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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: mysteriousbill on May 22, 2016, 06:04:29 PM

Title: GASLIGHT Leviathans and Goliaths
Post by: mysteriousbill on May 22, 2016, 06:04:29 PM
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
Title: Re: GASLIGHT Leviathans and Goliaths
Post by: The_Beast on May 22, 2016, 06:51:27 PM
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
Title: Re: GASLIGHT Leviathans and Goliaths
Post by: Blodwin on May 25, 2016, 08:36:55 PM
Nice looking contraption - is it scratch built?
Title: Re: GASLIGHT Leviathans and Goliaths
Post by: The_Beast on May 26, 2016, 05:35:22 PM
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
Title: Re: GASLIGHT Leviathans and Goliaths
Post by: mysteriousbill on May 26, 2016, 08:31:39 PM
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.
Title: Re: GASLIGHT Leviathans and Goliaths
Post by: mysteriousbill on May 26, 2016, 08:39:43 PM
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.