SOBRAL-E, an WALL-E Evil alter ego...so to speak

[Antonio Sobral]

SOBRAL-E … An WALL-E evil alter ego

Part 1 – The concept

We all know the Disney movie “Wall-E”, with that cute little gizmo, right?

Well, if those guys at Disney had real guts, they would have made instead the:

SOBRAL-E : Special Ordnance Battlefield Robot (with) Augmented Lethality - Excessive Class

And that, ladies and gentlemen, would be the proper thing to do!

A diabolic killing machine with no conscience or remorse to get in its way…

(and, in case of need, also being able to produce a very decent cup of expresso coffee).

But enough of worthless chitchat, and behold the Behemoth (in a broad sense of the word,

not literally the biblical monster):

I know that these are really shocking images that can hurt the more susceptible viewers,

so parental advisory is strongly suggested

And now it is time to arrange the surrounding scenario…

Part 2 – The Terrain

The terrain was made with the usual roofmate covered with Vallejo fine pumice stone paste.

No vegetation required.

The figures are 1/72 in plastic from Preiser and the resin one is produced by Francisco Bexiga (http://fbminis.blogspot.pt/).

The rest is just scraps of metal and plastic picked here and there…

To make thing more interesting I will also use some basic electronics to make a flashing light…

It is really simple, using the electronics of a birthday card, with the loudspeaker removed, and a push button added to start the flashing routine. Everything hidden under the terrain as you can see.

Part III - Transformation

The evil look. A small alteration to the head, to make it even more fearfull and menacing:

The command terminal was also completed with some assorted stuff:

And the construction is done. Time for some paint!.

Part IV - Painting

It's primer time!

E after some thought regarding colors and camo schemes:

After some work to cut all those tiny little squares made of Tamiya masking tape and 4 different paint layers,

I think the final result is OK.

Part 5 – Weathering

Oil drying time madness…

After some preliminar weathering:

Almost done!

Part 6 – Conclusion

Some more weathering and detail retouching later, the work is finally done:

Just for size comparison here is a photo with a 1/35 Panzer II Ausf F:

Not too shabby for a 5 Euro Toys-R-Us on-sale toy, right?

Thanks for watching!

Edited March 11, 2016 by Antonio Sobral

[Breaker]

Plain brilliant! I wasn't sure where you were going at first but the final look is awesome, the scale of the human figures makes it that little bit more menacing!

[heloman1]

Magic and congratulations it looks superb. I loved the original Wall E movie and then I watched the new one, I was captive audience on a tin tube to the UK. What a load of Tinsle Town tosh, I think someone forgot the original plot but then that is nothing new.

Please tell me where you got the Wall E model from?

Colin

[jetboy]

That looks brill,at the start i could,nt work out where it was going,very suprised by the end result,i think its the figures that set it off,as has been previosly said.

enjoyed that.

cheers Don

[Pete in Lincs]

Fabulous.

WallMak!

Must get to the shops.

Thanks

Pete

[Antonio Sobral]

Thanks for the comments.

I bought my Wall-E from a sale at my local Toys´R´Us store, around 2 or 3 years ago, I cannot remember exactly.

It was packed inside a plastic blister.

[heloman1]

Thanks Antonio, I'll have a look online see what I can find.

Colin