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hmmm... good point...

My back is oing good, we will see in the morning if its still good.

Subway is okay, better than a chain we had around here called mr. Goodcents. Their dough was just gooey, but I think they are out of business now.

The wife will have the next week completely off, a mini vacation the week after and up till school starts in the fall my wife if the varsity cheer leading coach for her school, so will have practices on Tuesday and Thursdays. We have lots of parks and mini trips planned around he city with pool visits o keep us cool.

Keeping cool is key in summer time! I have some cool new pics up as well BTW

Had little dreams of servo skulls flying fighter jets....not really, but Dr. H, can have servo skulls driving grav tanks o .
With my dollar store lav came fighter jets, one in each package so I have a wing waiting to do something. But as Dave pointed out previously they are. Terrible size.



The pilots are so small, how do we fix it?

Servo skulls of course , see I did have an idea.

More work obviously will need to be done, but. Think they can become landspeeders.

There's screws in the undersides holding them together at he natural weapons load out spots, so magnetic weapon swaps are a go.

Also the clear canopies pop on and off easily, so I could paint the skulls then put them behind glass/plastic. Although having them without the canopies might be fun too. Just think of h torment the little servo skulls would have from flying around remembering what it was like to have the wind rush through their hair . Not to mention the janitorial staff having to clean the bugs off of the pilots later

Who needs arms and legs if you can just wire the controls directly into the brain...

At least the Harriers have a hover mode, might have to do something about the F16 though while 40k-ing them up a bit.

That is an excellent assault vehicle you have going there. Where did you score those wheels? I am building a vehicle for my Arbites but the wheels I have are too small. All those bits and no wheels. Not sure how that happened.

Great work all around. Still trying to spend more time here. I'm off most of the weekend so there's going to be some serious modeling / Dakka time.

Yep, gotta 40K them up some, weapons, extra jets and other gubbinz

i´ll cross my finger for you and the family to have lots of fun together... the family (any family) needs these times to recharge the batteries the every day live drains...

as for the jets... hmmm... if all fails make giant parachute drop troops or hack them up a treat and make some weird kind of drop pod of them?

@skalk, they are from zinge industries, saw Dave use them, they com in multiple sizes, I used the largest 23mm. They also have separate hubs that fit them nicely.
@shaso, that's gonna be the hard part 40kifying these puppies. They are so small, and the details will just disappear.
@Vik, had a rough day with he family, drove an hour for an outing just to get there and find out they were maxed out. we drove home and now have a babysitter for the night. Tickets to a dinner show at. Fancy restaurant, should be fun. The twins have thei last soccer game tomorrow at noon, then our Thursday nights and weekends are freed up.

We're also looking forward to fair saint Louis next weekend and my b-day next Friday. I turn 39 for the first time, or is it just a woman thing where they keep repeating it?

I'm not really fond of those "normal" planes actually.
I would use them for bits probably, like the wings would work on your flying vehicles?

@sel, yeah I'm having trouble trying to fit them in.

Okay so the diner show is a burlesque show, we're In a break, but I got pulled from the audience up onto the stage in the second act.

LOL! caught into the show eh?

@shaso, yep. My wife and. We're the only two "virgins" of the burlesque show that raised our hands. I would have preferred one of the other dancers to be the one to take me up on stage, but it was a good time either way . It was fun, and. Had the first two alcoholic beverages I've had in the past three years. That Brazilian rum is fantastic, think they call it cachaca. It's distiller from sugar cane, so it counted as desert for me too.

Where I started off this morning.

Top down


Any suggestions?

maybe something like this?

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100228121960/borderlands/images/a/a0/Monster.jpg

@galorn, I was planning on being lower to he ground, but I like the look of that, thanks.

Here's where I'm at, leaving for soccer in a little bit, watching taladega nights while I was working on this , pilot will have to be Ricky bobby .


Last picture shows with turret swivel base. Think I'll keep it really low profile.


The pilot compartment needs to be boxed in more, and something needs to go up front in front of the driver. Maybe a blast shield, Los looking for engine bits.

I meant to comment on this earlier but got distracted with F1 and carving sprue...

It's looking good Theo.
I like the mud-guards and step bits and low profile is the way to go.

Building some kind of engine, if only the visible bits (like intakes and what-have-you) would be good.
and remember that it doesn't have to be an internal combustion engine, it could be a jet engine if you really want it to go fast... (although where the exhaust goes I'm not sure). Internal combustion would be simply a few cubes and wires really, covered with a bonnet who'd know the difference.

Edited to actually finish some sentences that I failed to do so first time round...

Thanks dr. H. I tried a few engine ideas, finally decided that the rear compartment could hide the engine components and exhaust system.

Here's my current build progress.



More detailing to come

Shaping up nicely there Theo!

Thanks, with all the family stuff yesterday, finally got the grill out , forgot to post this supply drop.

Hard to tell, but that's 52 more servo skulls , now just need ideas for all of them .

That is a LOT of servo skulls

The vehicle is getting more interesting with every update.

 shasolenzabi wrote:
That is a LOT of servo skulls

Your talking to a guy that was building a complete marine chapter including vehicles and what not


@selvaggiosaky, thanks, getting to a point where I'll be happy to start throwing paint at it.

Still thinking about boxing in the driver again. There just aren't any good attachment points for a rollcage. I also like the idea if the officer being out in the open, hoping little fear of his enemies.

1k Marines and vehicles? I have about just say 100 marines and some vehicles so a company is what I stopped with

Yeah I've stopped now also. 6-7 companies built, including 1st company. Not painted by a long shot, but I have enough shoulder pads to cover more than the whole chapter. I just won't toss that much more to GW anymore.

Anvil Industries?

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Anvil Industries?

I picked up Some of their bionic legs and arms.

I was a GW purist, now their more recent releases I detest. Blood angels, chaos obliterators, even the hell brute I don't particularly like. I can see where they were going, but the execution is childish. I know the theories of them shooting for a younger market, but I'm one of the old guard that got dumped in the process.

Saw some more mantic, and still not impressed enough to go with them.

Guess I'm in that place where you just model for fun , and to get away from the kids from time to time.

Yeah making Chaos Saturday morning cartoon villains is wrong of them

If they were decent Saturday morning cartoon villains then fine, but these are reject comic book artist drunk sketches that are half done. Even Eastman and laird made better looking villains for the ninja turtles when they were high. Most of he new stuff is cut and paste, how difficult would it be to make crisp details? Mark at dreamforge has done it a few times, and no offense to him, but he is small fish compared to bloated whale of GW. Bu I guess you have to be better if your the little guy, he big guys can just keep rolling out.

Edit: Kids went to sleep, so I got to do some work. Used the anvil legs and arms I ordered. These are the first two of a small group I'll try, they are on rivetzone.com bases I got from Galorn . Tell me what you think so far.




Always wanted to do iron hands, my idea of iron skulls may work in here also, or I could go traitor with iron warriors. The last idea would be military police. Basically any marines too seriously injured for frontline duty, but still functional get bionics and returned to a world that is in need of extra security. I'll think of more fluff in th am when I'm awake.

I think the build has evolved past the Tauros now, tubular frame wouldn't look right now anyways, unless it's square tube?

Thanks Dave, I don't think it's going to get any kind of rollcage now. I think it's low enough to the ground where flip over is no longer a worry, although I could be the Isuzu sidekick of its day . I'll just say I has extra suspensors to keep it stable and a displacement field that gives it it's armor value and protection , this will function as a razorback in a marine build.

Here's a picture of it with the enforcement droids (you now have ten seconds to reply)

And the convoy heads out