The FW Leman Russ is about the right height, but is about 15-20% too thin ; I reckon I can do better than the FW Leman Russ.

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That's the Mars Alpha alright, though that's actually a (non Mars Alpha style) Vanquisher turret on it. That was an early one they painted I think.

They later released 6 proper Mars Alpha turrets, they're on FWs site, amongst the Krieg section. Pictures of the Mars Alpha with the proper turret can be seen here; http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/dkkmalr.htm
As TRC said the profile of the main body section is different; it's longer, lower and better detailed. The new turrets are the biggest change though - they're much nicer and more detailed

Their Epic Russes are indeed too thin, I'd definitely suggest basing it on the FW model and scaling down by 5.

Interestingly I have already created that battlecannon design once for the Malcador.

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Hm, that Hellhound might be fun to do in the future. But for now theres...

Convenience chassis
APC plug-in for convenience chassis
Engineering vehicle plug-in for convenience chassis (to work with Saltshaker artillery)
Tankette plug-ins
Exodus Wars round 2
Exodus Wars big tank
Exodus Wars really really big tank
Vaygr looking BC
Vaygr looking lance fighter (redesign)
Oppressively Combined Three Legged Flea Walker
Zombie Robot flying surfboarders

And then maybe theres...
More Starfire ships
More Homeworld ships
More Nectaris tanks

And if "certain people" don't start making them available...
Zombie Robot Big Pointy Brick

Oh yeah. The Mighty CAL has been trying to talk me into Non-Ordered, Disordered, or Unruly blocky, walking robots.

O.K. ... bare with me ... I'm old ...  So I mostly understand O-man's list. But so now is E&C going to make a new whole new Leman Russ ?  

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Yes.

My current project list is:

1 - Twin gun artillery tank (almost complete)
2 - Small Walking Robot (Martian Pattern)
3 - Leman Russ (including variants)

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Ah ... I see ... very good ... I'll add those to my Wish/Want List ...      And ... just to muddy the Waters ... What's the status of the Cheese Carrier Mk.O ?  

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*swoon*

All this should hopefully be ready before I get a job and therefor whatever needed to obtain the entire otter effort to date. Considering the way the cabinet office is dealing with me, take your time

Vaygr looking BC
Vaygr looking lance fighter (redesign)

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I was looking at my hell hammer barrels this morning and thinking the same thing...  

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And another "Q" for E&C ?  What Russ Variants are you looking at ?    I'm so nosy !!!

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Most probably just the stock three of Vanquisher, Russ and Demolisher.

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Cool !  I was looking at the '09 F/W Catalogue today ... IG Russes or DKoK Russes ?    I'd Vote DKoK ...  

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Heya TRC, apologies for the delay.

On the issue of engineering vehicles, my current plan is to make it very Trojany. Would you like a duplicate of the cute little crane, or some variant of a real world recovery crane?

On the issue of Homeworld ships, no, I haven't talked to anybody at Relic about that. My plan is to tinker with some fighters and a capital ship, to get the feel of the stuff.

The current methodology is this:
First, I find a WRL formatted file online. This contains the geometry for the ship, and a 'skin', essentially a graphic wrapping for the geometry. The skin actually contains most of the detail.

Then, I use Rhino to save the WRL file to OBJ format. Since I'm using the demo version of Rhino, I have a limited number of file saves, so another solution will be needed.

Then I use a special file converter to get the OBJ into 3DM format for MoI, the modelling program that I use.

Some real labor comes here - the converter just converts the line segments, and not any sort of planar or solid information. So, I have to manually create zillions of planar surfaces out of the lines. The battlecruiser took me about 4 hours of manual labor. I'm considering approaching Frenchy Pilou of the MoI community for help with a script. Either I'll commission him or write my own.

The next step is to stare at the skin and add detail to the now-solid model. This can take as much or as little time as I wish, but I prefer to have at least some detail inherent to the model, rather than rely on the painter to do so.

We'll also be slipping in there, a Guild multirole fighter craft and a Guild EW (Electronic Warfare not Exodus Wars... but for Exodus Wars) craft.

Then new race...

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