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Chromedog: Thanks for pointing it out. You did a nice conversion job on them. The Lancers are burly transports, may have to pay 70pts for 11side armor!

SebastianSynn: So very true! Sounds like you are well on your way. BTW, Old Crow could conceivably outfit entire regiments with the vehicle line he has set up! He even has a Valkyrie like air transport that tempts me!

Meanwhile, rear hatches on the Claymore and Dragoons
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All five transports showing their rear ramps, such cheeeky girls!
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Lancer rears, I see these as powered embarking ramps.
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shasolenzabi wrote:Mad4minis: That Crusader one looks like it would be a good support for Grey Knights. If you can afford, and buy it, we do want a progress thread as you work on it.

I am going to, preorders will hopefully open sometime this week.

I think I may use it to start a mecha thread. Well, that depends on how long delivery takes. Could be a month or two since casting will begin after preorders close. If I get something in the meantime Ill use that as a kickoff.

SebastianSynn: So very true! Sounds like you are well on your way. BTW, Old Crow could conceivably outfit entire regiments with the vehicle line he has set up! He even has a Valkyrie like air transport that tempts me!

I'm past that point. with the new FW Nightspinner i just got in last week, fully kitted out according to the codex, brings me to just over 11,500 pts of Eldar.
Yeah i saw the flyers as well, and they do look nice, but their still flying bricks no matter who makes them or how nice they are.

Mad4minis: I will be looking forwards to seeing such a t hread from you.

SebastianSynn: Yep! Always seems to be the ugly yet somehow functional ones that get the "love"


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Of course I get a more "Starship Troopers" feel from the Old Crow VTOL.

LunaHound wrote:Build this build this! i know its not "real" but it'll be so cool if someone makes one

Lol! it says tallarn on the side!

Found an AFV that seems to have a similar layout to the Lancer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jM92YpIRD8&feature=related

Even thought it looks a bit more like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym9e8Qi0yZY&feature=related

I discovered the Old Crow Crossfire turret looks similar to this one on the CV-90 chassis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7tObbS1IN8

This could lead to turret system orders to make my vehicles get re-fits to look different and act different.

After watching those vids, I feel like their incomplete. There should be a blurb in there about their 9 miles to the gallon highway efficiency, new anti lock braking technology (they don't brake, they plow right through), keyless remote start and that MSRP is only $100k. only $2000 down and 19% apr, so come on down to your local Chevy dealer today, sale ends Saturday.

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cool vid there shaso... the first one looked very similar to the OC models for me... by the way.... the look of the vids is really like a commercial....but who could afford that amount of money? and where would i put three security seats for my kids inside?^^
anyway, traffic jams and parking issues would evaporate^^ for ever^^

to your pics shaso: i think the camo effect of yours is getting very much better with these new models, specially like the way the thinning lines to the end of the black camo part at the end... that looks really professional!

one thing that leaves me asking is the rear of the lancers.... there is something missing there? looks as if there should be a part (two parts each actually between those spiral thingies at the rear...know what i mean?

other than that the tanks look very good and you´re doing an exellent job sir!

at mad4minis you could start your blog with the history as you have already lots of mechas i gather^^

Thanks Vik. The vids are produced by the companies making the tanks.

But the one FRES one, the large turret looked so much like the "crossfire" turret.


Well, iu am simply remembering having to paint the Battery trucks for our missile unit all the way to 1984!

Those just are the empty spaces between the huge springs of the ramps.My way of looking at it is the actual doors are flush with the hull, and these mighty devices allow the Lancer to force open and close the rear so that the men can enter/leave and also help push obstructions out of their way.

Thanks again, and I anm not yet done with them!




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Side shot of the Lancers
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i have yet again to say seeing how cool camo can look i regret a bit that my IGs can´t have camo on their armor as i think it would be a bit against their fluff...

Your theme is of the old days of steam and empie building with your chivalrous soldiers decked out in colorful livery and feathers.

My theme is more modernized, with all kinds of grueling needs for camouflage and other systems to help them be sneaking upon the enemy to deliver vicious blows of an ungentle-manly kind.


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All five camo'd up
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That blue effect came back to the camera.
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Closer for the exit ramps of the Dragoons and Claymore.
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the blueing effect is from the different lightsources...can be lessened by an even, white background. some sheat of paper or plasticcard should help the matter greatly...

Well, I just sawe some video today of guess what,,,blue camo in Chinese army wheeled artillery vehicles.

well as the saying goes: pic or it didn´t happen^^

Video with Chinese national anthem, complicated musical score. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhpruspBZgg


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhpruspBZgg&feature=player_detailpage#t=56s

for me digital camo looks tupid even if it might work...
that cobled together with those white rimmed wheels...its just...


and your blue camo looks somehow more like working than their´s...

also if it weren´t for their amount of aromor and menpower i think they look stupid all the way... really cant befriend with the fact that china is going to be/is a major player... makes me want to change the whole game...feels now as if they are somehow cheating...
and only thing we must as a 40k player admit: they live the IG spirit to the fullest....

Well, I think the huge digi camo is the dumbest thing ever as it looks so silly so macro sized on aircraft and tanks, as well as ships.

The digi camo in the video reminds me of old Mario on nintendo

ok, camouflage paint on an armoured vehicle/building/trooper is so that whatever it is is more able to blend into the background, SO....

How exactly does someone hide a tank in the middle of the forest when the d**n thing is painted in an ALL BLUE camouflage pattern?

the digital camo is also of limited use as camouflage is supposed to break up the hard edges, in effect smoothing out the lines of the tank. all of this an effort to make it harder to spot something from the ground or from the air, so again, how exactly are you planning to hide a tank with a hard edged camo pattern in the middle of that same forest? now the digital camo makes sense in an urban setting, but then the tank should be colored in blacks, greys, and reds, to simulate concrete, steel, brick and shadows.

i tell you, there are times when the military mindset is absolutely stunning with it's simplistic stupidity.

And you can add to the fact that someone made money off of selling the military in so many countries into buying the damn paintjob!


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Me, I will continue with more organic and flowing camo.
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i tell you, there are times when the military mindset is absolutely stunning with it's simplistic stupidity

hear, hear, hear!^^ also sebastionsyn, thank you for removing that sig movie of yours... my pc is lagging always like hell...
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and at shaso: gogo for organic camo^^ sounds a bit like nids ^^

I have just one, a Lictor, painted like a Pacific Leopard Shark.

yep...i guess that look might work as a scheme...^^

also sebastionsyn, thank you for removing that sig movie of yours... my pc is lagging always like hell...

sorry brah, your first that said it was causing a lag, if someone had said something, i would have dumped it sooner. I only got rid of it myself because it was starting to annoy me, and i made the danged thing, so if it's annoying me, what's it doing to others, was the thought i had.

anyways, time for bed, ya'll have fun, and i'll see you later.

Shaso, I agree, keep the flowing camo look, it looks good.

Well, all my IG will keep the camo they have, and I started adding metallics to the vehicles
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Lancers with metal cable and gun-barrels
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Treads from an angle of someone low to the ground
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Can hardly wait to coat them with rust and mud/dust effects.
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More or less dry-brushed this one
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just realized that this one gatling gun ontop of the lancers is huge^^...
and the enemy, i have doubts as to if they will appreciate the detailwork on your tanks, as we do^^

It is no bigger than the Multi-laser on a standard Chimera, but is in more scale truth than the GW models. Still sufficient to the task at hand.

Same exact turret for the Claymore
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was meant as huge in a good way^^ ,like a big gun as the next guy^^...

off topic but only slightly... may you be interrested to see some new development i am currently working on? don´t want to highjack your thread^^ but your work here might come in handy for analysing the work^^ as is

Ah, no worries Vik, I know there are some differences between English-German and back.

Sure let us see what you had in mind for examination.

ohhhkay^^

so here it is...



that old stormtrooper is for scale issues^^ it is just one track upside down and still very early in WIP...used the tracks of a template of a mark V and will build from that tottaly from scratch further on...of course in the true spirit of steampunkyness...

p.s. i doubled the tracks all over in scale...