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loving it

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol BA Mekboy^^
just realized that too that you used the hatches for the wheels^^ nice idea to use bases too... and i can only encourage you to make a new thread about orkses^^ but better stay on top of your recent threads^^ i know where to many threads to work with may lead to^^

Yeah, I have some more stuff to do, and will be heading out as there is also the DnD game tonight


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necrondude89: Glad to hear it. There will be more now that the Old Crow kits are in!

well this is a good moment to say godd n8 to you matey as i am now feeling me eyes start to shut on their own accord^^

see you tomorrow^^


and good luck in gaming!

Take care!

Heres my Sabre. Desert paint scheme. GW decals.

the sabre looks great.

^
what he said.

Mad4: That does look sweet! I am amazed at how well they went together last night. Minutes to build a single tank, most are primed in black, that resin really takes to super glue like nothing I have seen before, I think he actually washes off the mold oil after they come out of the molds, as well as the de-burring, I just had a little bit of edge something to do on some of the models and they came out fine!

Shingouki: I agree with you.

Shrike: Yep.

Here are mine after construction, the weapons are the "Heavy Bolter" and the Multi-laser. I will retcon smoke launchers and other kit later.
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With Valentina and Justinian out front.
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Now to the side.
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The Dragoons, one buttoned up, the other with the commander using binoculars.
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Side view of Dragoon
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Front view of the closed up one.
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all looking very good, the dimensions look fitting...tho i am not so sold on the to GW compared puny barrels...but i think when treated with your brush they will come out "great"


ah.... Justinian .... another follower into the fold^^

Well, I for one fell better about the guns as they are more realistic or true to scale than the GW ones, I mean the heavy bolters have a bigger than 37mm scale to them, and they are supposed to be like the cannons of the WWII-pre war era.

The Leman Russ Battle cannon is so much bigger than a 120mm as it is claimed to be. (You can slide a 1/35ths cale 120 barrel into the Battle cannon with room to spare, making it seem more like a 250mm cannon!)

Yep, he is the AdMech adviser to Mikhail.

Shaso...I too was amazed at the model. I like that half track...may have to add one to my collection. Possibly the AA Sabre version as well.

Mad4Minis wrote:Shaso...I too was amazed at the model. I like that half track...may have to add one to my collection. Possibly the AA Sabre version as well.

Yeah amazing stuff. Jez just told me he got fresh metal weapons in from his supplier, and that the Sabres and claymore should be shipping by Monday. The Dragoon makes for a good transport for a 5-man team and Salamander scout like vehicle.

Meanwhile, these amazing models in black primer, beware the black vehicles that arrive in the night!
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Night lancer, day lancer.
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Side shot of the Dragoon with commander out.
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emphasizes the recon role of the model.
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Buttoned up version
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did you on purpose not attach at this stage the details you surley will add? like backpacks and shovels and such thing?
to me the look atm a bit flat but i know for sure this wont stay that way for long as with paint and details you will bring them up to a treat!
will there be too camonetting? seeing as how cool it worked out last time?

Viktor von Domm wrote:did you on purpose not attach at this stage the details you surley will add? like backpacks and shovels and such thing?
to me the look atm a bit flat but i know for sure this wont stay that way for long as with paint and details you will bring them up to a treat!
will there be too camonetting? seeing as how cool it worked out last time?

I can always scrape the primer from the spots the extra stuff will be stowed on these babies, and I do like the panel details and am debating camo netting, maybe for the Halftracks, they are supposed to be recon units after all.

Claymore front.
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Like night and day eh?
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Less crazy an angle
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A tiny bit closer
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Side by side
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without the flash used.
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one day you need to book your local sportsareana to show your whole collection...no lpace else could hold these masses^^

and seeing the last pic they are not flat but have lots of nice details now showing up! depends all on the angle i suppose^^

Yep, I have a large collection of vehicles alone! Like a national military, only smaller!^^

Yeah, they are nicely crafted aren't they?

Special report: Khadrovian Tech use
From; Interrogator Tillman
To: Inquisitor Armingast
Subject; Possible cracking of Xenos tech
Thought for the Day: "Burn the Heretic! Kill The Mutant! Purge the Unclean!"

M'lord judging by the associated pict capture in this report, I am having trouble telling if it is just a tremor shaking the camera or the use of technology from the Tau. They did in their recent history break from ties to the xenos species, and I will investigate further into this as they may have been slightly tainted by the desire to use a xenos techno-sorcery to protect their transports from long range fire. How they could have possibly cracked the tech I am at a loss to say, our own Admechs have not yet figured out how the bulk of their wargear works much less make their own.
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Your humble servant as always.
End Transmission.

lol....

by the way... didn´t realized it the first time when you psted day and night...but did you prime the one black and the other white? or am i just dense?^^

The speckly white is the resin's natural colour.

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol....

by the way... didn´t realized it the first time when you psted day and night...but did you prime the one black and the other white? or am i just dense?^^

Vik: Glad you like the little report. That is the raw, unprimed natural state of the models when pulled from the box


Chromedog: Correct! Old Crow sends out like that. No oily residue either I noted to my delight. Superglue bonded the pieces as if they were welded steel!


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Review, the weapons(Cannon barrels) and the commander are metal. The vehicles are the speckled resin.
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So, these are the models unprimed/unpainted as of yet

Now primed.
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Now to see how well this serves as a Chimers style vehicle, the hatches even can show where 5 can shot from, three single hatches, and a 2man hatch!
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will you be adding loopholes to the chimeras? also would love to see a backview of that piece of armor as i would like to see the dispatch hatch...

I will be working on them some more tomorrow, and I will show the back hatch is like the side ones on the Lancers. I am thinking it folds out some to allow entry. I will see if I have any hand rails left.I may have to drill, and make metal ones instead.

shasolenzabi wrote:

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol....

by the way... didn´t realized it the first time when you psted day and night...but did you prime the one black and the other white? or am i just dense?^^

Vik: Glad you like the little report. That is the raw, unprimed natural state of the models when pulled from the box
Chromedog: Correct! Old Crow sends out like that. No oily residue either I noted to my delight. Superglue bonded the pieces as if they were welded steel!

I've not had any issues gluing nor painting Jez's castings (unlike several other resin model makers). The surface takes paint readily and the pre-sanded flat surfaces that are meant to mate means that gluing it is a trick with some fast-acting glues. There was a little dust left on my casts from the sanding, but a quick wash took care of it.
Nothing like the heavy babygak-to-a-blanket stubborn FW mould release issues.

Nice to see there are other people who can see outside the GW box.

Yeah Chromedog, if you apply the rules from the codex to it, a tank is a tank no matter what it looks like.

a tank is a tank no matter what it looks like

best description to the term odd ball tanks i could come up with^^

Just wish the blind fools at my club could see that.

In their eyes, it isn't 40k unless you use GW models painted with GW paints, using GW brushes (and waterpot), as well as the rules.

Still, they've only ever known a world where my local town has a GW store (it has just turned 17), and you can get a game of 40k in most anywhere.
I come from the days when GW had NO stores here, and using the models you had for stuff was more important than being a brand whore.
They have no idea about Battletech or other games (and what's more, don't care.) or life outside the GW hobby (That's GW's hobby, that is. Selling overpriced trinkets to underexperienced kids).

if it wasn´t really so sad it could make one laugh...

chromedog wrote:Just wish the blind fools at my club could see that.

In their eyes, it isn't 40k unless you use GW models painted with GW paints, using GW brushes (and waterpot), as well as the rules.

Still, they've only ever known a world where my local town has a GW store, and you can get a game of 40k in most anywhere.

They have no idea about Battletech or other games (and what's more, don't care.) or life outside the GW hobby (That's GW's hobby, that is. Selling overpriced trinkets to underexperienced kids).

People like that are a big reason why I dont play any of GWs games. The crappy rules are the second reason. However, I do like some of their minis, so I buy them now and then.

Yep, at my local store, they accept the "Counts as" rules. if you do use the chimera rules for the Lancer/Claymore, they can sort of deal with the turrets, just make it a new mark of the damn thing.

The Dragoons are Salamanders with a Autocanon and targetter/auspex system and HK missile.

Sabre with the BIG gun can be the basic Leman Russ or the Vanquisher version. That is how my game area would see it.