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Tsukuda Hobby 1/9 ABC War Robot Custom Build


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New guy alert! I've started a build in the Sci Fi Group Build but thought I would share one of my builds from last year with you guys.

Story behind this kit is I bought a recast of this model off ebay about 6-7 years ago, this was way before I knew about recasts and how evil they are! It was horrendous quality and thats when I started researching the original kit and looking into getting one. I got lucky and managed to pick this kit up for a reasonable amount of money a few years back, it was on the shelf for a year before I finally got around to doing it, and it was a really fun build.

I know the kit is based on the War Robot in the Stallone Judge Dredd movie, but I wanted to make it more like the comic book ABC Warrior Hammerstein, whom the design was blatantly based on. Only main difference between movie and comic is Hammerstein is so called because he has a hammer hand, so I decided to mod one for him & add some extra cabling, and scratch built the base which I stenciled on the ABC Warriors comic book title artwork.

Its a big model at just over 13" tall, and I'm super happy with the results, enough talk here's the pics.

 

35454314090_77b8e75fc2_c.jpgTsukudaHobbyABCWarRobot_zpsef2b8128 by Nick Frost, on Flickr


35454236920_c943e5ebc0_c.jpgABCWarriors1_zps49c150bd by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35710289311_f7e26306d4_c.jpgABCwarriors-13_zps51339263 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35710289251_1432ee50fc_c.jpgABCwarriors-14_zpsf672fe6a by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35454313110_705d0dfe2a_c.jpgABCwarriors-9_zpsc743751c by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35710290481_8bdcc05bbe_c.jpgABCwarriors-21_zpsd63108a6 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35710291381_12f3cc622f_c.jpgABCwarriors-22_zpsaee0fef6 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

36061413395_e7bf78fc16_c.jpgABCwarriors-19 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35928890291_ed6936ba93_c.jpgABCwarriors-20 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35221546384_9d9466ca4d_c.jpgABCwarriors-18 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

36061424845_a363a7798a_c.jpgABCwarriors-17 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35671882510_1844229897_c.jpgABCwarriors-16 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35891046662_269a675b26_c.jpgABCwarriors-15 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35891051052_040b63e811_c.jpgABCwarriors-14 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35671895360_df5f4772bf_c.jpgABCwarriors-12 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35671899040_458d077d95_c.jpgABCwarriors-11 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35928944501_d1e95f5d9d_c.jpgABCwarriors-10 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35891065042_af7f6993b8_c.jpgABCwarriors-8 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35221584794_1a0b4d35bd_c.jpgABCwarriors-7 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35891079272_afa926fa17_c.jpgABCwarriors-5 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

36020428216_d3eabd2c55_c.jpgABCwarriors-4 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

35671952300_60c876c254_c.jpgABCwarriors-2 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 



Thanks for looking, questions and comments welcome :D

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Amazing work Hunter! Looks wonderful! :)

Thanks neron-fx!

Excellent, definitive, superb, brilliant, award-winning work there!

I would pay a lot of money to have even half of your painting-skills....

Cheers for sharing.

Chris.

Cheers Chris appreciate the kind words

Exceptionally well built and painted. Great work. That base is a work of art in its own right

Andy

Thanks Andy, yeah I was pretty proud of the base :)

looks great, very nice work

Thanks batcode

This is still the best thing ever. Did you take new pictures or did I miss the finished post on FFF?

Will

Hi Will, yeah these were the final pics mate, I cant take credit for the quality, my dads a semi professional photographer so I got him to do them!

Also I know the pics dont show the scale so heres one from the wip to give a sense of size

20140810_153004_zpszyqnmuxp.jpg

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I'd like to build mine (eventually) but I look at yours and can't think of anything I'd add to the presentation. I'll leave him in the box until inspiration strikes I think.

Will

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I'd like to build mine (eventually) but I look at yours and can't think of anything I'd add to the presentation. I'll leave him in the box until inspiration strikes I think.

Will

Well I hope it does strike Will, would love to see what you do with it

Very nice I like the hammer added to the left are as a tribute to the abc warrior from the comic 2000AD that's a really nice touch :)

Thanks Alan!

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Great job Hunter. I watched this build unfold on fitchtenfoo's fora I think but it's great to see it again.

I spotted one of these kits going cheap on the bay this week and am now kicking myself for not buying it for the second time.

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You're not the only one that

is super happy with the result.

Super impressive.

I hope you kept a note of where his off switch is.....

Thanks Pete! And yeah dont worry I fitted him with a restraining bolt! :D

Lovely! Great model there - a real show-stopper!

Thanks Ian :)

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