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voozet

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  1. The coolest part of SF kitbash in one sentence 😉 Great build.
  2. I'm going to print it, frame it, hang it on the wall and show it to my wife three times a day 😉
  3. It is indeed very time-consuming, but things made from scratch give more satisfaction. Usually, the more work, the greater the satisfaction, which is not good news for lazy people like me 😉
  4. @Gruntpa I have a tool made by Green Stuff World called Roll Maker. It has 3 different sizes of corrugations and works really well IMO. I only regret that when buying this I did not choose the XL version, which has slightly larger plates and allows you to make longer rolls.
  5. I used the last few days to finish the hull / the engine and drive housing. I started by breeding earthworms 😉 Hydraulic hoses in large quantities, because I will need a lot of them, and some always form poorly. I did it using GSW roll maker. I use milliput and greenstuff in my work, but in this case greenstuff works better: it is more flexible after drying and does not dirty the tool. They are intended not only for the hull, but also for the arms. When the green stuff dries a little and stops sticking to the fingers, I shape some of them so that the bend fits where they will be attached. But let's get back to the hull. This is its lower back part. It has a name, but using it in public can be tricky... 😝 This photo shows one of the ways I connect green stuff "hydraulic hoses" with polystyrene components. This is a Tamiya tube with a diameter of 3mm. I glued this to another piece of polystyrene and added what looks like a valve to improve the look. The rear part of the hull also has a flap/door that I made earlier and painted together with the operator's cabin. View from the left side. View from the right side. View from below Thannks for looking. Wiesiek.
  6. The beginnings look very promising and very old school, in the best sense of the word. Besides this reminds me of the good old days when a camera was more than just a micro lens connected to a microchip... Never is too strong a word. In my experience, about half of the attempts end in failure 😝
  7. Thanks gentlemen. I'm glad you like it. This is a good idea, although it may be difficult for me to create a set of multiple identical lights. I don't like doing the same thing many times. Yes, I know that repetition is the mother of learning (fun fact: in the Polish version of this sentence, the mother was replaced by the queen), but in me, repetition kills the will to work. So there is rather one large spotlight within my reach. Unless you mean a working lighting array, i.e. diodes, fiber optics, cable soldering etc. Then even one spotlight is out of the question, because I have no idea about these things 🤣
  8. Pretty big, pretty scary. And as I see, he has his footprint on the walk of fame, so he's probably pretty famous as well 😉
  9. The last few days have been mainly conceptual work. I had to figure out a way to connect the arms to the cab. First I just glued them directly to the cabin. But it looked bad because the arms were at an unnatural angle. However, the glue stuck it together very well, so removing them was a brutal operation, which left scars... I also rejected the next idea, magnets, because it would be difficult to fit them into the ends of the arms. Finally, I used the wheel rims, the ones from which I also made a hand. This required adapting the flat rim to the rounded surface of the cabin. I used a method found on the Internet to do this. I wrapped the cab in sandpaper and used that as a matrix to copy the shape on the rim. Just in case, I also used a 3 mm rod to strengthen the connection of the elements. Voila! Thanks for watching. Wiesiek
  10. Another small step. The other hand is done. Let's assume that the gray rod is a welding electrode or a welding torch tube. It's probably part of the suspension of a modern AFV. I cut it into two pieces and used the thicker one as a handle for the thinner one. From the opposite side it looks like this. This mech probably won't be able to clap, but I think his hands will come in handy at work 😉 Thanks for watching. Wiesiek.
  11. Great colors. A beautifully differentiated red. Good work.
  12. More or less 🙂 It seems to me that it is several millimeters longer and a few millimeters narrower.
  13. Remora... a ghost from the past 😉 It stands in the corner, and it's my guilty conscience. People have shelves of shame, with models they haven't even started assembling. I have a corner of shame, with things I can't finish...
  14. Thanks, gentlemen! The cab and operator's seat are painted. Thanks for watching. Wiesiek.
  15. You have to be patient, because it's hard to say when the monster will return on the workbench 😉
  16. My first association is a cop's beacon. So maybe he's an empire military policeman... yyy... policedroid? Great build.
  17. I'm a bit stuck in the concept phase: I'm considering giving up on the excavator because it doesn't quite fit in size and, besides, I think it disturbs the model's proportions. I decided to finish the operator's cabin to do something else and after some time take a fresh look at the excavator. The operator module was already largely built, all that's left is to add some details. The green joysticks come from the Soviet BA armored car kit. The perforated copper sheet is the mudguard of a tank. I bought it as modeling scrap. These are foot supports. The control panel, made up of lots of little details whose origins I can't determine. I carved the operator's seat from 3mm styrene and mounted it on a frame made of thinner plastic. At the top there is a 1:35 fire extinguisher, I assume it is British. Safety first! As most of you probably know, adding details is a process that may never end. That's why I painted the cabin elements with a primer to stop the process of thinking about whether to glue something else to it. This is what it looks like without the top ring and seat. Thanks for looking! Wiesiek.
  18. I have a bit less time for modeling now, so progress is slow. But it's always a step forward. Implementing all of @Pete in Lincs suggestions initially seemed quite a challenge to me, but later I came to the conclusion that it was worth a try. A large collection of bits certainly makes it easier. Most of them are parts of 1:35 scale armored vehicles, so finding something suitable is quite easy 🙂 And here it is: the mecha-mega-vice. This time I'm definitely more pleased with the result. There is a worm drive, the whole thing is rotatable. I even managed to use what I had done before, although I modified it a lot. Thanks Pete! 🙂 As before - the beige elements are parts of a British tank. Probably suspension elements: springs or something similar. The spring was a bit too short, so on one side I added a piece of pipe that imitated a drive. I also had to cut off the fastening pins that I glued in random places as imitations of rivets/bolts/whatever. The rim of the wheel (grey), which is the mounting element here, fits perfectly with the forearm, thanks to this assembly of the whole thing does not require glue. This is convenient because it will make it easier to paint separately. My only doubt is whether the vice is not a bit too large compared to the hull. But I'm not going to do it again, so it doesn't really matter 😆 Now it's time for a second hand and a welding torch. I may add something else to it, to create a robotic multi-tool. We'll see. Edit: Here is a photo to illustrate the work so far. From time to time, I put together the already made elements to assess how they fit together. I see a few potential problems. The main one is the height of this model. The part of the hull containing the operator's cabin is so far from the ground that the tools may look bad. Especially the excavator. The reach of this excavator's arm doesn't seem to be enough to reach it Thanks for watching. Wiesiek.
  19. A very bold color combination, but the whole thing looks really good. Well done.
  20. Judging by the description, it's something like a grapple from an Alien loader. Yes, it might look cool. But I'd rather do it from start. I definitely don't like these tongs You won the second hand. I'll try to do something like that. Rivet gun sounds good too.
  21. Hi there! I expected that the biggest problem would be combining bits from kits with parts made from scratch, but I unexpectedly ran into a conceptual problem. Unarmed mech? Okay. Cool. But what should he have in his hands? Those of you who follow my work from time to time know that I am not a designer 😉 I take a knife, a ruler and plastic and move on. Then I wonder what to do next. So I started making hands, with no idea what I wanted them to look like. I hoped it would lead to something cool. The success was partial. I mean, one hand started to take a nice shape, but the other one was a failure. First the one that's okay. On the left there is an element connecting to the hull. In the middle: the forearm. It's a 3mm styrene plate and a piece of aircraft's bomb (?) cut in half. I put a ring on it, which was the rim of some AFV's wheel. Tool assembly holder made from scratch from HIPS strips and rings. The hull connectors look identical on both sides. When creating them, I used Lego bricks. I will use the tubular protrusions as sockets for hydraulic hoses. The beige circle seems to be part of a British tank. Now: the fail. While the hand parts look good, unfortunately the tools don't. The problem is that I have no idea what such a robot could have in its hands? Do you have any ideas? Because what I did is not suitable for further processing 😁 Finally, another photo of the feet. You never know what this mech might step on, so it will need some extra protection. The sprue pieces fit perfectly. Thanks for looking. Wiesiek.
  22. This motorized, mechanized anteater is looking better and better 😉
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