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Vik, I ordered two of these guys from Paulsongames.com. They are prereleases from the mechafront game he is about to kickstarter. They are for 15mm games, but are on 60mm bases and stand 65mm tall. These are the small guys. He has designs for a quad walker in his news and rumors thread as well as on his website that will be massive.

*sighs*...^^somehow i dismissed that thread earlier on as it was only for 15mm... and i could see why it would appeal to me... no i see^^

Yeah, I originally was just following to look at designs. He had a system for robotech worked out and models designed, even pitched it to harmony gold, but the turned him down. Shortly thereafter they tarted their own ks for miniature version of robotech. I've bought some of his other models hat he made before GW c and d him, all were top notch . There's also paper buildings for the 15mm game for drop zone commander that are inexpensive and look fabulous.

Ah, converted walkers!

Not sure how much converting will be happening to these walkers, I like the storyline in his game, and the fact that regular troops don't stand a chance against the mech.

On another front I just got another set of Munda and outlanders off ebay, shipping is crazy high, but moar bulkheads.

How the hell do you get used to DakkaDakka an the iPad. I have to tap everything a few times, hoping it'll do something this try

I think it's in the settings. My fat fingers still have trouble when I'm trying to get a specific page. Pull the screen wider and fat finger syndrome disappears. Also I always view it with the screen sideways.

Stopped by dollar general today and bought a lav set. I was able to undo the screws without taking wheels off. Starting the adeptus arbites conversion on the beast.


The boxed in structure will be the access doors. The back piece by the tail will be a mounting bracket for skirting to protect the tires. I have some zinge bits inbound for this behemoth. I just can't decide if his will be a rhino, chimera, or land raider transport.

Ah, side doors for the Arbites to clamber out of.

A great start! shas, I'll mail yours out next week

Cool, and I figured since you are gonna be in NY touring Dave, LOL!

I already started removing some of the detail work, will probably strip it completely down to the frame before I'm done. I want troop carrying in the back, would like to move the turret up more, just trying to figure out how to make it more rhino, razorback or chimera ish. It's as long as a land raider ( that's what she said), but narrower. I can't think of a way to add side sponsons to use it as a land raider. Any suggestions?

too thin above the wheels for sponsons, maybe rifle ports like many APC's are prone to have.

Well, did some work before kids got up and hungry. So here's the preliminary on the lav.
Front view, not sure about the rhino visors, makes it look like Geordie laforge to me

Rear view, door not attached yet, just tacked. Will have rear bumper/ step to get into. Probably where prisoners get loaded.

Top down, like the positioning of the turret, gives room behind to have hatches/stowage, or other turret/ coms relay. The big hole is from where the turret from the tank was at, will be covered with card.

And side shot. Both sides come the same.

My, the tires alone are worthy enough to be SM height!

I like the size of the tires on it as it is, but I have some coming from zinge industries already, so this might get jacked up some. Also using this for the comrades vehicle challenge, that might get me to focus on this for a bit. Heaven knows I get side tracked easily.

now I see here a man that is even more sidetracked than me it seems

as for the tank... I think it screams chimera... no landraider ideas hit me with that shape... and go for portholes mounted lasguns!

and... what a shame to hide all that passable details with pc... but that´s just my personal opinion

Just a note to say I'm catching up but I'm only on page 13. So much awesome work.

Hence why he got inducted into the league

Good start of the building, but I feel like something is missing.
Maybe the front could have a raised driving cockpit (on on side would look cool.

Keep at It, The material and the talent is there

Thanks everyone for the kind words.

Skalk, I'm glad your back, though it means I'll get sidetracked again quickly.
Vik, all the detail made no sense to me, the gas cans were upside down , maybe that's some sort of military thing, but I didn't like it.
Sel, did a little to dress up the front, hopefully that helps, but the only asymmetrical bit will be the gun mount as you'll see from the top.
Shaso, thanks, but afraid this won't have rivets.

Still needs contour putty at the seams and a back bumper. Might make a forward under slung turret if I can figure out something cool, otherwise it's getting a ram prow.

It's gonna have to be a rhino variant, which means it needs a storm bolter somewhere. Since the rest o the army is marine based, it wouldn't make sense to be a chimera. Don't know why I didn't think about that.

More pics.

You see?
Now You have a proper front!

forget the cockpit, It looks good like this.

And keep those wheels

Wheels are looking 30-35mm in size, Rhino variant, aha. Big enough the razor back concept weapons could work.

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Wheels are looking 30-35mm in size, Rhino variant, aha. Big enough the razor back concept weapons could work.

The top turret is set up for the razorback option.

@sel, I'm glad about the cockpit, wasn't wanting to tackle it anymore.

I'm using this for my competition tank, hoping it inspires me to keep going.

The book on the nose is the book of law, opened to he page that shows all punishment is dealt out in the form of death and sentenced to an afterlife of being a servo skull

Off to a good start. Looking forward to the detail work.

i stand corrected theo...

the covered up chimera stand in now looks very pleasing to the eyes

best part for now are those side hatches/doors... very well executed design! in fact... i may go so far as to say that you could do this methode for a new tank and have sponsons instead of doors at that point...!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
i stand corrected theo...

the covered up chimera stand in now looks very pleasing to the eyes

best part for now are those side hatches/doors... very well executed design! in fact... i may go so far as to say that you could do this methode for a new tank and have sponsons instead of doors at that point...!

Thanks vik, best part was it was totally accidental. It just happened to fit the doors exactly. I need to create the hinge point at the bottom for realism in my little plastic world.

Probably no progress today as the wife is off and we will be doing family stuff before it gets too hot this afternoon. I also tweaked my back last night playing soccer. An out of shape thirty plus man shouldn't try to keep up with kids that are 7-13 years old. It was great fun, but pay a is are a bleep.

I played soccer last week... afterwards I was totally ruined... had to take meds to even keep my eyes open... I really have to do something about me being as untrained and unfit as can be... so..i feel your pain .. hopefully your strained back gets better soon... or do you suspect some serious hurt there? if so... led your doc know about it... no joking... men are way too often too manly about seeing their docs...

also... yeah angles... gotta have them realism is like a drug... the more you can do on a small model the better the kick you get out of modelling, eh?

Yeah, take the day off and relax Theo

Back is feeling a lot better now. Actually did a lot of walking today which helped stretch it back out. I really think it was just the uneven ground the field was on, that usually messes me up quicker than anything else.

I'll post pics in the morning I possible, I got. Package from Galorn, the bases look spectacular, now I just need a dwarf bloodbowl team for them