Andy T
SMF Supporter
Well my last sci-fi kitbash was so much fun that I've started another!
It'll be some kind of bipedal attack robot hewn from an old Tamiya T-62 kit (the one with the battery holder). I'd thought about letting you guys guess the kit I'm ruining but it's so iconic that it would be plainly obvious to most.
Because it's so well known I'm going to try and keep some of more recognisable parts, almost as though someone had found an abandoned tank and chopped it up.
So here's where I started:
The first job was to widen the turret, which meant cutting it in half with my new razor saw (which was absolutely spot on for the job). Originally I was going to space it like this but eventually went for a more tapered effect, 40mm wider at the rear, 20mm at the front:
I wanted it higher/deeper too so thought about some kind of ventilated deck. To that end I added a spacer layer:
Then I got really carried away and forgot to take any pictures, but this is the how it stands now, with around half the lower hull forming the "body" and using the original turret rings so that the "head" will be able to swivel.
I've added an over-long axle for the "arms" that I can trim to length when I get to that part:
Very early days but I'm having a hoot so far!
It'll be some kind of bipedal attack robot hewn from an old Tamiya T-62 kit (the one with the battery holder). I'd thought about letting you guys guess the kit I'm ruining but it's so iconic that it would be plainly obvious to most.
Because it's so well known I'm going to try and keep some of more recognisable parts, almost as though someone had found an abandoned tank and chopped it up.
So here's where I started:
The first job was to widen the turret, which meant cutting it in half with my new razor saw (which was absolutely spot on for the job). Originally I was going to space it like this but eventually went for a more tapered effect, 40mm wider at the rear, 20mm at the front:
I wanted it higher/deeper too so thought about some kind of ventilated deck. To that end I added a spacer layer:
Then I got really carried away and forgot to take any pictures, but this is the how it stands now, with around half the lower hull forming the "body" and using the original turret rings so that the "head" will be able to swivel.
I've added an over-long axle for the "arms" that I can trim to length when I get to that part:
Very early days but I'm having a hoot so far!
It actually means “walking on your toes” — what people often think of as a cat’s or a dog’s knees are actually their ankles, what they think of as the ankle is where the toes join the foot, and the knee is almost inside the body due to them having a relatively short thigh bone.
