Spleen's Adventures in the New Leyland Colony

[Malamute]

Great stuff

[Grimmnar]

I have no interest in the millions of 40k proxies that are out there, which leaves me spending a lot of time in Blender making my own vehicles. For this mech, I took inspiration from VOTOM's Scopedog and Heavy Gear's Hunter. I rigged the model so I can fit weapons and pose it before exporting the STLs for printing. The torso holds a pilot, and his head is even inside the mech's- just like a Hunter or Scopedog

Funny I was thinking on the first pic above how I was thinking it looked like it was part VTOMOM with a hint of Heavy Gear thrown in. Now we know why.
This an STL that will ever get released? Got a new printer set up and a weakness for VOTOMS and Heavy Gear.

Grimm

[eMills]

Great looking project.  Excellent work on the mech.

[Metternich]

Very interesting project and wonderful photos.

[ulverston]

The name Leyland grabbed mu attention as I used to live there! I'm now close by and wondered if there was a connection to that fantastic Lancashire town? Anyway I am so glad I decided to look as your work is excellent and the concept very interesting. Good luck, I will follow with interest

[Grumpy Gnome]

Brilliant work, I am really liking what you are creating here. 👍

[Daeothar]

Wonderful!

I especially like the dropship/shuttle. I've got one of them painted, with two more waiting in the (looong ) queue, but seeing your results, I'm of a mind to now paint at least one in a camo scheme

[spleenrippa]

Thanks for the kind comments, all. I've had a mate staying with me the last couple weeks, so productivity has basically been nil. However, I'll have an empty house starting this weekend so I plan to get caught up and post some more material.

[spleenrippa]

Finally got my not-BMD painted up for the in-progress Vesta Pact platoon. I have a commander printed, but decided not to go with him. Back to Blender to fab up another candidate for the next time I'm doing a print run...
The original model was intended for 15mm, so it's been scaled up and tweaked slightly. Some of the enlarged details are a bit crude, but good enough IMO.
I tried an approach to jewelling the vision blocks and lenses involving contrast paint. It didn't work overly well, so I'll go with a more conventional technique in the future.
For weathering I went with the more is more approach. I think I'll tone down the mud a bit next time  






Don't talk to me or my son ever again!

[Rommel]

Nice, made me think at the M551 Sheridan tank.

[Grimmnar]

Finally got my not-BMD painted up for the in-progress Vesta Pact platoon.

The prints are looking good. Are tye files available?

Grimm

[Grumpy Gnome]

Groovy! 👍

[LouieN]

That is a fun model.  Good work on it. 

I just read the intro and I look forward to more writes up of this Space-Bush-War

[spleenrippa]

Thanks for the comments, all. I'm working on finishing the not-stormtrooper VP platoon right now. Hopefully I'll have those banged off in the next couple days and then on to stuff that's generally more entertaining than assembly-line painting. I've got a couple special characters and vignettes primed that should look great on the table when done.

I've been humming and hawing about how to present story events and other game info. My current site (https://roboterkam.com/blog/) doesn't feel quite right for this project. I've been thinking of adding a subdomain and setting up a wiki for in-universe info, current events, equipment profiles, etc.

I've seen a couple posts inquiring about model availability, and to be honest it's not something I've given much thought to. Free is fine, but it'd be nice to get a couple dollars for a model and cover the cost of a coffee on the way to work here and there. Down side is, I have no interest in after-sales support or making sure pre-supported STLs are idiot-proof. Thoughts? Is there a market for cheap "take them as they are" STLs?

[Freddy]

Great looking model! One can never have enough mud on a scifi vehicle.