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What goes whurr, chop, clank, zzap chop, clank, squeak?

A rat on a steam powered death machine (Natch). A bit like this one: The Skaven Doom-flayer* (* another classic Citadel ‘lottery of grimdark’ name) Now, there’s nothing wrong with this model, apart from it looks a bit like the late and demented Dwarf Deathroller from Bloodbowl. But... I think of the Doom-flayer as something that the rat has to sit in and carefully operate, rather than stand on and ride - more like a steam train than a cross between a lawnmower and a Segway. So I had a little think, looked at the available ratty kits and decided that I could make a better (or at least, different) one from parts of the Doomwheel kit. Hopefully mine would look more suited to the battlefields of the old world than a crown green bowls field. Although this seems hopelessly extravagant; (the Doomwheel kit costs £5.00 more than the Grinder) there are a number of advantages: 1. It means I don’t have to work with Finecast 2. I get to make a thing unique to my ar...