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well this is only food for thought so^^ when moving into this flat we had our old wooden railroad set from the kiddies built up to an enormous size... then came the carpet and all the other furniture and hence the place is packed ^^ so this was just a extremly mindgame thought^^

Understood, thaat is why a coffee table was used as the "parade ground" for the tanks. but if allowed the space to have them all set up at once,,,,oh-hoho! that would have been a grand viewing indeed!

where do you store all this stuff of legends? got some honor shelfs in the living room to show them of to visitors and also to when sitting in the comfy chair to feast on them with your eyes?

Not even that, I have some shelf space for a few, but the bulk of the time they are kept in soft foam laden boxes. I am also still working on the Old Crow stuff and keeping them in the box they came in with the bubble wrap to protect them as well. Then add the hundreds of troopers I have to go with and the Khadrovians have a Grand Army of the Emperor of Mankind!

well if you´d made shelfs for all of your models, tanks and what not... look at the home insulation aspect here... would keep you well ahaead of the thremal issue in your flat... open space is to be heated... furniture and the denser the material gets can store warmth far longer and better... so pluck your walls with shelfs and the shlefs then with minis and you can save money for heating less^^

LOL! I am expecting a move to a newer time zone in a couple of months, so I am not likely to do that much work on the walls here.

Oh yes, a little request filled for our young friend Shrike. He wished to see the Char-1Malcador next to a GW mini for reference of size.
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A closer level, and you can see the "rivets" made from dots of PVA glue.
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you did these only from pva glue? aplied witha toothpick or how? the ones one the turret and the sponsons are made by you? looking cool, and convincing... might have to steal that idea...

Yes, the ones on the sponsons and the Bolter structure are PVA glue, finely applied with a canula attached to the glue bottle. when that failed the direct approach was used.
The hull plates have the ones molded by the model company on them.

i´ve read about that once on a site... but seeing yours i like to give that a try... for now i used the smallest diameter of my wholepunchset and it is a tedious work but very rewarding as rivets give such a working look to tankplates and other structures...

Viktor von Domm wrote:i´ve read about that once on a site... but seeing yours i like to give that a try... for now i used the smallest diameter of my wholepunchset and it is a tedious work but very rewarding as rivets give such a working look to tankplates and other structures...

While it does give the surface a more working look. I do keep in mind that the Imperium seems to have less reliance on welded and cast parts for their tanks as opposed to rivets. This I attribute to their loss of so much tech. I will simply say that the Khadrovian "Vasily" tank is smooth due to it being a ancient technique to making it re-discovered by the Adeptus Mechanicus they have with them. This makes that welded construction monster a sacred artifact and hence of labor of religious devotion to build the superheavy tank killers.

And then they still have these to work with.
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While it does give the surface a more working look. I do keep in mind that the Imperium seems to have less reliance on welded and cast parts for their tanks as opposed to rivets. This I attribute to their loss of so much tech. I will simply say that the Khadrovian "Vasily" tank is smooth due to it being a ancient technique to making it re-discovered by the Adeptus Mechanicus they have with them. This makes that welded construction monster a sacred artifact and hence of labor of religious devotion to build the superheavy tank killers.

that's pretty in-depth thinking there and it fits nicely. I got the drop pod today by selling off a few of my M:tg cards to the store, so hopefully soon i'll start working on the thread for looting it.

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that's pretty in-depth thinking there and it fits nicely. I got the drop pod today by selling off a few of my M:tg cards to the store, so hopefully soon i'll start working on the thread for looting it.

I tend to make fluff for every piece i have in my collection pretty much. I am looking forward to seeing the drop-pod lootage.

fluff for me tends to either come before i play a mini because of some conversion or such that i did, like the Farseer in my gallery with the flaming sword, or from actual game play.

for instance, i now have a new Aspect Shrine within my craftworld (allthough i have yet to come up with a name for the shrine). in a recent game against a white scars player vs my Eldar, i had been pounding on him and his Dark Angels teammate for the first turn, second turn the DA's teleport in a squad of termies behind my tanks and near our objective.

on my turn my fire dragons disembarked from their falcon, and on the other side of the termies my Avengers also disembarked into forested terrain in the hopes of backing up the fire dragons. needless to say the termies were shot all to hell but unfortunately enough survived to assualt my dragons and kill them. the white scars player moves his dreadnaught off to the side closer to the wave serpent that dropped off the avengers and then shoots the brightlance off of it.

on my turn i tried to ram him with the now weaponless serpent and failed to do anything. he also failed to do anything to the serpent during his assault turn. on my turn i moved the serpent just under 24" away from him and waited. during his turn he failed to move his dreadnaught and left it's backside facing me, needless to say i rammed him again, and this time not only penetrated, but exploded his dreadnaught.

that particular wave serpent now carries a dreadnaught front armor shield hanging from it's front fins as a kill trophy, and thusly has the guardian pilot inside begun his trip down a new path of war using the very vehicles themselves as weapons.

Sounds like you have some good tales of that pilot to tell.

I have a lot of characters in all my armies with histories of battles and some have trophies

Thats a pretty good job on the rivets.

Mad4Minis wrote:Thats a pretty good job on the rivets.

Thanks! I had considered gluing and then cutting round stock but realized I did not have enough to finish the task.

sooo mate, how is work on the tanks doing?

Hit a slow down. More work and pics coming soon though.

Thanks to Vik, I had some nice concept patterns to work from and came up with this, drawn on the plasticard
Not sure what name to give the tank yet, but it should be an old name, but so many have been grabbed.
Object 44271a
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If kept at this size, it will be taller than a Leman Russ, and almost twice the length.


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I re-worked the main turret and hull patterns some and got Object 44272a. the basic pattern owes itself to the MK-IV tank, I could make it even longer and make it like a MK-V** style hull and tread system, but i worry about structural integrity, may use sprues inside the panels under the treads to strengthen the model.
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I have another concept that will be longer and use on sheet of plasticard to make the basic track hull.


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And as promised the longer hull and tread concept tank design, Object 44273, a much heavier tank design to try out.
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wow....just wow...love the first pics, this will be such a nice one!
did you already sketch on plasticcard or do you use here a cardboard? looks very different from my stock of plasticcard cuase of the round corners...

a super heavy is somehow also what i am planning to do...something of a combination of a transport and a super heavy punchpacker^^

love how you already state that i will be twice as high as the leman russ...very needed^^
since you use plasticcard the option to use pink insulation foam to help for structural sturdyness wont be helpfull as you then cant use plastic glue or superglue to get the parts to stick together and with plasticcard the PVA only works in very limited ways...so using sprues and such things might be the only option i see too...

how will you do the treads? do you have a design already?^^

very interesting project... and i will too think about a name for yours... tho it will come doubly hard for me as i still am thinking of one for me...a numeral one for your need would be easy to find but i think a IG tank should also have a striking name like chimera or malcador... somewhat influenced by greek mythology...or maybe there is a russian myth you could use? i am not fluent in that matter tho...

cheers mate and i hope you make good progress with this project^^

vik

That is the plastic-card stock I got in trade Vik^^ I did indeed draw on the plastic for size ideas, and decided to start object 44273 I cut the 4 plates out to make the tread sections, and then added some strength as it were \.
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Pan away to show how much sprue was used.
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Sprues can be your friend!!
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of course is sprue your everlasting friend^^ i never throw a pice away! will be all later used^^

your plastic card seems to be rather much thinner than mine i have in stock...well this makes working with materials much easier...

will the doulbled thickness of sprueparts mark the width of the treads or will you go even thicker ? for now they might be a bit not wide enough... but for such speculation it is rather to early^^

so again got a design for the shoes? you know a baby needs shoes?

Exactly!

This stock is just the rioght thickness for what I have planned, there will be added plates and I am pondering how to do engine and air vents for the beasty.

As for the shoes, I have several concepts mulling inside my mind, so no telling what will happen next!

Ah, look at the support banding I went with, the thickness of the treads has been set!~
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Thicker than standard GW track width for sure.
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After the second section is done, i will stand a mini for scaling the project and the width of the treads.

yep! width looks decent... i have gone for a width of 2 cm to go for the shoes...this makes the shoes individually look as much as four times bigger than one of the leman russes...

as of now do you think the tracksystem is rather sturdy or rather fragile?

cant really tell for now...

and a scale pic will be very helpfull indeed!

Mine appear to be 16mm wide. Not too bad for not having planned it that way, just cut the strip to a width I felt okay with. Just a tad wider than a full Leman Russ side section, including both slabs of it's armor, so once I get done building up the things, they will likely be very thick indeed.

The present way I have it appears sturdy enough.


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Found a name for the tank, the Slavic Thor, aka Perun.

cool choice of name! i just googled the name and realized the marvel comic book line has a team of soviet supersoldiers which consists of perun and crymson dynamo and such colorful names... this could be a reroll of your tankbaptism^^ i think this bears some cool thughts as the russian myths would go well with your fluff and the names are seldom to be seen as names for GW tanks...

by the way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perun_(comics)


look for the people protectorate^^

Yep, so we have the "Perun" T-400 Superheavy Tank

win^^ maybe a bit more red on this tank later on then i would think^^ also a hammer or a sickle would be fitting^^
or maybe a seflmade decal with perun staring^^




and the whole russian team:

Well, all my Super-heavies get the red and white stripes But yeah, some more red on this baby to add to it, and a hand painted Hammer symbol will be done, with lightning flashes.

"Perun" T-400 Superheavy Tank

or 'PT' Cruiser for short.