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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: colwald on January 04, 2009, 03:12:46 PM

Title: Steam Tank
Post by: colwald on January 04, 2009, 03:12:46 PM

I have make a little steam tank whith carboard plus a machine gun from Warzone.

(http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo139/Colwald/Lead%20Vehicles/Loco01.jpg)

(http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo139/Colwald/Lead%20Vehicles/Loco02.jpg)

(http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo139/Colwald/Lead%20Vehicles/Loco03.jpg)

Title: Re: Steam Tank
Post by: answer_is_42 on January 04, 2009, 04:07:57 PM

Cool! Very WW1, aside from the funnel, of course...
Can models be placed inside? How many?

Title: Re: Steam Tank
Post by: colwald on January 04, 2009, 08:30:22 PM

For models, i can place 5 or 6 figures inside the tank.

My inspiration is a book of a french illustrator : Albert Robida. "La guerre de railway" in "La guerre au vingtième siècle- 1883".

 

Title: Re: Steam Tank
Post by: fastolfrus on January 04, 2009, 10:11:42 PM

Very nice.
Where do the vehicles come from ?

Title: Re: Steam Tank
Post by: argsilverson on January 04, 2009, 10:12:10 PM

All posts up to this moment are excellent. very good job, indeed!

I have the same question:

Where did you get those model cars?

Title: Re: Steam Tank
Post by: Grimmnar on January 04, 2009, 10:23:26 PM

Quote from: fastolfrus on January 04, 2009, 10:11:42 PM

Where do the vehicles come from ?

The green truck on the right is from the Disney Atlantis toy line. :-)

Grimm

Title: Re: Steam Tank
Post by: Trencher on January 04, 2009, 10:49:27 PM

The steam tank looks nice, with a clean camouflage. But how do they manage to fire the prow mounted gun without being obstructed by the funnel? ???
But that's just me and apart fom this, this is a charming tank. Keep it up! o_o  8)

The yellow Ford is from a collectors series which cover some of the vehicles from the Tintin comics. They've started with this Ford for € 3,90, and they offered the rest of the vehicles for €19,90 each, if you are willing to subscribe...
This is how I've got my little Ford...

I assume you've straightened the axles a little bit to make it look less comical.

Title: Re: Steam Tank
Post by: Mancha on January 05, 2009, 03:40:30 AM

I love it; mostly because it looks like a train engine.  And I also really like that Tintin car.  Perfect scale, huh? They have a nice little armored car in that series I'd love to get my hands on.

Title: Re: Steam Tank
Post by: Geudens on January 05, 2009, 10:01:09 AM

Very nicely done, as is your gunboat.  However, may I suggest (for both) to make them look a little less "clean" by weathering and applying some super-details (rivets, handles perhaps and some more (smaller) hatches or stuff to enhaunce the 3D effect)?  IMHO this will make (what is now) a very nice model into a little masterpiece.

Title: Re: Steam Tank
Post by: leadfool on January 16, 2009, 08:19:21 AM

very cool models. 

Title: Re: Steam Tank
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on January 17, 2009, 10:50:36 AM

I like this! You've done a very good job with "low-tech" materials.

However, to me it looks more like part of an armoured train, rather than a landship. Nothing wrong with your original intention for it, of course, but I'd love to see it as part of a VSF train, complete with all sorts of exotic weaponry, troop-carrying compartments, etc.  :D