I've got over 200 hours in Voss Pattern Vultures. All simulated.

So the latest four reinforcements for the Imperial Guard on Devos IV are actually technically members of the Imperial Navy's Close Orbit Command. 

The same heads as the Valk crews

Those cockpit assemblies are much more detailed that the ones I did for the Valks.

And into their flying stations. 

Lots of work still to do, but some meaningful progress is always nice.

It's possibly the future Part 3

This is the SPG with a barrel.  You'll recall that the hull was printed, horizontally split into two pieces. So the track sponsons are separate pieces as well. 

It's a purposeful looking vehicle, even in bright blue and white. 

So let's see how it looks in a single, tank like colour. 

There, now we're getting somewhere. 

So now for hairspray and some actual tank colour. 

It's possibly the future, Part 2

This is another, more speculative print by Steve's boy.  It makes an SPG.  The barrel didn't print nicely, but we have PVC tube the same as I used on the Mastercrafted StUG.  More of this in the future, too. 

So I'll leave you with a few more picts.  It certainly shows that 3D Printing has a lot to offer.

It's possibly the future Part 1

This was printed for me by the son of one of my friends, who being 11, must remain anonymous.  Not Steve, he's old and crusty like me, but those world is run by grown ups don't really need to be on the internet before they're ready. 

So this is Forpost D6's chimera hull.  If you search up Forpost D6 on shapeways, this is one of the wonders on there.  He'll print one out and post it to you for £60ish, but you can down load the file and print your own for gratis.

So Steve and I are chatting away and the conversation eventually gets to where his boy has printed his own Iron Man mask (pretty kool for 11).  I remember seeing this file whilst browsing and asked nicely.  So a couple of these were run off for me. 

The model, as you can see, is a pretty good facsimile of a chimera hull.  It comes up a little short and slightly narrow, but only 1 or 2 mm, as you will see in a future post, nothing that a bit of creative construction can't get round.  And it possibly protects Forpost D6 from legal action (?)

The striations on the model might be avoidable with a tweak of the printer settings, again not something I know too much about.  They are not a problem with regard to the model anyway.  

So.  On the strength of this (before I'd seen this print), I asked Mrs Zzzzz for a 3D Printer for Chrimbo.  As soon as we're out of lock down, I'll see about building the blinkin' thing. 

It's Sun 19 Mar 20, btw.  I've found left over Chimera bits from when I've used the hull on other conversions.  And done a little work there, so you'll see that in a short while.