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what will the walkway boards be?

Someone thought my current tank had a difficult shape... Boy was that fella wrong... Ruglud you are plain crazy... To make a shell this way is amazing...and ridiculous...amazingly ridiculous...wow
... But that she'll now needs a crane...or an army of grots....probably both...sheeeesh...some peoples ideas...

shasolenzabi wrote:what will the walkway boards be?

Thinking about using aluminium mesh for this, will give it a nice texture and mean that I don't totally cover up all the detail work underneath...

Viktor von Domm wrote:Someone thought my current tank had a difficult shape... Boy was that fella wrong... Ruglud you are plain crazy... To make a shell this way is amazing...and ridiculous...amazingly ridiculous...wow
... But that she'll now needs a crane...or an army of grots....probably both...sheeeesh...some peoples ideas...

The shell was to get right, this is the second attempt - I did consider using a piece of wooden dowel, but as it's 40mm diameter it would have taken ages to shape the end into the cone shape...

As for the loading of the shell - I have a few ideas, but as I don't own any grotz, it will need to be 'mekanikal' This may not be completed until after the competition though

Right, I'm of to manufacture rivets before work - thousands of the little

Steady hands! Make a milion rivets
For getting the shells shape, pencilshaper? Probably your kids had these bigger ones too for those colored pencils (forgot the correct name...) 40mm probably not the right caliber fir any pencils

This just gets better and better every time I see it ,
plus you seem to be moving at quite a steady pace now.

Viktor von Domm wrote:Steady hands! Make a milion rivets
For getting the shells shape, pencilshaper? Probably your kids had these bigger ones too for those colored pencils (forgot the correct name...) 40mm probably not the right caliber fir any pencils

I didn't get any rivets punched - too busy watching reppeats of Top Gear on Dave (tv station not dsteingass)

hk1x1 wrote:This just gets better and better every time I see it ,
plus you seem to be moving at quite a steady pace now.

Thanks Hk, I'm getting there slowly I feel, but progressing none the less...

And to prove I'm progressing.. Update time !

Rivet, rivets and more rivets



Started work on the walkway - made from aluminium mesh edged with plasticard


In order to contune with the walkway I needed a SUPPLY DROP...

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

Looking very nice and getting ever closer. Keep it up,

THIS...this is your ticket to -=]_,=- fortune and Glory kid!
Absolutely stunning, top notch work!

it does remind me of a very unique cake...iced and then riveted with lil rivet pearls...

the mesh looks very good! totally convincing!

mmmmm Cake


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More mesh and scratchbuilt I-beams installed






I may not get much more done this week as I have to travel on business from Wednesday until Friday...

Awesomeness upon awesomeness.

It looks great, especially with the grates , I do wonder how you'll get he inside of it all painted with the layers. The rivets though steel the show.

Woh it's juste really impressive

Camkierhi wrote:Awesomeness upon awesomeness.

Thanks mate

Theophony wrote:It looks great, especially with the grates , I do wonder how you'll get he inside of it all painted with the layers. The rivets though steel the show.

Cheers Theo. It's not fully glued down yet, I'm hoping that will make it easier to paint the inside and underneath of the structure and the walkway is also currently removable (when I finally reach the paint stage that is...)

The rivets do indeed STEEL the show

Luciusletroll wrote:Woh it's juste really impressive

Thanks

UPDATE

Got back from my business trip late on Friday, then we had our daughters 13th birthday party followed by a sleepover on Saturday, into Sunday...

Finally got some time though this afternoon to have a play around and managed to add a faceplate / armour shield to the gun and some glyph plates... Either side of the gun reads : BIG BERFA in glyphs. Then there are some on the gun and it's mounting...

*Singing* Berfa, lovely Berfa...[/]

Nice work. I like how you have the gun barrel coming out of a mouth.

Always did like them big myself.....

Brilliant work.

Dr H wrote:*Singing* Berfa, lovely Berfa...[/]

Nice work. I like how you have the gun barrel coming out of a mouth.

Ha ha, you got the name reference

Camkierhi wrote:Always did like them big myself.....

Brilliant work.

That's what your wife said

Quick update...

I-beam production, these are going to go around the base with razor wire - to deter any Umies from trying to scale the sides...


Berfa is feeling a bit horny...


And created an Ork Icon for a banner pole...

Brilliant work, you got to get some paint on this dude...

Love the icon. Needs rivets though.

Loving the update , but now seeing it all I can think of is that it needs feet, a few more layers, and arms

Camkierhi wrote:Brilliant work, you got to get some paint on this dude...

Love the icon. Needs rivets though.

Rivets are due this weekend, gotta sweet talk Berfa first...

Theophony wrote:Loving the update , but now seeing it all I can think of is that it needs feet, a few more layers, and arms

You may well be on to something here Theo - there is a bit of background fluff to Berfa that will be revealed in due course

Ha ha, you got the name reference

I did the first time you mentioned the name, at least that was my first thought when I read the name.
Are you planning on matching the colour scheme?

Nice detail work. Keep it up.

 Dr H wrote:

Ha ha, you got the name reference

I did the first time you mentioned the name, at least that was my first thought when I read the name.
Are you planning on matching the colour scheme?

Nice detail work. Keep it up.

I may have to incorporate some of the computers into the design

As for colour, this is going to be Evil Sunz, so plenty of red...

Next up may be the Raggy Dolls

Ahh, good memories.
lol Give one of the Orks 2 left feet...

Great attention to detail so far, love it.
And Bertha...wow that brings back memories, kids TV was so much better in the 80s

Just spent an age watching 80s tv shows intros with the kids - to say they were astounded would be an understatement...

Soooo..... some more updates - as you can see most of my progress is around weekends at the moment.

Progress really is looking great.

The video won't play for me for some reason

While looking at the pics again, I was wondering if your going to make a targeter position behind the big Ork head? The orks could look through the eyes, and the grots could look through the nose.........
"what's that coming out of its nose?"
"Space balls"
"We'll , there goes the neighborhood."

Ha ha good call Theo - this may have to be a 2nd wave update - as it is I'm struggling to meet the competition deadline

Direct link to the vid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coZfzTcv4bA

i am telling no stories here... that really sends shivers done my spine... the icon, the mask... wow... you are doing a wonderful job here!!!...this project has a soul!!!!