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Terrain is all the rage these days, but it's nice to see what brought me to your thread many a year ago... Scratch built tank!

Very cool indeed and great to see finished product!
I used doubled chimera tracks for my scratchbuilt baneblade:

I have both chimmy and babeblade tracks kicking about, pm me your address and I'll send you an early Xmas prezzie.

Hey Vik!
I'm glad you were able to finish your project - the arena looks super cool and the advertisements are just the "dot above the i" as we Germans say
Nice touch.
In regards to your new Übertransport: This is a great project and I look forward to your build. It reminds me a lot of my old Scarabeus (looked more like a SW Sandcrawler), and I agree, the wider the tracks, the more realistic it will be. Baneblade tracks won't be wide enough, it will look flimsy. Double Baneblade at least, but that's waaaaay too much cash in the throat of GW
I love Meade's posted tracks on Ebay 1/16 seem just to be the right size, and those Tiger tracks are just plain S E X Y
Anyway, I'm sure you'll have a great project here.
Cheers
Klaus

Meade wrote:This is what I was referring to, they're actually plastic. And the tank's probably 40 cm or so... the tracks would be massive, no?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-16-Heng-Long-Tiger-I-3818-Panther-3819-Tank-Plastic-Track-/150855074463?pt=US_Character_Radio_Control_Toys&hash=item231fa9c29f

Or you could rivet them painstakingly by hand... your choice

lol... well i am sitting between chairs^^ i found these on my own yester night^^ too... they are on my research list on ebay now... and yes... i picture the tracks enourmous too they have to be...^^

Rogue Wolves wrote:Terrain is all the rage these days, but it's nice to see what brought me to your thread many a year ago... Scratch built tank!

inmygravenimage wrote:Very cool indeed and great to see finished product!
I used doubled chimera tracks for my scratchbuilt baneblade:

I have both chimmy and babeblade tracks kicking about, pm me your address and I'll send you an early Xmas prezzie.

many thanks graven,

great to see finished product!

believe me... me too

and about the baneblade tracks... an offer too good to refuse but...could you do some measurements on them? i have no clue what size they are... and i have to measure first the amount of tracks i would need anyway....


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 Klaus, not Santa wrote:
Hey Vik!
I'm glad you were able to finish your project - the arena looks super cool and the advertisements are just the "dot above the i" as we Germans say
Nice touch.
In regards to your new Übertransport: This is a great project and I look forward to your build. It reminds me a lot of my old Scarabeus (looked more like a SW Sandcrawler), and I agree, the wider the tracks, the more realistic it will be. Baneblade tracks won't be wide enough, it will look flimsy. Double Baneblade at least, but that's waaaaay too much cash in the throat of GW
I love Meade's posted tracks on Ebay 1/16 seem just to be the right size, and those Tiger tracks are just plain S E X Y
Anyway, I'm sure you'll have a great project here.
Cheers
Klaus

a your post just slipped in between me answering the above...

thank you for the high praise...!

indeed a great project^^ and thanks for the hint on the tracks... i think i am now nearing a decision... just need to make the measurements... two tracks should hopefully suffice i think then... and i have to agree the amount of banebalde tracks would be enourmous too... the 1/16 have a great appeal to me atm too... ah decisions, decisions^^


OH... and would you mind showing your Scarabeus here? i can´t recall that one anymore...

Hi Vik,
the Scarabeus was my first major project and never completed.
This is the original scetch


Most of the images have been deleted, but here is a very old Picasa-album with the images:
https://picasaweb.google.com/100246132553998335027/Scarabeus#
I hope this helps
Cheers
Klaus


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So basically a huge transported with an internal elevator and all kinds of funny stuff :-P
I even had a sick bay with operating table on the side, that could be opened...

Dude Klaus! That is awesome! I especially love the commander's dias/ring thing, it looks like a Submarine Periscope/sensor rig would be there giving the Commander a great command & Control position!

hey klaus! don´t tell me you scraped that model??? the first pic here reminded me a lot of one of my old playmobil space stations... very homely look.... i like the sixties vibe to that model... and the sheer size is also something that makes me like it instantly^^...some of the pics in the gallery make it look like a barbie van for 40k... you know, where you could pull apart or just detach the walls and you have basically a dolly house then... thus your tank then gets instant diorama feel! if it is still alive you should revisit that model for sure!!! would love to see that one finished!

speaking of finished... well i certainly haven´t...that would be too early but i did work quite motivated and energetic on the übertransport! and how i did...well...ask me... "how energetic did you work on the übertransport?" ...me: "quite so"...

i cut the tracksystems from PC and brought the size and shape into a reality i then cut out holes for the sponsons... only to later on seal them but around the sponsons i´ve built... i think i will dremel out the wholes for the guns then...(look for the pics... if i talk gibberish here...the pics at least will explain )
and then i worked on creating the main body... i created a substructure to better get everything as sturdy as possible... i have these L-shaped rods from our local hardware store... dead cheap really... and these i cut to size to make the lil L-shaped connectors... and i then used an I- beam rod to further stabablize the body...well here are the pics...:












by the way... for all of you that suggested that i shoould get me the 1/16 tank tracks... well i did... hopefully i get them soon^^ i think these will be awesome on that tank^^ and it will save me literally ages of scratchbuilding time^^ which i will now invest in detailing that beast^^


cheers, vik

oh man vik! this looks to be epic! love where you are going with it. I would say really huge tracks. That should justify it more.

well... the tracks width will be around 1.7 inches... or 4.4 cm!!! truly big thus!

and thanks comrade!

I think thats the right choice to go with, I think adding a load of GW tracks side by side would look wrong on this scale and size.

What is this actually for if you don't mind me asking, it's going to be hell of a size and early work is looking tidy

Although you might want to add some central support to the back as there is a little warping I see

that lil warping you see will get fixed once the othe plates are in place... it is the main hull of the tank... which later on will support the weight of the landing platform and will in essence "hold" the tracks... it will get a ramp in the front... to have as many soldiers be able to get out at once... so it will have exits on three sides... left right and front... on the back it will have the boiler again... tho i am still trying to figure out how to do that... as it is a steampunk transport the steam clouds could be hazardous for the flyer... i thought maybe have the exhaust pipes being rather like car exhausts facing backwards than the classic steam stacks...facing upwards.......

I'm sure everyone will be watching like hawks to see how those tracks turn out... I mean who doesn't want to build their own mega tank eventually?

The sponsons are looking awesome already!

atm... the sponsons are fully closed... i need to reopen them once everything is all sealed and cured properly... then i have to add the guns... this will be a toughy as i have to develop a weaponssystem... probably gatlings... i never can get enough of these^^

Errrrrrmmmmm now that is a conundrum you could go the wheel barrow route if you get what I mean ……… the handle bars you could add some kind of fans on the edge of the steam stacks to divert the smoke maybe.

I see your point once the plates are in place should stop the warping, have you got a drawing as to the design or is it coming straight from your crazy mind

Also what aircraft will be using this landing pad

that is interesting. Its a landing pad too? as far as exhaustion goes, put in the butt usually works.

lone dirty dog wrote:Errrrrrmmmmm now that is a conundrum you could go the wheel barrow route if you get what I mean ……… the handle bars you could add some kind of fans on the edge of the steam stacks to divert the smoke maybe.

I see your point once the plates are in place should stop the warping, have you got a drawing as to the design or is it coming straight from your crazy mind

Also what aircraft will be using this landing pad

part sketch planned and part crazy mind
and well... i will have to figure out what kind of flyer... a gyrocopter size should work after all... maybe i convert a killakopta i still have or i build something out of the blue too... probably gonna be the latter^^

cormadepanda wrote:that is interesting. Its a landing pad too? as far as exhaustion goes, put in the butt usually works.

yup... landing pad too... or better...mainly... its a mobile landing platform... with mega trasport capacities in the belly...so could function as a small means to get a bigger footslogger platoon straight to a certain objective... with enough firepower to hold out for some time... tho that will get figured out in the coming days...

and we´ll see about the exhausts when we get there^^


well i need to get some beauty sleep now....


cheerio!!!

Night mate crazy dreaming

My my, you've certainly been busy

He has! This time around, he is making a monster sized machine, and I am making something no bigger than a maclador/Valdor sized machine

I want to see twin-linked punishers on each sponson

He may have been going for multi-lasers, but the amount of fire Twin-linked punishers in an over/under configuration would give!!

Ooo loving the structure so far vik

I dunno, I think your sponsons need to be able to provide your close range anti-infantry support more than anti-armor or transport-popping. Of course, if you have more than one sponson on each side, you could do both.

inmygravenimage wrote:I want to see twin-linked punishers on each sponson

shasolenzabi wrote:He may have been going for multi-lasers, but the amount of fire Twin-linked punishers in an over/under configuration would give!!

Rogue Wolves wrote:Ooo loving the structure so far vik

dsteingass wrote:I dunno, I think your sponsons need to be able to provide your close range anti-infantry support more than anti-armor or transport-popping. Of course, if you have more than one sponson on each side, you could do both.

help me here my friends...i thought punishers would be the 40k equivalent of gatling gun? or am i in the wrong here?

i think a good mixture of both anti infantry and anti heavy would be a good choice... what do you think? and i do have two sponsons on each side... so that is good, right?... and how would two punichers as a twin linked set fit into a sponson? has that been done yet? pics would be nice

and thanks RW

i think i will need to redo the sponsons atm... there is something fishy about the build... currently even if open i think they would be not that good in providing enough coverage ...opinions?... oh and tomorrow i will have the track sets in my hand... that was really fast... they would have been here even today... but my home was without anyone to take the package for me... so the delivery guy only left a card.... bugger...

Punishers are the ig Gatling tank cannon, isn't the other Gatling called assault cannon or something

Yep, Punishers are the 40k equivalent to miniguns Remember, your sponsons are supposed to have a limited fire arc, so I wouldn't sweat it if they don't swivel 180 degrees. If you have two on each side, it'll kick ass.

hmmm....

so I wouldn't sweat it if they don't swivel 180 degrees. If you have two on each side, it'll kick ass.

actually that is my fear... the side ramps should have enough room but also enough coverage from the guns...

i am atm thinking about not making sponsons but rather inbuilt fireing holes so to speak... with the guns inside... bringing the guns to nearing a 180° radius...

The multi-barreled weapons are the Assault cannons, they fire just 4 shots.

Multi-laser, fires just 3 shots

The Larger Punishers lay a withering 20shots downrange

i say the punishers have it then beside after the pic research i did i will most likley try these ^^

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
i say the punishers have it then beside after the pic research i did i will most likley try these ^^

Good choice!