Guns for trains (new pics Sep. 15, 2011)

[Froggy the Great]

So I'm rounding out my VSF Confederates with a pair of walking locomotives.  I need to add rivets and guns before painting.



My question now is:  What would be a plausible heavy weapon to add to them?  These are single-man vehicles, so whatever it is needs to be plausibly self-loading.

Also I do not actually own any VSFy heavy weapons - these would have to be scratchbuilt.

Your input is solicited and appreciated.

[Geckilian]

Though I can't offer a weapon suggestion, those are genius. Blimey.

[Malamute]

Is that a golf tee for a smokestack?  
How about a Gatling gun or some multi barrelled revolving gun? ( Should be easy enough to scratchbuild)

[The Dozing Dragon]

Marvellous work! A steam powered gatling gun on the roof / underside would work......

[Cadet13]

Or a Hotchkiss Revolving cannon mounted on a bracket on the side? You could link it to the boiler to be steam powered.

These are inspired, regardless of what weapons you put on it. 

[zizi666]

Though I'm no VSF-buff, these are fun to look at.

IMO the weight of those boilers and the position of the connection point with the legs would make the whole thing topple forward, so I would definitly add large heavy stuff as far aft as possible e.g. heavy guns with large breach blocks protruding from the rear.

a couple of questions come to mind :
1. where do you stock your coal ? it is a steam engine after all. (a walking cart behind the engine maybe)
2. Have you considered a multiped vehicle. It would make more sense (although you'd probably end up with gigantic vehicles)

[FramFramson]

Yes, some kind of rear mount that aims forward underneath the body would work. Seconding the suggestion for a gatling gun of some variety. The rear mount would allow plausible access for a driver to reload it.

You can maybe trim the cowcatchers to allow for the gun (those cowcatchers are also a bit off compared to the rest of the model anyway - they're too crude and rounded). Instead, maybe you can add a small L-shaped drop-down guard plate (like this).

Otherwise, these are hilarious good fun.  

[OccasionalWargamer]

I don't have anyother suggestions for guns, but I look forward to seeing this project progress.

[Froggy the Great]

Though I'm no VSF-buff, these are fun to look at.

IMO the weight of those boilers and the position of the connection point with the legs would make the whole thing topple forward, so I would definitly add large heavy stuff as far aft as possible e.g. heavy guns with large breach blocks protruding from the rear.

a couple of questions come to mind :
1. where do you stock your coal ? it is a steam engine after all. (a walking cart behind the engine maybe)
2. Have you considered a multiped vehicle. It would make more sense (although you'd probably end up with gigantic vehicles)

1: Valid point, but you're thinking way too hard about the practicality.
2.  I tried that, but decided I liked the bipedal ones.

I figure these are straight out of Deadlands, so there's a lot of complicated weird science and ghost rock going on inside that boiler.  It works, but the handwavium matrices have to be kept properly aligned.

[Tom Reed]

Brilliant idea about powering a gatling gun with steam!
i second that idea.

[Ray Rivers]

Flame throwers!   

[zizi666]

I figure these are straight out of Deadlands, so there's a lot of complicated weird science and ghost rock going on inside that boiler.  It works, but the handwavium matrices have to be kept properly aligned.

All this time I had the feeling I was forgetting something. Now I remember : handwavium matrices, ofcourse 

[S J Donovan]

I made this walker about ten years ago from a cheap plastic O guage train cutting short the engine and adding a gun below the engine with a US Naval fig from the 1860s manning a gatling gun.

[gamer Mac]

Flame throwers!   

Not flame throwers
Steam throwers

[Froggy the Great]

I decided to go with a simple cannon from mecha arms, and reporpoised the shoulder as an ammunition hopper.  The steam feeds are safely internal where I don't have to model them.

Epoxy rivets added, primer sprayed, and now I have to figure out how to paint non-metallic worn black steel.