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cormadepanda wrote:Can I have a tank with a big gun?

You can have whatever your heart desires...
I'm thinking that this tank will have it's typical main gun, which is not one of the biggest in-game I'm afraid.
I do however, have plans for the secondary weapons and I will try to make the whole tank look as deadly as possible. (don't know how yet )

Theophony wrote:My ideas of a tank is something huge, heavily armored, and not good o be in the way of. I also believe they MUST have treads. I know some games have grav tanks, but those are just gun carriages to me. Tanks need to take a pounding and be able to give it back in spades.

It will have treads.
I may change something about the armour / body of the tank (as it's not the prettiest of tanks, imo), not sure how much I'll change it by though. I've not had a good look through the box yet to see what possibilities there are.

It's more of a medium tank as I look at it, so it's not the heaviest / scariest of beasts. But "not good to be in the way of" is something I want to convey with it's looks. Some kind of understated menace I think would work well (again, how ).

I'm still working on the junk pile. I can tell you that it's now taller than a Guardian and fills the 60mm limit...

Also, I've had some syringes delivered and they have made the casting easier in many ways.
and I found some latex gloves while looking for something else, so they now keep my fingers cleaner.

That is all for now. There will be some proper madness soon when I get a chance to have a look at this tank. Keep the ideas coming.

Looking forward to it. I feel like we talked about this tank a few moons ago but I don't want to go back and confirm. I'd like the surprise!

 Casey's Law wrote:
Looking forward to it. I feel like we talked about this tank a few moons ago but I don't want to go back and confirm. I'd like the surprise!

I did post up some fluff when I bought the kit and there was a lot of talk about tanks while I was building the WS.

Not long now, I've finished building the junk pile and it's just painting and a few little additions left.

Can't wait to see this tank

 lone dirty dog wrote:
I can see a Dr H crapper comp appearing so, just think a diorama using a toilet

I'm totally in on that contest.

damn... and I thought I would get away with not getting me some toilets...there goes my hopes for that....

Hi, sorry for going quiet for a while. I have been busy casting things and painting junk.

I noticed a few days ago that one part of the resin was going cloudy as it starts to hydrolyse, so I have been using it before it becomes unusable.
So that's something else to keep in mind when casting; once open, it won't last long. Although, the more you open it the faster it will go off... Again, I know of a simple piece of lab equipment that would help this and don't have access to any more...

But I've very nearly finished it all off and the junk pile is nearing completion. So I can start thinking about this tank very soon.

I Noticed that with the resin I use, it dosent keep for that long,
so I have to plan ahead what I'm going to cast, before I buy it, and then make sure I use it all .

In our climate some curse the humidity for pains in their knees, others for clouding their resin!

I've been thinking of getting (or making) a hygrometer then just casting when the humidity is lowest.

The toilets and boxes look great the engineer in me likes that you've labeled the sides 'X, Y & Z'

best of luck with your junk pile

I wonder if one could make their own humidity control booth for the resins in England, like what cigar afficianados do for their their collections of smokeables, but to help stabilize their resin materials?

hk1x1 wrote:I Noticed that with the resin I use, it dosent keep for that long,
so I have to plan ahead what I'm going to cast, before I buy it, and then make sure I use it all .

That is indeed the way to go.

OneManNoodles wrote:In our climate some curse the humidity for pains in their knees, others for clouding their resin!

I've been thinking of getting (or making) a hygrometer then just casting when the humidity is lowest.

The toilets and boxes look great the engineer in me likes that you've labeled the sides 'X, Y & Z'

best of luck with your junk pile

Welcome OneManNoodles.
Thanks. Yeah, I had to use those letters, it's the only thing that makes sense...
Ta. Although hopefully I've not messed it up trying some peeling paint... I have to wait for it to dry and see if it works...
Good luck to you too.

shasolenzabi wrote:I wonder if one could make their own humidity control booth for the resins in England, like what cigar afficianados do for their their collections of smokeables, but to help stabilize their resin materials?

Ha yeah that's probably more trouble that it's worth though.
I was thinking of:
Either a separating funnel

Or a Burette

With a drying tube on top


I've used up the last of the resin, although the ratio was way off on the last pour, so that probably won't come out well. *shrugs*
I've had a tidy, just the junk to finish and then I shall start tank-ing this up... Or is that getting tanked up...

Dr. H gets tanked can't wait to see what comes out of the mad scientists head. Waiting to see attacked grab tank from ancient sissy eldar days.

Good tools for small scale humidity controls!

Theophony wrote:Dr. H gets tanked can't wait to see what comes out of the mad scientists head. Waiting to see attacked grab tank from ancient sissy eldar days.

It'll be a little bit longer as the peeling paint experiment didn't work and I've had to re-paint that part. I'll do something different with it instead.

shasolenzabi wrote:Good tools for small scale humidity controls!

You say small, but those separating funnels go up to at least 5 litres (I've used one)...

 Theophony wrote:
Dr. H gets tanked can't wait to see what comes out of the mad scientists head. Waiting to see attacked grab tank from ancient sissy eldar days.

obviously my iPhone struck again. Should have been a tracked grav tank all of those were in my autocorrect before the newest update the other day , wonder if that reset to original.

I wanna see the attacked grab tank

But a humidor is a whole closet to room sized storage to keep things enviro controlled

My toilets arrived the other day!

 dsteingass wrote:
My toilets arrived the other day!

Dave's been locked in his man cave trying out his new thrones, no wonder we haven't seen him. Hope you had interesting reading keeping you company

 dsteingass wrote:
My toilets arrived the other day!

Cool! Glad they got there.
Undamaged? (except for the damaged bits...)
What do you think of them, now you see them up close?
Were they worth the wait?

Everything came in perfect condition! even the damaged bitz!

I think they are fantastic! The Thanksgiving holiday weekend was busy with my mom visiting and all, but I'll take pics and play with them sometime today I hope.

Exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxcelent.
I look forward to seeing what you do with them.
I'll start thinking about matching sinks soon, so leave space for them.

Dr H - providing all your mini plumbing requirements since 2013

And tubs Need the trifecta for maximum realism
Hopefully my order at least covered your resin/latex costs?

MT: Yep.

 dsteingass wrote:
And tubs Need the trifecta for maximum realism

Ja, baths will follow.

Hopefully my order at least covered your resin/latex costs?

It put a good dent in the costs. But I have plenty more stock that will cover it, once sold.
Thanks Dave, hope they serve you well.

Doc H intelli-toilets, deducing the best way to dispose of your deuce since 2013!

I still prefer the plumbing slogan "a flush beats a full house "

heh de-deucing lol

Is funny coz is toilet humour


Anyway, I think I've finished the junk pile. I may tease you all with a picture later, once I've had a look over it and actually taken some good pictures.
So with that all done, I can now focus on tank like things.

By means of warming you (and myself) up to such a major undertaking...

I have a friend that casts resin in the dead of winter. maybe it's the low humidity? The only time he's had a problem w/ the casts is when he didn't mix enough material to fill the mold. Tricky formula apparently.

 dsteingass wrote:
My toilets arrived the other day!

Sigged.