Wednesday 4 January 2012

Website Update #14

Chewks and Red Planet terrainFinally finished of my Khurasan Chewks today and spent the rest of the day (in and around running the father-in-law about) updating my modelling log and then getting everything uploaded.

The Chewk pictures are a little soft but the light was bad due to scattered showers. Harook to come in a day or so, I hope.

I have been pondering how the Chewks might fit into my Traveller campaign and there is a desert world in the Cabria Subsector with an indigenous, invertebrate-like intelligent species which could be a match. I will have to reread my notes and see if the Chewks are a fit.

9 comments:

  1. Only just spotted a link to this site in the Dropship Horizon's contributer list. Very nice blog. Followed and added to my Blog list.

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  2. Thank you, and I have just discovered your Terminous Omega blog and added it to my list.

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  3. Those look very convincing on the Red Planet terrain. I like!

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  4. I think that a 1:35 scale A7V would be closer in size to the Sandcrawler from Star Wars - they were pretty big after all. Mind you, a bunch of the 1:72 scale tanks could represent the homes of a small clan or a scouting party of a larger clan

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  5. @Chris - While finishing their bases, I stuck white, thick grained sand directly onto the black undercoated pollyfilla. I very nearly kept them as that as the black base/white sand had a slightly sinister "Plain of Skulls" type look. Then I remembered the scatter terrain I had made earlier and went with the Red Planet style as concept trumped cool-but-goes-with-nothing-else. :)

    @TamsinP - You're probably right about a 1/35th scale model. Hunting the interwebz to see if any model shop in New Zealand actually stocks A7V's (Emhar seem to be the only manufacturer of plastic 1/72 kits), I did come across a 1/100th scale Sandcrawler which was both a) huge and b) several hundred dollars US! I'm more interested in a particular look rather than recreating Star Wars, so I'm trying more for a "landship" feel. Blue Moon does an A7V and Peter Pig does a Vietnam Era LVTP, both in 1/100th, but I'd, ideally, like to source a 1/72nd kit for both price and the forced scale effect.

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  6. @Kobold - Tauro do 1:35 scale A7Vs (2 variants?), see here: http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/index.php?search=A7V

    I don't know if they would ship to NZ (or what the cost would be), but might be worth enquiring

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  7. What a great site, thanks TamsinP. Yes, they ship all around the world but, to my thinking, their shipping is a little steep. I also need to buy nearly 20 quid worth of models before they will export which seems a little old school. Unfortunately, the Tauros are all out of stock, but I've added one to my watch list :)

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  8. @Kobold - not sure if you've seen this one: http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HB82409

    It could make a good "tribe" crawler, and you could use the 1:72 A7Vs as the scout/raider/forager crawlers.

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  9. Well, I've scored a 1/72 A7V off eBay for $NZ20 including shipping so I'll see how I go with that - the 1/35 Tauro seems to have a bad rep in the reviews I've read so far, way too complex for my limited model making skills.

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