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2016/07/05 23:12:19
Subject: Converted Griffon tanks
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Savage Khorne Berserker Biker
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The actual Griffon tank has been discontinued for some time. Does anyone know of any conversion kits or tutorials for converting your own?
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2016/07/06 22:20:59
Subject: Converted Griffon tanks
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Have you searched the gallery?
Quite a few differect options in there. Ranging from the most simple using get a Cadianew mortar crew on a basilisk chassis with no earth's hake attached to this rather more sophisticated attempt based on modern mortar carriers.
 Automatically Appended Next Post: Or this awesome piece
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2016/07/06 22:45:21
Subject: Converted Griffon tanks
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Cut down the barrel of a basalisk?
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2016/07/06 22:59:33
Subject: Converted Griffon tanks
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Seconded. It's the simplest fix, by far.
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2016/07/06 23:35:38
Subject: Converted Griffon tanks
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Fixture of Dakka
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The basilisk gun spru is in dire need of an update. The hull spru got a makeover years ago, but not the gun. I'm pleading with the GW plastic designers to make the new kit a plug & play barrel system similar to how the Shadowsword kit works. You could have three different tanks with one kit and minimal (if any) increase in sprues.
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2016/07/06 23:38:15
Subject: Converted Griffon tanks
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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The thing is, a next-gen Bassie would need gun crew like the OOP Griffon included.
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2016/07/07 00:20:45
Subject: Converted Griffon tanks
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Fixture of Dakka
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Aren't there all ready crew figures on the tank accessory sprue?
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2016/07/07 03:12:02
Subject: Converted Griffon tanks
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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My metal Griffon model had metal crewmen, but I don't recall crewmen for my Basilisk.
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2016/07/07 03:23:19
Subject: Converted Griffon tanks
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Fixture of Dakka
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what I mean is, the new IG vehicle accessory sprue has a torso, full legs, 3 heads, three sets of arms, and another "hatch torso". As the Basilisk sprue is horribly inefficient compared to a modern layout it would be very easy to throw in another torso and legs along with the added weapons options.
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2016/07/07 03:34:27
Subject: Converted Griffon tanks
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Got it. My Bassie is fro the old school kit.
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2016/07/07 10:43:42
Subject: Re:Converted Griffon tanks
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Wrathful Warlord Titan Commander
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That's my Griffon conversion, Fame at last!  The Basilisk with a cut down barrel looks a bit pony IMHO. Nonetheless you should be able to do everything you want between the Crew Sprue and the heavy weapons sprue. I made two in the end the other used plastic bits for the crew.  Is there actually rules for Griffons anymore? I thought they were replaced by that 4 barrel one?
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2016/07/07 19:46:13
Subject: Re:Converted Griffon tanks
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Savage Khorne Berserker Biker
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 notprop wrote:That's my Griffon conversion, Fame at last!
The Basilisk with a cut down barrel looks a bit pony IMHO.
Nonetheless you should be able to do everything you want between the Crew Sprue and the heavy weapons sprue.
I made two in the end the other used plastic bits for the crew.
Is there actually rules for Griffons anymore? I thought they were replaced by that 4 barrel one?
I like it!  I'm using the rules for a renegade Griffon in the IA Siege of Vraks vol 2 book.
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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