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A very bold color combination, but the whole thing looks really good. Well done.

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.

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.

This motorized, mechanized anteater is looking better and better 😉

That's really great! Marvellous painting.

I don't know about others, but in my case a Droid on a speeder, composed of such various parts, arouses interest... hmmm... automatically 😉

Another progress report, and again a rather small one. This time it's time for the feet. The main part is four trapezoidal pieces of 3 mm styrene. A lot of time was spent on sanding. In the middle there are more pressure tanks and plates to which the "ankles" will be attached. I tested several possible combinations of all these components. Then I decided on this way of positioning them relative to each other. Greebles are 1:35 parts of WW II tanks. I think Panther and Matilda. I placed the hydraulic/pressure tank on a piece of sprue, taking advantage of the fact that it resembles a valve or something like that. The other parts of the legs are also slowly taking shape. Here you can see me making bolt nuts from round and hexagonal styrene rods. First, I drill the hexagon quite deeply, then cut it into slices and thread it onto the rod. I will have to improve the feet a bit, but overall I am happy with how the legs looks now. Thanks for watching. Wiesiek.

My mistake then. I thought it was about using one drive in generall. I only use it through the website onedrive.live.com The power of habit. I even forgot that OD is also an application 😉.

In my experience, it also depends on the browser. I can add photos from my smartphone, but only using the Samsung browser. Chrome doesn't work. Cheers Wiesiek

It is wonderful. You're great at connecting very distant worlds. It's not easy to combine such different parts into a coherent and good-looking whole, but you managed to do it really well.

Happy New Year everyone! I hope that where you live, winter is less annoying than in Poland, and you don't have to waste your energy on nonsense like shoveling snow Minor update. Since this is going to be a construction mech, it will need tools (and it's not about a snow shovel). It will probably have arms on the body with some kind of drill or hammer, but first I decided to make an excavator, which will be a separate element at the back of the walker. This requires putting on some sort of stable base that could accommodate the engine (an imaginary engine, as I'm not going to make it) while also balancing the weight of the front end of the mech. Only now, when I look at the photo, I realized that I glued the excavator arm from the wrong side. Fortunately, this is just a demonstration assembly, using blu tack. A misunderstanding with one of Santa's reindeer named Amazon spoiled my plan a bit, but in the end it worked 😉. In a few days I will receive a replacement air tank for the compressor and the paint shop will be able to start again. This will allow me to move forward with the mech's body, as I plan to paint some parts before the next stages of construction. Thanks for watching. Wiesiek.

In the case of a walking robot, the legs are one of the key elements, so I try to make them as best as I can. I imagine it as a multitude of hydraulic actuators, gears, etc. In any case: a lot of detail is essential. To connect the legs to the hull I used parts of the drive of a 1:35 tank. What I have done and shown above is the frame of the upper leg, let's call it the thigh. Now I'm also building the lower part, let's say this is the shin. Hydraulic actuators require pressure vessels. Tamiya 5 mm HIPS tube and 1:72 airplane wheels allowed me to create two such tanks. This is more or less what the leg looks like at its current stage. The "foot" joint that's some part of the Lego system. I will build the feet in the next step. Now it requires adding details: all those rivets, hydraulic hoses, actuators, some cables, etc. But the main part is ready. Thanks for watching. Wiesiek.

I know this feeling very well. my spider tank, made a few years ago, has three legs because I was so tired of the process of duplicating parts that I couldn't make the fourth one 😉

My workshop has temporarily limited operational capabilities: the paint shop is closed due to numerous equipment failures. I wrote a letter to Santa Claus, demonstrating beyond any doubt that I had been good all year long and deserved a brand new, shiny airbrush. My wife promised to deliver the letter to the addressee. Therefore, there is reason to believe that one of the hardware problems will be solved in the last days of December 😉. There is still the issue of compressor repair, which unfortunately is going worse. Anyway, I can't paint old things for now, so I started building new ones. A construction mech has been on my mind for a long time: an excavator or some sort of demolition machine from the near future, with legs instead of tracks. The thing is supposed to be in the mecha style: a robot with an operator inside. I'm not sure that mecha doesn't only apply to armed vehicles, but I don't feel like making another military thing. Make walls, not war 😉. Construction started about two weeks ago. This is the operator's cab "kit": plastic cosmetic jar and acrylic Christmas bauble. I have several such baubles. This is a semi-finished product for making your own decorations. It used to be perfectly transparent, but I dulled it with sandpaper. For now, I only want to use half of the bauble. I glued the HIPS floor inside. This can be seen, although somewhat blurred, in the photo below. Several rings of different shapes will form the control panel around the operator's seat. On the lower right is the front cockpit panel. I glued this to a piece of a photo etched part that used to be the tank's mud guard. The operator's seat is carved from 3mm thick HIPS. First steps to building the leg drive module. And the first steps in building the legs. I decided to connect the operator's cab and the drive module with neodymium magnets. On the one hand, it will facilitate further construction and painting, on the other: the cabin will be able to be rotated around its axis. From my experience, glue is not enough to properly attach the magnet. The most durable method is to attach it using Milliput, preferably in such a way that both magnets are separated by the plastic to which they are attached. This is what the cabin module, connected to the drive module, looks like at this stage. The jar made from polyethylene was sanded and covered with a HIPS strip. I want to avoid a mishap as when building a spaceship for Above Karman Line GB. There, I skipped the step of covering the polyethylene with polystyrene and ended up with peeling paint. Thanks for watching. Wiesiek.

I like the idea. The beginnings suggest that this is heading in a great direction. I wouldn't call it a headless chicken, though. The silhouette from the first photo reminds me of a kiwi bird. One of the species is called Apteryx, which is a nice name for a fighting mech. 😉

Well done.

That's one option, I even think there's a can somewhere in my cave. The second option is to wait for the compressor. And the third: do nothing. This model will probably end up in some box in the garage or at the bottom of a drawer, because I made it so-so (it looks better in the photos than in reality). At least IMO it's not something worth putting on display 😉 I like creating models, and the process gives me joy. Completing the work is not a necessary condition.

This project is slowly turning into a constant series of misfortunes. Recently the airbrush broke down and today the compressor stopped working. Rust caused a hole in the compressed air tank. For a moment I felt like I was in a real spaceship during decompression 🤣 It's cheap crap, so I think it's wiser to buy a new one than to repair it, but either way it will take some time. The good news is that I was able to almost finish painting before the crash. Fighters appeared in the hangar. The whole thing should be protected with satin varnish to uniform the surface texture, but I can't do it without a compressor. Now I'll take a break for a few days and then I'll take a look at my spaceship again and see what I can improve or add. Or maybe you have any suggestions? Thanks for watching. Wiesiek.

@2lefthands this is really big. I guess it would be harder to send it than energy as @Pete in Lincs proposes 😉 As far as I remember, the construction was completed. I'm stuck at the painting stage. This is the part I don't really know how to do and I don't like it very much. I usually make a lot of mistakes at the painting stage and this takes away my willingness to work.

In similar cases, I use a combination of smartphone, Google Lens and Google Translate. That's how it's worked when I opened your photo in the Chrome browser, then tap ---> option 'search with Google lens', then select the translate option: When you have a paper version of the book, it is easier: you just run the Google Lens app, click the translate option and "catch" the text in the camera frame, and Google translates it live. Of course: it has all the advantages and disadvantages of AI translation but sometimes it's better than nothing. Wiesiek

Thanks. Unfortunately, I haven't done anything here since then. This is one of several of my very advanced projects that tired me so much that they were put on the shelf "for later". The problem is that "later" still means "never". This ship is almost complete, so I don't lose hope that one day I will find some energy and finish it.

It can always be concluded that the first officer did a poor job during docking 😝. Pristine look is unattainable for me 😉 I usually try to do this especially when gluing greebles to a PET element, but here I didn't add anything to the surface so I skipped this step. It was mistake.

I get notifications about reactions and when someone quotes me, but not about "ordinary" replies.

Such declarations can be dangerous. They threaten to activate silent mode 😉. As for your fighter: it looks great. Wiesiek.

Well... My hope that everything would be easy now turned out to be in vain 😝 The paint peeled off along with the masking tape. The problem with polyethylene (PET) is that it has extremely poor adhesion and does not react with other substances. That's why it's perfect for food packaging and terrible for modeling. Every time it happens I say "never again PET" and then I make the same mistake 🤣. Do you mean products like Mr Surfacer? I think I have a can of spray primer from this manufacturer. 🤔 However, probably the simplest solution is to avoid using PET. Do you use undiluted IPA? I have it at 99 percent concentration. Do you think I can mix it with paint?