I found an Earthshaker Carriage at work

[micahwc]

 

http://i.imgur.com/Lbv2iQY.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9I0tCxd.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/TBbLzLV.jpg

 

It's a museum piece from a long forgotten Imperial regiment called the "U.S. Army".

[librisrouge]

That, good sir, is the noble Long Tom artillery piece, made famous by the United States Marine Corps. Clearly a forebearer of the noble earthshaker, perhaps a prototype STC construct.

[Guardsman Bob]

Micahwc, you might have a slight problem fitting it in your deployment zone.

[micahwc]

Maybe. But I have a 3d printed one on my desk that will fit.

http://i.imgur.com/JH8rdfz.jpg
I'm not a huge fan of this print. The wheels were a PITA to glue on and the trails are a bit smaller than I think they should be. I may try to modify the STL file but I'm a noob at that kind of thing, so no promises.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Yeah, and it needs some sort of axle structure between the front wheels - compare it to the front of the one you found at work.  Still, a good start to having one to put on the table.

 

I look forward to seeing how it progresses.

[Withershadow]

I don't know why this occurred to me while looking at this beauty, but I wish FW had brought the old Basilisk special shells back.  I would have enjoyed throwing down some smoke barrages.

[micahwc]

I used to crew a M198 155mm cannon and we fired more specialized shells in combat than HE. We fired smoke, illumination, WP, HE RAP, HE, and we had Copperhead laser guided anti-tank rounds on standby. It would be kind of nifty to have different kinds.

[micahwc]

I think on the model I'd get rid of the front two wheels and model it more after a M198, which is very similar but with only two wheels. Also the equilibrators look pretty crappy on the model.

 

I'm printing a German WW2 88mm flak canon right now. It was 15mm scale so I've scaled it up 300%. It should be close to the size of my Marx brand German 88 earthshaker proxies.

[NatBrannigan]

There used to be Smoke barrages? That sounds great! Nothing better in Frostgrave then slapping a pesky wall of fog down on the table, what a shame that's not an option in the codex.

[micahwc]

I woke up 5 hours into a 5.5 hour print at 2 AM to discover that my filament had pulled out of the extruder about 40 minutes into the print, so the machine ran all night but didn't print anything.

 

Not the printers fault, the filaments fault. I don't know why, but for some reason the spool feeds under one of the strands of filament, which means when the filament gets pulled that strand will tighten over the filament that needs to get pulled next, and it will pull itself out of the extruder if I don't fix it by hand. Before leaving for work today I unwound about 4 meters of filament and ran the print again, so hopefully it will be done correctly when I get home tonight.