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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: Colonel O Truth on April 09, 2012, 10:54:25 AM
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Hi All.
Working on a new steam tank the last couple of days - what do you think?
I'm hoping to finish this pretty quickly - lots of other stuff on the go...
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZdEI5fYXxLk/T4KpJtRzTsI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/h29rk0USzbQ/s400/P3160128.JPG)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-whfo-P2RTdg/T4KpU6qlGSI/AAAAAAAAAww/hijvEODawcw/s400/z.JPG)
More on my blog:
http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/another-public-holiday-getting-tanked.html (http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/another-public-holiday-getting-tanked.html)
More as it takes shape.
All the Best!
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Looking good so far.
Needs rivets - lots of 'em!
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You have my word - many, many rivets! I Promise.
Rivets is what I do best...
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Okay, I'll admit it BEFORE hand instead, don't like it, no hope at all.
Which is what I thought with early days of just about every other WIP of yours, and now you'll be able to cackle in delight over my cowering form when I'm forced to compliment the heck out of it, later. lol
Doug
PS It was sarcasm; we all KNOW how riveted it will be. :D
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Nicework so far. I look forward to seeing it finished.
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Thanks, Doug - I'll make a point of earning plenty of your humble praise! ;)
Working on my cackle...
Mattblackgod - I hope to be finished quite soon. I eagerly await your approval, Sir!
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Yet more wacky and stunning scratchbuild skills. :o
Can i ask, is the turret the right way around? I assume the cylinder shape is the boiler, or should I let the magic unfold and keep my trap shut...... :D
Look forward to seeing this finished.
Regards
PM
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Can i ask, is the turret the right way around? I assume the cylinder shape is the boiler, or should I let the magic unfold and keep my trap shut...... :D
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Should let the man speak for hisself, of course, but from the piccies on his blog, I'm under the impression it's open at the front. Sonic anti-troop weapong?
Not a clue, but assumed I'd be seeing more of the 'unexpected' as time goes on.
However, I'd not think he'd have swept forward stacks...
Doug
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Well, yes... the boiler is at the front - a scary point, as several have pointed out. I wanted a 'train' look to this thing.
Keep watching. I have my reasons. ;)
Thanks for the encouragement, gents!
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Oh God - you're building a land train.
Love it.
You have to have a small flyer launch pad car. It's a moral imperative.
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Oh God - you're building a land train.
Love it.
You have to have a small flyer launch pad car. It's a moral imperative.
Hmmm... Yes - I've read Amtrak Wars too, but no - that's not really what I had in mind.
Dammit! Why can't I start a small, simple project without you guys inspiring me to make it bigger, better and more complicated?!
Oh, for a simple life...
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I just had my downlights seen to by an electrician. Seems I have plenty of those Farady Cannon dishes on hand. Maybe... ::)
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More detail and the first 193 rivets now...
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jZebwcTxDeQ/T4ul4Sq5QCI/AAAAAAAAAxs/ZvzTGWuiH5s/s400/P3220145.JPG)
Now I have side-mounted Faraday Flux Projectors! Mwah ha ha!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r5clmXToJSw/T4ulwMaYEEI/AAAAAAAAAxE/pqmnfeidOOU/s400/P3220139.JPG)
More on the blog...
http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/starting-to-feel-little-familiar.html (http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/starting-to-feel-little-familiar.html)
All the Best!
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I hate flux projectors! They project flux all over the place, which is the Devil to get up.
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Fiendish!
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Great work. Your builds always have me riveted! lol
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Thanks!
Rivet count so far: 419!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VsjcD8zV3cc/T5PP8_h6xgI/AAAAAAAAAyo/a7FlKdTsAT8/s400/P3290155.JPG)
Still a lot of detailing to do, but it's getting there.
http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/hi-all-steam-tank-still-in-training.html (http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/hi-all-steam-tank-still-in-training.html)
More soon!
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WOW It really looks good! And I don't do VSF (yet). :-*
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WOW It really looks good! And I don't do VSF (yet).
Thanks, ZuluPaul. Maybe you should!
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Looking spiffing old Chap! :-*
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Tremendously good of you to say so, Old Bean!
Jolly Hockey Sticks!
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Great Tesla! :o That's looking fantastic!
How's the Cazaldabat coming?
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Great Tesla! Shocked That's looking fantastic!
How's the Cazaldabat coming?
Thanks... Um...
Cazaldabat??!
If you're referring to the Bazalgette Light Armoured Perambulatory Contrivance, the answer is... slowly.
If not, dunno.
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Bazalgette? Are you taking the piss? ;)
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From my blog:
The Bazalgette Light Armoured Perambulatory Contrivance:
In 1856, Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891) was commissioned to redesign the London sewers - no mean task - and although he rose ably to the challenge, there were certain elements of the job he found rather distasteful.
Thus it was that in early 1857, he unveiled the Joseph Bazalgette Steam Driven Wading Suit - a small, one-man vessel capable of carrying him in comfort and with clean, dry shoes throughout the vast network of stinky tunnels that had become his Big Job.
It was while clanking his way through the foetid labyrinth of Putney that he encountered the now infamous Putney Sewer Trolls. Armed with only a scented handkerchief and an iron 250 horsepower right foot, he sent the blighters packing all the way to Mayfair, where their howls and moans attracted the local constabulory.
Needless to say, the Daily Telegraph's report of this heroic feat drew the attention of the War Office and Bazalgette was afforded a brief respite from his backed-up work load to design a similar vessel for use by the military. This took a while, with many adjustments and perfections to be made - and much rising stink from the abandoned and unfinished sewers - until in late 1862, William Cubitt, Lord Mayor of London, protested to the Palace that enough was enough and Sir Joe really ought to get back into his element. Resigned to his responsibilities, Bazalgette handed over the new machine to The Right Honourable Sir George Cornwall Lewis, Her Majesty's Secretary of State, and clanked off back into the poo.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--w7fsY0gOE0/T3q6cKa2UPI/AAAAAAAAAvY/fazlrREOgV4/s640/P3100106.JPG)
(a work in progress)
http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/bazalgette-light-armoured-perambulatory.html (http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/bazalgette-light-armoured-perambulatory.html)
Hmmm... Getting sidetracked here...
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Those Faraday stuff are great! :o
I'm waiting to see that Bazalgette armour finished.
Cheers.
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Thanks, Verd. I'm waiting too - wish it would finish itself!
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The Bazalgette - that is the one.
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In that case, Sir... slowly.
I'll have another good crack at it as soon as the tank's finished - got distracted.
Glad to see you're interested, though!
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Colonel, if you hadn't noticed, I am pretty much interested in every project you are doing.
Just gobsmackingly good stuff. I was serious about the hiring you if I won the lottery. "Full time toymaker to the rich guy in Texas" was the job title I was thinking...
The kidnappers were a backup plan, if you proved difficult.
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Love the Bazalgette.
On the Faraday Mk. II, what is the huge cylinder jutting out the front?
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Are you referring to the boiler?
It's a boiler.
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Are you referring to the boiler?
It's a boiler.
Aaah I suddenly see the locomotive element in your design... of a steamtank. I can be blind at times.
Thank you for clearing that up!
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Are you referring to the boiler?
It's a boiler.
lol lol lol
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I just want to know what intrepid member of the army design board decided putting an unarmoured boiler right out front would work out well under fire. ;D
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Please. This is what happens when you let the Army design a landship.
Navy should have done it.
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I just want to know what intrepid member of the army design board decided putting an unarmoured boiler right out front would work out well under fire. ;D
It's a cunning plan: if the enemy shoot it, they get sprayed with boiling water under pressure!
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Gentlemen.
We are talking about the past. My men have not yet had time to discover the fatal flaw in their design.
Give the poor boys a chance to learn for themselves! They'll figure it out pretty soon...
Or, to put it another way:
I don't care if it works, so long as it looks good! I never win anyway!
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Bazalgette? Are you taking the piss? ;)
How sad! I'd heard of his work, the lives he'd saved, and yet I didn't recognize the name!
Noble name for a noble beast!
Gentlemen.
We are talking about the past. My men have not yet had time to discover the fatal flaw in their design.
Give the poor boys a chance to learn for themselves! They'll figure it out pretty soon...
Or, to put it another way:
I don't care if it works, so long as it looks good! I never win anyway!
I tend not to expect armor on every device around; I would, however, assume the front of the boiler is fortified, no matter how many rivets you count. :D
Anyway, no one expects an enemy to be able to close with the fearsome Faraday!
As for if it 'works', if you're playing GASLIGHT, and roll start and sustain in the manner of our own Herr Rupe, no worries about it moving close enough to be in harm's way. lol
Lovely. Just lovely.
Doug
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How sad! I'd heard of his work, the lives he'd saved, and yet I didn't recognize the name!
A descendant of his set up a TV production company which, among other things, created the Big Brother format. It was noted at the time that one Bazalgette took the sewage out of your house, while the other poured it back in.
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Those Bazalgettes, huh? Crazy!
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Amazing builds! All of them! :o
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Thanks, Dr. The Viking... and all of you.
Here's the finished deal...
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LIi6pgvcGm8/T7nTCAVAcjI/AAAAAAAAAzY/SzDCPLlis4Y/s400/main.JPG)
Had to do it. Sorry!
In the summer of 1867, the renowned engineer, poet, cricket captain and pig wrestler, Sir Rupert Wombly-Paddinton IV unveiled to Her Majesty's War Office his newest and most terrifying creations, the 'Lord Thomson' and 'Sir Percival' - two steam-driven tanks of the most advanced and up-to-the-minute design. Each was armed with a compact and deadly turret-mounted Mark II Faraday Cannon and twin side-mounted anti-infantry flux projectors. Each had iron tracks that would enable them to steam across the most difficult of terrain in pursuit of Her Majesty's foes. But most devious of all, each bore a hideous, grimacing face that would strike fear into the hearts of even the most savage heathens Her Majesty's forces might ever encounter...
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qz2PZ7IOnAQ/T7nXahA3LpI/AAAAAAAAAz0/18-3x__GrhM/s400/gantries.JPG)
More on my blog...
http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/some-really-useful-engines.html (http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/some-really-useful-engines.html)
Hope you can forgive me! I promise I'll be finishing some more sensible(ish) machines very soon!
All the Best!
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Just brilliant.
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:o Unreal. Love them lots.
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Forgive me, Colonel. All I can think when seeing them is 'Thomas's Undead Uncles'.
I'm so ashamed... :(
Doug
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Hmmm. Yeah...
So a few people liked the 'Thomas' thing, but I'm guessing by your silence, ladies and gentlemen, that this was not my most popular design. And I admit, I had my doubts too, but I was swept away in a moment of silliness.
- sorry for giving you nightmares, Doug!
So I've modified them. They now have removable magnetised fronts so I can interchange them.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yCL2BAsZZNo/T8LlxX56p9I/AAAAAAAAA1U/TzbaOOj6hKU/s400/main.JPG)
I hope the new armoured versions are more to your liking!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AWy1ezbSq5M/T8LloU5Ah-I/AAAAAAAAA08/spCdJaZ9oPU/s400/c.JPG)
More pics and info on my blog.
http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/good-sense-prevails.html (http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/good-sense-prevails.html)
All the Best!
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THIS I like. Your work is, as usual, fantastic.
Now that they don't have faces they're not creepy!
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Thanks, Varangian.
But what's wrong with creepy? Some of my best friends...
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Definitely had character; I would have rather hoped you could have created different versions, and left the 'Lords' as is, but you'd start having a basement like mine. The 'zombie' comment came out of the pin-hole eyes and mottled grey. Truly, creepy, but I liked the humor.
Take a bit more than that for nightmares, mind you. ;->=
I see the whole armored snout comments on your previous 'tank engines' have had their effect on you, though.
Don't pay too much mind to the quiet, as your riveted-iron goodness is so great you have to expect a bit of shell-shock. lol
Just don't stop.
Doug
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I loved both, but I do prefer the new armored versions.
They are lovely builds. I really envy you scratch builders. :-*
I just don't have the tools, patience or skill. :D
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The first version made me laugh, but these really do look good!
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Thanks, Varangian.
But what's wrong with creepy? Some of my best friends...
I hear ya there... Some of mine as well!
Just like those friends, I don't know that I would have trusted those engines around anyone I cared about....
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I liked the creepy thomas version but this one looks really good too but in a different way. You say the front is magnetised so you can still use the creepy face ones? That's good.
:D
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... You say the front is magnetised so you can still use the creepy face ones? That's good.
:D
Whoops, missed that; I expect the unexpected in some future AAR! ;)
Doug
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More detail and the first 193 rivets now...
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jZebwcTxDeQ/T4ul4Sq5QCI/AAAAAAAAAxs/ZvzTGWuiH5s/s400/P3220145.JPG)
Now I have side-mounted Faraday Flux Projectors! Mwah ha ha!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r5clmXToJSw/T4ulwMaYEEI/AAAAAAAAAxE/pqmnfeidOOU/s400/P3220139.JPG)
More on the blog...
http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/starting-to-feel-little-familiar.html (http://colonelotruth.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/starting-to-feel-little-familiar.html)
All the Best!
Colonel...where did you get the cogs from that you used in the second picture??? They are just what I am chasing for the latest secret project.
Pete
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Pete -
The cogs are from inside a correction tape roller. I get through tons of 'em at work!
All the Best
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I love the new, armoured front, versions!
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Pete -
The cogs are from inside a correction tape roller. I get through tons of 'em at work!
All the Best
Thanks Colonel......if you ever feel the need to get rid of some send them my way!!! They are extremely useful looking pieces of kit.
Pete
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Thanks, Mister Rab. I like 'em too.
Glad I made them. The faces may be destined for the fridge...