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Specialist Games General Discussion => Modeling & painting => Topic started by: dry_erase on June 02, 2015, 07:58:02 PM
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About a year ago, I decided to make an Empire Landship to go with a small contingent of marine-themed Empire troops. I want it to act as a proxy Steamtank, so it was important that it fits on a standard base. As a challenge to myself, I planned to make a close replica of the 28mm scale Forgeworld model.
The hull is a pen lid covered in greenstuff and brass strips with a deck made from a lollipop stick carved with planks. The cannon is a piece of tubing and plasticard. The fore and aftcastles are plasticard with the odd bit of brass strip. The engine is some carved sprue, plasticard, bits of brass strip, wire and anything I could cobble together.
I've worked on it very slowly in the intervening time (and admired other people's efforts on here!), but now I’m almost done – the crew are still being worked on and there are a few small details to add (ladder, anchor, bowsprit, a few levers and a ship's wheel). It needs painting before assembly of course!
Apologies if the pictures are crap!
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I wondered what had happened to this project- great work. Will there be a sail?
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Yes, really nice ! I love it and long to see it finished !
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Very cool :)
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Thanks all!
I'm not planning a sail for two reasons.. it's powered by steam like the Forgeworld model and (more importantly) a sail will hide too much of the detail I've been slaving over!
Anchor and ship's wheel went on tonight. Bowsprit on Friday and I've decided against a ladder... so almost ready to undercoat.
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Wicked! Can't wait to see it finished.
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Excellent - very original!
Dave
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Progress made!
Here are the finished fore- and aft-castles, complete with crew member on steering duty.
I've now finished the assembly and everything is primed and sitting on the workbench in my shed, ready for painting tomorrow night.
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They really lok good ! Do continue like that.
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An update!
I'm about halfway through painting. The wood, brass, ironwork and blue paint are done - with shields and crew still to go.
I've not assembled it yet, but I'll get onto that once I'm comfortable it won't get in the way of painting (the forecastle doesn't slope down as much as it looks on the photo!). The crew are almost done too.
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Very, very nice!
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That's really good. Looking forward to seeing the final version.
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Wow, it seemd gret, but now we can see it painted, it's just marvelous. Both out from a fairu tale and from the Nuln artillery masters... Love it. Definitively.
If ever you can recast some, i will surely buy you some.
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Excellent work, scrubbing up nice!
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All done! (except the base of course... I hate basing)
Here it is painted and photographed badly from a dazzling array of angles. A few Warmonger Greatswords sneaked into shot for size comparison purposes.
I'm really pleased with how this turned out - certainly the best thing I've built from scratch.
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That looks great! Definitely an idea I may consider stealing one day :p
Are their any problems with the poles or flags being fragile?
I think you need to convert a white land-whale for a campaign game :p
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Great work
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It's a great model from every side you see it. Congratulations !
Where does the big wheels come from ?
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Are their any problems with the poles or flags being fragile?
Not that I can tell. The mast is cut from Lego, which is a harder plastic than modellers usually use. The bowsprit is a possible risk, but it seems firm enough - the flag comes from a Dreadfleet ship so it's fairly rigid.
Where does the big wheels come from ?
They're from a 15mm artillery piece - can't remember which, but that was the best source of biggish wheels that I could find. I covered the hub with a little shell pattern shaved from the same Dreadfleet ship mentioned above.
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Pure awesomeness! Love it :)
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Excellent idea to chose 15 mm stuff for the wheels.
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Really like the finished version.