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 Camkierhi wrote:
You are motoring through these bud, looking brilliant. Little details really picking them up nicely.

Thanks Cam.

Still need to do touch ups once done, but the decals and such had to be done, stuff sitting around waiting to get finished, vehicles will be the easiest to knock out, still have over 100little men to finish! and some very old minis that need to also get done buried.

I love weird and wacky tanks but have never really sought out kits of them. Have got some scratch build ideas and projects for my Orks but will have to look up some of these links.

It's really impressive how quickly you manage to pump these "bricks" out, great work on all the little details.

Happy New Year btw

Elblondino wrote:I love weird and wacky tanks but have never really sought out kits of them. Have got some scratch build ideas and projects for my Orks but will have to look up some of these links.

So many inspirations from the designs of the Inter-war years and beyond.

OneManNoodles wrote:It's really impressive how quickly you manage to pump these "bricks" out, great work on all the little details.

Happy New Year btw

I did have 6 that arrived, last year, I am thinking of getting 2-3 Ursus tracked APCs with the servo turrets they make at Puppet's War. Meanwhile, I have this on qeue waiting with some more red star decals to ship once the Orthodox Christmas is over in Ukraine.





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Oh yes, and to OMN and all, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Have had a little look since shasolenzabi and you're right the inter war years have some cracking tanks to 'borrow from' and some great kits around too. Love the look of that Armoured vehicle may have to source something similar. :-)

Great stuff shas, happy new year to yerself

What times one are you all in that it's just now New Years for you all . More star stickers needed .

Elblondino wrote:Have had a little look since shasolenzabi and you're right the inter war years have some cracking tanks to 'borrow from' and some great kits around too. Love the look of that Armoured vehicle may have to source something similar. :-)

So many crazy ideas tried during those years! BA-10 is a nice design, can't wait till I get it over here to work on! I have a lot o ideas on the burners, some more tracked "landing craft" style platoon or squad moving APCs to build, and a idea for an "H" tail Vertibird to be my "Valkyrie",

GrimDork wrote:Great stuff shas, happy new year to yerself

someone else said it late to me, so I bounced back on the cheer. Thanks, working on the decals has been nice, scratch builds and kits for 2016? as seen above, BA-10 kit, some land vehicles and a Vertibird planned.

Theophony wrote:What times one are you all in that it's just now New Years for you all . More star stickers needed .

Just some late well wishing to catch up on is all Theo.

Now for the Thermic Bricks.
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And here I posed a squad of Kruegerians for scaling of the Bricks
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And the bricks are similar to Chimera in size, but are smaller than the rolling HQ that is the Keilerkopf! they are however the same height counting the weapon systems!
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As can be seen here, the Bricks have wider tires, as they are a bit more like wheeled tanks, it makes sense so that they can maintain decent ground pressure on soft terrain. thew armor layout also shows that they steer the Bricks just like a tank, so one side stops or goes reverse while the other side stays forwards, allowing the machine t steer much as a tank with treads would as the front tire shows no way to swivel.

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Keilerkopf hides most of the Brick, except the weapon turret
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the vehicles may not share length of vehicle, but they oddly are about the same width
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Keilerkopf is no armored car, it is an armored heavy truck! (Lorry for our England based pals)
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All looking absolutely brilliant. Look great together as well. The bricks look to me to be mega heavily armoured. So in my head they are true close quarters assault tanks, designed to support the troops and provide cover. That armour would be to defend against even melta fire at close range. It just looks believable to me.
Also looks a bit ripe for the plucking for my Orks !

 Camkierhi wrote:
All looking absolutely brilliant. Look great together as well. The bricks look to me to be mega heavily armoured. So in my head they are true close quarters assault tanks, designed to support the troops and provide cover. That armour would be to defend against even melta fire at close range. It just looks believable to me.
Also looks a bit ripe for the plucking for my Orks !

Yes, and I figured to make them a tough armored brick. more expensive than Chimera by 10pts for 1pt you side armor. and then the weapon system turrets being Twin-linked adds another 5pts, the the cost of the weapon plus the half price for the things means likely 90-110pts per vehicle.
Ceramite armor would blunt melta attacks.

(Jeremy Clarkson voice) "NO! no! no! do not let those Orks anywhere near my bricks!"

So, now that we have admired the Polish sourced "Bricks" aka Taurus, we now move onto some work on the other Polish machines I have bought, and pointed out the odd casting and other issues that made them not for the new modeller, a pain for the moderate modeller and more seasoned modellers,,,,,the Warchimera made "Hammer". I found out on the Intwerebs that after some harsh reviews like mine, that they took 4 pieces for the main hull and made it one huge block filled with whatever sprue they had to help fill it, (Down and dirty casting!), but yet they insist on keeping those poxy, 2-part wheels with the huge flash which does more damage to the parts, rather than make solid tires. Gravengames.co.uk dia their own review of the kit

Hull, they also molded the vision plates so make that 6 parts


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Anyway, I did more work on the Hammers, and added heated metal and rust

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Laser cannon Hammer #240
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Flame cannon Hammer #241
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So, if I were to buy the Hammer again, I would also order Zinge tires and metal rod for superior tires and axles





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No I also went and applied the "rust" to the Secret Weapon Miniatures 6x6, then I realized I had forgotten to activate the flash in my camera!
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Now with the flash it looks striking!
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It is by far the most compact of my 6 wheelers

Waiting for those armored cars with a weapon swap.

M.

 Miguelsan wrote:
Waiting for those armored cars with a weapon swap.

M.

Which ones? the SWM 6x6 has also 2 hull weapons and 6 main weapons to choose from, or make it swappable, I merely went with the support Howitzer

Those bricks are interesting, not yet drowning in armored vehicles?

 shasolenzabi wrote:

 Miguelsan wrote:
Waiting for those armored cars with a weapon swap.

M.

Which ones? the SWM 6x6 has also 2 hull weapons and 6 main weapons to choose from, or make it swappable, I merely went with the support Howitzer

The Ba-10s. Interwar armored cars where cool looking beasts.

M.

 Miguelsan wrote:

The Ba-10s. Interwar armored cars where cool looking beasts.

M.

Yeah, the experimentation of designs both military and civilian was staggering.

So, I also have caught up some with the NOT BTR-60, and this is it so far;
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Next will be the NOT BRDM-2

I do love that tank.

The Not BTR's are very eco friendly they have huge catalytic converters

Camkierhi wrote:I do love that tank.

I wonder how it scale to the 1/48 BTR models? It is smaller than the 1/35scale ones I have looked at, Hmmmmm, But anyway, glad it is liked, scratch+model bits+Zinge bits, what's not to like!?

Jehan-reznor wrote:The Not BTR's are very eco friendly they have huge catalytic converters

The Not BRDM is like that as well, and I need to get it decaled up next.

Okay, I did make more headway on the NOT BRDM-2, and it came out pretty nice. I also made some headway on the Clear Horizon Fast Attack Cars. But for the mean time, have some hot NOT-BRDM-2 action!

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That's looking sweet all decal'd up.

 Camkierhi wrote:
That's looking sweet all decal'd up.

Thanks Cam! Been admiring stuff on your pages as well,

Now I said I also applied decals to the attack buggies which look so futuristic, and here they are, the hull red stars are on different spots trying out the differences.
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Other markings, but I may have to paint some red and white to fix the crack in the star on the nose of that one #27
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Exhaust vents, more of a heat dump/pressue release from the micro-reactor drive
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winches and cables, and side by side you can see the differences, also, I am seeing they are touch up hungry!
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Sweet vehicles shas! As cool as those new ones are, I think I still like the custom one before them better. Awesome work.

Love these, they do look awesome, agreed though your NOT BRDM-2 is better looking.

Um, there is something about the rear view on those latest, not sure what it is, trying to decide if it needs to have a wider wheel base, or it's too high, something sits funny with me. Still look brilliant, just me being silly.

@Cam, I think its the strut that connects to the wheel. It doesn't look like it could drive the wheels to me. That combined with the high stance. I think if that part was less curvy and more armored looking then it might also fit the rest of the aestetics.

Each wheel on the strikers is on it's own rocker arm, they can be set anyway the driver needs for mobility, high to low. Each wheel has it's own internal motor, just like the arrangement on the Dreamforge Keilerkopf

Cool armored cars, shas.

Them clearhorizon buggies look sweet

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Cool armored cars, shas.

Jehan-reznor wrote:Them clearhorizon buggies look sweet

Thanks again all!

Now I do have a real life tank, 1/35scale version actually of a Ukraine T-64bm2, decided to camo it some, still much to do

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That is the main pattern, I know, it needs some edge work, plus black spots, and other details need to be added, but that is it's current state of progress

Ukraine order for Russian star decals and Ba-10 is still not tracked since leaving Ukraine on the 24th last month. I will have to let them know no word so far.

Dreamforge Order is shipping, so HMG Keilerkopf will have rocket launchers added, Cannon version no need, and 3rd Keilerkopf to be the Loki/Zeus variant.

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Ukraine order for Russian star decals and Ba-10 is still not tracked since leaving Ukraine on the 24th last month. I will have to let them know no word so far.

As of recently, USPS does not provide tracking for small packages from a lot of countries