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Mojarn Piett
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project  Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:44 am |
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:50 am |
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Nailz? Wazzit, Mojarn? New Teknologee? Da Meks use stringz theorry...
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:55 am |
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| Quote (vanvlak @ 12 2004 Oct.,07:50) | | Nailz? Wazzit, Mojarn? New Teknologee? Da Meks use stringz theorry... |
Stringz? Like da ones da feral Ork stripperz use? No wond'r yer krawla fell apart... Dey look nice but are not fer building krawlas. 
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:02 am |
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| Quote (Mojarn Piett @ 12 2004 Oct.,08:55) | | Quote (vanvlak @ 12 2004 Oct.,07:50) | | Nailz? Wazzit, Mojarn? New Teknologee? Da Meks use stringz theorry... |
Stringz? Like da ones da feral Ork stripperz use? No wond'r yer krawla fell apart... Dey look nice but are not fer building krawlas. ? |
Feral Ork stripperz strip Imperial vehicles for bitz and use lotz of string and rope fer handling.... I thought it'ud work to build thingz wiv.
But I wuz thinkin of this weirdboy stuff, though: string theory
Ok, I know, now someone will create a mob of stripperz armed with bits of rhino and lots of rope (and string), lead by a Warphead weirdboy (sniffs! at fond memory of Warphead..) - any takerz?
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:34 am |
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Sad I know, but I had a completly different vision when I saw the words stripper and string in the same sentence...
A project for 25mm I suspect!
I guess that's what comes from working in the city... one track mind.
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Tas
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:57 am |
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As a professional ASW Officer, I would like to applaud your idea and suggest that more filthy submariner scum put their boats up on treads to make them easier to find!
Disclaimer: The term "filthy submariner scum" is meant as a term of endearment, and also applies to a member of my family who IS a submariner... A cause for much personal distress... 
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:06 am |
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Er Tas - distress, as when you depth-charge him? God forbid! By the way, that's a thought - naval orks!
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:52 am |
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Hmmm...there were some Ork naval landings done during the Armageddon Campaign (polar regions?) via submersibles...:;):
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:17 pm |
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:28 pm |
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| Quote (furgie @ 12 2004 Oct.,01:34) | | Sad I know, but I had a completly different vision when I saw the words stripper and string in the same sentence... |
Don't feel bad, I went to the same place at first myself.
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:09 am |
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UPDATE - PART 1 - ON SCALE
Hi all, the Krawla project, and a second project I'm working on, have set me thinking. My Krawla was (because its literally fallen apart!) 150mm long, or about 7 times as long as an elderly plastic epic scale Rhino. It's big - but is it big enough? The subs on which the Krawla is based are transport beasties, which, if correctly scaled, would be far larger - compare an M113 armoured personnel carrier to a supertanker! Now I know Epic us a scale-insensitive affair (FW vs SG model sizes; and the size of the old Leviathan and the Thunderbrick come to mind; let alone the philosphical question of how to fit ten fully-armoured marines into a Rhino - in any scale). But I wished to get this right - or at least, a bit closer to reality (reality? a super-tanker sized sub on wheels?). Whilst this means more work and redoing from start, the collapse of the old Krawla has made things easier. I'll never manage the end of the month deadline I set myself, not with the competition entry far from being ready. But at least it'll be a bigger, braver Krawla.
PART 2 - NEW KRAWLA
The sad thing is I'd really liked the old thingy; it won't be easy to retain the same shape, but I'll try. And the tracks will need a new solution, which, surprisingly, is easier to find than for my previous model. I might just rebuild the old Krawla and complete it as a smaller version - the larger special orky ops vehicle ever! Or else I could make it a bombardment vehicle, a gun-loaded Morkish Gargant based on a small Krawla. I might even make it a real sub, come to think of it... but that's beyond the Krawla project. Right now, Kaptin 'Ardlok and his Orky Freebooter krew need a new hull. And tracks.
Cheers all.
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:48 am |
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| Quote (dafrca @ 12 2004 Oct.,13:28) | | Quote (furgie @ 12 2004 Oct.,01:34) | | Sad I know, but I had a completly different vision when I saw the words stripper and string in the same sentence... |
Don't feel bad, I went to the same place at first myself.
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That was the idea. I'm glad I'm not the only one with a suitably dirty imagination... 
And Vanvlak, if you want a _really_ insane project you could cannibalise a Revell U-99. See here for details.
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:14 am |
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:34 pm |
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| Quote (vanvlak @ 15 2004 Oct.,10:14) | Anyway, it's not fair building a sub out of a sub - too easy!  |
Ah, the old enginseer rule: if you have the parts to build something, use them to build something entirely else.
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Post subject: Krawla Gargant project Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:37 pm |
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Correct! That's it, Mojarn! 
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- redo from start!