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a moveabloe axis? now that looks interesting...

but if i ever start an ork army, that's the first thing i will build

damn... in an act of selfpersevation you had to inspire me?... is that fair i ask thee?...tststs...

That one's on me Vik!

LOL...the thing is i have seen your mock pic... but i can now see it quite clearly on one of my future tanks...

Looking great, always nervous drilling and cutting up something you have spent hours working on. I am very interested to see this finished.

And I am also really inspired by talk of hammers, Vik. Ideas bouncing around my mind already.

yeah...that hammer idea is too good to be a mere pun...it has to be a model of some sort... i imagine some kind of oil rig mechanism...

Ah, now the missile rack is truly beginning

Thank you guys!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
i imagine some kind of oil rig mechanism...

Now that would look really cool. i just get the feel that you will have to time your move pretty good then.

but hey! it is orks we're talking about after all.


hehe shaso, you seem exited

I like tanks is all

In my head I got more of a trebuchet arrangement off the arms, with out flinging something, instead it hammers into the ground.

Lets see some rockit racks dude....get us back on track here...

ok, guys! so i think i've reached quite a milestone on this build now! the bunny-ears are done! and so is the barrel. in fact, the tank in whole is DONE!
now it's only a matter of building the rocket-ramp and finish this bad-ass build in time.

PS when I first read this I thought, "Why a Rock Tramp?" Now I get it you are going to have Brian Johnson Stood on the front, screaming..."Thunder!!"

 Camkierhi wrote:
get us back on track here...

Now where's the fun in that? i agree that a trebuchet arrengement would look cool. but then you would have to reload after every "BAM!"
while the oil rig arrengement would go like "BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!"



i've encountered a problem guys.. quite a big one actually.. i need 16 hunter-killer missiles for this baby.
and i only have 5.. and there basically NON of the bitz-sellers that has any in stock.

but i will continue to build and see if i can come up with something else.. the worst case scenario would be that i had to build 11 hunter-killers myself.

Picture of the model required please, will rifle through bits box later.....

Same here as cam. I dunno the bit by name but a reference pic I probably be able to help you with... Besides...scratchbuilding them is no option?

Ofc! these are the ones i'm looking for!



i don't need the mount, just the missile.



and vik, i didn't say it was no option. i just said that it would be a last resort, since it would be pretty time-consuming to create 11 misiles from scratch.
and i really don't have that time.

Pretty sure I got a couple will check in a bit, let you know soon.

I'll take a look for some as well, I think I have one maybe two.

You guys are the greatest!

Ok PM me your address, I will post tomorrow, I got 3 (2 unpainted, 1 painted.) you can have. No worries.

Pm me too, I have at leat six for sure! Do you need these supporter structures too? Of these I only have but three...

Thanks alot guys! PM sent to both of you.


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Now finally it starts to feel like i'm getting somewhere!

this is the first glimpse of what it will look like!

but witch direction do you think i should go with? it's a length difference of the rack.
personally i like the second one.




any C&C is most welcome!

some more angles of the second version.

I think CFG #2 looks better.

Yupp, then that makes two of us

just wanted to show you this thread. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/543290.page
this guy is making scratchbuilt macharius superheavy tank.
it's his first scratchbuild and it looks amazing!

i'm quite amazed that no league-member has found this yet

Yeah, second one is better... But for that rather short hunter killer missiles a very long slope nevertheless?...

2nd one looks to me.


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And I am afraid I am with Vik, it looks great but not 100% sure about the size of the rack.

Makes it look like it needs more hydraulic arms as the one sticking way out front seems less practiceable. Look up WW-II Caliope as that was a rocket launcher on a tank

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The assembly of the arm to the main cannon barrel allowed them to raise the launchers however they liked. They used tubes, but Katyusha style rails could also work as that is what you are shooting for here. I hope this helps you DiDDe

I was thinking Calliope too! Shorter is a bit better methinks,


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Didde, that is an amazing build! I'm officially shining the League signal on that thread!

Thanks guys, i appreciate the criticism.

i must admit that when i look at the ramp now it does look a bit long.. so i think i'm gonna cut away a centimeter or 2. however, i am basing it on the katuysha after all.
and hopefully since the Hunter-killers are some length themselves i think that when they are mounted the ramp will look abit shorter.
and while i'm using hunter-killer missiles i don't really see them as that. i see them as "stupid rockets" if you know what i mean.
like it's just a regular rocket with a warhead and without any guiding-systems what so ever exept the fins and the ramp, witch in this case helps it get a straight course.
and therefore i'm making it so long.

also, you guys do realize that i'm making a mix of the sherman calliope and a katyusha right?
so i will connect the ramp to the gunbarrel so that it can elivate.

and for those of you who don't know what a katuysha is. here's a reference pic.

As long as there are no whitewalls

hey didde...had a shocking revelating moment... i don´t own any hunter killer missles at all... i didn´t realize the fins on the bit you showed... i mistook them as the rockets of the HW teams of the bazookas...sorry mate! but i found shorter ones... maybe these could be of some use for you nevertheless?

The shorter ones are very Soviet AT missile looking, like the Sagger missiles.



Hence why I mounted my stubby HK missiles on the barrels of tanks and chimeras





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So yeah, Katyusha/Caliope fusion is what I was thinking of when I saw the concept DiDDe,

i'm afraid I couldn't find mine before leaving for my flight. sorry. If I get a chance on sunday I will dig for them. PM me you address just in case.