Still working... though the commute may take a hit.. that would be annoying
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AAAANYWAY - I went berserk yesterday and made some progress
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I decided fairly early on to replace, re-style or re-design the guns, chiefly because they look... chubby and SD like comical
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Here's the barrels I used =>
First I did some things with the turret - initially not changing the barrel, but more on that later.
Here's the
supremely chubby antennas... remember that they are not 35th, or even 48th scale but "heroic" 28mm... so they are like... what?...30cm?
So 2m German antennas to the rescue! They fit - Emperor be blessed!
Here's the coaxial MG... maybe it's a auto-cannon?... looks like an oversized MG though and bolters look different since they
theoretically are fully automatic recoilless rifles firing essentially RPGs (remember: everything up to 11...)... but don't tell that the people producing the associated media, they always work like regular automatics
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Looks crappy, huge chubby barrel and no open muzzle... so here now replaced with a Soviet .50cal barrel
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Now this is a machine gun - actually
in-universe a John Moses Browning .50cal... of course it
HAS been in use for over 100 years by now
... still looks laughably super-deformed
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And now for consistency with the same Soviet .50cal barrel.. it's super deformed (also
with SKULLS!)anyway, so it' still closer to something realistic
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Also some proper ammo for the belt feed since the original one looks
humongous...
Here mounted on the loader... cupola.. hatch... which has superior periscopes than the
commanders...
Interlude:
Blood for the Bloodgod!
On with the running gear! =>
Here's the basic upper and lower hull =>
So here's the turret - it carries half of the two part 128mm PAK 44 barrel... works out pretty nicely in size, the entire barrel would have been too laughably huge even for WH40k
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Still looks ludicrously overkill and still suggests
no room whatsoever for ammo in the turret
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Here's the twin bolter turret... replaced with 2cm KwK 30 because I will use the 2cm Flak 30 in... oh nevermind, will be seen later here
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Now here's the thing - everything is overkill badass to begin with so why show moderation in adaption... so... there's the option of using the
quadruplet flamers in the sponsons... yeah... I know, it's
nuts... anyhow, I modified those quadruplet flamethrowers with 2cm Flak 30 barrels into
quadruplet bolters...
(without the muzzle-break.. looks more evil now
) =>
Interlude II: Blood for... ah you already know...
Quadruplet-bolter-sponsons
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Here's the as-of-yet un-armoured sponson positions - you can place the sponsons in three positions along the flanks - I choose the centre ones - looks more Great-War-esque
and subsequently armoured the rest and put the secondary turrets (with 3.7cm KwKs, in-universe auto-cannon)
onto the sponsons (they are supposed to be there...
)... yes...
up to eleven and stuff...
Smoke launchers - surprisingly moderate (read: almost realistic) items
- though completely devoid of detail or anrything, so I put the smoke launchers of the recent IVG, which won't get them because GD did not use them until early '43, and put them to use
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And here's the whole
thing... it now has
16 barrels of hell!
Also used the smaller "Demolisher Cannon" , i.e. a 38cm RW61 look-alike, and closed the gas holes from the rocket launcher setup since it's a
cannon and added... well... a
cannon to it, the 15 cm StuH 43 L/12 of the Sturmpanzer IV
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Also: it's a monster... remember that it's
heroic 28mm, so roughly a 1:56 scale thing... here's a 35th scale Tiger... for proportions...
I also like that all kinds of small items have setups or protectors in the shape of the gothic arch
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Phew - that's it for now I suppose.
No world is beyond the Emperor's rule; no enemy shall be beyond his wrath!
Raoul G. Kunz
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