Merlon's not quite 40K SF thread

[Freddy]

Wow, what a nice forklift!

[Merlon]

Thank you both.
590 could be a useful prop in many scenarios, especially with the servo skulls added to the skull docks.

Been exploring the Nubian vault concept and created five buildings so far in various forms.


Now to build some shops, street clutter and courtyard walls to add to the mix.

Quiet weekend, as the boss was away. So able to create mayhem with saws, knives glue and plastic.
Got asked to make a truck for a Necromunda game. Might have got a bit carried away with an inspired by Hydrema 912 build.

Nearly there.

It will do for a plot element, when I get it back will finish painting it

[Rommel]

An old plastic Imperial Guard!If only  I got hold on a box of them!

[Freddy]

Great looking little truck!

[Merlon]

An old plastic Imperial Guard!If only  I got hold on a box of them!

I did have a box of them, but I sold the majority of them to a guy in Australia. Think I now have just the one and components to build one or two more.

Jumping sideways, an American friend brought me a treasure from far away. Thank you very much.
A Rogue Trader era Imperial Knight - Space Marine bottom right of the picture for scale.

Will keep me quiet on the modelling front for some time.
Company is called Battle Castings, all their product appear to be sold out at the moment. A series of resin castings, from a 3D printed master, the print seems to have had a lot of facets that will require smoothing out plus there is some mould slippage. This will be a slow burn project.

[Daeothar]

Ooh, that's very nice! 

It looks like it will nicely fit in with the old Armorcast Titans (of which I am lucky enough to own one), coming from the old Epic/Space Marine range.

I understand it's a 3D design; I'd love to get my dirty mitts on those STLs...

[Merlon]

I'd love to get my dirty mitts on those STLs...

I think they are a none commercial STL, created solely for this model. Very low polygon count hence all the facets.

The model is made from a soft slightly flexible resin, survived a bounce test in a fall to the floor. I suspect the mould is end of life lots of slippage in the seams requiring a lot of sanding and filling. Also areas with extensive pitting in the components. Smoothing the facets requires a lot of patience. Still making slow progress.
Have magnetised the waist and weapon connections.
Some of the print facets are still visible in the legs, put some primer on them as they were getting grubby from handling. Long way to go.


Traditional battle cannon and chainsword armament

Slightly more psychotic armament of chainsword and power fist
 

[Merlon]

In the spring for a reenactor everything goes a bit haywire. Clothes have shrunk over the winter, new projects need sewing. April tends to be rather hectic.
For example I sewed a flag in silk taffeta, with a great deal of muttering.


On the gaming front, sometimes one makes a decision that one comes to regret. I decided to make some courtyard walls with some "crinkle" to them. A lot harder to progress than I thought, most of the corner and junction pieces are done. Now just creating a number of straights and then of course painting them.


Having finally purchased a circle cutter for my Proxxon was able to make some progress on Market buildings. The advantage of using Nubian vault for inspiration is they have plans available that you can copy https://www.lavoutenubienne.org/bibliotheque-de-plans

Quite a bit of time consumed getting used to the circle cutter, but I am getting there.

[hubbabubba]

Those walls look excellent, the building looks promising too.

Glad I'm not the only one with shrinking clothes

[Merlon]

Those walls look excellent, the building looks promising too.

Glad I'm not the only one with shrinking clothes

I think nearly all my friends suffer from shrinking moth attacks.

Plodding along making more and more walls, but nothing worth showing.
As a distraction there was a requirement for some kind of oil extraction facility. So i made a couple of small oil tanks, a gun separator tank, water tank and of course a nodding donkey. I much more of a modeller than a painter but I shall add the to the queue.
 

In breaking new there is obviously going to be something happening down at the landing field soon. An AdMech light security maniple has just turned up, quite a rare occurrence and always means trouble.


I found an old Epic scale Ork tank chassis, mounted it on a base then made a mould so I could replicate the shape by resin casting. Then using the servitor searchlight/speaker things from an Imperial Bastion created the upperworks for a tracked weapons servitor.
Quite happy with how these turned out.

[Freddy]

This is all so cool!

[Merlon]

Thank you.
I wish I was a better painter so I would feel better showing more of my models. But I have always been more of a stick styrene together sort of person together.
Spent most of June waiting on doctors and surgeons, playing is the knee bad enough for replacement game. So not much time spent on my own stuff, but did a couple of birthday presents for others that I will show.
Up to them how they will finish and paint them, I can get away with Munitorum grey undercoat.

Firstly, a Stalinets style tractor with garden shed cab for a Valhallan army. Made a couple of cargo sledges for it to tow, but forgot to photograph them, duh. The concrete mixer load on the trailer is mine, has been sitting undercoated for over ten years. It will be finished one day


Secondly, an AS90 inspired Basilisk for a Steel Legion army.
Owner has a couple of modular Chimera  hull that units can just changed around. So I made a hull that will just slide / clip into a Chimera chassis, hence why there are no tracks on the vehicle I just glued up a chassis to get the sizing..


Eventually I will start posting properly on this forum.
Cheers

[Pattus Magnus]

Those are excellent kitbashes and scratch builds. For some reason, the tractor and trailer are especially appealing to me.

[Freddy]

I really like your scratchbuilt vehicles, great job on them!

[axiom]

Your sentry servitors are genius! Love them.