Damian: It's already scaring the dogs!

Bob: Thanks, man.

Hermon: Welcome to the party!

Adam that's some serious injunity there looking very cool.

Hermon how nice of you to join us with your rolling big dog you got there looking sweet.lots of options on that one.will it have a cup holder

I am also interested in the technique for the brass sheets plz share

Progress soon

I'd say...where ever it wants.

Most impressive work so far. So is this project part of humanity's stand against whatever has caused the EOD? Or is this part of the forces that have brought about the EOD?

Ok! Oh! Fearless leader, nice to see that those evil hordes did not get you. And after looking at your build I know why, it is too massive for their little oozie brains to figure out how to climb aboard. Great work Hermon, what kind of stores will it carry and like Justin said where will the cup holder be?

Bob

@Randy

@Justin

I etched brass sheets at Iron(III) chloride FeCl3. I used laser jet technic.

Hermon, Cool build but how is it going to fit in the drive thru when it's your turn to get the coffee and donuts?????? Really neat stretch job and I love the tires, welcome back

A few pics of small progress....

Using the single shock from the kit and working on the swing arm.....









Adding more gussets to the frame...






The forks and handle bars are next, will use the grips from the kit as they are a really sweet casting...



















That is all for now, Happy Turkey Day! Randy

Happy Turkey day Randy that thing is

Randy. I'll see Justin's and raise by a or two. That scooter is NUTS !!




Part of Hermon's plan is to have the last remaining drive-thru in civilization, and it's inside this rig. He wants to take over the world via our stomachs. I hope his coffee is good !!

Cheers, D

Randy I will see Damians and raise and it is in company with the rest of us "NUTS"

Bob

Hello all! I thought i would post a few in progress shots of 2 of the vehicles i'm working on.

After raiding a military museum, our group of survivors have managed to put together 2 raiding vehicles. The hummer is more of a recon/fire support vehicle, hence the light armour. the lav is a "crowd control" vehicle, designed to be driven into crowd of zombies and let loose.

Good job grimmo looking

Nice job Matt. I'm diggin' that camo scheme on the HUMMER.


I'm using my 2 days off from work to get my armored semi going. I still have to make 4 custom driveshafts and various support stiffeners for the suspension, but for now I've moved on to the armored bed.
This is a moc-up of the armored bed which will sport "port hole" style windows along the sides along with plenty of storage boxes bolted to the hull here and there. I'll scratch up a radar guided mini-gun later for the top as well as some top mounted solar panels to run the radar and guidence systems at night.





I also got to work on the 3406 CAT engine that will motivate this beast. Yeah, I know.......if my life depended on this truck I would opt for a CUMMINS but hey, the CAT is what I had. Pic is a little blurry, but most of you guys are probably drunk right now anyways.






I also have a few other goodies in mind for later on. The most important being a large rotating drum wich will mount on the front of the rig. It'll have sections of heavy chain welded on at various points and act like a giant "flail" sort of like the old WWII rigs that were bolted onto the front of Sherman tanks to detonate mines.

Hermon

Looking good Boss-man !! That chain-flail idea sounds pretty cool too

Cheers, D

@ Randy: at first I did not really see a two wheeler being able to take care of it self, but your bike is just plain mean and will do major damage to those slime balls

@ Matt: nice job so far, what are you using for the screen, I need to steal another idea guys

@ Hermon: now that you have put the cab on, and with those wheels it makes the build look more massive than I thought.

Ya'll make me want to pick "TINKER BELL", and "CAPTAIN HOOK" up and do some destruction, but study forbids it at the moment

Bob

Hermon that thing gets sicker by the moment looking very cool.And the cup holder?

Ok an update from me the dio continues.Got some paint done today and the barn mounted to the base.....

I also started painting pablo.Camera lets you see what i missed
Oh well easy fix......

almost there....

@Matt, that's the Italeri Commando Humvee right? I've used it for my Federal response teams.The camo scheme looks nice. I tried to do a grey urban scheme and it looked funky. The rear bumper looks nice and "crowd-trollish". Are you going to do smithing similar for the front?

@Bluestab: yep. got a nice solid looking bash bar made. It is the old desert patrol hummer, i made it years ago, with a pretty poor paint job, so decided to repaint it in something more modern. i did the 3 colors, but it looked a plain, so i added the grey to add something to it.

@Bigrip74: the mesh is from AMRI product no AA 614. Exp aluminium 149X190 A=3mm. I've had it for around 12 months now. It is a minature version of expanded metal mesh commonly used for flooring. I had no idea of what i was going to use it for, but luckily i bought the last sheet! it's a great scale for 1/35 flooring, or as i used it, window screen.

The screens on the LAV have been finished, have to finish off the crane attatchments and the hummer weapons. I'm going to make some figures too.

@Hermon: that truck is looking awesome! great idea! can't wait to see more on it!

Here you go guys, my secret online stash of expanded metal mesh . . .

Art Supplies Online

$1.43 Aussie for a 150x150mm sheet if you buy it in lots of 10, fast shipment, good quality stuff.

Hope this helps some of you out. Cheers, D

I continue with armor plates on HMMWVy's doors. The top part of armor can rotating.

Morning All, WOW , This thread just keeps getting better!!

Justin, Thank you ! The barn is looking good but where's the girl????

Thanks Damian, and thanks for the link.

Hi Bob, Glad you like it so far!

Matt, Nice looking additions to our army!!

Hermon, That thing is a BEAST!!!

Alexander, Great job on those hinges!!!!!!

No progress to report on the scooter but did find a possible weapon system...


















Cool little gadget that is crying to get used. Maybe a back pack weapon or mounted on the bike????


Randy

"TINKER BELL" is painted and has a coat of future on, Next to paint on some teeth on that front bumper and to put something that looks like Tinker Bell on the side the photos are not the best for now, I will break out the photo booth when she is all dirtied up and has a coat of flat.



I will paint some nice BIG TEETH here.

My back door.

This is for Hermon


Bob

Tinker Bell is lookin' bad to the bone Bob! I just hope you never have to use that bottom rocket.....it may take your front wheel off.

BTW, did I miss something? How did you do the bolt heads on the front of your plow blade? I need to figure out something like that for my truck.


Hermon

@ Hermon: the wheels will kolidascope when any tall obsticle appears (honestly I was just gluing things on that looked good and got carried away) anyway this is fantasy and that big box will drag any goolies along with the vechicle > The bolt heads are round plastic rod cut to what looks like a bolt size then placed on the plow with Tamiya Extra Thin glue and allowed to dry, then I brushed some more glue over the bolts and allowed them to dry again before a second coat of glue to shape them by taking any cut marks or sharp edges away..

Bob

looking good bob

The girl got made into a meal by zombies.
Actually the casting was so bad I just scrapped her.Wont buy legend again.

Thanks for the boost Justin, I am trying to keep up with everyone here. This I know that has been said before (by me) but all of the building is on a par that keeps me on my toes and YES I STEAL YOUR IDEAS its the only way that this old brain can keep up with the younger set.

(Actually I am enjoying my self treamendously with the sharing of building techniques and I wait anxsiously for each photo that every one posts. )

I vote for Hermon and Damian to put this shindig on every year.

Bob