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I like the extra wheels from three design/engineering standpoints: extra traction up front for off-road work, better weight distribution to prevent sinking into soft ground, and extra weight to prevent inadvertent wheelies when you put the accelerator to the floor.

The guns are going to need more space for ammo hoppers, though...

At this point, I'm actually rather curious how it would look if you just added tracks to it.

I like the latest version with the wheels more integrated. Tracks could be really cool, but I'm not sure if they'd be challenging / need a lot of fiddly bits to be assembled from lasercut parts.

ETA on the TRV and the Tank-TRV?

Any progress on the turrets and side weapon pods?

ETA about 2 weeks for the TRV, with the heavy armour version to follow a few weeks after.(haven't done a test for that one yet)



and now for something completely different.

meet the Mousemuffins Plasmic Gattlinger, a steampunk prop.










The builder will need to supply a few of the parts, such as the barrels (pencils) and the scope tube (a short length of PVC pipe).

If THAT goes well, This:

...just, wow. that steampunk p90 is awesome probably terrifyingly expensive (if only to ship) but really, really awesome!

Nifty! Just what an aspiring Steampunker needs to complete the SATs! As long as you use #2 pencils anyway!

Valete,

JohnS

I think the company / thread name needs modifying- so much more than just terrain now

Done!!


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some more details. I think it's nearly done.

If you can get all those details in 28mm and MDF, then you are a genius

Looks sweet! Cosplayers rejoice

Just cut the "metal" parts out of plasticard and plastic tubing and the wood out of veneer and this will look awesome!

I built one of the HuMPT1 kits over the summer and just got around to taking some pictures. It's a pretty cool kit if on the large side scale wise. You can find more info and a full review on my blog:

http://thecolorblindmodelpainter.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-reivew-of-heavy-multi-purpose.html

An excellent and very thorough review, Thankyou!

I'll admit that our finnese is not as great as many of the other manufacturers, this is mostly because we are using an industrial cutter rather than an engraving machine. We have recently done significant work to increase the straightness of the cuts, like reducing the size of drive cogs which effectively makes the motor steps smaller.

We are also about to start building a new machine with all of this in mind.

Design wise, I'm aware of the limitations we have and actually try to avoid as much really fine engraving as possible, and let the shapes speak for themselves. Anyone can build a box and cover it in glitter, the trick is to make the box interesting before hand. Also, I find the heavier engraving adds more to shape and presence to the model, but admitedly would also quite like to able to finer stuff.


Oh. The tires. You mentioned that there were some parts of the tires that weren't cut all the way through. I think we've now fixed that. (it seemed to be a problem endemic with the rapid direction changes involved. we lowered the feed rate on particularly wiggly bits).

 Mousemuffins wrote:
particularly wiggly bits

I take it that's the more technical jargon?

 Mousemuffins wrote:
An excellent and very thorough review, Thankyou!

I hope I didn't come off as too harsh, I really like the innovative designs you've developed. Is there any way to scale down the HuMPT1? If you could get it down maybe 15% to 20% it would fit in much better with most figures and it doesn't look like the parts would be much more fragile than they are now.

If that wooden furniture is made of resin, Smooth-On make filler that allegedly gives a woodgrain finish. I have not tried it.

Hmm. I wish it were as simple as just reducing the file size, but because the thickness of the material dosn't change, nothing would fit anymore, and the proportions of some parts would change rather radically (the step/tank/piston thingys would become visually much longer, for example). It would pretty much a complete redesign.

It's annoying that we are unable to get a thinner material.


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 Ouze wrote:
If that wooden furniture is made of resin, Smooth-On make filler that allegedly gives a woodgrain finish. I have not tried it.

I think that just gives you a porous texture to the resin so that it accepts stains and the like. the woodgrain I think is in the original and just reproduced by the mold.

 Mousemuffins wrote:

Hmm. I wish it were as simple as just reducing the file size, but because the thickness of the material dosn't change, nothing would fit anymore, and the proportions of some parts would change rather radically (the step/tank/piston thingys would become visually much longer, for example). It would pretty much a complete redesign.

It's annoying that we are unable to get a thinner material.

Bummer

Hunpt1 looks like a truck for heavy hauling to me.

Yeah, it's no SUV. It's an industrial vehicle, so unless it's got oversized details inside the cab, it looks fine in terms of fit for purpose-size wise.

Agree with the above on scale , if you stand next to lorries , military or civilian , they tend to look a lot like the scale comparison .

Spot on I'd say !

Hmmm. it would seem the old crow transport,( which is as far as I can tell out of production?) is 25mm scale. The Humpt1 is closer to 30 -32mm. That about 20% difference already. But yes, it IS a big truck.



Well, all I have to do now is break it all up and flatten out all the pieces.

Added some extra clockworky stuff for added steampunkiness.





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Seems more of your old product ranges are sought after:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/550103.page
Please keep us informed about a possible restock of them as well.

 Mousemuffins wrote:

Hmmm. it would seem the old crow transport,( which is as far as I can tell out of production?) is 25mm scale. The Humpt1 is closer to 30 -32mm. That about 20% difference already. But yes, it IS a big truck.



Well, all I have to do now is break it all up and flatten out all the pieces.

Added some extra clockworky stuff for added steampunkiness.





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*drools* if only you made them for airsoft i'd so buy

Buy one and make it airsoft. It wouldn't be so hard to refit an existing pistol into it.

 Azazelx wrote:
Yeah, it's no SUV. It's an industrial vehicle, so unless it's got oversized details inside the cab, it looks fine in terms of fit for purpose-size wise.

You can't see it from the pictures but it does have oversized details in the cab. You could fit two of the catachan sentinel driver figures in the seat and the joysticks and control panels are spaced far apart as well.

 Mousemuffins wrote:

Hmmm. it would seem the old crow transport,( which is as far as I can tell out of production?) is 25mm scale. The Humpt1 is closer to 30 -32mm. That about 20% difference already. But yes, it IS a big truck.

Old crow is still in production, you just have to send them an email. They are only casting by request now. By the detail in the cab, the HuMPT1 is closer to a figure 40-45mm tall. The Haloclix figure is 34mm tall and is still dwarfed by it. Again, if your picky about scale it's an issue, if your not picky, it will fit in just fine. For me it will work for bigger figures, but it would look absurd with 40K. A Rhino could get full cover behind it.

Old Crow is indeed 25mm scale and looks way too small for 40k. Sadly.

New Releases!!!!













...instructions for the forklifts will be up in a few days.

None of the six-wheeled ones made it in? I really liked those in the end