[LaserCutCard] Gothic Bastion

[LaserCutCard]

Hi all

Rather than create separate threads I'm going to post all the stuff I am working on into this one.

Here is the third test cut of the Casspir IMV - it is compared here against the Buffel model and then some GW miniatures for scale.

The basic design elements are all there but the proportions are slightly wrong. It is slightly too fat. It needs to be slimmed down a little.

It is (like the Buffel) mostly 1mm heavy card, a bit of MDF and some plastic tubing.

[LaserCutCard]

Oh - and "Hi, Snitchy!" 

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

Are these real current vehicles? or Sci Fi versions inspired by South African APCs?
Are they for sale?

Mick

[DoctorPete]

That Buffel is a sweet model.   

[former user]

pure SF man...






the ideal vehicles suited to opress the disenfranchised masses, cheap and practical - coincidentally very well suited for WH 40K 

[former user]

congratulations!
the accuracy of Your models induces a double take every time I see them...
and here is the inspiration for the next add-on set 

[LaserCutCard]

the ideal vehicles suited to opress the disenfranchised masses, cheap and practical - coincidentally very well suited for WH 40K 

Thanks for all the kind words all.

This is exactly what I think I will be using it for... Adeptus Arbites or possibly Sororitas.

I am doing a paint test on one over at Terragenesis and that one will be painted up in SAP Yellow

And Mick - yes the Buffel is currently in the web store, the casspir should be there late next week

[AndrewBeasley]

Very sweet - not my scale or period but 

The tire effect is great - looks like a real tread.

Any hope for a simple version for 15mm?

[LaserCutCard]

former user -is that the Ingwe ATGM on top of it?

We are going to do that as an add-on for the Ratel, not for the Casspir.

AndrewBeasley - sorry mate not at this stage. The card is 1mm thick and at 1/100 scale is just far to thick to fold. Making it in thinner card would be a pain in the buttocks to assemble.

[former user]

I don't have the slightest clue - I just looked for pictures - but it is rectangular, so go for it   

[Michi]

I wonder why the gearbox is not protected. A well swung sledge hammer or pick would immobilize it immediately. Or did I miss something?

[LaserCutCard]

I wonder why the gearbox is not protected. A well swung sledge hammer or pick would immobilize it immediately. Or did I miss something?

The design philosophy of these vehicles is to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the crew/passengers. So components like that are designed to shear off when the vehicle runs over a landmine rather than be forced up into the hull to become shrapnel. So a lot of the components like the gearbox and the drive train are outside the monocoque hull, left to fend for themselves.

[Michi]

The design philosophy of these vehicles is to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the crew/passengers. So components like that are designed to shear off when the vehicle runs over a landmine rather than be forced up into the hull to become shrapnel. So a lot of the components like the gearbox and the drive train are outside the monocoque hull, left to fend for themselves.

Ah, thanks. A bit non-military concept, but rather cheap. Like B.A. Barracus would do perhaps... 

[former user]

think of assymetric warfare at it's worst...

[LaserCutCard]

Ah, thanks. A bit non-military concept, but rather cheap. Like B.A. Barracus would do perhaps... 

Warfare in Africa isn't for sissies