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Capitol Imperialis wannabe
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 Post subject: Capitol Imperialis wannabe
PostPosted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:43 pm 
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I recently saw a home-made Capitol Imperialis around here somewhere and it got me thinkin of making my own. I have a butt-load of 1/72 scale tank chassis and think i will use one as a basis. But, i would like to know if anyone has and/or can measure the length of the actual models wheelbase from the front to the back so that i can choose a model of mine that is similarly sized.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:56 pm 
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The original CI chassis is 2 3/8" (6.1 cms) long and 1 3/8" (3.5 cms) wide.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:45 pm 
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Athmospheric
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:58 pm 
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the old chassis actually was taken from a 1/72 M113 model. The exact model could still be found. But it was very under scaled and the tracks didn't have much details anyway.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 2:14 pm 
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6.1 cm?

I'd assumed 12cm to go with the art and DC12.

that said, by the art, titans can look over mountain ranges...
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Athmospheric
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 2:18 pm 
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The art has always been wildly inconsistent, but anyway this is mostly due to the fact that Super Heavies miniatures were always very under-scaled at that time.
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Evil and Chaos
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 2:27 pm 
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A truescale CI would be... a bit taller than the shorter buildings in this picture, I guess.

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