jamsessionein
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Haha
Last time I tried something like that I spent days tearing apart things in my basement (VCRs, old junk) looking, but didn\'t find anything productive.
I\'ll keep looking, though.
Looted Marine Dreadnought
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Haha
Last time I tried something like that I spent days tearing apart things in my basement (VCRs, old junk) looking, but didn\'t find anything productive.
I\'ll keep looking, though.
Dark Seraphim
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Nice Jamsessionein! 
Looking really really cool!
Can\'t wait to see the finished product!
Looking really really cool!Can\'t wait to see the finished product!
Bengoodall
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Not a lot of cogs or bits in a vcr, especially a new one, you need something like a tape deck, I know that has at least one good sized gear from memory.
And I may even have a couple of old ones laying around if you need something.
And I may even have a couple of old ones laying around if you need something.
philologus
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Bust up a cheap alarm clock (old fashioned, winding type). Angela Imrie did this for one of her Techmarines IIRC. She said she bought it from IKEA for a couple bucks. Lots of gears in those things.
Spacemunkie
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You don\'t even have to try to break stuff from IKEA.
It should carry a clear disclaimer: \'Not fit for intended purpose\'!
More Orky goodness. Quality stuff:beer:
It should carry a clear disclaimer: \'Not fit for intended purpose\'!
More Orky goodness. Quality stuff:beer:
jamsessionein
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So, I figured I should probably finish this looted dreadnought, now that I\'ve received the buzzsaws I needed.
Totally cool, right? Notice the stuff on the back?
Now it has an engine! I had to kill some time while the buzzsaws soak to remove paint from them, so I got to banging together an engine. I still have some stuff to add, though. It\'s a separate piece:
Here\'s a couple angles of it attached. It needs a bit of cleanup, obviously, and more worky bits.
Like everything else, it\'s removable and attaches with pins and magnets.
What do you guys think?
Totally cool, right? Notice the stuff on the back?
Now it has an engine! I had to kill some time while the buzzsaws soak to remove paint from them, so I got to banging together an engine. I still have some stuff to add, though. It\'s a separate piece:
Here\'s a couple angles of it attached. It needs a bit of cleanup, obviously, and more worky bits.
Like everything else, it\'s removable and attaches with pins and magnets.
What do you guys think?
MathewBaich
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looks sweet man! whatever happened to your mini stompa?
jamsessionein
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It wasn\'t exactly mini.
Hasn\'t gone anywhere. I still have to paint it.
Dreadnought buzzsaws, of course!
Originally posted by DaN
PLEASE change the standing leg - it looks as though it\'s gonna break
The more cool stuff you add to this beast, the more fragile that landing-gear leg looks
You know, I agree with this sentiment. It does look a bit flimsy. I haven\'t yet been able to figure out how to reinforce it in a manner I like - any ideas? Tacking stuff onto the sides ends up cheapening it\'s appearance a bit as I\'ve tried it, and I sort\'ve like the exposed mechanics of it, but if I could figure out a decent way to mechanize it better I might. Perhaps an additional hydraulic arm on either side of the central one?
jamsessionein
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Gettin\' there!
I need to integrate them a little better, but I don\'t think it looks all that bad. Had to hack a lot of it down to make it all fit together smoothly, and I could probably use a bit of putty on the seams just to close the gap up. I actually hacked the two square vented parts off the back of the saws as I thought they looked a bit too long and awkward. This sets the saws a bit closer to the wrist, which I think helps keep the general aesthetic of the thing a bit cleaner. As clean as orks get, anyway.
Used a file to flatten down the insides of these, then pinned them together, and then pinned the back of the engine onto the wrist. I cut the wrist down a bit, too, with a jeweller\'s saw to get a flat surface for mounting the weapon on.
I\'d like to beef that \'replacement\' leg up a bit - making it look more compressed by shortening it a bit is one way of possibly doing that, but it\'s really such a pain in the ass to do something along those lines that I\'m probably going to avoid it. I really want to come up with another way of reinforcing it a tiny bit, but at the same time I like the \'wow, that could give at any moment\' look of it, so I need to find a comfortable middle ground.
I need to integrate them a little better, but I don\'t think it looks all that bad. Had to hack a lot of it down to make it all fit together smoothly, and I could probably use a bit of putty on the seams just to close the gap up. I actually hacked the two square vented parts off the back of the saws as I thought they looked a bit too long and awkward. This sets the saws a bit closer to the wrist, which I think helps keep the general aesthetic of the thing a bit cleaner. As clean as orks get, anyway.
Used a file to flatten down the insides of these, then pinned them together, and then pinned the back of the engine onto the wrist. I cut the wrist down a bit, too, with a jeweller\'s saw to get a flat surface for mounting the weapon on.
I\'d like to beef that \'replacement\' leg up a bit - making it look more compressed by shortening it a bit is one way of possibly doing that, but it\'s really such a pain in the ass to do something along those lines that I\'m probably going to avoid it. I really want to come up with another way of reinforcing it a tiny bit, but at the same time I like the \'wow, that could give at any moment\' look of it, so I need to find a comfortable middle ground.
jamsessionein
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I felt this was necessary.
Going to add a bit more detail and rivets to it later if I can find room and figure out what, exactly. It\'s a good candidate for a checker pattern. The guns forced me to make it a bit smaller than originally planned but I think it still works.
A look at how it all breaks down currently...
Going to add a bit more detail and rivets to it later if I can find room and figure out what, exactly. It\'s a good candidate for a checker pattern. The guns forced me to make it a bit smaller than originally planned but I think it still works.
A look at how it all breaks down currently...
jamsessionein
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I had a bit of an idea that I thought was worth pursuing.
See, I tend to like flexibility in my models, so I was gazing at the guns on this thing and thought I might try a bit of a flamer upgrade that I could add or remove as needed. My original line of thinking was that I could chop the barrel off and magnetize it, but the ammo clip would need the same treatment and it\'d just end up being a pain to assemble whenever I wanted to use it. Instead, I decided with a bit less of an obtrusive upgrade, and banged out a prototype to see how I liked it...
It\'s a bit of an obvious cop-out, particularly with the ammo clip still there... but is it passable, you think? I imagine a big shoota setup would be standard, but against particular horde armies I could probably see this being of use.
See, I tend to like flexibility in my models, so I was gazing at the guns on this thing and thought I might try a bit of a flamer upgrade that I could add or remove as needed. My original line of thinking was that I could chop the barrel off and magnetize it, but the ammo clip would need the same treatment and it\'d just end up being a pain to assemble whenever I wanted to use it. Instead, I decided with a bit less of an obtrusive upgrade, and banged out a prototype to see how I liked it...
It\'s a bit of an obvious cop-out, particularly with the ammo clip still there... but is it passable, you think? I imagine a big shoota setup would be standard, but against particular horde armies I could probably see this being of use.
Godlikebuthumble
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Seriously cool job going on there!
At first I thought the snotling/gretchin didn\'t fit, but the \"cyberized\" version works a treat. Personally, I like the idea with the flamer. Prolly some Ork just needed a frame for a flamer and didn\'t bother chopping off the ammo feed. Sounds plausible to me. While I like magnetic parts, the ones (read: the muzzle) that stick without are even better in my book.
Again, really great convo, can\'t wait to see that one painted! :yes:
At first I thought the snotling/gretchin didn\'t fit, but the \"cyberized\" version works a treat. Personally, I like the idea with the flamer. Prolly some Ork just needed a frame for a flamer and didn\'t bother chopping off the ammo feed. Sounds plausible to me. While I like magnetic parts, the ones (read: the muzzle) that stick without are even better in my book.
Again, really great convo, can\'t wait to see that one painted! :yes:
jamsessionein
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I bounced back to this dreadnought project with the intention of finishing it off while I wait for extra parts for Zagstruk to come in the mail. I was hoping to complete it in the span of a single day, but my law school applications took up literally nine hours of yesterday, so I wasn\'t as productive as I might have liked. Still, I tweaked a couple things, and I\'d love some comments on it.
I slightly repositioned that stock marine shinguard and added some orky decoration to it. I also decided that I really didn\'t like the shield that was on it - the shape was good and the bit itself helped convey the motion of walking with the dangly bits that swing underneath, but I just didn\'t like the idea of wood on this model. I found an ork glyph that I believe comes from one of the warbikes, maybe? Either way, it fit fairly nicely.
I also spent a bit of time working on adding some form of details to the buzzsaw arm. A tiny little glyph was added to one of the shoulder plates, and I dremeled a quick little \'impact\' hole where the dreadnought took some battle damage which was hastily plated up. Built something of a small exhaust pipe on the back to replace the normal worky marine bits. I also added a little length of cabling to try and balance the model out - the other arm has a lot of cables! I\'ll probably add one or two more before this is through.
I\'m open to suggestions as to what might \'complete\' this model. I know the \'replacement leg\' on the model looks fairly open and unarmored, but I haven\'t really figured out a way of adequately armoring it without looking like said armor interferes with the working mechanisms. I could just add auxiliary pistons to either side of the main one...
I\'m seriously deliberating putting a red LED inside the body to backlight the grot just because I can, rather than out of any particular need. I don\'t know if it\'s worth all the trouble, though.
I was actually also thinking I might make an alternate back piece for this model, as well. The Apocalypse \'Dred Mob\' rules let you nominate one model of the mob to carry a force field projector. You can actually put the projector on a Stompa, which is what I imagine I\'d most want to do, but in games where I either can\'t fit or for some reason don\'t want to include my gargant I should probably make an effort to indicate this dread as carrying the projector.
Anyway, more than open to ideas or comments.
I slightly repositioned that stock marine shinguard and added some orky decoration to it. I also decided that I really didn\'t like the shield that was on it - the shape was good and the bit itself helped convey the motion of walking with the dangly bits that swing underneath, but I just didn\'t like the idea of wood on this model. I found an ork glyph that I believe comes from one of the warbikes, maybe? Either way, it fit fairly nicely.
I also spent a bit of time working on adding some form of details to the buzzsaw arm. A tiny little glyph was added to one of the shoulder plates, and I dremeled a quick little \'impact\' hole where the dreadnought took some battle damage which was hastily plated up. Built something of a small exhaust pipe on the back to replace the normal worky marine bits. I also added a little length of cabling to try and balance the model out - the other arm has a lot of cables! I\'ll probably add one or two more before this is through.
I\'m open to suggestions as to what might \'complete\' this model. I know the \'replacement leg\' on the model looks fairly open and unarmored, but I haven\'t really figured out a way of adequately armoring it without looking like said armor interferes with the working mechanisms. I could just add auxiliary pistons to either side of the main one...
I\'m seriously deliberating putting a red LED inside the body to backlight the grot just because I can, rather than out of any particular need. I don\'t know if it\'s worth all the trouble, though.
I was actually also thinking I might make an alternate back piece for this model, as well. The Apocalypse \'Dred Mob\' rules let you nominate one model of the mob to carry a force field projector. You can actually put the projector on a Stompa, which is what I imagine I\'d most want to do, but in games where I either can\'t fit or for some reason don\'t want to include my gargant I should probably make an effort to indicate this dread as carrying the projector.
Anyway, more than open to ideas or comments.
alextheartist
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Really comming on really nice!. One time when i was in ikea i sat on a stoole and started to spin around on it cos\' i was board and it was around xmas, so they had these huge vases filled with baubles, and the stoole snapped in half and i went crashing into a vase, and well lets say securty was quickly summoned, but i managed to get out of it some how. =) i enjoyed it tho =)
another 2 supports for the replacement leg sounds like a good way to bulk it up without changing the feel of that part of the piece, maybe even making the new supports angled pistons that start wide and then come together on the base, and some more cabling on the leg to fit the look on the custom arms
