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 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
I may have missed it while I was gone, but where did you get this?



I want to get a few of them, would be great on some of the terrain pieces I'm making.

You need to speak to Dave

Liking the progress on the ubertankplatformtransporthelipad so far vik

And very much appreciating that I didn't have to wade through 40 pages after a couple of weeks off this time round

Well, it seemed like Vik's thread had a time slow down, maybe he has been perfected his Chrono-molasses-ator device?

maybe he has a family and it is xmas time.. another word for no hobby time.

Probable...

Vik's thread hasn't been slow. Mine has...



Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Dakka........

 mxwllmdr wrote:
Vik's thread hasn't been slow. Mine has...



Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Dakka........

Yours has been glacial... not slow.

well, well, well... looks like we all have yet again survived one of those apocalypsy thingies^^

and for the record... like LDD stated... that aquilla... it was one made by dave... he sent it to me a lillion years ago... it was sitting idle by for way too long... to tell a truth... the whole übertransport was a project i started to finally use this nice pice and honor daves work... so yeah... skalk... go and ask dave... maybe he can make another one of these for you...


and well... xmas sure is here... our oldest happened to find out about the santa scam... he walked in while his mum and me where packing presents for tomorrow...so now he is one of the grown ups... the clever guy seems to have known for longer than my wife and me would have known it seems... and he planned to have a peek at us while packing up presents... kids these days^^

as for the thread moving on on glacier like time scales... er... dunno about that one... as this is a new update... a big one...

just to get a good pic into the main paige... here is a spoiler...:



but a good update begins for real with a suply drop...

having almost depleted my resources of PC i was aiming for a dead end of the project... this couldn´t be... so i went shopping at a local hobby store and got me two square meters worth of shiney white plasticcard... my son felix helped me even in the store (see above story of that clever son...) to cut it down to a transportable size...)

also i got me some other nice tools and stuff... see for yourself...:



quite a big amount of plastic goodness... and all for only 20 €s... not too shabby, eh?


then i got me this holepunch here that now helps me to create rivets with a diameter of 1.5mm ...the easy way^^...
the cogwheel above might be a new way for me to make rivets in a shorter time even... if i get the cog to stay in line ... earlier tries have been not that promising...

well... now onto the real stuff this update is all about...

regarding the still bland looking landing pad... well it isn´t bland looking anymore... also it is now almost finished... only rivets are needed now at this stage...
see for yourself...:







the underside now is connected with a sort of cabin... it now looks a bit like an upper deck of a ship... i think i will eventually revisit the airship... this look seems to be an apropriate way to fix certain issues i had back then... with soldier for comparrision...:


then i went and worked also on the steampunky parts...



and created new viewpoints on the front... and started working on a big frontal ramp/ hatch...





so this is then again how the tank currently looks:





what do you think?

and inmygravenimage... you think it now looks like a tank wearing a hat still? my wife made some likewise comments...so you´d be not the only one on that front...


well... so much for now.... cheers, vik

That's looking awesome Vik.
The slot bases work well as view ports.

The sides of the landing pad look great, nice detailing.
One thing, which I hope isn't a problem, are the walls around the edges ok for things to land on it without catching a wing or engine on?

Cabin looks the part.

I like the steampunky parts (as you put it). What are they made of?


Generally it's looks a very cool tank/platform.

Looking forward to where this is going.

Nice work vik!

The improvements to the pad are great, nice detailing on the side walls, and the cabin support is a good touch.

I see much rivet-zen coming your way....

Dr H wrote:That's looking awesome Vik.
The slot bases work well as view ports.

The sides of the landing pad look great, nice detailing.
One thing, which I hope isn't a problem, are the walls around the edges ok for things to land on it without catching a wing or engine on?
well i wanted to make the walls a bit taller to have a sort of kind of protection for the embarking troops of landing flyers... when this build is finished i will start with a fitting flyer... some helicopter style thingy and i think i will taylor it to the landing pads needs

Cabin looks the part.


I like the steampunky parts (as you put it). What are they made of?
the crown parts are made from chrismas balls... the thingies that holds the "string"/ hooks...

Spoiler:

Generally it's looks a very cool tank/platform.

Looking forward to where this is going.

monkeytroll wrote:Nice work vik!

The improvements to the pad are great, nice detailing on the side walls, and the cabin support is a good touch.

I see much rivet-zen coming your way....

oh yeah----lots of time to master the art of riveting^^

Custom flyer = cool.

Bauble string attachment thing to exhaust crown = genius.

LOL... thanks Dr H... well you gotta share those little finds^^... by the way... the rest of those smokestacks are just pipes from a felt pen^^...the only fitting tube i had around...

also... since i now used the crowns... the baubles... i used the halves for the sponsons... plastic xmas baubles for the win!

Ah. Pen lids are awesome. Clearly mrs von domm has excellent skills in assessment of things that seem unbalanced.... How about a couple of pistons or rails running between the base of the pad and the tank fairing, as if it could possibly raise it up?

i´ll have to see about the balance issue... i have thought about some pistons as well... dunno if this might be a bit too late tho... if you want to... you could do a lil mockup pic for me... to help me get it fixed

The detail is coming on great mate and pulling it al together, once again your resourcefulness has come to hand.

For a minute I thought those were crown Lego pieces lol, the pad detail is amazing and the layering is spot on.

I think this is going to look really quite bad ass in the end

Just one thing have you considered some kind of support coming from the under side of the pad to the cabin ? Just looks a little top heavy.

Coming along nicely!

storag wrote:Coming along nicely!

thank you kindly good sir

lone dirty dog wrote:The detail is coming on great mate and pulling it al together, once again your resourcefulness has come to hand.

For a minute I thought those were crown Lego pieces lol, the pad detail is amazing and the layering is spot on.

I think this is going to look really quite bad ass in the end

Just one thing have you considered some kind of support coming from the under side of the pad to the cabin ? Just looks a little top heavy.

thanks mate... yeah i think i need to see about the top heavyness... my plan was also to make the landing platform with cabin to be optional... so that i dont glue it tigether to the tanks main hull?! i will make some support beams...

Brunhilda is looking Tankalicious!

Some simple angled girders would the trick, plus you don't have to glue it to the underside of the pad just add locating sections for the beams to sit up against.

That way you can still remove the cabin if you wanted happy Chrimbo to you and the family

Very cool Vik! I still can't get my gak together when it comes to scratchbuilding things that fit together like they should! but you seem to have become quite the master! :-) also, any hints as to where you scored your 1.5 punch? my attempts asofar are less than stellar and I resorted to using glue globules! or gluebules as i like to call them!

Thanks for the heads up. I'll contact Dave.

Nice one mate she is looking fine. Merry Christmas Vik

Vik was going to send you a christmas card but i could noit read your hand writing so i guess a happy holidays on dakka will have to do any way have a good one.

btw transport looks great cheers buddy!

Bama

Nice updat vik. I think the santa scam is always harder to maintain.

I thought it was the Christkind auf Deutschland?

Nice work (love the ingenuity of the "crown" bits on the pipes!), and merry christmas to all!

That's awesome Vik! I think it looks like the pad is an interchangable part option for that class of tank. Put some grab-irons for a crane hook somewhere on the top, then it will look more like it Yeah, I'll need to cut some more cricut-ed aquillas- I owe LDD a couple too. Merry Christmas!

like I said,,,Tankalicious!

Hi
Loving your work so far cat wait to see more love the Übertransport very cool . possabily fisrt time back on dakka for months!!! Btw blog has had update….
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