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Great work. The dread claw looks really nice on the crane.

This is turning into one truly awesome recovery vehicle.

Of course, now that he's so far along, GW comes out and makes some really nice stuff to complement his motor pool / dockyard diorama!

Typical!!!! I thought you were joking at first, oh well the new terrain set looks good. Plenty of potential. The vehicles look to orky for me, don't have an mechanicus or imperial vibe in my personal opinion.

Updated the pic. Only $40 for the set. Not bad even if it saves you a couple hours of labor on the trusses & tracks!

So after an enforced break with work and preparing a presentation for an interview, was nice to get some time to do a bit more detailing. managed to run the main sections for the hydrolic lines on the second aux crane. using brass tube and silicone tubing for the flxei hoses, few progress pics below

Oh NICE! That's a detail you almost never see on miniatures! It's such nice greebling, though.

Cheers anvildude,
Never heard of "greebling" before, had to google it!!!
Excellent word, I will be using it in future for sure.

Just be careful you don't confuse it with "Gribbling". Very different things.

Had to look that one up too,

Well the flexi hoses were a complete fail so spent my weekend on a quick conversion project instead. Utilising a £2 kids tractor trailer as a basic model, have removed the wheels and added tracks, replaced the crude cast tanker hatch with parts left over from a Russ kit and scratch built a cat walk on top. The ladder on the rear is left over from my the baneblade conversion. Added an extra strap round the tank centre and then added some rivet detail. Probably won't get a chance to paint it till next weekend but here it is

Side view

This is some top notch stuff man!

 dsteingass wrote:
This is some top notch stuff man!

Cheers for the posative comment.

So been a busy week, but did manage to squeeze an hour in yesterday while the sun was out to get the primer on the main body. been looking at it all week, trying to work out what was wrong as it just didn't look right, then someone on another forum posted I'd forgot the drawbar jack/landing gear for when it's detached. So 40mins of playing with plastic, and also shortened the draw bar as this too did not seem right and it's all looking much better.

That is some sweet detailing, really nice work, always great to see stuff without a gun on it.

Cheers Cam,
Trying to get plenty of civi or general stuff together to go with the armoured vehicles,
Not getting a lot of time at the moment, lots of ideas floating round my head but can't get the chance to do anything with them. So frustrateing.

So with the little free time this week, I made a light automatated towing vehicle to go with the tank trailer. Used an old robogear kit with minor mods and extra details and a quick coat of primer. Drawbar got some basic rivet detail as well so this ones now on to painting.

Love that tank hauler! Is that a mold line down the side of the trailer structure? Or just shadow?

 dsteingass wrote:
Love that tank hauler! Is that a mold line down the side of the trailer structure? Or just shadow?

Obviously it's where the tank was towed too close to some ruins and something put a crease in it .

Very nice little tank guy, for some reason he reminds me of wall-e.

Cheers guys,

But alas. No unfortunately it is indeed a mold line. Thought I'd got them all but missed that section. Little bit of neatening up required on birth models now the primer has made thinks stand out like a sore thumb. Think it will be a job for the weeeknd.

Love the tank-hauler- I'm a big robogear fan myself and recognized the chassis straightaway. The tank trailer itself has my full approval, as I'm very much in favor of finding $2 toys and converting them into something cool. You have an impressive array of skills!

I've been following the Craneblade saga for awhile now too- figured it was time to speak up; amazing detail work!

Love the hauler, looks suitably chunky, like it could pull a Baneblade out a muddy puddle.

I am convinced mold lines appear as a direct result of a chemical reaction that occurs as soon as you post a picture to the internet

^^ SO TRUE!

Cheers Meer Cat, comments appreciated,

Cam it's not that big a kit would take several of these to unstick a baneblade I reckon, I'll try and get a size comparison shot soon

And yes I agree about the magical reappearance of mold lines, pesky blighters.

On a more positive note managed to get the base colours down and the first weather wash applied to both vehicles. Tomorrow nights usually my big modelling evening so should be some more progress over the next three days. Struggling with a font type for wording on the tank sides, any suggestions of a suitably imperial font to use????

So I knocked off work early and have used my limited computer skills to make my own transfers for my tank trailer. Have only applied to one side as an experiment to see how they look????? 90% pleased but still think something more is needed, any suggestions????

Warning signs. Yellow triangle thingy.

Looks awesome! Have you thought about a 'contents' label like they have on the back of lorries?

This type of thing:

Cheer Scarper I've been playing with this on the computer to try and give it a 40k feel. Also been collecting different warning symbols.