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yup.... that slogan totally made me lol!... what a nice humor!

and congratz and welcome back at the same time!.. lurking... tststs....

also... I have done so too... recycling old furniture to get new storing space... we have to use every ounce of financial rescources four our modelling, eh?

and again to the turret... looks lovley and I envy you for it...those shields look very cool!

I dig the bullet sheild on the turret.

Also I dig those lamps.. and i want some where did you get them? I have a lousy LED lamp from wally world.

Nice shelf as well!

lone dirty dog wrote:Nice layout although it means you have to produce more to warrant the lamps

that's exactly what i intend to do!

Viktor von Domm wrote:yup.... that slogan totally made me lol!... what a nice humor!

and congratz and welcome back at the same time!.. lurking... tststs....

also... I have done so too... recycling old furniture to get new storing space... we have to use every ounce of financial rescources four our modelling, eh?

and again to the turret... looks lovley and I envy you for it...those shields look very cool!

hehe yeah i'm quite happy with the rusult there. i can't really take the creds for it tho.. i got the inspiration from a gunshield in iraq that said "iraqi photos!" and then "look here, smile, wait for flash" but i just had to make it for the giggles

about the lurking. what can i say, i learn from the best. if i remember correctly, one Mr. viktor von Domm were awol for some time and he said that he had just been lurking around. but hey! i might just be mistaking.

cormadepanda wrote:I dig the bullet sheild on the turret.

Also I dig those lamps.. and i want some where did you get them? I have a lousy LED lamp from wally world.

Nice shelf as well!

thx, i'm really happy with how it turned out i got the lamps from a furniture store in sweden called "jysk"

i might just be mistaking.

indeed ....

Before i give you this small update i have to show you something that the instant i saw it i thought "hey look! a Bolter!" i mean come on! the guys constructing this watergun has to be 40k players or something.
you can't just make something from mind and make it look THAT much like a Bolter



anyways, i think it looks cool as hell and i think it would look really great in a SM army pretty spaced bolter huh?


so let's move on to the update then shall we?

like i said it's just a small one. i'm done with the lenses on the turret now and the next step is weathering.
i managed to break off the searchlight on the turret when i painted the lenses. so i drilled two holes and pinned it in place. yaay problem solved!



i also took the liberty of taking pictures using the old lamp and the 2 new ones. and i think the pics speak for themselfs

first with the old one




and with the new ones




and a pic with the commander and gunner on there.



the reason i haven't glued them sown is becouse i'm planning on magnetising them in place so that i can remove them for transport.

so that's it for today! cheers!

Those lenses are amazing.

Those lamps make a heck of a difference.

those lenses are really cool...!

and well this thing about nerf guns (bolt and water guns...) having been influenced... that is going around a lot these days... their bolt firing guns are even more strikingly similar looking...

Thanks guys!

i'm really sorry everyone. i have lied to you. but it's a good lie i promise!

i haven't started the weathering yet as i said i would.. but instead i started playing around with some PC

i thought the turret needed more storageplace so i started builing a "basket" on the left side of it.




i really had no idea what i was doing.. i mean i had a small idea in my head but that was it.
so i worked out the problems and the design as i went on.





and here's how it all turned out!






let me know what you think!





and now it's time to paint again.

Beautiful lenses! Awesome scratched basket Didde!

Dude that basket is the bomb great work pulling that one of

lied to us....*unsubscribing thread...no wait... that basket...ok... will stay for the time beeing...*

good work!... the basket indeed looks very good... i like the nesh work on that! what do you want to store in that by the way? also... adding that basket somehow regained a sort of symetry on the turret...

Thanks alot guys! i must say that for a minute i almost threw the whole thing in the trash. and instead make a box similar to the one on the rear of the turret. good for me that i have such great patience

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
what do you want to store in that by the way? also... adding that basket somehow regained a sort of symetry on the turret...

i don't know yet we'll see! but i guess a couple of ammoboxes, a lasgun or two, backpacks, camonetting? like i said. we'll see


the only thing i regret about it now that it's done is that i didn't make it bigger.. or maybe i should say longer. i mean i could have used more space in the rear.

also, i second what you said about the basket regaining symetry to the turret.

Personally think it looks fantastic, balances everything off. Definitely stealing this one, sorry.

I don't know why but puts me in mind of old battleships. The railings I guess, but it just seems to fit in perfectly.

I have to admit, I like the lenses despite the "Jeweled" lens look is over done in GW and I have the piece turned around so that I will paint a red and green light so the commander when out of the hatch sees that tall optics device is on or off and working from his hatch, even though my commander is apparently busy shouting and waving a Las-Pistol about.

Awesome work on that basket BTW

Didde.. make me some baskets those are great! and your lensing is fabulous.

Camkierhi wrote:Personally think it looks fantastic, balances everything off. Definitely stealing this one, sorry.

Thank you! and well, you're welcome

shasolenzabi wrote:I have to admit, I like the lenses despite the "Jeweled" lens look is over done in GW and I have the piece turned around so that I will paint a red and green light so the commander when out of the hatch sees that tall optics device is on or off and working from his hatch, even though my commander is apparently busy shouting and waving a Las-Pistol about.

Awesome work on that basket BTW

yeah if i could i would turn the peice around now too. but it's stuck so hard in there so i really don't bother

and thank you!

cormadepanda wrote:Didde.. make me some baskets those are great! and your lensing is fabulous.

haha "make me some baskets" you make me sound like your slave or something. but i take it as you liked it so i'm gonna take all that bad energy and turn it into a compliment.
thank you






I had a small spree trying to figure out what i shall have in named basket. but i must say that it was without success..

here's a few examples i tried...


first up (and probably the most serious one i might add) is a heavy bolter with some ammoboxes.


i thought that it looked kinda cool having the bolter there. but i had to try something else too.



how about 12 fuelcans? after all, this has to be a thirsty beast.




and i just went bananas from here.. "hmm, maybe a whole fueldrum could fit in my newly made fancy little basket?"


nah!


nanana two kneeling guardsmen taking a ride?


after all it IS saftey first, right?





i really don't have any idea why i even tried this.. i guess i just wanted to see how it looked..


anyway! like i said. so far no success. but i'm pretty tired right now too. i'll try again later..

Multi-purpose basket!

that is an awesome basket. just for that i am subscribing.

I like the look of the basket-O-Jerry cans!

12 fuel cans. No one will ask questions. It is completely safe, and very real looking.

I think you should put a solid piece of plasticard over the basket and make it a little gun nest ;D Have a couple of guardsmen with lasguns/longlas sat in there, being all cool

shasolenzabi wrote:Multi-purpose basket!

Multi-purpose indeed

Largeblastmarker wrote:that is an awesome basket. just for that i am subscribing.

haha thank you! and welcome!

dsteingass wrote:I like the look of the basket-O-Jerry cans!

i like it too. the only thing i regret about this basket is that i didn't make it large enough to take all 20 of them.

cormadepanda wrote:12 fuel cans. No one will ask questions. It is completely safe, and very real looking.

it does indeed look real. i wonder how much farther they would be able to make the baneblade drive though.

BrotherOfBone wrote:I think you should put a solid piece of plasticard over the basket and make it a little gun nest ;D Have a couple of guardsmen with lasguns/longlas sat in there, being all cool

haha that sounds like a really great idea. but i'm not gonna do it on this one.


i'm not sure if i will use all of them considering it has 4 drums on the back. atm that is! i'm gonna put another 2 on there too.

and in that case if i use the 12 cans aswell it would look like a bigass moveable fighting fuelstation.. and that isn't really the look i'm going for unfortunetly.

Most times the baskets are for gear stowage as the soldiers have little room inside the tank due to ammo and such so their kit bags and duffels, and bedrolls go in the baskets.

Funny thing that you mentioned the bedrools. i have decided what i will have in the basket now and there will be 5 of them in the bsket. among with an ammobox, 2 cans that i will write (alteast try to) "water" on, one big bag and some other rolled stowage bit.

pic of it will be up in a moment

 DiDDe wrote:
Funny thing that you mentioned the bedrools. i have decided what i will have in the basket now and there will be 5 of them in the bsket. among with an ammobox, 2 cans that i will write (alteast try to) "water" on, one big bag and some other rolled stowage bit.

pic of it will be up in a moment

I approve of your selection.

These are the bitd i will throw in the basket.




and this is how it looks.





how do you think it look? still plenty of time to rearrange stuff

and i plan on painting all the stowage before i put in in there.. the thought of painting it when it's glued in there.. not tempting. not tempting at all!

Like a full load

camo netting... really the jerry cans look a bit ridiculous there... but a good and big camo netting now that would be fitting!... use bandages and herbs for that... or tea as i think you will find that green leaves wouldn´t become for your scheme that well...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
as i think you will find that green leaves wouldn´t become for your scheme that well...

haha, what do you mean? green leaves works perfectly fine with grey, brown and black!

also, thank you for saying that!! i have a roll of bandage just dying to be used!

see? all is shaping up as planned...



i thought your scheme is more deserty?...