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Started by HOG, February 23, 2008, 11:26:37 AM

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jcf

#15
March 07, 2008, 09:33:32 AM
Are you familiar with the Korean Turtle Ship?

1/2.5 replica of late 16th century type used against the Japanese during the Japanese Invasion of 1592-1598.
The top is covered with armor plates and studded with spikes as an anti-personnel measure.

Jon

Brian da Basher

#16
March 07, 2008, 12:10:00 PM
I really like the hammered effect you achieved on those armor plates, HOG!

Brian da Basher

HOG

#17
March 07, 2008, 06:23:56 PM
Hoyhoy Y`all,

Glad you like it.
ED   Just a matter of faith and ignorance of gravity. After all, if they only discovered Oxygen in the  1700`s what the feck did we breathe before then? Decided they were cast in situe.

JON  Nope never seen it before, but at one time I was considering sails for steering hence the extended rear deck. Looking at that picture and the spikes, there must of been a serious pigeon problem back then.

BRIAN  How the heck do you find the time to say somthing nice on just about every post on the forum. Might I suggest an award for `Long Standing Application of Niceness and Amiability Without the Use of a Chair` oscar for this man ;D
H-O-G = Head Out of Gestalt-hands on autopilot
WORK! The curse of the drinking class.
"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson )

John Howling Mouse

#18
March 15, 2008, 07:37:08 AM
Awwww, but I liked the initial wood grain effect.  Can we go back to that and call it 1:48 scale?  Open a hatch here and there?  Use some nasty catapult instead of tiny scale turrets.  You can easily get a rivet effect on the hammered plating simply by dimpling the edges with the point of a push-pin.

And the spikes JON suggested are a must-have for this genre.  Just chop the ends off a bunch of toothpicks and paint them up in gun metal with some brownish-red bloodstains and....

....back to you, HOG.   :wacko:
Styrene in my blood and an impressive void in my cranium.

Eddie M.

#19
March 15, 2008, 03:33:45 PM
So this is where the Voices have gone.;) I see they are serving you well. I would have never thought of this use of material and direction you've gone. Thank you for inspiring me again! :ph34r:
   Eddie
Look behind you!

HOG

#20
March 16, 2008, 07:47:19 AM
Hoyhoy

Kept in by the weather and done this to the top with some bits from the polarlights enterprise as gun bits at the back



Nearly done now unless I have a brainwarp but getting bored and just want to finish it to make room for the next creation.
cheers Gary
H-O-G = Head Out of Gestalt-hands on autopilot
WORK! The curse of the drinking class.
"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson )

Scooterman

#21
March 16, 2008, 08:10:32 AM
Oh I LOVE this build!  I thought the first headphonetank was the cat's donkey but this one has a real Steampunk feel to it! 

MORE!!

wolfik

#22
March 21, 2008, 05:07:13 AM
wow!!!thats fantastic!!!really fantastic!!!
by the way...is it a problem to get lead foil where you are living???
here in germany is it a big problem...the small sheets from verlinden are not cheap and to small for some projects...my lead foil was stolen some time ago (!!!!)
here in germany is only available the thick foil used by roofers(tilers?)...
the other is not healthy for us...the german citizens... :banghead:

HOG

#23
March 21, 2008, 09:28:44 AM
Quote from: wolfik on March 21, 2008, 05:07:13 AM

here in germany is only available the thick foil used by roofers(tilers?)...
the other is not healthy for us...the german citizens... :banghead:

Hi Wolfik,
Where I get my foil from is not healthy for us either but it is fun for a while, wine/champagne wraps on bottles. Never enough foil so I have to drink more.



Don`t know why I`m posting this, must be the lead foil posioning from to many bottles of wine :drink:
Regards Gary
H-O-G = Head Out of Gestalt-hands on autopilot
WORK! The curse of the drinking class.
"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson )

philp

#24
March 21, 2008, 11:20:42 AM
My, what a big Abrams you have.
Phil Peterson

Vote for the Whiffies

jcf

#25
March 21, 2008, 11:32:16 AM
Quote from: wolfik on March 21, 2008, 05:07:13 AM
wow!!!thats fantastic!!!really fantastic!!!
by the way...is it a problem to get lead foil where you are living???
here in germany is it a big problem...the small sheets from verlinden are not cheap and to small for some projects...my lead foil was stolen some time ago (!!!!)
here in germany is only available the thick foil used by roofers(tilers?)...
the other is not healthy for us...the german citizens... :banghead:

Hi Wolfik,
this is what I use, Amaco ArtEmboss:
http://www.dickblick.com/zz605/12/
The product I like is the 5 mil (.005 in/.127 mm) Medium Pewter 9.25" X 12" (234.95mm X 304.8mm) for $8.55.
The plain and colored 3 mil (.003 in/.076 mm) Light Aluminum films are also useful.
The company I linked, Dick Blick, does ship internationally:
http://www.dickblick.com/customerservice/shipping/#international

The product is also sold in art and 'craft' supply stores in the US, so you may want to check for similar stores in Germany.
Art and craft stores can be a great source for materials.

BTW nowadays the metal used on wine bottle wraps is generally lead-free pewter or aluminum.

Jon

HOG

#26
April 14, 2008, 04:40:15 PM
Weapons added.




This is one I just want to get finished.
H-O-G = Head Out of Gestalt-hands on autopilot
WORK! The curse of the drinking class.
"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson )

ysi_maniac

#27
April 16, 2008, 06:09:37 AM
Fascinating :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :thumbsup:
:bow: :bow: :bow:
Will die without understanding this world.

Scooterman

#28
April 16, 2008, 08:17:16 AM
Are those CROSSBOWS?!? :wub: :wub: :wub:

BITCHIN'!!!!!

Brian da Basher

#29
April 16, 2008, 03:19:32 PM
Crossbows!!! A stroke of genius!!!

Brian da Basher
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