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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Warren Abox on April 11, 2012, 09:31:38 AM
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This needs a lot of rivets and a lot of paint, but the grunt assembly work is complete. Overall, I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. Shame I don't whether or not this combination of weapons is street legal, let alone effective. My son only has the sixty dollar hard back main rulebook, so he doesn't have all of the rules to be able to field a legal force. Strange that.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uJnbKT5u3AI/T4U_JxtzJBI/AAAAAAAAAdo/_BrzCEtjBBc/s320/GEDC1318.JPG)
The basic materials are foamcore and cereal box. The main gun is the tube from a bottle of liquid soap, and the lower gun is the handle of a disposable razor trimmed short.
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That is pretty damn impressive!
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Very cool.
You could download Armybuilder (free demo) and sneak peak which weapons you can give it.
/Jaeger
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My son only has the sixty dollar hard back main rulebook, so he doesn't have all of the rules to be able to field a legal force.
And that is what is wrong with Warhammer/40k.
Great work on this - as a kid I used to build cardboard tanks for my GI Joes, I never realized the craft could be done with a lot more skill...
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Great work on this - as a kid I used to build cardboard tanks for my GI Joes, I never realized the craft could be done with a lot more skill...
I remember quite fondly doing that as well. I also made lots of foam forts from various types of packing materials.
Nice card work on that Leman Russ, Warren.
Jeff
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Become a member of this yahoo group and you can download lots of card tanks, walkers and more.
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwc-archive/
Hope it helps
Regards
Stephen
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Nice Job will be hard to tell the difference between yours and an "offical" GW one once it's been painted I reckon.
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Is the turret weapon a battle canon or a laser weapon? If its a laser its illegal to the rules. Body weapon is fine, not sure what the sponson weapons are, but your now allowed bolters, flamers, meltas and plasma cannons.
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A standard Leman Russ can have a Heavy Bolter, Las-Cannon or Heavy Flamer on the hull. The sponsons can have Heavy Bolters, Heavy Flamers, Multi-Meltas or Plasma Cannons. The main gun in the turret can have a selection of weapons but a Battle Cannon would suit yours best.
Excellent work with the cardboard :) .
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Thanks for the kind words, everyone - I'll post more shots when I get it finished.
Become a member of this yahoo group and you can download lots of card tanks, walkers and more.
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwc-archive/
Thanks for the link - I'll get on there toot sweet. For the most part, I used a template from this site: this site. http://www.build-40k.com/warhammer-40000-armies/imperial-guard/scratch-built-leman-russ/ (http://this site. http://www.build-40k.com/warhammer-40000-armies/imperial-guard/scratch-built-leman-russ/). This was a bit of a dry run - you can see that the main turret can't track 360-degress unless it's elevated a bit. But I figure it's close enough for Imperial Government work.
A standard Leman Russ can have a Heavy Bolter, Las-Cannon or Heavy Flamer on the hull. The sponsons can have Heavy Bolters, Heavy Flamers, Multi-Meltas or Plasma Cannons. The main gun in the turret can have a selection of weapons but a Battle Cannon would suit yours best.
That helps a lot. The main gun will be a Battle Cannon, and that’s a Las-Cannon on the main hull. Do you think it needs the standard barrel casing at the tip that GW uses to signify “Laser”, or does it stand okay as is? I rather like the tapered look it has now, but if it’ll simplify things at the table, I’m not opposed to adding one. The big help is the sponsons – that balsa is cut to look like twin linked bolters right now. I can tack on a barrel to make it look like a Heavy Bolter, though, so that’s good to know.
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The tank is now complete. More details on the construction and painting on my blog, but here's the final shots.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XHvTQ-1W0jc/T454DzCG7xI/AAAAAAAAAhg/uX59YAIvrGE/s320/GEDC1377.JPG)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cw5TGTnAxbs/T454Fa_RN1I/AAAAAAAAAho/V9yRxnhaTB4/s320/GEDC1378.JPG)
The boy chose green and purple for his unit colors, and the camouflage pattern seemed a natural fit.
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Great job!
The painting scheme reminds me some other fellow of this forum enjoying flamboyant tones.
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Brilliant!
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Excellent work :)
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Nice little scratch built you have there ;)
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I wonder what you used for rivets?
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I wonder what you used for rivets?
There's a kind of pain that I call "Puffy Paint", thanks to the wife. It's a really thick paint that comes in small bottles almost like PVC glue. It goes on thick like toothpaste and dries the same way. It's really a paint expressly made for writing on fabric and clothing, but works great for rivets. It takes a steady hand to get really consistent results. It's a shame I don't have a steady hand yet, but you can get such small little gobs of texture it works great for rivets.
To show you what I'm talking about, here's a link to the stuff at Michaels.com: http://www.michaels.com/Scribbles%C2%AE-3-Dimensional-Paint-80%27s-Pop-6-Pack/gc1721,default,pd.html?start=4&cgid=products-generalcrafts-apparelcrafting-fabricpaint (http://www.michaels.com/Scribbles%C2%AE-3-Dimensional-Paint-80%27s-Pop-6-Pack/gc1721,default,pd.html?start=4&cgid=products-generalcrafts-apparelcrafting-fabricpaint)
So here's what I don't know. When I did this tank, I installed the rivets with black paint, then base coated the whole thing black, then drybrushed it all white so the colors would show up better. That meant that I had to go back and repaint the rivets black before touching them with silver to give them that bolted on look. I'm wondering if I'd be better off painting the next tank completely, then using black puffy paint to install the rivets and touching with silver. That might save a step and some time, but I don't know how well the puffy paint will hold acrylic or hobby paint without the flat krylon basecoat.