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09/06/2016 at 10:38 #43104
Angel Barracks
ModeratorHere is a sneak peak at the first of the Crimson Alliance Tanks.
It is a repurposed hovertank from The Io Wars.
Whilst hovertech is harder to maintain on outer colony worlds it does have some advantages, especially when operating in a damp river valley.The MK II K.at
09/06/2016 at 12:58 #43110Mr. Average
Participant09/06/2016 at 13:01 #43111Angel Barracks
ModeratorWell there will be a few tanks like this and the RDF power may please you…
09/06/2016 at 13:12 #43112Mr. Average
Participant09/06/2016 at 13:16 #43113Angel Barracks
ModeratorPower Armour
Yeah, the guy that was going to do it had a tendon related accident and it is, through no fault of his own, now many weeks late, so I am trying someone else to do the power armour… of course there is only one real sort of feel it could have.Tanks
I am just trying to work out a different turret version for this, with a big gun.
Then I will release the two models and see how they do before committing to more.09/06/2016 at 13:25 #43115Mr. Average
Participant09/06/2016 at 13:27 #43116Angel Barracks
ModeratorFeel free to dump ideas here, but try to consider they are the Junker tech, so nothing too hardcore.
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09/06/2016 at 14:11 #43117Erik Walton
ParticipantLooks great Michael! For turret variants, how about something that’s articulated? Like it came off of a crane or a backhoe?
Oh that's my theme music, it's on now!
09/06/2016 at 16:02 #43122Steve Johnson
ParticipantThat is really nice. I can see it also being used as a form of habitation with scratch built parts added.
09/06/2016 at 19:03 #43133Trencher
ParticipantI love that turret. Especially the shape. Lots of pulpy / retro sci-fi potential there.
Will it be available separately as well?
Tank Polo? God, how our gardener hated that game!
09/06/2016 at 19:08 #43135Angel Barracks
ModeratorWill it be available separately as well?
hmmmm if you cross my palm with silver, why not?
09/06/2016 at 20:21 #43140Mr. Average
ParticipantI’ll be honest, I like it without a conventional “big tank gun.” It’s unique. And a laser (tapping the micro-fusion battery in the tank) would be more optimal for a light hover vehicle – no recoil. And the idea of a tank like this being available as war surplus is really appealing from a sci fi perspective – like a futuristic T-55: past it and obsolete but still in use everywhere decades later.
Incidentally, which side used it in the Io War? The Jovian Consortium or the Terran Colonial Authority? Both of which I just made up?
09/06/2016 at 21:47 #43143Steelonsand
ParticipantOooh Mama! – seconding the all round support for this latest outbreak of Awesomeness! – loving the styling – sort of French CharB1 bis meets an intergalactic travel iron – and I mean that in a good way…….
I also would like the idea of something a bit agricultural coming into the mix – combine harvester on acid, Massey Ferguson with massive gun……. Junkers are cider drinkers, right?
#”I’ve got a brand new combine harvester, an’ I’ll give you the keys…..”#
09/06/2016 at 22:54 #43146Angel Barracks
Moderatorsort of French CharB1 bis meets an intergalactic travel iron – and I mean that in a good way…….
ha ha, no offence taken.
I described it as a U-boat meets an iron.10/06/2016 at 00:58 #43151Thaddeus Blanchette
ParticipantPlease do this in 3mm some day! 😀
We get slapped around, but we have a good time!
10/06/2016 at 01:29 #43152Mr. Average
Participant10/06/2016 at 08:30 #43156Stroezie
ParticipantOutch, bummer about the PA, I’m looking forward to that.
Tank is way cool though.
For some reason I see it in a red, white and gold, Ming the Mercyless, paint scheme
I kinda agree with the “no need for a big gun” I could totally see them as heavy lasers, maybe put a small half bead in the barrels to make a lens.
Also I think a big gun might run the risk of making it look a bit too cartoony, don’t get me wrong, I like cartoony, here’s a tank I did in 15mm to prove it
Its just that I’ve always imagined the Junkers and RDF with a bit more of a gritty maybe even hard sci fi look.
but then again maybe I’m just not seeing it and your big gun design will be awesome
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10/06/2016 at 09:28 #43160Angel Barracks
ModeratorIts just that I’ve always imagined the Junkers and RDF with a bit more of a gritty maybe even hard sci fi look.
Yeah, this look is a definite step sideways I think.
One of the things I am doing (but you can do whatever suits you best) is not having lasers and stuff.
This will help keep it more hard sci-fi I feel.
Plus the paintjob and tank crew will further ground it more in gritty grungy sci-fi, I think.The big gun is underway and I will get a missile pod version done.
The ones that look like 4 tubes stuck together (you see them on attack choppers and stuff) but with a pod on each side.Oh and the Io Wars are old, so this is kind of like old style pretty much obsolete tech that the Junkers have acquired as scrap really, but re-purposed and used to fight the RDF.
Oh and my models will have stowage and crud on them as is my way, I think will defo keep the feel as gritty tech, albeit with a new aesthetic.
10/06/2016 at 10:15 #43164Angel Barracks
Moderator10/06/2016 at 11:00 #43165Stroezie
ParticipantSee, told you I just wasn’t seeing it
The addition of the rear part to the turret give it a much more balanced look with the larger gun.
Do like!
If you like small scale skirmish, check out http://planetares6.blogspot.be/?m=0
10/06/2016 at 11:04 #43166Angel Barracks
Moderator10/06/2016 at 12:08 #43167Mr. Average
ParticipantIt starts to look a tad conventional, but I still like it. A techno-Sherman, is what it calls to my mind. The one with the two-tube laser (I’m calling it a laser, forgive me) still is more my taste, though.
And lasers can be hard SF. The United States Navy has them now. We’re mounting them in the front hull of our patrol frigates. And they look rather like this, a dome with a lasing tube projecting from it. Something in future, in the megawatt range, would be a useful if low-impact weapon.
10/06/2016 at 12:13 #43168Angel Barracks
ModeratorThere will be a missile pod variant too, this will feel more like the original variant.
But my designer is busy with other stuff now for a few days, so it will most likely be next week before we see any renders.10/06/2016 at 12:17 #43169Mr. Average
Participant10/06/2016 at 12:20 #43170Angel Barracks
Moderatoryes, I have only just discovered this genre and am wading through a gazzilion blogs and stuff.
It is all soooo cool.10/06/2016 at 12:27 #43171Mr. Average
ParticipantWell it has a definite KR16 feel, colonists versus colonial authorities, with both sides being sympathetic to some extent.
I could see these tanks and others like them as belonging to mercenary units, hired by Kometenmelodie colonists to fight both the domineering OKI colonial authorities and the brutal and terroristic Crimson Alliance.
10/06/2016 at 12:37 #43172Angel Barracks
ModeratorThat is a nice idea.
Currently the ‘plan’ such as it is, is to have the Crimson Alliance form an armoured section.
Something that is more a visible resistance to the RDFs enforcement of Mariposa law.
The CA will try to use propaganda to promote the Tank Corps as the glamorous and ‘patriotic’ way to fight back at the oppressors.
Of course the CA Tank Corps will be small and constantly on the move to stay out harms reach of the RDF.
Hidden training camps and depots out in the Badlands.Either way, like you hint at, I would not like to be the regular colonist who just wanted to get away from Earth and it’s harsh laws.
But what do you do, run away again or stay and fight, to try to make Kometenmelodie the free place people dreamed it would be?10/06/2016 at 20:18 #43184Alexander Wasberg
ParticipantI love it, the Ma.K vibe always makes me happy 🙂
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10/06/2016 at 20:53 #43185Rules Junkie Jim
ParticipantIf I was designing a 6mm sci fi tank, it wouldn’t look like that… thankfully, cos it’s brilliant! Reaaally nice style, looks like an old workhorse of a mass produced tank.
How big is it going to be compared to the figures/Pathfinder/KVW? And will there be a wrecked model as with the pathfinder? And when will they be ready to buy???
10/06/2016 at 23:16 #43192Angel Barracks
ModeratorCheers, if memory serves and everything has gone according to plan the main hull is a touch bigger than a pathfinder, taller with the turret.
Not sure when ready.
They need to be printed, then I will try the hull myself from resin (like with the skimmers) then send the turrets off to the casters to be moulded.
Could easily be a month or so…Here is the last of the three variants:
10/06/2016 at 23:38 #43193Mr. Average
Participant11/06/2016 at 00:03 #43195Angel Barracks
Moderator11/06/2016 at 01:18 #43197Mr. Average
Participant11/06/2016 at 09:16 #43208Angel Barracks
ModeratorI really hope you follow this up.
If they sell I will make more.
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11/06/2016 at 18:13 #43220Mr. Average
Participant11/06/2016 at 18:55 #43221Fredd Bloggs
ParticipantI hate you all, I looked up SF3D and found a great conversion using a German Armoured car base….
11/06/2016 at 19:04 #43222Angel Barracks
Moderator11/06/2016 at 19:07 #43223Fredd Bloggs
ParticipantNo a 232 actually….
11/06/2016 at 20:10 #43227Steve Johnson
ParticipantNever heard of SF3D but a quick search has thrown up lots of lovely looking stuff. Plenty of ideas to use for KR-16 & Horizon Wars
12/06/2016 at 03:20 #43243kid bananas
ParticipantThat is so awesome. It is literally a smaller version of Darkest Star Games 15mm SF3D/Ma.K inspired hover-tanks found here http://www.darkeststargames.com/colony-15-sci-fi.html
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