So just back from our club Modellers Retreat Build weekend. As always, dedicated building time gets a lot done. A couple of builds are relevant to Whiffer world, with one, being a Centurion based Stridsvagen 104 teetering on the edge as it just an out of the box build at the moment while some thinking time is done.
But on topic is exploring a steam powered Landship using the Hobbyboss St Chamond, which was aquired for just such a purpose.
Not much deviation from the out of the box build, until the very end, which after a sit and stare session led to deciding to actually go the What If path.
So first up a couple of Stacks, to get the creative process underway
For me, the current gun fits in my Steam(punk) ish timeline, so that can stay. However the various machine guns are being replaced with something that looks a bit more gatling like.
As a bit of info, the construction for the majority of the time spent to get to this stage for this kit was on the suspension and running gear, which is quite complicated, and I have to say appears to be quite complete as to what the real thing was like. Not that you ever see it unless you display it turned upside down, which would make a pretty specco diorama.
More to come, mojo is high. Next will be things like flywheel housing, some nice fillegree lacework perhaps and other stuff as it happens.
I suppose I need to glue some gears on it to call it Steampunk
