Cadian 127th Regiment

Wednesday, 30 December 2015

173 - Christmas Distraction

I hope that everyone has had a great Christmas and is looking forward to the New Year. As well as my GW collection, I am also very fond of LEGO and have a decent collection of City, Star Wars and TECHNIC sets. Each year I'm always after something and this Christmas my wife certainly delivered.

And this is what I got! This it the 42042 TECHNIC Crawler Crane, a 1400 piece beast of a kit.

So after work this week I spent some time putting this giant thing together. This is after about an hour and all of the pieces from bag 1. The tracks consist of 45 individual links per side!

Fast forward another 2 hours and this is how the crane was looking with bags 2 and 3 out of the way. Bag 2 contained all of the pieces for the gearing and bag 3 was the outer shell.

This kit does have power functions - the power cable is sticking out the back. It also has 4 different functions which hopefully you can make out on the tiles at the bottom of the picture.

After another hour (so that's at least 4 hours total build time), I am left with this! It is an absolutely massive kit and really does look awesome!

Here is a close up now that all of the outer pieces have been attached. When I first tried to use the power functions, I had a panic moment as they didn't work. Then I realised that the battery pack took 6x AA batteries, not the 3 that I had put in. After the extra batteries had been added this crane trundles around, turning and lifting loads - I used it to steal the remote from the missus.

For anyone that likes building LEGO or construction kits, this is well worth a go.

Thanks for reading! See you in 2016!

Tuesday, 22 December 2015

172 - Voss Pattern Lightning: Part 2

Just a smidge more progress on the Voss Pattern Lightning Strike Fighter. Last time round I had attempted to fill some of the gaps using liquid green stuff. This resulted in a bit of a mess - as you can see in Part 1.

I spent quite a bit of time sanding down this foul up and making sure that the surface was smooth with minimal signs of the filing/sanding. I also had to use a small drill bit to mark out the original joining holes.

To make things a little less untidy, I used regular green stuff to fill the gaps on the other wing section. Once left to cure for a few days (just to be safe), I trimmed and filed the excess before using some fine sandpaper to smooth the join.

The gap on the underside of the wing was also filled. This was a much harder piece to sand down and is a little less tidy than the top. I had already glued/green stuffed the manoeuvring thrusters in place which impeded my sanding space.

There was a slight gap on one of the tail pieces, so this also got the green stuff treatment. I'm hoping that the surface marks look worse than they actually are.

Now I'm planning on using some of my Anarchy Model HD stencils to create the camo pattern on the Lightning and I've got a choice between Hexocam, Digi Camo, Tiger Stripe, Shattered or a Classic Camo. I've used the stencils before on my mega bastion and the 4x4 Bear scout cars. This time round I'll be deviating from my greens and going for blue, aiming for something along these lines:

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I've already gone ahead and bought a selection of blue's and grey's from the new Games Workshop Citadel Air range. I will update this post once I get home with the names of the paints I bought EDIT: I purchased Russ Grey, Calgar Blue, Lothern Blue and Caledor Sky. I want to see how these hold up against the Vallejo Game Air and Model Air paints I normally use - though I do see a problem of them being in regular GW pots rather than dropper style bottles, but I've ordered some empty Vallejo style ones to combat this.

What do you guys think of the blue camo schemes? I want something that will really stand out against my normal green version.

Thanks for reading and an early Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you!

Friday, 11 December 2015

171 - Finished: Tracks, But Not Tank Ones

Hello again and welcome to the final, finished layout. If you are unaware of what we've been up to please take a look at the previous posts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5.

Friday, 4 December 2015

170 - Tracks, But Not Tank Ones - Part 5

Hello once again and thank you for taking a look. If you haven't seen the rest of this project/adventure, please have a gander at the previous posts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

169 - Tracks, But Not Tank Ones - Part 4

Hello all, and welcome to part 4 on our attempt at creating a really good Hornby layout as a gift to my dad. If you're not aware why myself and my brother in law are doing this, please read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

Saturday, 14 November 2015

168 - Tracks, But Not Tank Ones - Part 3

Thanks for dropping by again. If this is your first look at this project, here is part 1 and part 2. There are quite a few pictures in this post, but hopefully they are a bit more interesting than part 2. Read on....

Saturday, 31 October 2015

167 - Tracks, But Not Tank Ones - Part 2

First of all, thank you to everyone who has read/looked at part 1 of this. Now on to part 2.

Wednesday, 30 September 2015

166 - Tracks, But Not Tank Ones - Part 1

I'll start by saying this is a text heavy post, and thanking you in advance for reading.

Everyone has their reasons for getting into model making/gaming. Some times it's friends, other times it's a progression from other hobbies. I got into Warhammer after a friend at Secondary school showed me some of the models. But I already had the hobby bug before then.

Thursday, 27 August 2015

165 - Voss Pattern Lightning Strike Fighter: Part 1

Let the hobbying stuff begin! Yes, I have been flitting between projects again. This time round I've decided to half build my latest acquisition.

Friday, 21 August 2015

164 - Empire Army For Sale

The time has come to sell off one of my armies. And the sword has fallen on The Empire.

Thursday, 23 July 2015

163 - When in Doubt, Buy Buy Buy

Genuine reasons delay hobby progress again. I'll spare the boring story. Instead I'll show you what I get to build (and maybe paint next!).

Sunday, 21 June 2015

162 - The Art of Procrastination

Hello eager readers! I'll warn you now, don't expect too much from this post - things have been slow for the 127th recently.

Sunday, 31 May 2015

161 - These Legs Are Made For Stomping

Progress continues on the Knight. Not much progress, but nevertheless I continue battling on. Read on for more.

Monday, 27 April 2015

160 - A Month of Pure Nothingness

Hello everyone. I thought I'd just check in as I haven't posted anything for a while.

I am still alive, but very little hobby progress has been made. The usual things have gotten in the way - work, wife and Battlefield Hardline.

I am however hoping to have my first attempt at mixing airbrush paints. These will then be tested before use on the purple knight I am in trying to finish.

Sorry for the lack of anything substantial, but here's a picture of a cat in a box instead.

(in support of the Exploding Kittens kickstarter that I backed)

Monday, 23 March 2015

159 - Taking a Walk on the Purple Side

Over the weekend (with the wife away), I managed to get a little bit of my painting mojo back. Having stared at the built but not painted models that clutter my desk, shelves, other shelves and drawer unit, I grabbed a model that I hoped would break my painting downer.

Friday, 27 February 2015

158 - A Whole Different Leman Russ

With my hybrid/modified Russ being worked on, I thought I'd take the time to show you one of the other tanks I've been building recently - another Leman Russ, but this one has some skills!

Monday, 23 February 2015

157 - Tanks For The Help

Sorry for the pun, but I really am grateful for all of the offered help to get some track sides for my Leman Russ. After some messages, some emails and some searching, I got hold of a space pair of track sides and tracks.

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

156 - Half a tank, but a whole of a problem

When I began to build my ForgeWorld Bombard, I quickly realised that I had a whole Leman Russ kit to work with. The Bombard only needs the side parts and tracks from this as the rest of the tank is nice solid resin. So I've got part of a Leman Russ and a bit of a problem.

Saturday, 31 January 2015

155 - Just A Little More Preparation

My hobby mojo has been a bit off lately. I can't find the willingness to start painting anything, or finish painting anything - I'm looking at you 5 Leman Russ'! However, whilst I don't want to paint, I do want to get stuff ready for painting.

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

154 - 100K Milestone

According to the stats thing built into blogger, I have had over 100,000 visits to my blog!

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