The Creeper

Not its real name..
But recently acquired from an individual I cant name until Im sure he wants the attention.....
This big guy was "grown" by rapid prototyping. And its rough. Its pvc plastic and its layering is definitely not as fine as you would get from a place like Shapeways but I can work with it. I mean Ive worked with a kit or two with worse.

So here you can see the main body with the groin.
If you look close you can see the layering effect clearly. This is after a while of adding Tamiya Putty and sanding. Then a blast of primer and more sanding and the roughness is diminished,
I wont get it totally smooth and Im cool with that.

 I hadnt touched the foot yet so you can see the layers better here. There are so many facets Ill never get them  all perfect but perfection is not my goal.

 And the bottom of the foot is where you can really get an idea of just how this printer lays down the pvc to get a solid shape.

 The pod is coming along. After more sanding  and another coat of primer the paint job should hide any imperfections. I may replace the laser lenses for a better effect.
And yes the pod doors open. A very nice touch.

The Arachnid

So this little box of joy arrived containing, well, you know.
The parts

A quick put together

Terrible shot, I know.
But after a de-grease and priming

90% of it is being held together by friction but I used  a shot of hot glue on the hips to hold the legs in place, and of course my third hand to hold it in place.
Its a little smaller than I wanted it but its still bigger than whats in the game but it still looks pretty good as a 30 ton mech next to a 35 tonner.
I should mention that 4 machine guns will be included and 4 flamers(2 for each arm as an option) as well as 2 torso lasers.

And with the 50 ton Hunchback.

Ive heard from my caster and we have a price worked out.
In order to run this kit I have to pre-sell 15 kits at $100 each plus shipping.
I know that a little steeper than normal for a kit this size but Ive had to fork out quite a bit to have the cg files cleaned and printed.
email me if interested.
scott.murphy@telus.net



This kit has been put on hold.

Small Soldiers

So recently while getting familiar with Shapeways and all its goodness I came across this
http://www.shapeways.com/shops/exodigital
Soldiers from the Robotech, sorry, Mospeada anime. Basically space soldiers in armour. Which is cool in and of itself but even cooler was that they are available in any scale. So I had some 1/60 figures printed cause maybe Id want to do a Battletech city scene diorama someday and Im NOT using the oversized figures out there that pass for 1/60.
A true 1/60 scale figure is 28mm tall.  Most of those tabletop gaming figures, and you know the ones Im talking about, stand like 32-35 mm. Way too big.
But when I got the 1/60 ones, wouldnt you know it, they were 34 mm tall.
So what to do? I ordered his 1/72 figures and they came today.
Heres a pic.

Shapeways does nice work.
And a size it up pic with a TRUE 1/60 figure.

Note that the ground crew guy is a little taller because of his base.
Heres you can see,  28 mm.  And remember this is what was labeled as a 1/72 figure. A 1/72 figure is 25mm.

and another size it up pic.

Im a little pissed about having to pay twice to get what I want but Ill just put the bigger ones on ebay to recoup my costs.

Oh and by the way, the real reason I wanted these is because Ive been looking for a figure standing with binoculars for ever so I could make this scene.

And now Im one step closer.

And now for something completly different

Hi all, as the title says I just wanted to show you a little something Ive wanted for years.
 What is it?  The Deep Sleep(flame gun) from Logan's Run.

2 parts are finished and the rest well under way. Another day and it should be ready for primer. I made the main body and grip by simply laminating about 12 layers of styrene and sanded it to shape.
 I know there are existing resin kits out there but because its such a basic design I felt it would be more fun to do it from scratch.
It doesnt spout flame but the trigger does work.

Later in the day I got to this point so I added a few new pics.

 Next, primer. Then lots of coats of gloss black.
Not bad for a one day build. Very satisfying.




And finally, black coats are on and Im calling it done.
Started friday morning, finished Sunday afternoon. If only all projects were this easy.

 Oh and Spider news, the parts are on the way to me so pics coming soon.

Christmas joy

Hello all and Merrymerry if you celebrate.
Thanx to a wee bit of time off Ive been able to finish painting a few of the new additions to my collection.
First up my Commando COM -2D named "Sgt. Cupcake". As he appears in the game, named and colour scheme from my daughter.
























This is how he appears in the game hence no decals, symbols or units numbers as yet.








 Next up "Lenore", my Raven RVN-3L. It just seemed wrong to me to paint my stealthy bird anything other than black.

 These mechs also mark my first real effort at cockpit and lense jeweling effect. Not bad, Ill get better with practice.

 And finally my Dragon DRG-1N as he appears in the game named "Cherrybomb". Again named by one of my daughters.  Hes painted in the PCGamer skin that was released a year ago. Even with all the other paint options I see no reason to change.

 

Hes equipped with a Gauss and 2 large lasers hence the blue lense effect.

And finally a group shot.

Later all.

Spider peak

Just a quick post to show you where we are on this little project.

I wanted to scratch this but I know my limitations and I cant expect Simon at Leg Destroyed to get to every mech I want. 
 I chose the Spider simply because I love playing with it in the game. Ive logged more time with it than any other mech. Mainly because of its speed,its  ECM and its survivability.
There something very satisfying to me to harass and piss off the big boys by running amongst them and stinging them with my lasers. Granted I dont get a ton of kills with it  but I do my fair share of the damages and I do my job as a light.
Anyhow, as you can see we're trying to get all the option bits covered, vectoring wings out or pulled back, anti-missile system,  flamer and machine guns( for both arms) and the torso laser, 1 or 2. Unfortunately, at this time, the game files has the flamer standing in for medium lasers on the arm, so no lens effect.
Oh Im giddy.

On hold

So while the most votes were for the Urbanmech only 5 people committed to the actual purchase, which says to me, not a good time to run a kit. Maybe in the spring we'll revisit the Urbie. But for now a sneak peak of whats in the future.









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