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Miniatures Adventure => Railway Wargaming => Topic started by: Boggler on October 16, 2016, 12:02:15 PM
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I've started another armoured train construction project for the Back of Beyond:
http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/the-red-armoured-train-comrade-legoripov.html (http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/the-red-armoured-train-comrade-legoripov.html)
I'm hoping to make some more progress over the net few days.
:D
Cheers
Jim
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Are you going to cut all the knobs off the top?
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Are you going to cut all the knobs off the top?
That is no way to talk about our glorious leaders! >:(
Interesting build. I have been looking to get some usefull lego bits for converting mecha myself, I have to custom order them though, I can't get myself to use the old lego I still have.
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Yep, all the nobbly bits will either be covered over or sliced off and sanded down.
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Just think of 'em as oversized rivets. Interesting project!
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First of the wagons now done (sort of). I think it needs some more detailing with something to make the over scale thickness door look less over scale?:
http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/red-armoured-train-troop-wagon.html (http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/red-armoured-train-troop-wagon.html)
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That's fantastic and a bloody good use of Perry/Renedra bases by the looks of it.
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That's fantastic and a bloody good use of Perry/Renedra bases by the looks of it.
Carlos sums it up.
Most cool. 8)
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I agree about the inspired use of bases for armour cladding but surely its a bit of an expensive option to go for?
I'm afraid I'm going to have to report you to the NSPCL - cutting all the knobs off (really!)
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I do hope you have not been using the Kragle :o :o :o ;)
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A few tweaks added to beef up the armour and hide the thickness of the side doors.
The plastic bases were surplus from the numerous boxes of 28mm plastic figures I have stockpiled, so were going spare as I use mdf bases and coins for my figures.
I also used some plastic card Peter Pig bases which are pre-cut to useful sizes, plus some plastic strip and rod which is really useful stuff for this sort of thing.
;)
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An interesting project.
It's seems a little over engineered. I love the inventive use of Lego as an aid to scaling and proportions.Its got to have bumped the weight. It looks like a labour love,and I'm looking forward to seeing how you progress.
Mark.
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I started on the machine gun turret armed wagon tonight, but not very much done just yet:
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I too have to agree your use of lego and bases which many of us have lying around is genius. Are those bogies lego or some other make?
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Thanks.
The bogies are from a toy train set that I got a couple of in a post Xmas sale at Robert Dyas. I think they were about a tenner or so for each set which included a loco and tender and two tanker wagons. I have enough bogies for five wagons and about six foot of plastic track to run them up and down on, assuming I keep one tender and loco to use as an unarmoured version :D
http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/runaway-train.html (http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/runaway-train.html)
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Now working on the machine gun turrets:
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(and I know the barrel is tilted over to one side...have to fix that, if I can be bothered ::)
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Fantastic work!
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Here's what the turret looks like with a basecoat of Humbrol Matt Grass Green, with some additional armour plating and a door added to the wagon.
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wow quite the patient modeler..which I was..great so far.
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A bit more done to the machine gun wagon, with both turrets now magnet based to the top:
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I've also started on the gun turret armed wagon, with a couple of fridge magnets sandwiched together and plated over with plastic card, lego bits and a flight stand for the gun barrel, very much like the old one I scratch built before:
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It's all a bit slow but I've been away for a week climbing mountains in North Wales :D
http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/red-armoured-train-chuffing-along.html (http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/red-armoured-train-chuffing-along.html)
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I finished building the machine gun twin turret wagon today (about time!) so it's on to the armoured engine and tender next, so that I have a viable train for the on-going club Back of Beyone campaign sooner rather than later ???
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That looks great 8) 8) 8)
An ingenious use of parts :)
cheers
James
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Now working on the loco and tender but it's all a bit basic at the moment. I've also now realised that I need to add a skirt around the wagons so that they line up properly with the loco. Bit of a pain but I think it will improve the wagons anyway, which look a bit too high up as they are.
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There's now a bit of a step between the wagons and the tender, so it'll be fixed with some 5mm x 1mm x 16mm plastic card strip, when it arrives in the post next week some time.
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Very impressive that has worked out really well can't wait to see more. Think I need to start playing with some Lego.
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Genius! What a cracking excuse to get the Lego out. Your train building skills are without match. Superb, well done!