear plastic caps from the storage packages for the PC rods...there is good value in them!

and mate... your wickers are just the sweetest kind of gun i have layed my eyes upon! all the very small and perfectly done detail!

also i like how you mounted them guns to the walkers chassis! only fitting way i thinkto do the model justice! what clever plan do you have devised to make the model look more balanced? you need some niceley done smokestacks, mabye that is a way to get the mass of the walker better optical balanced by this...

Are you doing an exhaust system? If it's a steam driven mech then I do believe a proper exhaust is needed.

Looks bad ass!

I think I'll need a few rivets to stop this from happening -

Simply awesome work. How far off until its painted?

Hahahahahahaha!!!! Painted.......


That'll be about June.......


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We'll see three more pieces of terrain, a lego village or two and at least 9 pages of =]_,= rambling before that sees paint.....

mxwllmdr wrote:Hahahahahahaha!!!! Painted.......


That'll be about June........

...in the 41st millennium.

mxwllmdr wrote:and at least 9 pages of =]_,= rambling before that sees paint.....

But that happens in a week!

True that, double true.....

HAHAHA you guys are nuts! I will be finishing this model (with paint) as soon as it is done, but it isn't done yet.

I don't want to add the smokestack (or even the Vickers) permanently until I am done manhandling the model, adding details, rivets, pipes, etc. But you can relax, it will definately have a smokestack (and petticoat- so the smoke doesn't obscure the pilot's vision too much), steam dome, headlamp,regulator/throttle valve, and safety valve, but there is no need for a sand dome, since there are no rails and no traction concerns.

Vik, when you say balanced, are you talking about aesthetics? or weight? Because it is supposed to look like a sentinel, if I add some large mass at the back, it won't look right (look at the silouette of a Sentinel and then this, they match more or less.). It is intended to have the scissored look of a walker, with the (forced) center of gravity at the hip joints. But the Sentinel's power plant is in the rear, mine is in the front- you're just going to have to deal with that difference in your brain I guess

I'm not adding any kind of counter-weight at the back, so sorry if this dissapoints anyone, you're just going to have to trust me. Hopefully. I am hoping that if it doesn't look right yet, it is just because no one is used to seeing this design yet.


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mxwllmdr wrote:....You fething slay me man.... I am blown away......

This means a lot coming from you man! Thanks

Hopefully they don't shoot at the boiler too much then.

Jeez, I've been off dakka for a day and a half and you've done so much! Those vickers are amazing, Dave. This is coming along so well.

Looks awesome Dave...

I has one tiny-ikkle problem though lols... Vickers were renowned for over heating, so are you going to put the coolant feeds on them?

Then it can just burn the survivors with them.

Jeez Dave! you are going to cause me to up my game!

LOVE the guns, and especially the mounting system! Keep it up!

These twin-linked Maxims are plain awesomeness.

n0t_u wrote:Then it can just burn the survivors with them.

The overheating cause barrel warp-age and subsequent jamming

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Looks awesome Dave...

I has one tiny-ikkle problem though lols... Vickers were renowned for over heating, so are you going to put the coolant feeds on them?

Yep, I'm going to run hoses from the bottom rims, under the barrels and up into the water system of the walker in whatever way looks the coolest
You may have noticed, but I don't have ANY pipes ran yet...This will come, probably tonight

You guys are making me blush with all the praise! I didn't realize people would like this so much, It was really just an excersize in cutting and gluing shapes in different combinations, to see what I could make and as an excuse to use the ebay watch gears in a project

That was going to be my next question lols... so fair enough

I think you need to do a mechanised Imperial guard steam-punk army. With locomotive style chimeras

ummm..cool idea........but no thanks

well your no fun...

AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

make more steam punk

Come on, Dave. You know you love the attention......

If Dave doesn't want to make steam powered Chimeras, I might!

I am sriously consideing a steam punk reaver....

dsteingass wrote:HAHAHA you guys are nuts! I will be finishing this model (with paint) as soon as it is done, but it isn't done yet.

I don't want to add the smokestack (or even the Vickers) permanently until I am done manhandling the model, adding details, rivets, pipes, etc. But you can relax, it will definately have a smokestack (and petticoat- so the smoke doesn't obscure the pilot's vision too much), steam dome, headlamp,regulator/throttle valve, and safety valve, but there is no need for a sand dome, since there are no rails and no traction concerns.

petticoat??? sorry...is that a technical term? i bet i know what you´ve meant by that but please do enlighten me^^

Vik, when you say balanced, are you talking about aesthetics? or weight? Because it is supposed to look like a sentinel, if I add some large mass at the back, it won't look right (look at the silouette of a Sentinel and then this, they match more or less.). It is intended to have the scissored look of a walker, with the (forced) center of gravity at the hip joints. But the Sentinel's power plant is in the rear, mine is in the front- you're just going to have to deal with that difference in your brain I guess

silouette is all right and i see your point! i´ll deal with it in my brain...check! ^^

I'm not adding any kind of counter-weight at the back, so sorry if this dissapoints anyone, you're just going to have to trust me. Hopefully. I am hoping that if it doesn't look right yet, it is just because no one is used to seeing this design yet.


yup...we trust you^^

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mxwllmdr wrote:....You fething slay me man.... I am blown away......

This means a lot coming from you man! Thanks

Well, I'm not opposed to the idea of a steam-powered chimera at all, I think it's a great idea, I just don't want to embark on another army-building project any time soon.

@Vik, the Petticoat is the flared cap for the smokestack, trains all had to fit under standard-height overpasses and tunnels, so they built Steam Locomotives as big and powerful as they could within those height restrictions.When moving at speed, the smoke from the engine would flow right back into the cab, so they flared the top of the smokestack with the petticoat to raise that smoke level above the cab
I have raised my cab on my walker, because it doesn't have to fit in a tunnel.

Btw, are you putting a Stack on the boiler at all?

am i right as to that this is the so called petticoat for the stack? ok i think i understand that now...

actually a steampowered chimera is something that ranges pretty high on my todo list for my own army...

Yep Vik! that's it. - You should make one then!

oh...i tried one already...but the shape looked wrong.,..and back then i didn´t knew how to get the treads right... but that is all history^^ when the knight is finished...hopefully soon then there is no stopping^^

oh well, live and learn