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Author:  vanvlak [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:58 pm ]
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Hi all,
here's my latest oddity - the Kroot Spherodrome. This thingy is dropped off by the Warsphere, ignites its large engine to start reentry, and is slowed down by the planet atmosphere, glowing red hot as it drops to a crash skid on the ground. The less damaged examples of this tough vessel are set upright again and launched back for re-use.  :alien:
Author:  vanvlak [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:59 pm ]
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Spherodrome again.
Author:  vanvlak [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:00 pm ]
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Here come the Kroot!  :alien:
Now lets see if people still think the old Ork porta-loo which never went into production is still the most terrible Epic model ever.  :p  :alien:
Author:  Xisor [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:19 pm ]
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Looks good IMO! Could do with being...'junked' out though. The Kroot Sphere itself as a model looks very untidy, and not really very spherical(more like an expanded and well shattered egg), looks of hull detailing on it, a bit cluttered almost. You know what the Death Star Surface looked like up close in A New Hope, kinda like that.

Then again, it's an interesting wee model. Apparently SG won't go for them though. 'One type of Kroot ship only' so I hear, but that any 'variation' could simply be a bigger or smaller/more advanced or less advanced/more finished ?or just started version of the same type of ship. So a Battlesphere is a heavily upgraded Warsphere, an Escort would be a bit of a 'proto' sphere and such.

Xisor
Author:  vanvlak [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:31 pm ]
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Hi Xisor - as a reentry vessel (for Epic) I argued that a smooth shape would work beter for reentry as any fragile bits would be burnt off (nice excuse for laziness, eh? :p ) The spiky bits (tank drive wheels, of course) are presumably made of sterner stuff.
the blackened fore area results from atmospheric reentry, by the way. BBQed Kroot, anyone? :)
Author:  Warmaster Nice [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:01 pm ]
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Mmmmh. Krootalicious :D :;):
Great burnt effect too V. How do yuo paint the transistion towards the rear of the sphere ("rear of the sphere... hey, that's catchy... :p)

Cheers! :)
Author:  vanvlak [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Kroot Spherodrome
Quote (Warmaster Nice @ 05 Dec. 2005 (22:01))
Great burnt effect too V. How do yuo paint the transistion towards the rear of the sphere ("rear of the sphere... hey, that's catchy... :p)

Says enginse-er
Have no fe-ar
it is cle-ar
that the re-ar
of the sphe-re
is easi-er
to paint than lots of other stuff, and I've run out of rhymes. ?:p ?:alien:

Anyway:
1 - black undercoat
2 - heavy drybrush of white over the rear (what I call whitewash)
3 - paint sphere colour (green, in my case) over the whitewash, but leave the edge of the white visible - this is the 'transition area'.
4 - my traditional chestnut wash over the lot.

By the way - the sphere is actually, a widget, the thingy used in Guinness (and other) beer cans to keep the beer frothy. Anyone set to build an invasion force of these thingies should have fun... ?:p ?:devil:
Author:  Xisor [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:23 pm ]
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All those nobbly bits apparently survive on the ship when it goes through atmospheric entry...and when it takes off again.

Nobbly bits on the top would be cool, with orange 'burning' or heated effects on the forward bottom of the ship to make it look like it's came all the way through the atmosphere would make a nice addition too.

Xisor
Author:  vanvlak [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Kroot Spherodrome
Quote (Xisor @ 05 Dec. 2005 (22:23))
All those nobbly bits apparently survive on the ship when it goes through atmospheric entry...and when it takes off again.

Nobbly bits on the top would be cool, with orange 'burning' or heated effects on the forward bottom of the ship to make it look like it's came all the way through the atmosphere would make a nice addition too.

Xisor

Ok, ok, sphere number 2 will be knoblified.  :alien:  :D
Now where's that Guinness?  :oops:
Author:  primarch [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:35 pm ]
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Hi!

Interesting concept. How many kroot can be deployed?

Primarch
Author:  Dwarf Supreme [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:39 pm ]
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Quote (vanvlak @ 05 Dec. 2005 (21:18))
By the way - the sphere is actually, a widget, the thingy used in Guinness (and other) beer cans to keep the beer frothy.

I was wondering what you had used.

And I do think this looks better than the ork walk-a-loo!  :D
Author:  vanvlak [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:44 pm ]
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Primarch - if the thingy has a ery empty hull, I'd say around 40 might fit inside - 40 Kroot, not stands! :O
DS - I disagree, I still like walkerloo better  :p
Author:  Dwarf Supreme [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:50 pm ]
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Quote (vanvlak @ 05 Dec. 2005 (21:44))
DS - I disagree, I still like walkerloo better ?:p

That's the great things about opinions - both of us can be right!  :D  :alien:
Author:  Justiniel [ Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:37 am ]
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And so the battle of Walkerloo continues :laugh:
(incidently I like it :p )

Nice sphere 'V'
Author:  vanvlak [ Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Kroot Spherodrome
Quote (Justiniel @ 06 Dec. 2005 (10:37))
And so the battle of Walkerloo continues :laugh:
(incidently I like it :p )

Nice sphere 'V'

Heh - trouble is, I think I'm Napoleon, about to get flushed down the drain....  :p
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