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@ Red .........Headphones and loud music........and hark whose talking about updates?

@ Alaricuk, Excellent work those dread look great the new one is looking really good. I hear what you are saying about the shoulder exposure, but it is just because we are used to 80's shoulderpads on most of our death robots.

You might have a point there about the shoulders Cam
Remembering the first incarnation of the terminator armour

So house move fell through and stuck with the Cataphract paint scheme. What better distraction than a new vehicle project!!!
All my current projects are well wrapped so thought what the hell i’ll get my larger Titan recovery vehicle started. At present it’s looking like the old epic termite carrier, which was not the initial intention but could workout quite well in light of FW releasing the termite later this year. All scratch built at present and it’s going to need a lot of rivets which will take some time. Quick in progress pic attached and hoping as it’s half term this week I may get a chance to do a bit more on it,

As redharvest requested I’m trying to update a bit more frequently
Half term not going to plan and half the family is down with flu/sickness bug but did manage to scratch build the idler wheel today for the running gear. Aiming to make a mould and cast it up to save time as it was fun but fiddly to put together.

Great start, looking good bud

Cheers Cam!!

Had a steady day adding the detail to one of the side units, it’s taken around 3 hrs to do around 150 rivets so as expected, a slow but somewhat rewarding process

Impressive work though I kinda think buying a Baneblade Chassis would have saved a lot of trouble.

Would have been my first option but Couldn’t find one at a sensible price, so decided to scratch one instead.

I love how this build has started- it's the look I was trying tog et with the Phaethon, only much more gooder! The rivet work is amazing!

Cheers Meer Cat,

So a productive evening, although struggling with the look of the exhausts. Gave up trying to design something and then remembered I have a couple of imperial knight ones from a job lot of spares I won on ebay. they have the look and general feel I was after, large, noisy, brutish. but having come back to them today I'm not sure if their mounted to high???? what do you guys think???

I think they're okay as is- they clear the top of the cab, which is usually the rule of thumb for heavy rigs. If you look at a military 5 ton, or even a civilian tractor trailer, their stacks come just over the high point of the cab (sometimes even the top of the trailer, which makes them look gawky when the hauler isn't pulling a load).

I thin as the rest of the vehicle accretes around the chassis you've built, the good balance will become more evident.

Great progress!

Cheers Meercat, took your advise and also had a good look through the web. think your right about it fitting in as the chassis develops,

So having had a good chunk of the day without most of the family around, have done quite a lot of fiddly/fine detail for the roof of the main cab and carried on with the engine housing. Copula base needs finalising and I'm not to sure its in its final guise yet but its certainly a good start and being raised gives the observer a better all round view from the elevated position. no plans for weapons on this beast as yet. Photos aren't the best tonight as I'm struggling to pick out the detail as everything is white. wip pics from today attached and time for bed!!

Alaricuk wrote:
Would have been my first option but Couldn’t find one at a sensible price, so decided to scratch one instead.

Wow, I remember when BB bitz and sprues were easy (and cheap!) to find. Sorry.

Beautiful. Your accuracy is amazing, this is brilliant to watch.

Cheers Cam,

Hoping to keep the current momentum going as I’ve plenty of ideas bouncing round my head at the moment!!

Nice! Thunderhawk-y nose looks ace.

Thanks Johnny, hadn’t actually thought of the thunder hawk similarity, my initial idea was to re-design the mastadon profile and have it run in reverse so to speak, so the big tracks went first, but then I added the blaneblade tracks instead,

More rivet detailing this evening, only had a couple of hours but have nearly finished one of the side units

Thing of beauty.

You and this are insanely good!

Cheers Guys, hoping to ge5 a little more done later but got home late with the weather, so will have to see how the evening goes

That is an exceptionally good copy of the GW part!

I'm surprised you didn't stretch it by a couple bogies

I need this in my life. I am sad I never saw this before.

Cheers JohnH, The stretch is coming on a later project!!!

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Impressive work though I kinda think buying a Baneblade Chassis would have saved a lot of trouble.

And what would the fun be in that?

Amazing, and enlightening.

 Littletower wrote:

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Impressive work though I kinda think buying a Baneblade Chassis would have saved a lot of trouble.

And what would the fun be in that?

It'd save the time he's spent recreating the chassis, allowing him to get right at the superstructure!

Thanks guys

Some productivity today, have finished the first track module rivet detailing and am 95% through the second. Also started to build up and detail the rear load space, one side installed although questioning now if this also needs a bit of rivet love????

Always need moar rivets.

Finescale modelling at its... errr...finest....