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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft  Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 5:07 am |
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As mentioned in a previous thread I've decided to do a Casting article for Incoming. ?The articles progresses slowly, but the model is done. ?I thought I'd give you a peek at the completed first casting.
(the pic turned out kind of dark)
This is basically a test cast. I plan on two vesrions. ?One with a gattling type gun and one with some sort of intelligance package. 
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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 5:18 am |
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Very Nice ! Looks a little like the ones used in Vietnam ! 
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seekermeng
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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:22 am |
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That's one of the problems in doing scratchbuilts. ?If you want to build something practical and functional looking, you can bet something similar already exists. ?So a lot of what you do looks derivative.
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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:53 am |
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Wow!  How did you do the windows?
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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 8:01 am |
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I cut five 1mmx1mm strips of sheetstock. 2 across the top and 3 down. I glued them to the front face of the upper hull.
The windshield wipers are 1/2mm wide pieces of sheetstock. (these came out amazingly well on the cast dupe) I painted the windscreens gold then washed them with a thin amber glaze.
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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:31 am |
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That is fantastic. I am another hovercraft fan, and I have been thinking about outfitting an Epic army with more conventional hovers.
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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:52 am |
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| Quote (CyberShadow @ 24 2003 Oct.,11:31) | | That is fantastic. I am another hovercraft fan, and I have been thinking about outfitting an Epic army with more conventional hovers. |
Superb work Mr 'Meng. If you can cast these into a companies worth or so they would look awsome as a chimera replacement for a mech. company.
Makes me want to get back into making things for WETepic, but I think I have enough projects on the go for the moment! 
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seekermeng
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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 4:21 pm |
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Here is the rough casting of the finalized attack version of my avac.
I am planning, tentatively, to do a small production casting of about 60 of these some time next month. I plan to sell them as three packs. I'll provide more details when I get it all worked out.
I also finished and submitted my casting article so keep an eye out for it in Incoming .
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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 4:43 pm |
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Again, very nice modeling ! You should be able to sell those easily to Epic players.
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Chris
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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 5:21 pm |
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I would be interested in getting some of them! They would make cool alternatives for Chimera's in Mechanised forces.
Are you planning on making any variations of these, like a battle tank version?
Please update us when some are avaliable!
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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 11:20 pm |
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Hi!
The model is very clean and good looking.
Excellent job!
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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:04 am |
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I hadn't thought of making any variations. I was considering doing some with no hatches or weapons. Sort of a conversion base model. So a person could do what they will with them.
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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:51 am |
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Yeah that would be cool. Stick a Leman Russ hatch on their and off you go!
Also, what are the production costs of a model like that? And could you take a pic of one next to, say a Rhino, so we have a sense of scale?
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Post subject: A.V.A.C "Seeker" Attack and recon craft Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:57 pm |
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Here is a pic next to a rhino.
As for production costs, I'm not sure yet. I'm going to do them in poly-resin to help keep my cost down. I am going to have to use 2-part RTV for the molds, so between that, the resin and a few other small things I'm looking at about eighty dollars in start up material. I won't be able to figure a unit cost until after the casting is complete. I'm not looking to make a killing on these. The price should be fairly cheap. I am actually doing this run to try out a few new techniques and toys I've picked up.
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