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Hope the final paper goes well Vik - and if you do end up gnawing your own leg off, make sure you send us some pictures of the hand-crafted prosthetic you'll no doubt build out of household junk

We'll just sit here polishing rivets till you return

Good luck on the final exams and paper! It can be daunting, yet when done and the grade is a good one, you will will feel the pride of accomplishing the task.

Good luck Vik , I've got be more class after this one as well. Who said they can't teach us old dogs.

Best of luck! Just remember... if there is a case you cant remember the answer.... then the answer is always "MOAR RIVETS!!"

Good luck matey!

Go vik go!! Have faith you got this man.

3 years is a long time to work towards something, so I wish you the best of luck Vik

hello my fellow followers?...anybody still out there?

here is hoping...

well... the time for tests/exams is almost over... i have passed the written exams...now waiting for the grades...and whether i have to do an oral exam still...
waiting is not really a good thing to do for those that have a mind that can go easily astray... thus you need to keep focused... on what... well... there have been many projects of mine i still haven´t shown you... i will do so in the fullness of time tho...

but for now i want to let you all in into my new big thing... it is a big thing as i need a big distraction from stress and so on...

thus... you know the saying go big or go home... well being still at home... this only leaves me for one option ... namely going bg... and can you go any bigger than...wait for it...a leviathan?
probably not...(werrrlll...of course there are a lot of bigger things in the 40k universe bigger than that... but aat least it is among the bigger kinds of tread vehicles...and ...i wanted to do one for quite some time...)
it will be totally scratch built with additions of bitz here an there... but since i don´t own the stuff usually used in that endeavour... i will probably have a wide range of different approaches to this built... so prepare yourself for a rocky and surprising trip...

and to wet everyones appetite...here are the starting pics...:







by the way... i still work on my league of extraordinary riveteers terrain competition entry...soon i will reveal the hopefully finished pics...

cheers, vik

I've just been reading a Ciaphas Cain novel "The Greater Good", and It just featured an Adeptus Mechanicus re-purposed Leviathan, rolling over some desert sand dunes.
It all sounded quite impressive, so It'll be interesting to see what you make of this .

At last, a Vik update. Much needed.

And WOW, that is going to be huge! Great start, looking forward to this very much.

*wide grin*
i am happy to see you all here again!
thanks for the confidence!
i soon have to do a major pic upload of so much i wasn´t able to pour on you lot^^ ...wait and see^^

Hobbes would be proud! Giant fabulous lunacy returns!

Subject: Imperial steam punk...something big is stirring the waters...

I saw that and though, "Loch Ness Monster?" Not sure why. A Steampunk Nessie would be so cool."

The Leviathan will be cool too.

I'm still here Vik!

I think I speak for all here when I say...... THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!!!!!!!

Vik is planning a HUGE thing I see!

Good to see you back in the saddle Meine Freunde

Ooooooooooooo a treated airship docking facility (runs out to buy popcorn)

Yes! Can't wait to see how this goes!

Those are going to be some seriously large tanks there.

Wow!

Woah, that's returning with a small project, eh? Woof!

Is that 3 tanks, or one massive land-ship?

Or with the way you build, 3 massive land-ships...

Doc...well... i think a mere landship wouldn´t do the trick... nope... it´s going to be a leviathan class ...tank...

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Leviathan


i currently have no real plans how to build it... i kind of dream about three steerable tanktrack systems that could be even used as separate tank... and would make storage also more easily... i think magnets will help me to achieve this...

the upper hull then could be an airship docking facility... theo...you might be quite close...^^

at adam... IF i play my card good enough...then it could work as a modular tracksystem thingy that could afterwards even make three stormlord or rather fellblade class tanks... (read as mad laughter...)

and welcome to the madness buttery commissar! by the way...love your avatar name!!!

Really think you should motorise it

ach... i am a total noob when it comes to everything electric... i doubt if i could make it move despite falling off the desk....

But those tread sections alone are BIG

16 cm long... and i am now designing the skirts, which range at 17cm... the width is 5cm... so at least the two tracks side by side will be 10 cm and if i use two tracks after another length wise then is it around 30cm... so three would be more than 45- 50 cm long...

I love the idea of the leviathan. The only thing that ever bothered me about them and Titans in Warhammer is "how do they get so much mass off the planet and to the next warzone?"

 Theophony wrote:
I love the idea of the leviathan. The only thing that ever bothered me about them and Titans in Warhammer is "how do they get so much mass off the planet and to the next warzone?"

Yeah, I'm with you on that point, Theophany. But then again, "why are they still using blackpowder weapons in the 41st millennium?" Some details I just have to let go of.

Yeah, this is gonna be great.