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Miniatures Adventure => Back of Beyond => Topic started by: Ignatieff on 13 April 2008, 02:25:01 PM
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This beauty, as discovered on the magnificent 'Landships' site, is just screeeaaaming out to be made into a BoB model. Don't really care if its 1/56 or 1/64 (though I prefer to have my models slightly smaller than real scale - looks better on the table in my humble opinion), but somebody out there must want to make this beauty. Looks like the batmobile!
I'll take three if anyone wants to get going, and I'm sure I can get 'The League' to sign up to a few more!
We want a Romfell and we want it NOW!
Ignatieff
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh164/defoix/romfell_4.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh164/defoix/romfell_3.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh164/defoix/romfell_1.jpg)
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Nice car :)
I'll probably begin collecting 'military-style' vehicles for the 'interwar pulp era' soon (I have a lot of minis, and civilian vehicles), and a German armoured car would certainly be tempting...
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I love the fully attired Austro Hungarian hussar next to the AC. How did he get the sword belt in through the hatch??? Surely the spurs slid all over the interior and ripped the seats???
Ignatieff
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that would be a sweet model.
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great find, we should show it Brent from CompanyB :)
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1915 edition of "Pimp my Ride". Excellent!
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as soon as the LPL is over that is going way way up on my scratch build list if no-one has announced one by then,
In my fevered imagination they are not b&w photos - I see lots of black and richtofen red but then I am raving mad
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egad! That is very nice...
Sure I'll make one..for myself! Hmmm, if enough folks want one, I could look into small run, then if popular it would find it's way into the main lineup. Usually though you need about 30 to 40 orders to make these things affordable and for me to break even...but maybe we can use this as a test.
My B2 Halftracks, model T ambulance and Stake Bed are casting now. Those are sort of my test on seeing how popular this stuff is for pulp. The other Model T's I did do ok, but I think mainly go to the WW1 crowd.
Brent
CompanyB
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official name:
Austro Daimler Romfell
Already found the dimensions and specs...
Any more plans or views would be appreciated....
Brent
Company B
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I think because of its superb shape it will appeal to WWI, BoB, Pulp and Cuthulu players. Go for it!
Ignatieff
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I'd take one, too
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Brent,
Sorry for hyjacking this thread but did I read correctly on your site that you plan to make a 28mm Schneider tank?
Willie
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I knew I had seen that thing before. It is in one of the Austro-Hungarian Ospreys. Was going to scan it but I realise it is one of the pictures already posted. Grrr.
Don't want to be all of a downer on the project, as it is a lovely, weird-looking thing, but according to Mr. Osprey,
"Their rarity makes Austro-Hungarian armoured cars an interesting subject for research, but their operational contribution was not significant."
Seems like only a tiny handful of Romfells were produced. Possibly two, maybe even only one. So Ignatieff doesn't need to buy three! :)
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Seems like only a tiny handful of Romfells were produced. Possibly two, maybe even only one. So Ignatieff doesn't need to buy three! :)
Yes, but in A Universe More Pulpish, lots and lots of Romfells would have been produced, purely because they looked exceptionally awesome. So they'd be running around all sorts of unexpected places decades after the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed!
I'd probably take at least one, despite the pricetag on 28mm vehicles still making this mostly-15mm-until-recently gamer flinch.
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Well said Wirelizard old chap.....what's reality got to do with a beautiful piece of design??
Ignatieff
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Yep, only two made...and about a year apart and on different car frames...
Though, our other BoB offering, the Sutton Skunk, was a one of a kind for the warlords. So I'm not too worried about the rarity...
WillieB,
Yes, Schneider and the St Chammond are on the to do list. Schneider first. I have this very large 1/56 scale u-boat I need to finish first, and then it's on to those two tanks for the same client (brigade games..) and in the meantime perhaps some work on this new armored car....
plus more cars for the armored train...it will never end. Maybe I need to accept payments in caffeine...
-Brent
Company B
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Well said Wirelizard old chap.....what's reality got to do with a beautiful piece of design??
Ignatieff
Well that's fine, just so long as you know. I'd hate you to blame me because some nasty history nerds bullied and mocked you for having a fleet of them, advancing in phalanx and sweeping the Tsar's ragged legions off the steppes. :)
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never happens in Kriegspieler land. We have steam tanks produced in Mongolia, zeppelins powerd by yak dung from Tibet and Yeti's, oh those Yeti's!.....real history is soooo last year!
And Brent, keep up those double skinny latte's and you'll be fine.
Ignatieff :wink:
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Here's another Austrian armoured car, with a slightly more home-made quality to it, but at least you get three Schwarzloses instead of just the one. The Junovicz:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/junovicz_ac.jpg)
They made half a dozen of these, so compared to the Romfell, they were positively ubiquitous.
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Top secret designs, evidently.
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Yes, Schneider and the St Chammond are on the to do list. Schneider first.
That's a great news, Brent !
The Schneider was not a really good tank but fought everywhere : from France (Great War) to China (BoB) passing by Morocco (Riff war) and Spain(SCW), you should sell a few... :wink:
At least, to me !
Meow,
Matt
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My group plays RCW and BoB, so I'm in for any vehicle of that period.
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Here's another Austrian armoured car, with a slightly more home-made quality to it, but at least you get three Schwarzloses instead of just the one. The Junovicz:
(http://www.landships.freeservers.com/jpegs/newpics_05_2005/junovicz_ac.JPG)
They made half a dozen of these, so compared to the Romfell, they were positively ubiquitous.
This is what Plynkes was trying to show.
(http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii318/twrchtrwyth/Cerbydau/junovicz_ac.jpg)
Edit. Ok, weird, plynkes link works now. :?
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Whaddaya mean 'Trying to?'
Shows up okay on my page. Doesn't it on everyone's?
Edit: Just one of those things, I guess.
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Whaddaya mean 'Trying to?'
Shows up okay on my page. Doesn't it on everyone's?
Edit: Just one of those things, I guess.
Not on Hammer's either going by his reference to secret designs. It works fine on mine now. Most odd. :?
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I just linked to a pic I found on Google Images. Should've done what I usually do and stolen the pic and hosted it myself.
But I was feeling lazy.
Edit: Done it now. Should be okay now, unless Photobucket goes on the Fritz.
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I just linked to a pic I found on Google Images. Should've done what I usually do and stolen the pic and hosted it myself.
But I was feeling lazy.
Edit: Done it now. Should be okay now, unless Photobucket goes on the Fritz.
If you look at my post above now, you'll see what we were seeing.
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Eh? On your above post I'm still seeing the picture twice, in my bit you quoted, and your version.
Never mind. It ain't important. Anyone who wants to can see the damn thing now, whether on mine or yours. I'm too tired to fret about it.
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Eh? On your above post I'm still seeing the picture twice, in my bit you quoted, and your version.
Never mind. It ain't important. Anyone who wants to can see the damn thing now, whether on mine or yours. I'm too tired to fret about it.
Very confusing! Anyway, nice find, I see what you mean by the homemade look. I like it. 8)
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Oh yes I'd love a few of them for my current pulp campaign. Perfect for my Pulp Freikorps and their vampire mistress. I think that counts as Uber Gothic and anytime you have Pulp vampire chicks you need lots of Ubergoth.
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Oh yes I'd love a few of them for my current pulp campaign. Perfect for my Pulp Freikorps and their vampire mistress. I think that counts as Uber Gothic and anytime you have Pulp vampire chicks you need lots of Ubergoth.
That's the spirit Ironworker - the potential for this beast is endless!
Ignatieff
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Here's another Austrian armoured car, with a slightly more home-made quality to it, but at least you get three Schwarzloses instead of just the one. The Junovicz:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/junovicz_ac.jpg)
They made half a dozen of these, so compared to the Romfell, they were positively ubiquitous.
I wonder how often the machine gunner shot out the headlight? :lol:
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Sorry for digging out this old thread, but it just fits too good!
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=13940.0 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=13940.0)
Tobi
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Is it only my impression or does the shape of the Romfell also remind others of the hull of the small german sd.kfz 250 or the sd.kfz 222??
just in general outlines, not in detail
cause I have a late 250 on my workbench for some time and.....
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Well finish it up and get it off the workbench then! That'll help you. ;)
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sometimes I feel stalked by You Batko ... ;)
well, there are two armoured trains with priority, and apart from that, I don't know how to incorporate it into my converted 4 222 + 1 232 AC squadron, so, no hurry 8)
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Like that guy with the bolts that he tosses in front of where he walks? Oh I still remember that story, what was it called again though? Picnic something or something picnic?