"Worms and Walkers" Topic

Duke twisted the throttle gently to walk the Chicken down the ramp out of the boxcar. It clanked and hissed and belched smoke and steam but it stepped gently enough to not break the ramp. Duke was also pleased he didn't walk it right off the side, ruining months of research and work. The yokels stared slack-jawed at the Chicken. Stare at this, he thought and pushed the throttle forward. The Chicken responded immediately, metal feet pounding away from the station into the desert. Duke couldn't help it, "Yeeeeeha!" he yelled.

Later…

There had been a rattler here not long ago. Duke examined the loose dirt, crushing a chunk in his gloved hand. It was sticky with slime. He walked back to the Chicken and got out the piston. He assembled it, lit the miniature boiler and soon the piston was beating into the ground regularly. Duke jumped onto the Chicken and walked it a hundred or so yards away. He checked the Gatling guns. They swiveled on their mounts. He flipped the switch to charge the voltaic cells. The harpoon at the front of the Chicken hummed with electrical charge. The first worm to poke its head out of the sand was going to be very shocked to see him…or whatever they did since they didn't have eyes. Rattler meat and hide were going for outrageous prices back east. And the Chinese out west were buying their organs for their medicine. Just a couple of good sized worms would pay to build at least three more walkers like the Chicken. And maybe there'd be an army contract in his future.

Visions of dollar signs were wiped from his head as the ground started to rumble and worm tentacles burst through the ground to smash the piston. "Okay Chicken," he said. "Let's see what you can do."

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I like the additions to the SST fig. Spotted Deadlands Steam Tank parts on the strider :)

Yeah, the walker is parts of a GRW velocipede, legs from a clicky mech, an extra torso that came with one of my Vanguard 'jacks for Warmachine, an extra 'jack waist, a wire connector for the smoke-stack, and most of a sprue of GRW weapons.

And thanks, Kyote. I think I've got more imagination than talent though.

very nice stuff.!!!!

Wow – very cool! Fantastic work.

Love that, top stuff!

Nice bit of mechanization but I don't think he'll be doing any fishing with that worm.

Great mess of story lines and excellent job on the "Chicken"

"Didjoo see the size o' tha' chicken!"

Those are sweet, especially the chicken walker.:)

Well done!

Al | rivetsandsteam.com

Nicely done

Thanks, guys. Next up will be some refugees from the Valley of the Gwangi.

Really nice!

AND that is incredible! did y'all make the tentacles from scratch on the worm?

DAWGIE

Dawgie, the tentacles are just paperclips covered in green-stuff. So easy even I could do it.

Hexxenhammer, where'd you get the sprue of GRW weapons?

I could use some for my PA vehicles.

I think I got mine off of ebay as part of a great deal on all kinds of GRW stuff, but Jeff Valent still sells them.

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I think you get 2 gatling guns, 2 cannons, and a flamethrower. Something like that.

Ok I totaly dislike Fantasy but you model is way cool and I may rethink my stand on things like VSF, steampunk Etc. Great job…..mikey

Nabad at all.. I'd have added a small boiler tank, and maybe gone with a smaller smokestack, but that's pretty damn shiny, all told.

Really Nice walker. This is the first concept for a VSF walking machine I've liked. I should do a unit of them in 15mm For Hive Queen and Country. I'll need some legs smaller than those on the GW Sentinals. Any suggestions?

Thanks for the inspiration
Terry

Hexxenhammer
I work in a smaller scale and with some different tech (springs versus steam)

I was so impressed with your work I've produced a similar vehicle in 15mm.

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It isn't anywhere near done yet (I'm probably going to use this as a resin casting master)

Thanks for sharing!

Awesome! I was trying to find some suitable chicken legs for 15mm for you, but the Mechwarrior parts I would use for 28mm are way to big. Be sure to start a new thread when you're done.

That's awesomely neat ;)

Lotta work went into it, and a interesting setting.

Thanks, I can't take credit for the setting though, I just wrote it for Deadlands. In Deadlands, the Mojave desert, parts of Utah, and the Badlands are inhabited by giant tentacled worms. They're a cross between Cthulhu, Dune sand worms, and the graboids from Tremors.