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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: mysteriousbill on May 22, 2016, 06:04:29 PM
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Leviathans with a crew of thirty or more are too big for a 25/28mm GASLIGHT game. At that size a Leviathan would be more a piece of terrain than a vehicle. So I am proposing a modification to the rules for very large landships such as..
(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh102/bigkahunna_album/lev1.jpg) (http://s254.photobucket.com/user/bigkahunna_album/media/lev1.jpg.html)
Go to
http://captainbill.weebly.com/leviathans.html
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We never really got into the Leviathans, but agree a midpoint beast is called for. Now, you have to come up with a term for the heavies-but-not-Leviathans. lol
Doug
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Nice looking contraption - is it scratch built?
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I'm pretty sure it started life as a Mage Knight Dwarven Steam Behemoth.
I'll leave it up tp Bill, if he cares to, to give specifics of how many changes.
Doug
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It is a MageKnight Dwarven Steam Tank. I ditched the spike roller, added a couple old style solid metal farm tires from a toy tractor (a damaged 1/16 Farmall I picked up off of Ebay cheap). I smoothed out the bell shaped cannon muzzle, and added a couple gatlings to the front.
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Those 1/16 farm tractor models of the era of the solid metal tires make a good source of wheels for large and very large landships (but you have to buy 2 tractors).
such as
http://www.ebay.com/itm/John-Deere-Cast-Iron-1-16-Scale-Tractor-Model-D-Reproduction-Toy-6-5-Nice-/291771102084?hash=item43eee9b384:g:uJsAAOSw0QFXCqk1
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ERTL-Fordson-Model-F-Ford-Tractor-1-16-DieCast-/152068921491?hash=item2368039893:g:FpsAAOSwiYFXH5im
I just realized I used a Fordson not a Farmall as sources for wheels.