"Dead Reckoning 1887" a.k.a. Land Train Goliath PIC HEAVY

[Pappa Midnight]

Being a huge Zombie Film fan ( who'd have guessed???) I thought it would be fun to create an 1887 version of "Dead Reckoning" from The Land Of The Dead.
Owned by the Knightsbridge Hunt Club, land Train "Goliath" is a marvel of modern engineering. The tractor unit, originally meant for use in heavy industry, has been strenghtened with armour-plate ( up to 3" in places) and has had a turret added with a heavy machinegun. It has firing ports all round to enable crew to engage with small arms from any angle.
The coal tender gives it increased range but may be dispensed with for operations closer to home.
The battle carriage has an upper observation deck with a mounted light machinegun to the rear. Its main weapons are sponson mounted, steam-driven 20mm Gatling Cannons. It also sports 2" armour plate and lateral firing ports.
It is the most powerful offensive vehicle in civillian hands!!!




The main tractor unit is a converted "Ramshackle Games" boneyard truck. It has had tracks added from a disney toy and a converted Chimera turret (Ramshackle Games).





The coal tender has been converted from a "Goldlok" train set.
The Battle Carriage is also from a "Goldlok" set and has a scratchbuilt upper deck (bits box) a ww2 Russian LMG and sponsons from a GW tank.





The whole train is 16" long and 5 1/2" High ( although extra carriages can be added...... cattle car for carrying horses or looted gear...?)



Hope You like it.
Regards
PM

[Belgian]

Sick!  I absolutly love it, is it possible to make a groupshot of all your miniatures and terrain?

[Dr DeAth]

    Superb!

[The_Beast]

Damn impressive, indeed. 

Have to admit, though, at first sight, I thought the piccies were foreshortened. For a micro-sec, I saw the hatch as a 'squished' human, and the sections ARE delightfully stunty. ;->=

"It has had tracks added from a disney toy"...

Once again, explaining why the fellow on the Bazar is so desperately seeking Atlantis parts. ;->= Unfortunately, looks like it will take an expedition to the storage shed.

PM, is there no end to your magic, or or your damnable enterprise?!?

Doug

 

[Sangennaru]

oh my!

That's awesome!

[Mr.Marx]

Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow


 


Thats totaly off the awsome scale. Just, totaly.

Marx

[Thunderchicken]

Brilliant work PM! 

I thought you'd been a bit quiet lately. Now we know what you've been up to.

[Chairface]

Freaking awesome!

[answer_is_42]

Fantastic stuff, as always.
Just one point; aren't the wheels on the end carriage a little small for traversing the ruins of post-apocalyptic Victorian London?

[Pappa Midnight]

Thanks for the comments. Wasn't too sure how it would turn out but I'm pretty pleased with it.
I agree the wheels on the battle carriage are pretty small, I was aiming for a sort of gypsy caravan look rather than large coach wheels. Call it style over practicality....

Regards
PM

[answer_is_42]

Fair enough. As for a extra carriage, something like this might finish it off nicely:

[dampfpanzerwagon]

Fantastic - just fantastic.

Thank you for sharing.

Tony
http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/

[jscottbowman]

Absolutely beautiful work. Love the black and gold colour scheme.

And to me it also 'works' - for a steam powered wonder you included the coal wagon.

I am still fairly new to VSF, and some of the contraptions I have seen, make me think 'that just wouldnt work'. I'd love to try my hand at a steampowered gyrocopter, and whilst some I have seen look wonderful, I am always left wondering, where is the coal store, and how does that single pilot, fly it and load the firebox? Maybe they have limited duration in the air??? I am rambling now.

Once again, great stuff!

[Hawkeye]

Just commented on this on your sticky, PM, but wanted to have a read of the "how-to" and your thoughts on the piece. I think I guessed most of the parts correctly! In any case, you did what you almost always manage to do - you took pieces and parts from very different sources, and blended them together to make something cohesive and perfectly at home in your Victorian-Zombie world. Bloody brilliant!
I have to ask - I always have to ask - what are you up to next?

[War In 15MM]

Really a beautiful piece of work.  Richard