I've always loved the illustrations within RT, and among them, some of the most inspiring to my mind were the one's devoted to Logan's World. Specifically the one showing the slavers striding across the barren landscape in their giant Mech walkers.
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| Based on a Battletech, come Robotech, come Mechwarrior.....ahhh forget it! It's just a generic robot thing ok! |
Amongst the many and varied ideas I've had for creating vehicles to game with, this one has remained relatively easy to accomplish (It just took me over twenty years to get around to starting it, that's all). It's based off a Macross 1/72 scale Destroid kit from Ban Dai.
I've put the lower half of him together already, now I've just gotta figure out how I'm gunna go about constructing the howdah. Plus, adding all the accoutrements that a "well to do" slaver would need to ply his nasty trade with.
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| Mounted on a DVD that shocked me with its mediocrity. |
So as you can see, there's still quite a lot to be done.
Onwards and upwards chaps!
Good idea and great start.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing how you get on with it :)
Ta, I'm about half way through building the howdah.
DeleteLots of luck on the launch of your blog. I don’t play Warhammer myself, but have been impressed with the figures since the first time I saw a game played in ’89 when we had a game club at Ramstein AFB. We have a open game club here on the Gulf Coast and host Warhammer tourneys: http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2013/01/wargames-and-miniature-fun-on-coast.html
ReplyDeleteBTW, “WFB” has an amusing meaning in the Urban Dictionary, LMAO (so to speak). I look forward to seeing some good posts from you.
I've been following your blog for a while now, always like your articles on the strange and esoteric. It's quite a task trying to find worthwhile content on the net, but you sir, have definitely piqued my interest.
Delete89 seems to have been a good year for introduction's into gaming. "Games 89" in Melbourne, Australia, was a games expo that I attended with a friend from school. I'm sure it wasn't the first time I had seen miniatures, but it was certainly the first time I had been to a convention. The memories are still vivid after all those years. I can remember seeing daleks fighting down cardboard corridors, an model AT-AT sporting an ork on its roof hiding behind sandbags. It was also the first roleplaying game I had been to, outside of close friends.
Ahhhh, the memories.
I never got into the tournament's scene. I was -and still are- quite content to play with close friends.
That urban abbreviation is quite cool...... not a bad name for a blog really :)
Thanks for the good wishes CoastConFan. Keep up the good work.
Great project, I was just thinking about these for the Adeptus Mech and your blog popped right up.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mr Kyoto :)
DeleteI finished the Walker about a year ago now?....l think?
Since then I've done a Siege Dreadnought, a Grav attack tank and now I'm half way through another Siege Dreadnought.
I do like a bit of kitbashing I do :)
Cheers :)