Kirsten's tanks

[KRIEGEIRK]

I have more of those types of bookstores where I live than I do hobby shops hahaha!

[kirsten]

they are strange places, I have no idea how they stay open. They are stocked entirely with books you have never heard of, by people you have never heard of, and are always a fraction of the RRP. There is always a corner full of dodgy looking paint sets and crayons too.

[KRIEGEIRK]

very true! My girlfriend loves those places, she always finds the coolest oldest books ever! even sometimes magazines from the 30's

[kirsten]

the ones over here have no cool old books or magazines, just random stuff that nobody could ever possibly want, except for the odd reference book that geeks like me snap up for ridiculously cheap prices.

[KRIEGEIRK]

Nothing wrong with geeks or being cheap hahaha!! For I... am both lol

[kirsten]

a natural six and you are anybody's?

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

Old book stores are awesome. There's one near where I live that I used to frequent. Haven't been in there in a while, but I used to get lots of good WW II stuff from them--I even found an English translation of "Mein Kampf" from 1938 or '39 there. It had been published by a group in America that was trying to alert the American public as to what Hitler was up to, and the book was unabridged and annotated. However, I've only ever been able to get halfway through it, though, because it is so toxic...

[KRIEGEIRK]

Aug 4, 2011 8:22:20 GMT -5 kirsten said:

a natural six and you are anybody's?

Im a natural brunette hahahaha

[kirsten]

old bookstores are good, but different to the weird modern bookstores I am talking about

[KRIEGEIRK]

Indeed. actually bookstores are becoming obsolete in the US. We just had a major bookstore go out of business a few months ago since everyone is buying that Kindle thing and the smart pads. Nothing beats the smell of a bookstore... so much paper...

[kirsten]

Here are a few more images for you. The first is a chaos daemon engine. I was considering making a traitor guard armoured company to face off against my loyalist one. None of my friends are every going to buy lots of guard tanks to field against me in big tank games, so I thought I would have to do it myself and provide both sides. However I don't want the chaos vehicles to simply be spikey russes, I want something different, so am experimenting with russ alternatives, this is prototype number one.








Here also is a shot of my inquisitor team (played in 28mm instead of 54). They are the four playable characters from the video game Conflict Desert Storm. They took a little transit damage, and are missing a sniper rifle barrel, and a shotgun, but you can see what the idea is. I will post individual pics of the four guys when my camera recharges.

[KRIEGEIRK]

The Chaos engine looks awesome! I agree with you on the "spikey Russ'" too obvious. I remember that game like it were yesterday... It was such a great game too. I miss it now! I wonder if I could find my copy with a little digging.... hmmmmm

[kirsten]

Thanks very much. Prototype number two will be more like a defiler, using the hull and four of its' legs, but with more armour to alter the body shape, and probably a standard leman russ turret.
Conflict Desert Storm is an awesome game, I once got some friends round, got loads of food and drink in, and we played the first and second games all through the night until we completed both. Gave ourselves gulf war syndrome.

[Walrus]

That's an awesome creation there Kirsten! The fun thing about Chaos vehicles is there doesn't always have to be a place for crew... Come to think of it, it looks lie a mechanical zoanthrope!

Maybe I'm too young, but what is Gulf War Syndrome?

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

I'm liking that prototype daemon engine! It kind of makes me think of a Chaosified ED-209 from RoboCop...

[kirsten]

Thanks walrus, what I am planning on making next is the walking battle tank the renegades use in the Gaunt's Ghosts books. I think a half dozen or more scuttling tanks would look awesome squared off against the clean solid lines of the mighty leman russ. I just need to dig out my copy of the first omnibus and find the description again.
Gulf War Syndrome is something that soldiers and civilians involved in the first gulf war came down with shortly after, it covers a huge range of symptoms and is believed to be caused by the chemical warfare fallout employed by Sadam, and the destruction of chemical weapon facilities.

Trooper, thanks, I am very pleased with it as a vehicle, but it fails as a leman russ alternative. Given the shape and profile of it, there isn't really anywhere suitable for mounting even the hull weapon of a russ. I tried various appendages and additions and they just disrupt the shape too much and ruin the appearance. I think I will make rules for it as a unique vehicle. I am thinking a fast vehicle (has to be with those huge legs ) armour 12, and a battle cannon.

[Walrus]

I can imagine the face off now... Glorious.


I think is is a brilliant idea, something you will be able to pull off easily from what I have seen so far.

[kirsten]

thanks very much, the current plan is to start with a defiler body and legs, leave off the forward pincer arms and use those ball joints to mount sponson weapons, a hull weapon under the main body, and a leman russ turret (old style) where the defiler turret would be. A few extra armour plates so it looks like it is at least attempting armour 14, and it should do. Where my loyalist armoured company has a baneblade (and hopefully at some point a shadowsword, love those things) the traitors would go for malcadors, they look suitably old fashioned, unreliable, and weird to go with the rest of the force. Possibly a macharius to use as the imitation baneblade it is.

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

Ohhhhh! I'm a definitely digging the idea of you converting up some Stalk tanks from the Gaunt's Ghosts series...

[The Hawk!]

(Inquisitor related): Wow! Bradley and Connor look awsome spot on to everythin imo, Foley would look basically spot on if he had the elusive barrel and jones well, i was never a fan of jones, sent him in to plant c4 behind tanks and leav the deinator with bradley most of the time :3 (that is not racist, as in one mission he was killed, and the white guy that replaced him was even worse -.-)

(renegade walker related): Holy potatoes! that looks frikkin awsome ive come back to the imperium and have decided to transform my force.... my senior officer is now a straken count as and my army is now the 'Cadian 7th Cavalry Brigade' instead of air cav..... but as of now, they have no steeds -.- could you post a tutorial of how you made your salamander? i wouldnt mind using something similar as a command vehicle, if ofc, that is ok with you?

[kirsten]

Thanks trooper, I just need to find the part where they first appear and get a decent description, I have the omnibus editions and digging through hundreds of pages will be a pain.

Dave, thanks very much, I have no idea where the sniper rifle barrel went, or Jones' shotgun. They all had microbead comlinks too at one point, Jones and Connor still have theirs. We played the same way, detonator to one person, C4 for Jones, and my friend would run headlong at the tank like a headless chicken and hope to slap the C4 on before he got shot. The other alternative was that he would run around drawing fire whilst everyone else got into position to use rockets. These tactics were his idea too, he just enjoyed it...

Thanks, glad you like the walker, I am pretty pleased with it, even if it didn't meet the original intent. Certainly I can post something on the salamander, but it is pretty much a hellhound kit with the barrels left out the back. I will make a thread or post with all the bits I used for you.

[The Hawk!]

thanks kirsten your a star

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

Aug 7, 2011 17:50:45 GMT -5 kirsten said:

Thanks trooper, I just need to find the part where they first appear and get a decent description, I have the omnibus editions and digging through hundreds of pages will be a pain.

If I recall correctly, they may have first been described in Honour Guard. There are also good descriptions of them in Sabbat Martyr, and His Last Command...

[kirsten]

thanks, I shall take a look at some point soon

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

You're welcome. Glad to help!