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Once again, appreciated.

Tubes added, and, tackling the balance issue, straightened the drill downwards, and added an external engine overhanging the back to counterweight the arm.





Turned out a quite decent experimental platform for some upcoming serious weathering tests...

Cheers.

Sooner or later you need to make a tachikoma.

@Red H: Might still do it... (Had to do some research there, though. I guess I'm a bit outdated on the genre, having dropped out somewhere between Cobra and Robotech in the mid late 80's!)

Just before calling the day - and the weekend - yesterday, got a last minute one-step prime and base rust:



Onto the week now!

Cheers.

Brilliant little drill.
I'm really amazed about what you did there wis all those different pieces.

Good job...the additional engine really helps with the balance, and it looks great with rusty primer in place

Very cool.

I am going to have to keep an eye out for old printers to assault

 Littletower wrote:
@Red H: Might still do it... (Had to do some research there, though. I guess I'm a bit outdated on the genre, having dropped out somewhere between Cobra and Robotech in the mid late 80's!)

Just before calling the day - and the weekend - yesterday, got a last minute one-step prime and base rust:



Onto the week now!

Cheers.

The only reason I know of them is because of the Manga and Anime influences to Infinity. Many of the robots are very tachikoma-esque, like these http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/en/2011/miniatures/kameel-remotes/ On the subject of 4 legged robots, for grins, google "US military robotic pack mule" and watch a few YouTube videos.

These little robots of your are very creative. I am impressed.

@pfibp: Thanks, it's good when things and bits do come together and make an actual something out of them!

@MT: "Reinforcing" the back was a good call, thanks. And primer surely helps!

@M0rdain: Always! Printers are a great source of building materials and odd shapes. As are electronic appliances in general, construction dumpsters, recycling bins, road curbs... Maybe I should stop now...

@Red H: Thank you. And duly honoured, too . I missed the anime train growing up before cable TV - let alone Internet -, and having lost the knack for it once those became available... Maybe some catching up is due...

Got diverted to doing some woodworking for the weekend, only remarkable thing about that was the left overs, that might find an alternative use more suitable for this forum sometime...

In between, I just blocked the yellow on the drill-robot thing, nothing of note there, besides how many coats that took, and went back to the tankette a bit: Haven't thought about the weapon load-out yet, just working from the bottom up, bulkied up the track units.

When there's not much progress to show, take a lot of pictures of the little there is!




Extra side armour panels:




And track tensors (is that the proper name for those?) and mock-tracks:




Reattached to the main hull for dry-fitting check:





That's about it for now!

C&C are welcome, as always.

Thanks for dropping by.

Looking brilliant, extra armour looking spot on.

Corrugated cardboard tracks? Hmmm. Perhaps some sloping parts or curved parts, just something to hide the boxiness?

Cable TV? What is that? I've never paid for TV. Never will. I think most of the good stuff is DVD only, or was.

Tensor is a mathematical term, IIRC. I encountered the concept ages ago in Physics classes. Are you referring to the road wheels or the other wheels? I think they are called idlers, or tension wheels.

@Cam: Thanks, and nice avatar, BTW

 Red Harvest wrote:
Corrugated cardboard tracks? Hmmm.

Hmmm as in Awesome, how come I never thought of that?, or as in I'm not so sure about those (or I am, and they just don't do it, but I'm too polite to say)?

Perhaps some sloping parts or curved parts, just something to hide the boxiness?

I thought boxiness was sort of a requirement for the 40k theme Some slopes will be added with the superstructure over the basic hull. And the hatch is rounded...

Cable TV? What is that? I've never paid for TV. Never will. I think most of the good stuff is DVD only, or was.

DVD? I'm talking pre-VHS era here ! Five TV channels - one with such a poor reception that it almost didn't count! - broadcasting starting between 10 am and noon (awful when we stayed sick at home from school!) and a programming... Well, that last part hasn't really changed that much . Nowadays it just takes a bit longer to realize there's nothing to see, that's all.

Tensor is a mathematical term, IIRC. I encountered the concept ages ago in Physics classes. Are you referring to the road wheels or the other wheels? I think they are called idlers, or tension wheels.

True. did some better googling research. Idler (or tension) wheels, and a mechanism to adjust track tension (Draw bolts and cranked axles mentioned, among others).

This thing over here:



I kind of like how those turned out, and they are shiny too!

Cheers.

Word of advice with chrome plated plastic parts, you may wish to scrape that off as while shiny, they will also reject paint!

But like the light tank idea!

Ooo, shiny...

Nice work.

For me, the tracks are fine, but need those holes in the ends filled with something (or otherwise hidden).

Hmmm as in, I've used corrugated cardboard for stuff ages ago, and then stopped using it because it is, uhm, a problematic material. But it does look the part of band tracks. (a newish thing. A little research could explain it better than I.) I have no idea what that chrome piece is.

This Tanquecito is separate from the LoER entry, right?

@shasolenzabi: That raises a good point, thanks. Will run a primer test on a small cut-off before painting, and if that doesn't hold well, I'll sand those before hand.

@Dr H: Width trimmed, holes filed, tension properly adjusted, cardboard-obvious edges concealed... And that is only the tracks. Lots to do yet!

@Red H: Tankette is rather an independent project - a base for some serious weathering and heavy mud treatment, mostly -, the LoER "On the Road" piece has been waiting for some last parts (home colour printer did not live up to the tast!) to be procured, it'll get back to the workbench anytime now to be done before the deadline.

Cheers.

No problem, I remembered it from making the orignal Klingon Battlecruiser kits and a motorcycle model years ago, the chrome would not hold the paint at all, or the glue, and I had to scrape and sand the heck to get anything to work.

Ah good. I can give real C&C then. Check out the Char B1 Bis, a French tank, for design ideas. I think it was what GW tried to copy when they made the Leman Russ. I've been pondernig the notion of scratch-building one for several years. Sooner or later I'll succumb.

Treads/side armor looks awesome!


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 Red Harvest wrote:
Ah good. I can give real C&C then. Check out the Char B1 Bis, a French tank, for design ideas. I think it was what GW tried to copy when they made the Leman Russ. I've been pondernig the notion of scratch-building one for several years. Sooner or later I'll succumb.

The Char B1 is my favorite tank design, as far as sheer size and tread mechanisms go.

Char B1 looks good, though for the period, I'll keep the British Mk I and successors at the top of my list!

HTML bouncing around after I followed that link, I found some nice-looking templates for trying those out at Landships II, in case the urge to build one gets too strong

Will get back to proper (meaning actual) progress, and maybe even pictures, as soon as possible.

Cheers.

Some really interesting stuff you've got here. Making terrain or scratch building something is the part of the hobby i love most, just something so satisfying about the process. Going to keep my eye on this thread.

Excellent find on the Landships Le Agradezco.

I think there is an Arctic exploration vehicle that still uses that sort of track design, the Arctos Something to see anyway.

 Littletower wrote:
Char B1 looks good, though for the period, I'll keep the British Mk I and successors at the top of my list!

HTML bouncing around after I followed that link, I found some nice-looking templates for trying those out at Landships II, in case the urge to build one gets too strong

Will get back to proper (meaning actual) progress, and maybe even pictures, as soon as possible.

Cheers.

I made a Char 1-b Bis into a malcador defender, used the turret and both 47mm guns,,,,,yes, it had 2 in the Tamiya kit, and made a Leman Russ Exterminatoir from that. I am likely goig to do some conversion of Mk-IV tanks to mobile platoon carriers.

@Miniature13: Hi, welcome, and thank you. Some more of that right below!

@Red H: As far as interesting designs go, I'd say the screw-propelled concept is the one most deserving entering the to-do list:



@shasolenzabi: Originally 1/35 kits? Those would make some quite bath-tub sized transports!

Jumping between projects - and with little time during the week - yield much progress anywhere, but managed to put a few more bits (and an initial case of rivet-pox) onto the tankette (more on that later), as well as addressing what should be the final stage of my LoER Comp entry: Interior decoration!

First mock-up:



Flat, and black & white. Reminds me of old-time TV!

Stepping up a notch:



More up-to-date : Full technicolor, and with a hint at 3D!

Two issues left: Blending the two floors (worried about how the printout will take paint), for one; and figuring out how to down-tone the gloss that makes getting a decent pict naught to impossible. The perceived misalignment in the tracks' perspective, on the other hand, is there to stay, I'm afraid, since it changes too much depending on the point of view to give it a decent definitive solution...

Grateful for your thoughts ans comments!

Thanks for stopping by.

I like #2. I don't think you have to worry about blending the floors too much as the floors would likely look very different inside as opposed to outside. Different lighting, even different materials. More convincing if it's not consistent.

Thanks, Gits. The coloured one is the one staying on. The 3D layering of the prints worked out quite as expected, helped by some additional shadows on the the recesses.

Good point on the different floor colours too, might go that way instead of trying to make them look alike: inside vs outside contrast posses a good argument!

In an unexpected turn of events, eldest Cub and I found ourselves alone at home this evening, so we got chance for an actual - though small - game: Guard on Guard, 500 pts, patrol style, on a reduced board:



Three objectives (one on each deployment zone, third on the board centre), plus secondaries. Tight game, only defined at the closing of the sixth turn, after a failed - almost suicidal - attack left one of the sides completely outnumbered and without chance of a victory.

Cheers.

PS note to self: Must finish painting those troopers

Looks fun; how.old is the Cub?

 Littletower wrote:

PS note to self: Must get eldest cub to finish painting those troopers for me

Fixed for you. Saturday night gaming. Ah, good times

A screw propelled tank? Sure. Give it a try. Tank building is way down the queue for me, but there is a Char model in this thread, http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/armory/20123-char-b1-bis-scratch-build-1-25-a.html, but you'll need to register to download the stuff. I might do that.

@inmygravenimage: Indeed it is! Cub's fourteen, and into the game. The hobby, not so much... (Yet!)

@Red H: As for the painting comment, see above But we'll get to that, eventually...

Thanks for the link, will see into it

As mentioned before, some advance on the petite tank: Reworked tracks, some starting works on the unboxing of the hull, and first batch of rivets:






More to come, and any comments are, as always, welcome.

Glad to hear your passing thing on to the next generation. Just show him how fun it is... the rest will come. Nice improvements on the tank hull.

Thanks Gits. Thanks, and yes, taking it easy! He's quite into it, has even get some friends to play as well, so all is well in that front. I reckon it's quite natural that he prefers gaming over building/painting for now, and. besides, being a game and a hobby, there's not an actual right/wrong answer, is it?

Got into full riveting mode, and added the track-guards, and some detail: engine door on the rear, side vents (à la Red Harvest, though not up to his), and the beginnings of a front light:








Fenders are not definitively affixed yet, I'll probably move them backwards and lower them some before final mounting.

C&C are always welcome.

Thanks for stopping by.