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Ohh progress! Yayy

First thought is those spherical sponsons look fantastic - of course it has to be gatlings

Second thought is Storag's right, it's not as big as I'd thought

If the thickness of the actual pad is an issue you could try some nice support struts instead of thickening the actual pad - plenty of nice Viktoriana detailing can be done there

If the thickness of the actual pad is an issue you could try some nice support struts instead of thickening the actual pad - plenty of nice Viktoriana detailing can be done there

i followed a differnt route today... totally fruitless...this sounds like a good idea... i will test that tomorrow!

as for the gatlings... well i worked on some gun design today... dunno if the current angle of the pics reveals as much as i had put ideas into this build...probably better pics will follow soon...

by the way... don´t fret due to the gluebomb pics... all will be detailed and fixed in due time^^

Ah, Viktorian gatling support guns in a huge ball sponson

I liked that idea so much now I am happy I was correct

thanks mates... although it is only a three barrel gatling... i always imagine that my gunners are sitting/standing directly inside the sponsons... thus they get this immensly big... a bit like the turrets of the millenium falcon...

I keep thinking a vision or scope port either above, to either side of the gun, or maybe in the case of the ball turrets, just under the gun?

just put a camera above the barrel of the turret?

Don't get Cocky!

LOooks great Vik! I like the triple barrels!

Maybe set the pad on giant springs?
Wrap wire around a plastic rod?

more awesome! I was wondering, if you want to put a window on the sponsons, maybe something like this?

the middle one, cut so it's just coming off the sphere, would make a window shape...

shasolenzabi wrote:I keep thinking a vision or scope port either above, to either side of the gun, or maybe in the case of the ball turrets, just under the gun?

cormadepanda wrote:just put a camera above the barrel of the turret?

to both... somehow that idea has yet escaped me... thanks for reminding me... (no really... didn´t think of that yet...)

dsteingass wrote:Don't get Cocky!

LOooks great Vik! I like the triple barrels!

Maybe set the pad on giant springs?
Wrap wire around a plastic rod?[/quote]
hmmm.... now there is a cool thought... how can you come up with something like that and yet have so much thinking room for your own awesome projects???
on a related matter... those springs... the rod would be a bit thicker? don´t you think so? hmmm... if i raise the platform enough...i might be able to squeeze in even a small turret... if i make it right i could even add a connecting hatch on top of the landing platform too...after all the fellas need to get inside the tank from above...

Meade wrote:more awesome! I was wondering, if you want to put a window on the sponsons, maybe something like this?

the middle one, cut so it's just coming off the sphere, would make a window shape...

cool idea... i think i at least own one of these... thanks for the happy times diving into my bitzbox now^^ this could take a while^^

You could use plastic strips and build up the " ping pong " to look like the vision port in the Star wars pic, then have the weapon layout on the out side.

as much as this is as cool as it can get...i would probaly kill the sponsons then as i tried that look with my long forgotten walker... and never got the symetry right...

True the old scars still hurt

Looking good Vik

thank you sir!

Maybe this can help with ideas for the spheres?


Could then get away with a smaller view port in order to go along with the armoured look of it overall.

hmmm... where would i stand argueing back at riveted looks like these^^...hmmm... need to see if i am able to convert that look...

Could use a blade carefully to get the panel look if you wanted to.

Naa you want a scriber, like a dental tool. Those are some beautiful rivets!

Tracks and sponsons looking good - I worry though that the landing pad is going too look too small on this monster ??

use really thin plasticard to make extra plates on the sponsons and rivet them.

use really thin plasticard to make extra plates on the sponsons and rivet them.

cormadepanda wrote:use really thin plasticard to make extra plates on the sponsons and rivet them.

hmmm... i think this might be too late atm... should have done earlier... and double post over two hours apart? cool^^

Andrew1975 wrote:

Almost looks like you have a Squat land train going on there.

I got it! That's no tank, no apc... This is a completely new warfare tech - the MPP, Mobile Party Platform!

Mobile Disco?
"We work hard..We play hard"

petter make that party hard

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
petter make that party hard

Sorry Vik, thought i didnt post it.. sorry for the double. Get some treads and guns on this project i wanna see it.

The Party Pad reach for the stars dudes reach for the stars

i think i can smell a rainbow...eh LDD

also... here are some pics to a certain idea i had when i fell into my bitzbox...

the round shapes you see here are in fact goblin shields... their backside is riveted... the front is wooden looking... or the other way ´round...

well i have around eight of these so i could add two to each sponson bubble... what do you think? would that be a good way to do a viewpoint for the gunners inside?

here is only one "viewpoint" shown to each sponson...




and while i was diving for treasures in my bitzbox(es) my son oskar loves to do likewise his dad... he gets the tweezers and delicatly selects here and there bitz to his ideas to play a bit with... well originally he wanted to make lil soldiers with the bitz... but as we where working mostly with my technical bitz atm... he went and built this:



cool eh? and mind you... no pushing or anything... every lil piece was selected and placed just once... i think that guy is a winner modeler in the future... what a steady hand this son of mine has^^ (not like his father... i tell you this!!!)

cheerio, vik