Atlas on my desk.

Well Ive been sidetracked lately  with prop making for friends and family the last few months. Conventions and such. A few swords, a big ass hammer for a Harley Quinn costume, a few guns and of course hard at work on Halo Reach Noble 6 armor for myself. Pics of some of those will follow soon enough. But for now....

Like many of you out there an Atlas probably just arrived at your door recently thanx in no small part to the efforts of our good buddy Tim Fusco. He put up the capital for it. and he really pushed to get this kit off my desk and into your hands and I have to admit Im glad he did.   Of course a shout out goes to Jimi Glancy for the casting. As always a top notch job.

So this is the only pic Ive taken so far, after the initial unwrap the amount of parts is kinda overwhelming. Only 1 part didnt make it thru the whole casting process. Which is understandable when there are so may parts to keep track off. There was a part that was supposed to be slotted into the neck slot to allow for the Standard head to sit correctly. For a quick review have a look here

http://scott-messydesk.blogspot.ca/2015/04/atlas-bits-and-pieces.html

This was my first part education some months ago. As you can see I talk about the different heads and what to do for them.  Without the spacer part you'll need to just add a couple of styrene layers to bring it up to the right height. There are  no mods that need to be done to heads at all.
Everything else should be straightforward to any modeler with experience with resin kits.


Have to do the usual bath and flash cleanup but I should be able to get to building in a few days.

Wow, I havnt done much

At all in the last few months and Im really sorry if people still come here to check out anything new.

The Battlemaster Im working on got put aside after several failures on my part to make it look good. I will return to it when Im motivated. Sorry Lance. When you use paper plans you have a roadmap to size and proportions, when you build without that roadmap you end up with arms that are to short or long, legs that are way too big and a pelvis that not wide enough.

Anyway. About 2 weeks ago I was contacted by PGI (Pirahna Games for those that dont know) and was asked if I would be able to make some mechs that they could raffle off as prizes at the Steam Launch Party to be held on the 11th here in Vancouver. They had seen a post or 2 on the forums and knew I had a few but with only 2 weeks to go to the party there was no way Thor would be able to print so many new mechs. So the ones I had on hand would just have to do.

Looking at what I had it was decided that there was 6 Hero mechs there and so I got to work. 2 solid weeks of breathing in paint fumes and this is the results.

These have now gone to good homes and I need to replenish my collection. Thor will hear from me.

Working on a custom commision

I dont do this often, mostly because some people have asked me to build a specific mech and then disappear when I ask for some fundage. But in this case its a trusted customer who has bought from me many times so I think Im good to go.
Without any specifics, here's a progress pic. Can you hazard a guess?

Atlas bits and pieces.

So Im sending this master to Tim but before I do I wanted to show where a bit or 2 go. For the most part an experience modeler can figure out where everything goes just from the pics of the assmbled kit but lets just cover the more   "HUH?" parts.

Heads: Founder style and regular.
The Founder goes in the slot no problem but the standard head needs this filler piece and collar before it will sit right.   Different geometry and all.

So the lower legs have the knee joint and these bits for left and right.

Next, the SRM 6 has this little bit on the bottom.

Itti bity groin shields.

 go here.

Ankle shield.

Hip joint bits for left and right.

And a tiny little instep shield goes here.

For the most part that should be the most WTF bits. Hopefully everything else will be fairly straightforward.  

Any finished mechs out there?

I realize that I may not have produced as many kits for sale as Tim has, but lets do a quick rundown shall we?
Hollander
Argus
 Locust
 Catapult
And of course every now and then, I sell a scratchbuild that wasnt finished. And I think Ive seen maybe 3 painted.




Love the setting.

Built not painted unfortunately. 

 One of my favorites.

 Love the cockpit.

And thats pretty much it.   Id love to see more. If any of you have some finished pics, please show me. Id really love to see them.

Finally: Hellspawn!

After like 9 months of bullshit and back and forth with the masters I have the kits in hand.
My very grateful thanx to Jimi Glancy(who I should have just used in the beginning) who went above and beyond to get this done.
To those of you who prepaid all those months ago, Im boxing them up now and sending them out this weekend.
To anyone else who would like one, I have 10 kits unspoken for.
email me  scott-murphy@shaw.ca

Another quick re-visit.

Soooo, like back in 2011 I had started work on the Mon Remonda
http://scott-messydesk.blogspot.ca/2011/06/mon-remonda-in-12256.html
and then I quietly put it aside. Mainly because I wasnt really sure how I wanted to do the engines. That may have changed, we will see soon.
But another thing that was bugging me was the blisters on the hull. I had added a bunch of little, rolled Aves bits and bomb halves but they looked like crap so I scraped them all off.
Then along comes  nicholassagan   
https://www.shapeways.com/product/D8QWPCPQ7/stefans-parts-fixed?optionId=2933855&li=ostatus
and his shapeways bits to save my sanity. Basically these are blister bits he designed to add to the discontinued MC-80 kit from Anigrand. Well I bought a set then molded them and have made like a hundred blisters to attach to the hull of my Mon Remonda.

Still many more to go, but its looking so much better. I need more small bits.