thanks for the kind words
@ Griswald - i kow what you mean about the boiler and it was something i contemplated...but in the end i wanted a full enclosed machine, with minimal parts showing (keeping it very tank like) and also i didnt have the bits handy to do justice for a boiler and ensuing parts...maybe the next contraption will have a proper boiler...as for the tracked idea, i stole that from one of the Nick Kyme novels...there is mention of a steam tractor being used to pull an artillery train for the Throng and i just loved the notion of tractors being used by Dawi, better than the silly wheels on the steam tank used by those so-called 'engineers' from the Empire...
@ Skrum - it was all fairly basic really...but i will give u a run down on each one...
The Gatling Guns - gatling guns, eagle icon, gun mounting piece & satchel are from 40K ravenwing land speeder set i scrounged from a mate...the wheels and axle from a dwarf plastic cannon...balsa wood was used for the timber frame sections...dwarf talismans were from the my bits box...laid the forks back from the axle and glued the small base plate at the end...then glued another piece of balsa over the top of the axle to form the platform the gun mount would rest on...another piece of balsa glued to the front to essentially cover up the axle area and also a place to mount talismans...then the gun mounts was glued into place...then the guns & eagle icon were glued into place...and finally the satchel & talismans were glued into place...
The Tank Thing - track based is from a Warzone figure...other parts were from a 1/76 tiger tank kit, cannon barrels from a pirate range i cant think of and everything else is balsa and plasticard...used the turret based for the tank as the base for the tank body, glueing it to the track chassis (the chassis has a large hole in the middle meant for the original mini) ...then built the basic shape of the body out of balsa, then overlayed with thin plasticard...next were the various bits & bobs attached...i glued the tri-barrel configuration to a plasticard base and then pinned it to the main body, i then greenstuffed what is meant to be a leather housing around the part it joins to the body for a bit of extra support...if i ever did this model again i would build the body out to a larger size, but its current size has about the same footprint as the organ gun it represents...
another comment i had from a local player is that i should have put a gun shield on the gatling guns...but when u look at examples of original gatling guns from the 19th century they didnt have gun shields...so i figured the design would be new and thus gun shield would be a development down the line...
something that did amuse me was after i made that model i was reading the lastest Thanquol novel (know thine enemy!) and there is mention of automated gatling-like sentry guns being used by the Dawi...nice to see the gatling gun concept in official GW literature...plus it made me think of the movie Aliens...and that is always a good thing, lol