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Post by treadiculous on Mar 17, 2013 18:23:18 GMT -5
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on Mar 17, 2013 18:41:19 GMT -5
damn this looks good. I can't wait to see the finished model. That tank commander along with the damage gives a sense of desperation to it.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Mar 17, 2013 18:57:42 GMT -5
Nice. Sponsons are upside down, though... Is this going to be a burned out/brewed up wreck? If so, replacing the commander's head and hands with skeleton bits and then stippling some liquid GS on them to represent leftover crispy flesh might be something to consider.  |
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Post by digits on Mar 17, 2013 19:03:55 GMT -5
Serious damage, I'm surprised he's still alive! Lol
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Post by emptyhat on Mar 17, 2013 19:25:45 GMT -5
Looks like it is in better condition than when I gave it to you.
I am surprised you didn't chop it into bits though.
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Post by AshotNINJA on Mar 17, 2013 19:39:48 GMT -5
definitly time to get out...
that would be awesome if you had some flickering yellow LED's inside it... and loads of smoke!
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Post by sapperq21 on Mar 17, 2013 19:41:12 GMT -5
try and crack the spotlight? make for a nice effect too. and troopers right they are upside down, but hey! it got hit so hard that it knocked the sponson around
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on Mar 17, 2013 20:03:16 GMT -5
definitly time to get out... that would be awesome if you had some flickering yellow LED's inside it... and loads of smoke! By the gods, that is a fantastic idea. I'm going to get another tank to do this right now! with micro smoke machine -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v5Jx0QQOrU (homemade of course) |
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Post by treadiculous on Mar 18, 2013 9:48:02 GMT -5
yup.. the sponsons and everything else were glued on by super mega super glue stuff.. like concrete..
I would have re-done them if it had been possible.
It may yet get cut up.. for now I have a 'Boom Bash' that doesn't fall apart when played with by my 3 year old...
notice that the hull and track sections aren't straight either...the modeller was not the most erm... accurate.
thanks to empty for passing this on to me from his ebay hunt.. a good swap indeed for the slannesh daemonettes me thinks... cheers!
I'm planning smoke... the LED is a very cool idea, though reflective red wrapping paper could work if placed deep inside...
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Mar 18, 2013 17:43:11 GMT -5
Actually, I like how the left hand tracks seem to sag--like the hull is starting to deform from the internal fire/what passes for suspension in a Russ has melted. Look at pics of burned out tanks and that's a common phenomenon.
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Post by hacgutt on Mar 19, 2013 8:05:20 GMT -5
Looks mighty fine! The tracks look fine to me though? :3
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Post by sapperq21 on Mar 19, 2013 12:42:46 GMT -5
(Revisiting the sponsons) I'd say leave em as is, just say it's produced by another forge world or it's sloped armor
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Post by syphon on Mar 22, 2013 10:42:50 GMT -5
Can I ask you something? Why would you want to ruin a perfectly good model by using it as terrain? That is pretty silly, unless you have a disposable income that equals that of a manager.
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Post by Paradill on Mar 22, 2013 10:50:55 GMT -5
Syphon is a silly username.
See, not very nice is it.
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Post by syphon on Mar 22, 2013 10:51:34 GMT -5
It's just a question.
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Post by Ymmot (M.I.A) on Mar 22, 2013 11:00:53 GMT -5
Ebay buy that was poorly assembled?
It got broken some other way?
Somebody sat on it?
There are lots of reasons...
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Post by emptyhat on Mar 22, 2013 11:39:40 GMT -5
It was one of the most poorly assembled models I have seen. Other than the fact that the tracks were of kilter and the sponsons were upside down it also boasted one plasma sponson and one melta. The paint job was pretty weak too and the ebay price reflected that.
Tred also has a thing about using vehicle wrecks as terrain and to replace vehicles when they get wrecked in game. When he builds his terrain like an oil pipeline he'll normally make extra sections that have been exploded so he can replace them in-battle (there were mdf oil slicks too). His buildings in the past have been made of card so they can be similarly broken mid-fight.
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Post by vegna on Mar 22, 2013 13:27:47 GMT -5
I like it and I also knew he didnt buy a new kit to make it. Personally I've had simlar ideas of buying models on eBay for cheap and using them as wrecks or converting but too expensive when I look. Also I read the thread where it's stated it wasn't bought and that it looks better now than when it was recieved.
Also lastly why shouldn't he choose what to do with that model? it's not got anything offensive and if you've been collecting warhammer for more than a few years its easy to get enough units or money to do projects like this. hell for my last GG entry I just didnt buy any fizzy drinks which saved me £4 a week, doesn't take long for it to mount up with lose change.
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Post by Rook on Mar 27, 2013 17:15:49 GMT -5
I love it.
The sponson with gaping hole made me think "the guy that sat behind there is fornicateing dead for sure".
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Post by egon on Mar 31, 2013 8:34:00 GMT -5
I only have two problems with this, none of which can't be easily fixed. The first one is the living commander. This tank is so exploded, shot to pieces, and generally dead-ened that a guy shouting orders from the top of it seems out of place. Make the commander as dead as the rest of the tank and it will make a superb terrain piece.
The second issue I have is that some of the holes are too big. Not that the big holes in themselves is a problem (there is some powerful guns in the 40K verse) but rather that they're just that, big gaping holes. There should be something behind those holes that have now been exposed by the blasts. Wrecked pieces of the sponson machinery, a piece of the engine sticking out, even just smoke of some sort would make it look good. Right now it looks more like a wrecked toy than as a wrecked tank.
But since this is only a WIP those things can be easily fixed. Good job.
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Post by treadiculous on Mar 31, 2013 14:16:04 GMT -5
syphon:
yes, it can be seen as a waste of money, but I take the example of a GW store that bought a forgeworld thunderhawk, and built it as a destroyed version - they said that the real one might have been used in an apoc game once every few months while the wreckage gets used on 40k tables by players every day.
I can see that wreck appearing far more often than any of my Russ which are in good order (mainly because I like infantry lists).. wrecked tanks look awesome as terrain - they create a desperate kind of narrative where the battlefield has already seen resources and material spent on it and yet the fight is still ongoing.. if the tanks are ahead of the guard deployment line, then the guard have fought and lost and are trying to retake.
I shall soon be making a few squads of dead and dying infantry bodies to further develop my disparaging, desolate, bleak and lonely landscape features... muwhahahahahaaaaa
egon:
I will be dealing with that crew man.. He's missing most of his right arm already...
Smoke will be the next major step - its the easiest thing I can do to make this look better... I have put a cog visible within the sponson hole - but the camera didn't pick it out.
It definetly has too many bullet holes... but the enemy is orks.. so I don't see that they would stop shooting such an icon of imperial strength - especially if there's still crew climbing out doing' the burney dance'.
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Post by Soap on Mar 31, 2013 14:47:33 GMT -5
I think the only issue you could say with the bullet holes is that they are too accurate for Orks lol. I actually think more bullet holes should be added. Small arms would probably be taking shots at the vehicle, especially if crew/troops where hiding behind it.
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Post by egon on Mar 31, 2013 17:03:32 GMT -5
I think the only issue you could say with the bullet holes is that they are too accurate for Orks lol. I actually think more bullet holes should be added. Small arms would probably be taking shots at the vehicle, especially if crew/troops where hiding behind it. Well, small arms fire would do little more than scratch the paint on a battle tank. These hole are from the things that killed it. Bullets are small things and don't really do big holes going in. |
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Post by vegna on Mar 31, 2013 19:34:55 GMT -5
define small arms in the 41st millenium
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Post by egon on Apr 1, 2013 6:38:25 GMT -5
Only if you use correct punctuation.  |
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