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Merry christmas vik!

your tank looks quite interesting looking forward tot he build you do always come up with very unique tank designs.

Merry christmas Vik......

Merry xmas Vik. Feel your xmas goodies have not yet arrived... Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully soon...

Merry CHristmas Vik I know I'm late, but the past few days have been a blur to me. Love what you've got going with the ball tank mate!

hello lads and ladies...

first we need to take a newsbreak... new instalment of the leagues terrain competition ...this time hosted by our notorious award winner camkierhi...(which means finally he can´t win in this one )
this time the theme is called Accommodation...!
as the man stated:

This rounds theme is Accommodation. The idea being that all armies must bed down at some point and be it a tent or a small tarp thrown over a ruin up to a full barracks or bastion just about every army must rest at some point. And they may set up perimeter defences, and gun emplacements.
The point being it can be anything from a sniper in a cave to full army base, your imagination is the limit. Oh and size does not matter, all will be judged on their own merits

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/570324.page#6380347


this will be a fine theme to dive into your creative think tank...which I need to do...

also... new update coming up tomorrow for definite!!! promise

shasolenzabi wrote:A Vik-wheel!
Happy Holidays

interesting sound shaso...vik wheel...hmmm

Camkierhi wrote:Merry Christmas everyone.

Love the new concept sir, so wish I had thought of that. I wonder will it have a stabiliser wheel out the back?

all about the stabilizer wheel will be revealed tomorrow... the construction definitely needs something...and it certainly already got one ..wait and see^^

n0t_u wrote:Merry Christmas to you all.

Also Vik, not sure where that's going but it's probably going somewhere cool like normal.

rule of cool is my utmost concern...whenever I build something^^

lone dirty dog wrote:Merry Christmas Vik and great start mate and easy to tell the direction your heading, hope you and the family are enjoying the festive celebrations and clean up your desk it's a mess.

lol... yep...that dirty mess is still there... I like to call it the creativity main ingredient...

Theophony wrote:Merry Christmas Vic, hope you and the family have a great time.

The tank looks great as a base model. My first thought was jack in the box character from the restaurant, but I was really hungry at the time.

lol.... nice associative thinking there^^... once you see the update you will be even more sure of your first impression I fear

alabamaheretic wrote:Merry christmas vik!

your tank looks quite interesting looking forward tot he build you do always come up with very unique tank designs.

many thanks mate!

mxwllmdr wrote:Merry christmas Vik......

to you too!^^

inmygravenimage wrote:Merry xmas Vik. Feel your xmas goodies have not yet arrived... Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully soon...

santa in the form of the postman still hasn´t arrived... I feel a bit ashamed of our postal system...

dsteingass wrote:Merry CHristmas Vik I know I'm late, but the past few days have been a blur to me. Love what you've got going with the ball tank mate!

I hope you're feeling better now... I need to check your thread to see what santa brought you... it's always an eyeopener

well... just to make sure... tomorrow I will spoil you with some new footage of pics for my progress....it is steadily getting better^^

cheers, vik

Dont worry Vik my man cave floor is covered in crap I cant even open the door properly I thought I would do some modelling today looked in and closed the door again

I really need to clean up my room LOL, there is a guy on deviantart that had done a load of Grot ball tanks I think I have some saved pictures some where ? might be worth checking them out for some ideas.

Don't know if I missed it but what unit is this tank intended for guard, grots, orks maybe poodles ?

Merry Christmas Vik!! Hope all is well I think ill join this next terrain cop and really earn my rivets badge!

Cheers bud
BB

hey bebop... yes... good plan! definitely do this...! would love to see some catachan hideout

and LDD...probably poodles...you´ll soon say so yourself

LDD

I can picture him now, drinking tea and bitching about the room rather than actually moving boxes

Looking forward to the new competition, so many ideas already .

dsteingass wrote: LDD

I can picture him now, drinking tea and bitching about the room rather than actually moving boxes

well... the amount of stuff or rather the lack of he showed to us would speak in this behalf...

hk1x1 wrote:Looking forward to the new competition, so many ideas already .

funnily I am atm more excluding ideas than actually having some I want act upon...
guess I am still too involved with the poodle of tanks^^


speaking of...promised an update...and I need to fulfil my promises again... too much delay has happened here on these pages recently...

so allow me to re-introduce you to the ballsiest of all tanks...the noodlepoodle doodle tank...:


and right after this a scale shot...:



steampunky front windowsection...


ballsy sideshot of the turret


supportive backside ...it will get tracks too...


track layout still developing...

imagine the two links to be seen on the right all over...
question...should I add gripping details to the tracks?

and this is now the part where I show you the way how the tracks get moved...I made rails for those three wheels...what do you think?
with flash...


and without flash...




so....thoughts...or all too yucky or what?

cheers, vik

poodle of tanks

Is that the official name for a group of tanks...
Gaggle of Geese,
Murder of Crows,
Poodle of Tanks...

Liking the tank. Very nice front window.

question...should I add gripping details to the tracks?

I say yes, most definitely. No running on the hinges (it's the one thing that irks me about early LRs and forgeworld tanks ).

the way how the tracks get moved...I made rails for those three wheels...what do you think?

Are you saying that your tracks actually work? They go round? If so, awesome.
If not, still good. I like people thinking about how things work and modelling it on.

all round.

 Dr H wrote:

poodle of tanks

Is that the official name for a group of tanks...
Gaggle of Geese,
Murder of Crows,
Poodle of Tanks...
LOL...one could name it that way....I have my dictionary currently not at my side...so I am just guessing so as the layman does^^

Liking the tank. Very nice front window.
the window...is actually half of a plastic toy for cats... take a look at your local pet shop...there you´ll find awesomeness distilled^^

question...should I add gripping details to the tracks?

I say yes, most definitely. No running on the hinges (it's the one thing that irks me about early LRs and forgeworld tanks ).

I am totally with you...running on the hinges...it is just as stupid as it gets really... now I need to design a brutal looking teethy way to add gripping details...

the way how the tracks get moved...I made rails for those three wheels...what do you think?

Are you saying that your tracks actually work? They go round? If so, awesome.
If not, still good. I like people thinking about how things work and modelling it on.
tracks wont actually be movable, it will just look that way.... I think one future day I will eventually build a fully functioning one...tho this will probably limit a lot the painting that I am able to do...
all round.

But Vik's got the biggest..balls of them all!

I really dig those tracks! But you seem to have built yourself into another TIE fighter window corner again

Your eye for potential conversion materials still amazes me, that works great as a window I think I might have to still the dogs toys

The tank has come together well like the track system but I would leave it as is, with the paint job should pull it all nicely together.

Hey I have been working on some small stuff mate but finding it hard with time at the moment, some stuff to show soon I promise

Although nothing as glamourise as your tank, I really need to get back to scratch building stuff I have entered ............. no wait been entered into the accommodation comp so will see how that goes LOL



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 dsteingass wrote:
LDD

I can picture him now, drinking tea and bitching about the room rather than actually moving boxes

2 pots of tea it took and I even went back for a second look dam mess can't work in that so I didn't

Hahaha

I say...who would could say that a tie fighter would be anything but a corner?...after all it is the pinnacle of dogfighters?

and it needen´t be glamerous LDD...just informative^^

But Vik's got the biggest..balls of them all!

LOL... what a compliment^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:and right after this a scale shot...

Damn Vik, every time I see any of your projects they always turn out to be far bigger than I thought

Sweet detail shots of the Vik-Wheel!

Trench rails would look good too if the training ball doesn't work out.

Looking good vik, are those sewing machine bobbins for the track gears....wife is going to be upset by all he colored string soon to be found on the floor .

I'm no sure of a rear ball, something unnatural about that

Gee Vik, that's quite a big....ballsy tank
I LOVE it.
Cheers
Klaus

That's a big ball of goodness. And I like how you seem to have used Darth Vader's Imperial Cat Toy for a window

That's looking great Vik, I love all varied scavenged pieces you've used, and how you've used them.

Tank has balls, tank is ball. I having a ball here. Happy holidays vik.

Happy New Year sir. All the best to you and yours.

Tanks brilliant.

congrats on another lap around the sun, guys.

Loving the ball tank

Great overall design, and the tracks and front window look really good. Not totally sold on the rear stabilizer yet, though I'll reserve further judgement untill seeing a more complete build. It does however sort of subtract from the ball concept, which I think is awesome. Maybe either building or fluffing in a gyroscope instead?

Just thinking out aloud here, looks good as is!

Cheers, and happy new year!

dsteingass wrote:Trench rails would look good too if the training ball doesn't work out.

good idea... but the training ball will stay for the time being^^

Theophony wrote:Looking good vik, are those sewing machine bobbins for the track gears....wife is going to be upset by all he colored string soon to be found on the floor .

I'm no sure of a rear ball, something unnatural about that

those are in fact no bobbins...so your wife´s sewing stuff should be secure...you didn´t do something crazy theo, now did you?...those are in fact just spacer discs of plastic...and the so called unnatural ball is no haemorrhoid but will get soon tracks of his own...

Klaus, not Santa wrote:Gee Vik, that's quite a big....ballsy tank
I LOVE it.
Cheers
Klaus

thanks mate!...ballsy it needed to be^^

shasolenzabi wrote:Sweet detail shots of the Vik-Wheel!

thanks mate!

shrike wrote:

Viktor von Domm wrote:and right after this a scale shot...

Damn Vik, every time I see any of your projects they always turn out to be far bigger than I thought

aye...big is better...haven´t you got that memo?

inmygravenimage wrote:That's a big ball of goodness. And I like how you seem to have used Darth Vader's Imperial Cat Toy for a window

well... the dark lord has nothing on me ... doom vs darth... I think doom always wins at least he didn´t get fried by his mentor...

hk1x1 wrote:That's looking great Vik, I love all varied scavenged pieces you've used, and how you've used them.

that is in fact the topmost thing to figure out what goes well together... it is like playing with lego´s in that regard...

cormadepanda wrote:Tank has balls, tank is ball. I having a ball here. Happy holidays vik.

thanks mate!

Camkierhi wrote:Happy New Year sir. All the best to you and yours.

Tanks brilliant.

thanks mate!

shrike wrote:congrats on another lap around the sun, guys.

loved that quote when reading that one on your FB

Littletower wrote:Loving the ball tank

Great overall design, and the tracks and front window look really good. Not totally sold on the rear stabilizer yet, though I'll reserve further judgement untill seeing a more complete build. It does however sort of subtract from the ball concept, which I think is awesome. Maybe either building or fluffing in a gyroscope instead? please enlighten me...lost in translation here^^

Just thinking out aloud here, looks good as is!

Cheers, and happy new year!

but thanks...and see the red marked text mister... I always am eager to get new ideas from you peeps!



soo.... Cams compe is still on....and I finally got my act together to start with an entry for this one...

it will be a nice log cabin... and it will be made from wood...and I try to be really artisan about it...like it would have been hewn as it should ...
but let me show you...:


this is how I started...the "logs" are 15cm long...and it will be a square log cabin thus...

raw materials


combined shots...with mean sergeant for scale...




no windows ...yet...or doors.... the roof will be separate to be taken off...as I plan to make the interior into a nice fitting scene to the theme of the comp...

thoughts?...

cheers, vik

Hey Vik, I vote to scrap the stabiliser - I thought at first that your tank would need it, but I don't like it now I see it - sorry... I say go with the gyroscope stabiliser idea...



Some other awesome tank designs here... http://www.twilighthistories.com/2012/08/17/top-20-weird-tanks-alternate-history-of-design/

And interesting start on your wooden build... Looking forward to your progress