Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Group and Themed Builds => The Tankbuster GB => Topic started by: Dr. YoKai on November 05, 2025, 06:51:14 AM
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The inspiration for this comes from a short data entry in a timeline of military technology from the Science Fiction role playing game, Traveller. Managed to find the relevant quote pretty easily:
LBB:4 Mercenary
"Tech level 11: All combat vehicles are now grav powered. The grav tank generally utilizes the more compact plasma A gun and/or tac missile racks. Very heavy grav tanks mount the plasma B gun. Light grav sleds are used for scouting, generally mounting tac missiles and autocannons.
Close support sleds mount VRF gauss guns and tac missiles. All vehicles have pronounced free-flight capability.
Tech level 12: All vehicles have sufficient free-flight performance that ground combat vehicles effectively no longer exist, having merged with aircraft. The primary weapon of the heavy gunships include plasma B guns, VRF gauss guns, and tac missiles. VRF gauss guns are also widely mounted on personnel carriers, as are plasma A guns.
Tech level 13: The first damper fields allow protracted storage and transportation of elements with short half-lives. The first major use of the damper field militarily is to enable the manufacture, storage, and transportation of 2 cm californium rounds, fired from auto-cannon mounts in remotely piloted drones. Each round is hollow and collapses on impact, the collapsed round having sufficient mass to go critical, thus causing a small nuclear explosion. More conventional gunships mount plasma C guns or fusion X guns along with missiles.
Tech level 14: More sophisticated damper fields render the californium drones obsolete.
Gunships now carry fusion Y guns or rapid pulse X guns.
From here: https://www.travellerrpg.com/threads/grav-tanks.7348/ (https://www.travellerrpg.com/threads/grav-tanks.7348/)
Started with this pile of parts-
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54901712387_364f8d7d6f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2rDtCm4)DSCF1250 (https://flic.kr/p/2rDtCm4) by VileDr.Yo (https://www.flickr.com/photos/46965833@N07/), on Flickr
Got this done over the last two days-
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54902585036_cb7a30e1d3_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2rDy6KJ)DSCF1251 (https://flic.kr/p/2rDy6KJ) by VileDr.Yo (https://www.flickr.com/photos/46965833@N07/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54901712377_96e1f9a0c4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2rDtCkT)DSCF1252 (https://flic.kr/p/2rDtCkT) by VileDr.Yo (https://www.flickr.com/photos/46965833@N07/), on Flickr
This is 1/35 scale.
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This looks exciting already :smiley:
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Very different! I’ll be watching.
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This looks exciting already :smiley:
It does indeed :smiley:
And those californium rounds are at that intersection between intriguing and creepy :o
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This does look good! Why even fire the Californium? Just sprinkle it on the ground and let the ridiculous amount of neutrons it emits do the job.