Looking for mini site.

My browser puked and completely hozed my collection of bookmarks.

I'm hoping that you lot can help me find on in particular that I am
trying to re-find without success.

I remember it had ant-like aliens with guns, armed and armored kangaroos
and some miscellaneious 6mm micro-armor...

Help?

http://www.stanjohansenminiatures.com/

> At 04:49 PM 7/31/2002 -0400, you wrote:

Yup. That's it. Thank you very much. But, having looked it over, it isn't the
site I was thinking of. It's the site I described, sure enough, but it doesn't
have the one thing I was specifically looking for.

There was a site I found a few months ago that had a 6mm-scale "tank" or
"land-ship".  The tank was multi-sectioned, like a centipede with tank
treads for legs.  It was suitable for a multi-compartmented vehicle.

Any hints on THIS one?

> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 17:21, Ray Forsythe wrote:

Sounds like Stan Johansen Minis:
http://www.stanjohansenminiatures.com/

You can start reconstructing your Bookmarks files by hitting the Links
pages on my website - http://wind.prohosting.com/~warbard/links.html -

> On 31 Jul 2002, Flak Magnet wrote:

> Yup. That's it. Thank you very much. But, having looked it over, it
or
> "land-ship". The tank was multi-sectioned, like a centipede with tank

Germ's 'bug' DS2 minis?
http://www.germwarfare.co.uk/

Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
- http://wind.prohosting.com/~warbard/games.html -

> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 17:21, Ray Forsythe wrote:

There was a site I found a few months ago that had a 6mm-scale "tank" or
"land-ship".  The tank was multi-sectioned, like a centipede with tank
treads for legs.  It was suitable for a multi-compartmented vehicle.

Nope. Thanks for trying though.

> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 18:09, Brian Burger wrote:

That's it, that's it exactly. Thanks!

--Flak

> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 18:11, Don M wrote:
or
> "land-ship". The tank was multi-sectioned, like a centipede with tank

The 6mm Landship id was the give away...)

Don

[quoted original message omitted]

Yeah, I'd tried searching for it, but Google didn't have a clue.

Holy smokes, the price though... I'd forgotten that part. Perhaps I'll
just kit-bash one together from some styrene kits.

Thanks again.

--Flak

> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 18:26, Don M wrote:

The price is the only reason I don't have one...Kit bash
from a bunch of roco 1/87th scale tanks with added styrene
would be allot cheaper! Don

[quoted original message omitted]

No kidding.  I'm going to make one using micro-scale tank turrets and
hulls attached to "something" I'm going to build/buy/bash.  Maybe I'll
fill out the "battleship" look with some odd-scale naval model turrets.

As unrealistic as it may be, I rather like the "landship" idea as it exists in
the Heavy Gear universe.

Time to hit the hobby stores...

> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 19:18, Don M wrote:

Yeah, that would be your best option and far less costly. I like the
"landships" from the Heavy Gear universe also, I think they got the idea from
a animated movie called "Big Wars". Had huge
repluser-lift land ship battles on Mars...Cheesy but I liked it....)

> At 12:08 PM -0500 8/1/02, Don M wrote:

Not so unrealistic. Who know's how Nellie would have progressed if she'd been
built during the great war and not WWII.

Nellie?

> On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 14:06, Ryan M Gill wrote:

Yeah, Nellie??

> Nellie?

> At 2:10 PM -0400 8/1/02, Flak Magnet wrote:

If you guys would stop playing with your 1:300 scale figures for a few days,
maybe you'd get to know some of the more obscure armor
developments. ;-P

Nellie was a digging machine that the British designed early in WWII. It had a
pair of engines and was shaped not unlike a MkIV tank (trapezoidal). The big
thing about the 130ton beast was that it was
designed to travel along a trench that it dug at 1/2 mph and provide
a means for tanks and infantry to breach a line of trenches. There were two
types, an officer 'version' (wide enough for tanks to follow along behind) and
an 'enlisted' model that had a narrower track that allowed for infantry to
walk along behind. The depth of the trench was about 5 feet with more to
either side due to placement of of the digging spoil.

The whole thing was quite large (77' long 6'6" wide and 8' high) and had a
good front third of it devoted to the cutting heads and earth moving gear. The
overall look is something like a MkIV tank (a bit enlarged though) minus the
sponsons and the cutting head from a snowplow train section added to the
front.

Paxman Diesels made the engine and they have an excerpt on the thing in their
history section...
http://www.nelmes.fsnet.co.uk/paxman/paxbrit.htm

Likely beyond the basic protypes it would have needed more work. They were
initally made for the defense of the UK, then mid way through the war the
project was shelved. Then when it looked like the
Siegfried line was going to be a big mess the project was re-started.
Then of course the SL was breached through conventional means.

Nellie?

If you guys would stop playing with your 1:300 scale figures for a few days,
maybe you'd get to know some of the more obscure armor
developments. ;-P

Oh yeah the Imperial Guard Termite! Running for cover LOL.!!!

> At 9:29 PM -0500 8/1/02, Don M wrote:

This actually worked.

...Oh and Squats designed those for the Imperium ya know. The Adeptus
Mechanicus couldn't engineer themselves out of a cardboard box with a sonic
spanner and a plasma torch.

There are no (longer?) Squats, stop spewing heresy....)

> At 9:29 PM -0500 8/1/02, Don M wrote:

From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>

> Nellie was a digging machine that the British designed early in WWII.

A good source is W.S.Churchill's "History of WW2", where it's known under the
codename "Cultivator No. 6".

In many ways it was Churchill's baby - but he had no hesitation in
slaughtering it for scrap after May 1940, when it was obviously one war too
late.

Another whacky project - "The Directorate of Tube Alloys" - was rather