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June 7th, 2009 04:36 #1

Ein
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I owe one of my good friends a favor that I've been putting off, and he bugged me enough about it that I
thought I'd give painting a quick break (emphasis on the word break) and see if I couldn't get it done. I had a
spare Chimera (actually, a Basilisk) chassis laying around in my bitz bins that was mostly-complete, and I
thought I'd make him a Hydra out of it. I started by framing off the general chassis of the chimera and building
a rough shape of the turret. Then, I grabbed my styrene tubing and set about making a basic Hydra
autocannon. I figured making 4 of the same gun for this would be a monumental pain in the ass, so I'm going to
make a single cannon without much detail on the sides so that I can cast it and use it on both sides of the
turret; three extras should be enough to finish the turret off.

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Both the turret mount and, more obviously, the cannon itself are loose and sitll being worked on. I didn't have
enough tracks to actually go all the way around the Chimera chassis, so I'm going to be adding a full track guard
to the top of the track well to cover up that little fact.

The greenstuff is going to get sanded down and smoothed out once it's dry. I was using it to help make up for
some of the gaps in the construction - I'm not used to imperial vehicles, and I can get away with all sorts of
sloppy work on ork ones that won't fly here!

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June 7th, 2009 05:38 #2

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Member looks good from the start here, a lotta detail in the turret will take it a long way and I can see already from the
autocannon that your are pretty detailed, very, professional looking.
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One thing... are you going to be putting two or four auto cannons, because if your going to put 4, the main base
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for the cannons will probably need to be smaller
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June 7th, 2009 07:34 #3

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June 7th, 2009 12:22 #4

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will loose some of its aa gun look if there is only 1 gun. Are you not tempted to stretch to two?

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June 7th, 2009 14:50 #5

Ein
Senior Member To clarify...

I'm building one gun, and casting three more off of it for a total of four. There's plenty of room to fit four of
these things on the turret; if you look at the FW design, you'll see that the top cannon on either side actually
sticks up quite a bit past the top of the turret.

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June 7th, 2009 17:50 #6

Wraith
Ender of Threads Yeah, it should match the FW look nicely. If it winds up looking odd, you can always whip up a nice, heavy
mounting plate arrangement to carry the load back to the turret mount.

Looks sweet so far, Ein (surprise, surprise...)! Should be fun watching it develop.

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June 8th, 2009 12:24 #7

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Nice work mate. The cannon is a good size since you said you will only be making one. I do wonder though if it
will loose some of its aa gun look if there is only 1 gun. Are you not tempted to stretch to two?

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June 8th, 2009 19:08 #8

Ein
Senior Member I finished up the gun and designed it so that it would be reversible. I'm going to cast the gun and the ammo
feed will be cast separately, so that I can put it on either side to make it fit the left or right half of the
quad-cannon.

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I also toyed a bit with the top of the turret, adding a hatch, a guardsman, and some simple armor plating. The
'sensor array', or radar dish, or whatever the hell that is on the normal Forgeworld model, will have an
equivalent added on this thing soon, though I may change the design a bit.

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Going to throw the cannon into the casting process, and in a day or two I should have all the copies I'll ever
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June 10th, 2009 17:38 #9

Ein
Senior Member I got off my ass this morning and made all the casts of the cannon that I'd need.

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Please note that I haven't cleaned them up yet, as I couldn't find my good knife. There's a few things that need
to be touched up here or there, but overall I think it came out pretty decently. The ammo feed/drum thing that
goes on the side is being stubborn; apparently, the one I made was airtight, and imploded when I threw it into
the pressure pot. The gun nearly did, as well! It probably would have if I hadn't filled it with a two-part plumbing
epoxy while I was building it for strength. As-is, a little rubber managed to leak into my original gun's housing,
but nobody'll ever know...

Wait, drat!

Anyway, here's my rough mockup:

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I think it's looking pretty sharp. Now to go clean off the guns.

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June 10th, 2009 18:23 #10

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Senior Member That great work i might try it my self! Do you know any good articals for casting (if this is against LO rules just
ignore). Cant weight to see it finished.

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