The Necromunda Project: Fallout

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**AnUnearthlyChilde**

True RW...

And Dave...

**dsteingass**

Heh

Better? Worse?

**AnUnearthlyChilde**

Much better, Brass over steal where steampunk is concerned, as steal is more dieselpunk

**Vitruvian XVII**

Brass looking lovely, much better imo.

**dsteingass**

The other side

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Well, It was all built from steel

But I see what you mean.

**AnUnearthlyChilde**

for some reason I keep thinking it'd look awesome with some pillarbox red piping and fill the piston "I" bar with red too

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P.s. I hate how the =L= has made me fill my entire subscriptions list full of P&M threads

**Rogue Wolves**

awsome!!

**mxwllmdr**

I love it and don't think it needs any red.....

**dsteingass**

How about a little pinstriping?

**Rogue Wolves**

^oh baby oh baby yes yes yes!

**SagesStone**

Like it, but now I feel the lower box needs a number written inside it.

**AlfonsoTheTraitor**

I think a name would be better than a number . A company name would be cool . eg. Foss & Sons since 1821.
By the way its looking awesome .

**mxwllmdr**

A unit name ould be better.

1st mchanized, 3rd Inf, etc....

**Rogue Wolves**

hmm i like both ideas, alfonso's being the steampunk route, while max's being more military

**mxwllmdr**

It is a war machine after all.....

**Rawson**

AlfonsoTheTraitor wrote:I think a name would be better than a number . A company name would be cool . eg. Foss & Sons since 1821.

I'm with Alfonso (unless, of course, your walker is in the 40k universe: then it would need to be "Since 821.M40"

)

You could even paint it in such a way to make it look stamped on! (I do so enjoy giving others cool but impossibly difficult ideas

)

**mxwllmdr**

Not impossible, Rawson. It's Dave we are talking about. He could do it in about three minutes flat and show you the realization of the idea you only half thought......

Chuck Norris once built a Steampunk Warhammer scratch build. His name is Dave and everything he builds kicks @$$ as hard as Chuck Norris......

**lone dirty dog**

It looks better every time I see this

like the new paint selection although I was hoping for Red

but hey the pin-striping looks tops but does need a name or number now.

Dave is the man to do what they say cant be done

**Viktor von Domm**

we should have known there was a realtion to chuck and dave... come on guys... obvious is obvious...

love the pinestripes you did there chuck...er...

and i am with the alfonse faction...a nice name of a manufacturing workshop with an even nicer estab. woulod be epic on that!

and a lil red never hurts in my opinion...^^

**dsteingass**

Whoa! I consider Chuck Norris to be the highest possible honor the Internet can offer!

**Briancj**

Dave,

I think you need to whip out the make-your-own decals kit, print up a "Builder's Plate", and print it out.

Paint a brass square or shape, and black lettering (or leave the letters blank and do the reverse lettering trick...on the decal.

A quick Google search of: "locomotive builder's plate" gets a zillion hits like this one:

--B.

**RSJake**

Ninija'd! ^^^ Pretty much like that!

Chuck Steingass?

Looking amazing Dave! I think you should incorporate the two ideas! Name of manufacturer, and until name/number.

Unit name/number in large block letters in the middle, with the name of the Forge World arched over the unit desigantion, and the 40k date of original production arched under.

Awesome!

**dsteingass**

Well, I really hadn't envisioned this thing as 40k to begin with really, more intended to exist in the mid to late 19th century as the creation of a mad Railroad Baron

Historically, in the US the front boiler plate had the engine#, the side of the cab had the train#, and the Road Name was on the coal/wood/oil tender..

Of course different roads did things differently.

**Briancj**

Now I want to make a Steampunk Praetorian IG army...

**dsteingass**

I know...But I can never seem to find old GW Praetorian figs, but I completely dig the look. I think the Perry Brothers are now doing their own Pith-helmeted 28mm plastics aren't they? -Should be easy converting if they do.

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I see American Steampunk as less British Empirey, but more like a Tycoon's private army.

**Briancj**

Between my collection of Col.Gravis' Praetroian Rough Riders, my own conversions, Perry Bros' and Victoria Lamb's work...

Yeah, I'm pretty much set.

My debate, as always, is if I want to ditch my current vehicles and build all new Steampunky stuff, or if I want to try and "Stempunk-Up" Chimeras, etc.

And, of course, WYSIWYG is always a consideration.

**dsteingass**

Well, you can't have artistic freedom AND WYSIWYG rules...If the people you are playing with are THAT anal, the only thing they will be happy with are marines vs. marines...and that type of person is still gonna bitch anyways. I'd rather not play at all than play with or against that kind of nerd...sorry

**Briancj**

Well, yes and no. Adepticon showed me that there's definitely some flexibility on the "National Stage". The key for WYSIWYG, going forward in a post-GW-restrictions world, it to make sure that your opponent understands, clearly, "What is what". So, you may have a pair of Vicker's MGs on your Sentinel, but if you consistently use those as a "Multilaser"...no-one is going to care. For me, WYSIWYG is all about conformity. This is always a multilaser, this giant contraption is a Dreadnought, etc. etc.

I had a GREAT game against Dakka Detachment 3 at Adepticon against RiTides' army. An army made up of Starship Troopers miniatures backed up by another company's warmachines being used as Dreadnoughts:

We knew what everything was, and had the pleasure of playing a unique army.

Of course, outside of the Tournament field (where I honestly prefer to play), as long as everyone knows what's going on, and is having a good time, well waaagh it up!

--B.

**dsteingass**

Well that's good, but I never intended to play the walker in 40k- I have a whole WYSIWYG Catachan army for that

This whole piece is just an artistic experiment.

**Briancj**

My apologies, WYSIWYG is only applied to my army, as I may take it to Adepticon 2013.

--B.