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dantay_xv wrote:Was that the guy who used UPS to send the fake bomb from the UK to Turkey?
What an arse he was.

that was quite a big story here in germany too...i thinnk there was some dumba... involved here too... this kind of parcel was also sent to our "president" too...

at shaso,

I found one of the razorback decks, and this will allow me to fashion a long cylinder for the turret as I use it for the main turret mount over the main compartment of the "Perun"

....hmmm i cant picture it atm... but that stirrs my eagerness for next pic update all the more^^

Years ago I entertained architecture, but decided that I loved drawing and making things to much to turn it into drudgery.

that i think is a good decission as i think one can pretty soon ruin a love by making it ones profession.... soon it will wear out on you and only leave an empty shell of a once good thing.... so architectures loss is our gain^^


vik

It is a piece for taking the place on a Rhino, allows the vehicle to mount a twinlinked weapon turret on the APC, but reduces the amount of troops it can carry.

No buildings designed by me. but plenty of models!

well since this whole week the family stay at home tomorrow i cant take my khorneflakes with your latest build updates.... but in my middday i will look forward to see your most recent musings and pics...i hope^^

keep well mate as i will now look for my bed^^

cheers, vik

I should have fresh pics later on.

shasolenzabi wrote:
That is a nice APC, and the using a spare Dready arm as remote turret is brilliant! Oregon? I am in Tualatin, where the heck are you at?

I'm in the Other Oregon, east of the Cascades in Klamath. Thanks for the compliment

Ah, all the way on the other side.
No worries, it was a good idea for you to implement.


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So, the Perun is powered by a 12 cylinder power-plant.
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Start to closing it all in secure zones.
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Upper decks, HB barbette, and a turret ring all set to go!
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Front, starting to add the viewpoints and bow Heavy Stubber.
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And there is is! so far so good.

so here is me sitting fresh face, well as fresh as a 4 hours sleep can make me^^ and hoping to see some pics but to no avail...*sad tanklover face*


ups...*puts feet in his mouth* i should have somehow read further??? that is truly incredible looking...man where had you all this stuff lying around? cool looking. that doesn´t look like it is constructed but as if it is healing in its supposed form back^^! this will be truly awsome! ad i like how you build now even the internal details!

this was worth all the wait^^

vik

I will need to be working on the main weapon turret, already cutting out templates for the sponsons those should be interesting too.


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Take another look above your post Vik. Crossed in the stream.

realized it just when hitting the submit button...this is truly shaping up enormusly well! god i have to get back into my own saddle as well!^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:s
ups...*puts feet in his mouth* i should have somehow read further??? that is truly incredible looking...man where had you all this stuff lying around? cool looking. that doesn´t look like it is constructed but as if it is healing in its supposed form back^^! this will be truly awsome! ad i like how you build now even the internal details!

this was worth all the wait^^

vik

I'm bloody brilliant aren't I?

well to cut a long praise short^^

bloody hell, i knew this thing was going to look good, but your making it look simple. that's a lot of work all at once and it looks awesome so far.

Viktor von Domm wrote:well to cut a long praise short^^

SebastionSynn wrote:bloody hell, i knew this thing was going to look good, but your making it look simple. that's a lot of work all at once and it looks awesome so far.

Thanks. Well, no job, and time on my hands makes for plenty of work to get done each day.

pure awesomeness.
just...awesome.


















did I say how awesome it is?

You did, and so much more to go on it yet!

he how is the tank work coming along? will your day even be more eventful with your project?

i have too medled a bit with some foamcore and will shortly show what i have done so far...^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:he how is the tank work coming along? will your day even be more eventful with your project?

i have too medled a bit with some foamcore and will shortly show what i have done so far...^^

I added some bits from the old Char-1 to it(sand colored parts, and am working on a turret for the twin-linked las-cannons. I still have to add the tread details, sponsons, side plates, exhaust, commander hatch and vision ports.


Looking forwards to see what you have done too,.

sounds like a lot of work...but that is in fact what drives us i guess... the fun part IS to search and find bits and stuff to make a nice and convincing model!^^

So true, it is a labor of love.


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Finished the vision ports for the driver and gunner positions up front
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Turret is shaping up, and I added a rail shaped antennae(sand colored)
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Cover hatches for access to the transmission(sand colored), and a grill over the engine!
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closer view of the grill work.
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All the new add ons are visible in this shot.
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Turret facing forwards
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more of those lovely access panels!
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And voila~! the grill can be removed for engine viewing and access!
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OMG, you used pipe cleaners for the grillwork over the engine. LOL, that's so ghetto it's cool, can't wait to see how they look after painting them. the rest of it look good, I'm also really liking the way that turret is shaping up.

thanks for the pm.

SebastionSynn wrote:OMG, you used pipe cleaners for the grillwork over the engine. LOL, that's so ghetto it's cool, can't wait to see how they look after painting them. the rest of it look good, I'm also really liking the way that turret is shaping up.

thanks for the pm.

Then my trick worked even better than planned! I made thin strips of plasticard to lat under the hole on the and then cut and glued a sheet of medical gauze to the strips to add depth control.


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Flash gave a ghost effect for the tank, but turret partially built.
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Turned to the camera
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The other side of the grill for the engine.
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Crisper pix
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Better light for the turret
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new panels on deck, these are for when the tank is w/o the turret and they can access the gears.
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ok, i really like where this is going, to see the turret building up gradualy is a nice how-to! are the sandcolored parts from the japanese tank kit? i lie the way you detail up the flat areas, lots of thoughts are involved in this built. the grill is a nice looking detail i see how it works but tho i know what parts you used i still dont comprehend/understand what you really did??? pipecleaners for what effect? the pics doesn´t show nearly anything in this particular detail for the laymen like me^^ so i have only geusswork here^^

i like the idea to make the grill removable and also that the turret is still movable...but could you show the later a bit more in detail how you acomplished that? that would help me later on enourmously^^

great work as usual and i think the top of the tank looks almost completed...


vik

I made thin strips of plasticard to lat under the hole on the and then cut and glued a sheet of medical gauze to the strips to add depth control.

OH, ok, from the angle of the earlier pic and the way it's kinda see through it made the grill work look like pipecleaners were installed. i'll have to remember this trick with the medical gauze when i get around to making a looted tank. that's still cool though, and this whole project is looking good.

it doesn't look like you used any bracing inside the turret to apply the panels so i believe you just glued them one to the other? that shows patience. me, i'd have used bracings so i could have done the whole turret all at once.

No pipe cleaners. Just strips of plastic with a strip of gauze glued over, then layered diagonally on top of each other.

Vik+Anvildude, I have remembered the "flower" setting for micro pics and got cleaner pix for you to see the grill details, can't wait to have the washes and paint make it look more like mesh and have it look "real" First up, the way it looks from the top
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Engine's view, showing the strips of plastic I set into the base for the grill.
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side long view showing the "box" panels I added t6o keep it from sliding out, and helps hold it in place
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Side on, the angled part is due to the "engine" making it hard to keep it a simpler straight strip.
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The turret needed a good way to stay pretty much in place and this "tower" helps keep it stable.
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The turret has a top!
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Clear shot
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Comms and extra power supply.
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Coming at ya!
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Raised up so you can see the forward details. Heavy Stubber, vision ports, Imperial Eagle.
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Sebastian; No, patient as I was also playing episodes of Dr. Who to keep me busy as I waited for the panels to adhere to the base of the turret.^^



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The turret by the way came out somewhat odd shaped, assymetrical from seen above, I think the Exterminator with it's French turret may have influenced that somewhat from having touched the Perun. Pretty much what happened in the interwar period as the Russians copied a lot of French designs for tanks and planes as seen by the way the Russian vehicles though made as a Russian tank or plane showed heavy French design, some American as well .

now i see and understand the grill and how you made it...wouldn´t have dreamed about using the gauze for that purpose...but whatever works is cool! for my own needs i think i will rely on toys i guess...i will deal with that when the time is on for that to search for a solution...could real wiremesh also work here?
the turret is a bit uneven but now with the extra details like comm and hatch and the nifty idea to use the HW powersuply ^^ (that will get copied as well^^ as i have quite a few of these^^) it looks like a living and working one...by the way, the hatch is from a SM tank, eh? will you add what kind of sideweapon on the gunmount?

one suggestion, did yoiu thought up to use/work with the flat space between hatch and the lasercanon barrels? this is quite a flat nearly horizontal surface and i think here could be something as well...maybe some rolled up canvas or a shovel or something in that line...or even some protective plating ...

Viktor von Domm wrote:now i see and understand the grill and how you made it...wouldn´t have dreamed about using the gauze for that purpose...but whatever works is cool! for my own needs i think i will rely on toys i guess...i will deal with that when the time is on for that to search for a solution...could real wiremesh also work here?
the turret is a bit uneven but now with the extra details like comm and hatch and the nifty idea to use the HW powersuply ^^ (that will get copied as well^^ as i have quite a few of these^^) it looks like a living and working one...by the way, the hatch is from a SM tank, eh? will you add what kind of sideweapon on the gunmount?

one suggestion, did yoiu thought up to use/work with the flat space between hatch and the lasercanon barrels? this is quite a flat nearly horizontal surface and i think here could be something as well...maybe some rolled up canvas or a shovel or something in that line...or even some protective plating ...

Well, that area wil have some more plates added to it on the turret, and I am working on an optical box or such system for the sighting of the lascannons on top of the extra plates too!

If I had some patches of window screens, or wire mesh, I would have used that instead of the cottony gauze. The hatch is indeed from a SM tank, a spare set it was. I have a pattern for the sponsons set for cutting and tube stock for the weapons. I have spare auto-cannons and some weapons for Heavy Stubbers, with the "water-jacket look for the barrels.

Viktor von Domm wrote:now i see and understand the grill and how you made it...wouldn´t have dreamed about using the gauze for that purpose...but whatever works is cool! for my own needs i think i will rely on toys i guess...i will deal with that when the time is on for that to search for a solution...could real wiremesh also work here?
the turret is a bit uneven but now with the extra details like comm and hatch and the nifty idea to use the HW powersuply ^^ (that will get copied as well^^ as i have quite a few of these^^) it looks like a living and working one...by the way, the hatch is from a SM tank, eh? will you add what kind of sideweapon on the gunmount?

one suggestion, did yoiu thought up to use/work with the flat space between hatch and the lasercanon barrels? this is quite a flat nearly horizontal surface and i think here could be something as well...maybe some rolled up canvas or a shovel or something in that line...or even some protective plating ...

There will presumably be a heavy stubber in place on that cuppola, so the forward turret roof would be an ideal place to store the ammo cans for it

Brotherjulian wrote:
There will presumably be a heavy stubber in place on that cuppola, so the forward turret roof would be an ideal place to store the ammo cans for it

Maybe a can out there, braced.

as of the IG HWs i know of somehow the autocanon is my most liked one...the look is the best i think...