"Large, Small, and Buggy in the Oldhammer Future." Topic

In the interest of variety I've taken a breather from naval modeling to expand my Rogue Trader era 40K collection and kick some old projects further down the road to completion. Two of these are on display in my most recent blog post: Large, Small, and Buggy.

That's some of the large and small, of course. Along with this lovely bit of large . . .

(They know how to really clean up a place.)

The buggy looks something like this . . .

Depth of field is a slight problem with autofocus annoyances on a macro setting. I suppose I should probably have pulled back and cropped more to get a better foreground focus instead, but I don't want to recreate the tableau at this late date, so please forgive.

Anyway, there's discussion of these and several other figures on the blog post, but here's the rest of the highlights without further naration . . .

Hope you enjoy.

Sincerely,
David

nice zoats, esp like the bone looking pistols

Nice work, really brought back some memories. I recall in the early 90's there was another fellow who made a titan out of a vinyl ed209, but I think it might have been a space wolf version. That page is long gone, but I'd love to see more pics of yours.

Thank you Redroom. I'm pleased they came out as well as they did.

Ordinarybass; While it's not obvious, that is also a Space Wolf titan. (From the days before Space Wolves were all adorned with wolf capes and bones. But you will note the wolf skull and ribs on one of the banners.) If I had gotten around to hanging the banner with the wolf head it would perhaps make it more obvious. There are a few markings not visible in the picture. I'll try to post more later. (And maybe replace the missing weapons from the carapace.)

I didn't post about it in the nineties, but I built that titan in perhaps 1990 or so. (Maybe '91.) A friend of mine built two. I've considered building another, as the model still seems fairly widely available and I'd do it somewhat differently if I had it to do over.

In any case, thank you. Will post more photos of the titan.

Excellent stuff. Love it.

Very nice. Takes me back to the early 90's when you could find geanstealer generations---hope that is the correct term it has been years since I played.

White Dwarf called them hybrids. They were broken into several generations, with later generations looking increasingly human. This was all from assorted White Dwarf articles that were later released in the Compilation. The actual hybrid model, the one with the extra arm, is probably about a second or perhaps third generation hybrid.

No worries about correct terminology. I change rules and even the backstory for my own games to suit my tastes, and I lately I'm warping things in a much more Firefly direction. (The two are surprisingly compatible. Whedon clearly references many of the same sources GW used and perhaps even knows their work directly, though I'd not guarantee it. Takes a Space Western to know a Space Western and Rogue Trader is clearly a Space Western.)

All right, pictures of Eddie you say . . .

These are entirely unvarnished. This is a VERY old model built when I was maybe seventeen and in rather well used condition. I have done nothing to it since, save glue on the occasional refugee part. And there are several that I have chosen not to replace, yet their mounts and the haze from the CA are still quite visible showing where they were. (The additional two large missiles a large twin laser gun mount just seem overkill at this point.) I may rehab the poor fellow one of these days. Or maybe I'll buy a new one and just start over.

Here he is with some Space Wolves for scale comparison.

And again with a Whirlwind.

You can get a tiny glimpse inside the cockpit.

The dying chaos marine crucified on Tom needs a little TLC. Most of his nails have fallen out.

Here's something of a grunt's eye view of the problem. Kind of an "up the nose" shot.

The laser canons, Dick, and the radar dish are G I Joe parts acquired from a friend. Tom and Harry are galvanized electrical conduit.

Here's the view you'd probably rather see of this monstrosity. I've recycled the original guns as exhaust ports.

A variety of ammunition lockers, drop tanks, wheels, and so forth from aircraft and tank models make suitable sci-fi clutter on the surface.

Here's an aerial view that shows off the ghosts of weapons past along with further drop tanks and some electric motors for the banner rigging. (Have to be able to lower the things. Not sure why. Not like the Space Wolves clean them.)

And here's a final attempt at a view into the cockpit. You can see a little of the control arrangements. There are two levels: one for the pilot (on top) and one for the commander (on bottom). In theory there would be about four other crew members: several gunners and perhaps an engineer. Maybe even a communications officer. But those would all be buried elsewhere in the leviathan. Pilot and commander both want a view. The control consoles are from surplus 1/48 aircraft. (Mostly a battered B-29 acquired for parts.) There's even a dual stick, though it's hard to see in that view. The canopy itself is from an A-10 also acquired for parts.

Again, this is an old and grey beast. Please be gentle. He needs help. But I love him and he still makes a good objective marker.