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You made me give it some thought, so I threw together the first crewman just now. He is the assistant gunner, relaying firing orders to the gunner from the fire-control computer. I don't have any idea how I am going to make a loader fit in that cramped space, or how I am going to even get a loader to hold such a sizable round. I may just have to take some creative license and make the gunner standing over the tube be the loader.

Ported the mortar tube, created a much better-looking mount with a screw and the handle-looking thing from a vehicle spotlight. Mounted it in the rhino with the crewman... this probably is going to have to do until after the competition next week.

What's he looking at??

I'll take some pics of my dudes later. I've managed to use the two crewmen with the space provided but I had to think 'out of the box'.

"is that a bug on the mortar, I need my hand bin's to look closer. yes, its a bug.........."


you should make a guy looking down to mortar barrel.

or a guy who was looking down the ortar barrel, but at the wrong time...........

i can just imagine tearing up a head with clippers then covering it in red paint. maybe add a splat underneath

god i have a sick mind.......

He's looking into a shielded fire control computer... the computer that puts out the firing control data, such as the required traverse and elevation needed to target a particular grid number coordinates in relation to the weapon's grid location.

oh.................

Yeah, if you had ever served on a mortar team you would know what I'm talking about... lol.

nope. im 12..............

Yup, I stole the idea for ghillie snipers. Here are a couple I put out:

WOW! never saw it done like that before! what did you use?

Holy shinto. Can we get a pic of the faces?

I used gauze bandage: like this guy did-

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/236261.page

It was his idea that I stole. The faces are not anything special, just regular guardsmen with normal flesh... just a lot of the black wash ends up there for a super-cool shadowed look.

I thought you'd be using that as your inspiration. Also, are they bits from the guard vox pack as the barrel?

Good eyes! Yes, those are the antennae cut off at the base and inverted. I drilled out the forward receiver a little bit to make them stay attached better.

Some good news! Last night a friend came over with his bitz box, and I traded some SM bikes that I was never going to use for a mountain of bitz! I have enough bitz to build a full chimera, tripods, bipods, gunshields, and finally: enough bitz to make 15 catachan jungle fighters. I don't quite know what I will make with them, but I'll think of something.

Thought it was. It works quite well.

And that's a decent trade you've made. Is it going to be a straight Chimera or something 'special'?

Naw... just straight Chimmies. I wanted to ensure that I can mechanize my vets before moving on to other projects... Yeah I am a band-wagon-er.

I also bought an extra Chimera kit from the local store. Now I need to paint them both before the tournament wednesday.

Curse you! You better make it up to me and buy another later and do something to it! SOMETHING!!!

Lol I have been wondering about what a deathstrike missile launcher would look like... I swear this time I won't make if from a rhino chassis!

Deathstrike on a Rhino chassis wouldn't look too bad...

THEY ROCK IN APOCALYPSE!!!!!!!! But then suck in any other game............

deadly chicken wrote:THEY ROCK IN APOCALYPSE!!!!!!!! But then suck in any other game............

I haven't actually seen an old skool game of 40k in a while. Everybody is 'lypse crazy at the mo. Planetaclypse is all the rage now!

I still play exclusively "old skool" 40k. I don't have the money for any super-heavies, so without super-heavies or formations I am better off playing standard games.

I do play cityfight a lot though...

Yeah here in new york its regular games with the occasional apoc game , since planet strike we have been getting more in though . I dont have any super heavies yet ( saving for a few of the planes instead ) but I do things like field 50 storm troopers ( yes I do own that many lol ) . Apoc games as long as its not one on one you can get away with not having the super heavies .

You're gonna be mad at me, infilTRAITOR, but I had to cut the Griffon from my 1000 point list to make room for the 3rd chimera. :(

I've pretty much come to a halt on that project. Now I am just trying to get painted what I have assembled... and only 5 days (oh wait, 1 in the morning means 4 days) left until the day of my competition. I have a job interview on tues, so really I only have 3 days I can paint. I am hoping to average at least 1 chimmie a day for two days, then I can spend the last day painting up the heavy weapons and the last few troopers I am adding to the roster.

I'm not mad. I'm just going to calmly come to you and slash your knees.

Well that's ok, as long as my wheelchair is tall enough to see the gametable... and leave my hands too or that Griffon won't ever get finished....

iam mad you only have 3 chimeras in your list I roll with at least 6 !

Eventually, when I accumulate more money than sense, I too will have 6 chimeras slann...

Right now, I have 3 veteran squads. Therefore, 3 chimeras is all that are required. I do want to put the CCS in a chimera though, so I probably will pick up at least one more in the future.

Where can i get the one on the right? It has to be one of my favourite IG models. What is it called?

That is the metal Heroic Senior Officer from the old cadian command squad box. You can probably still get him on the GW site, maybe in collectors.