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Well dsteingass came through like an absolute legend, delivering some golden scaled pics of a thundebolt and a marauder.

A quick resize in gimp and i basically have the perfect set of templates.

So i got straight to it, putting the Caestus (which was really just a placeholder while i waited for the t-bolt dimensions) on hold. Here's the first t-bolts wings...




And because i thought it might be interesting, this is how i generally plan out my scratch builds. I try to break it down into as many single pieces of plasticard as possible, both to keep it a clean build and preserve structural integrity. This is a fuselage base





Also you can see the 5th ed rulebook that im currently using as a cutting mat

 Vitruvian XVII wrote:
Also you can see the 5th ed rulebook that im currently using as a cutting mat

FUNNY.

Yeah you say that, but it actually makes a really good cutting mat! Thick and sturdy.

LOL, I saw a numbered 5th ed 40k limited edition rulebook at Gencon..nobody bought it all week.

Nice to see someone taking on a big project like this! Having scratchbuilt a TS baneblade, I applaud your efforts. It's a hard slog but well worth it and enormously satisfying.

@dave: Yeah i figured no-one would ever want this Its actually performing double duty atm, the front makes an excellent mouse mat

@graven: Yeah its so worth it, i love scratch building.

Well here's where it was at when i went to bed, the nose is getting detail. Im building up the top of the fuselage first, then ill do the bottom and join it to the wings, before adding the engines and cowling last.

That looks perfect! Drop a few autocannons in there and you'll be golden!

All looking good Vit

Looking forward to the caestus, even though I'm not a big fan of it, as it'll be interesting to see how yours turns out when based on a slightly different concept.

The start of the t-bolt looks fine. I'm not sue I'm ever going to be able to get back into carefully marking and measuring stuff after finding my inner mek

Vitruvian wrote: Also you can see the 5th ed rulebook that im currently using as a cutting mat

You are my new Dakka hero. Sigged.

For your c-ram, it's actually a decent amount longer than a land raider. The passenger tubes In front of the cockpit is the same as a land raider. I can get you some better measurements if you'd like?

I'd be very interested in such measurements too...

Got my nids out today to prepare for an apoc game, figured id snap a pic whilst i was at it:




Progress on the t-bolt has moved forward a lot but i'll snap another pic later, cant be bothered atm

Finally got a banner done for this thread, i had fun, see sig

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I'd be very interested in such measurements too...

I'll grab some, and some pics, tomorrow.

Great looking stuff here Vit, sorry I havn't checked in for a while. These scratch builds are very ambitious, but looking how far you've come already you seem to be flying though! (no pun intended.) I still balk at the idea of starting from nothing, I doth my cap to you! Also thumbs up for the thread's banner, looks very classy.

@whale: Thatd be cool! Will be nice to see how far off the mark i am.

@J-Paint: Cheers buddy! Got progress on the t-bolt actually!







As you can see i've progressed a lot further than the last time i showed you these, on the home straight now.

Looks like the real thing to me! Damn fine job!

Cheers dave! Pretty pleased with it myself

Thunderbolt is looking stunning vit! Very good job indeed, some detailing and you wont be able to tell it apart from a FW one, colour me impressed.

the main page practically dragged me here... that thunderbolt is looking delicious all in its pure whiteness!!!

dunno why it took me so long to look into that thread... now i will have to look back again and see what you did already^^


cheers, vik


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oh man... having looked through this thread... knight, titan... the cestus... and so many other projects... and then the paintjobs...

WOW!!! i will be so definatly following this^^

@J: Thanks buddy! Ive always wondered what colour impressed would be

@Vik: Hahaha, nice to have you here finally Glad you enjoyed looking through Stick around this time...

Probably down to personal preference, Green in my case, and if it got mistaken for envy that's just fine, i'm envious too!

What do you have planned for the engines?

Stick around this time...

well... i am sometimes considered sticky^^... i put that down due to the kids

@J: You like green a lot dont you

@dave: Im going to attempt to scratch some, but if that doesnt work i'll just mould some valk engines. Shh dont tell gw...

@Vik: Hahaha, i can see that occurring quite a lot due to young kids

The Valk engines will definitely work, not too expensive on ebay either http://www.ebay.com/itm/Imperial-Gaurd-VALKYRIE-ENGINES-for-Warhammer-40K-by-Gameswokshop-/350605968529?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item51a1be8491