BSC2018Tomrommel1's "Eardrum Splitter and the Waaaagh singers" now painted

[tomrommel1]

Will build a looted moving stage for my Goff Waaagh Rock Band , the louder the Waaagh the mightier!
Hope that nails this years theme.

[Connectamabob]

First thing that pops into my head was that one war wagon from "Fury Road". You know the one.

Looking forward to seeing what you do.

[tomrommel1]

yes I know the one! My basic war wagon will be a Scratchbuild Leman Russ without a turret. Of course sufficiently tinkered with in the Ork way

[Andym]

I can’t wait to see this one!

What about using one of the old Battlewagons as a basis for your stage? Make a stage where the passenger compartment is and have some of those big gig style speakers you see at the side of stages, either side of that? Maybe have a drummers platform up, between the speakers?



Excuse the shitty drawing from my iPad!

[tomrommel1]

Here is the start!

My entry will be a Ork Goff Rock band for my Ork Warhammer 40000 army. They will get a moving stage in the form of a looted Leman Russ tank. The tank will be a scratch build version to the so called Ruhr pattern. A pattern of Leman Russ as build on the forge world Ruhr in the Germania sector.

I used the paper templates of Patrochloch . Here is an example of a printed out template:



The space marine is there to compare scale. I won’t build the Leman Russ out of paper though. To make it more resilient for the battlefield I will use extruded Polystyrene. Like I did with my Thunderhawk.

Here are pictures of the three main parts before cutting with the hot wire cutter and after basic assembly with a hot glue gun:







More to come

[tinfoilknight]

Detailing that foam to look like the tank is going to be a nightmare. Do you have any solutions in mind? Would it be worth using thin plasticard, cutting it into each of the panels then glueing them on?

[tomrommel1]

I will do panels from polystyrene. I have a cutte who can do up to 1mm thin slices. I did that with my Thunderhawk build too:

[tomrommel1]

sorry should be "cutter". I use this one:

[tinfoilknight]

That's really impressive. I look forward to seeing how this turns out.

[tomrommel1]

thank you

[Vanvlak]

That cutter tool goes on my birthday pressie list 

[tomrommel1]

it is very recommended indeed . I am using some MDF gadgets for it too. They are from Shiftinglands (https://www.shiftinglands.com). They help me cutting really thin sheets or angles, curves and domes.

[tomrommel1]

I did some more work on the Leman Russ body yesterday. The rough detailing started.





Size comparison with one of the band members.







Thats how it looks at the moment.

[tomrommel1]

thanks Scurv

[Burgundavia]

This is so much like CAD. That machine looks the ducks guts as well. I want one!

Given CAD is just drafting done on a computer and a lot of drafting tools look like this, not shocked. Why it surprises me that people feel intimidated by 3D modelling - it just drawing things with an extra plane