Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Scifi and Fantasy => Topic started by: Frank3k on February 12, 2020, 09:26:40 AM
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This is the Bandai 1/48 Hobuggy from the Xabungle Anime (https://www.scalemates.com/kits/bandai-0137924-hobuggy--1073898) (whatevs) that I rescaled to 1/35. This is what the assembled kit is supposed to look like:
(https://www.hlj.com/media/catalog/product/cache/image/700x700/e9c3970ab036de70892d86c6d221abfe/b/a/ban937924.png)
Not very detailed compared to the box top. I wasn't going to call mine a Ho buggy, either...
I added to and modified the kit from the start of the build. I opened the rear of the fan cover and added the two engine pods from a Tamiya Hughes 500 egg plane. I used some Eduard mesh to keep FOD out of the blades. Early on it looked like this:
(https://i.imgur.com/lpqDFXG.jpg)
The gray bit is an intake or vent from a Gundam add-on parts kit:
(https://i.imgur.com/uXQL8Cm.jpg)
For some reason, I decided to start painting at this point - the build still had a long way to go! The Hover Buggy still looked a bit off, so I experimented adding a tail (a Matchbox 1/72 Ju-188 wing) and a silver cover for the fan engine. The figure is a happy Russian soldier from a Zvezda motorcycle kit. The headrest is half of a drop tank. The foot pedals are from a Trumpeter 1/35 scale Modern U.S. Army CH-47D Crew & Infantry kit :
(https://i.imgur.com/xS5YDKu.jpg)
Diziet is not impressed:
(https://i.imgur.com/PMjnJeR.jpg)
Neither was I. I took the tail off and realized what was bugging me was the engine cover, so I replaced it with a part from an AMT 1/200 US manned rockets kit. The landing skids were very simple and sagged under the weight of the model - I moved the nose skid to the rear, so that the model could at least stand without the stand:
(https://i.imgur.com/kF4aN5B.jpg)
Here it is, mostly finished. The landing gear is made from several kit parts, including the ubiquitous Gundam parts - in this case a spring, which I coated in CA glue to approximate a rubber boot or cover. The gear is pinned with paper clip sections:
(https://i.imgur.com/xSH7sC8.jpg)
The headrest is part of the fuselage of a 1/72 plane, with the cushion made from a third of the seat cushion from the old Glencoe Airjeep, sanded to shape. The bicycle seat is from the same Zvezda motorcycle kit (it comes with a spare) that provided the test pilot. The seat back was scratchbuilt. The seatbelts are from the Eduard Gama Goat PE set. The eye decal (and most other decals on the kit) are leftover decals that I've printed on my ALPS over the years:
(https://i.imgur.com/x6pphEY.jpg)
The display is a UV resin raft generated to hold the model supports on my 3D printer. The fluorescent decal is from the Airfix Jet Provost. 20-02 is the month and year I built this kit:
(https://i.imgur.com/P3hRfq1.jpg)
I'm still working on a figure. I used the Zvezda figure as a "test pilot" to get an idea as to where to put the foot pedals and headrest:
(https://i.imgur.com/BzXDY4S.jpg)
This second figure is posed to climb into the cockpit. He's a Frankenstein mix of body parts that will need a lot of work before he's presentable:
(https://i.imgur.com/FV2XaUk.jpg)
The Hoverbuggy is pretty well worn and used - I still have to come up with a back story.
Thanks for looking!
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Frank,
That is a very odd looking craft but you are doing it justice with your modifications.
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Love the upgrades, this is screaming out for a diorama treatment.
Mog
>^-.-^<
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Really neat idea, and you've done a great job with the modifications.
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I like the modifications you've made. What you have looks more plausible than the original picture.
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Big improvement over original configuration and colors. Lot of right mods, interesting to study. :smiley:
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Fantastic re scaling of this interesting kit...
Antonio
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Heh. Rotorhead gave me one of these at last year's Austin show...now I know what to do with mine.*
Great looking build! The colors being what they are, I can just see a Middle aged Tom Swift jr. climbing into the
cockpit. ;) Good ideas to open up the intake and strengthen the gear.
* I'll keep it 1/48th, but give it a bug-eyed sedan cockpit.
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I finally finished the figure for the Hover Buggy. It took forever to finish; I just couldn't get it to paint as I wanted. So I said "Phuket" (Thailand). From a distance, it looks OK.
Here's Mr. Thomas Swift:
(https://i.imgur.com/fonnhmO.jpg)
The waxy stuff in his right hand is museum wax, to keep him in place.
Tom "mounting" his "ho" buggy:
(https://i.imgur.com/ck2Grit.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/UbSL5Hz.jpg)
The body parts took a fair amount of work to get them to play nice - there's quite a bit of plastic "putty" (plastic dissolved in solvent) in places and I used what may be expired "green stuff" to add pockets and details - something was oozing out of his waist (over the PE belt). It could have been a reaction between the green stuff, liquid cement and CA glue. The fanny pack covers the worst of it.
The head and helmet are from Live Resin and solve two issues:
without a screen, the pilot would be eating a lot of bugs and debris.
The resin head has a mask and wrap around glasses, minimizing the amount of face painting required.
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Frank, Mr Swift sets the build off nicely & gives a great scale reference, too. :smiley: 8)
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Frank, Mr Swift sets the build off nicely & gives a great scale reference, too. :smiley: 8)
Concur! He brings it all together for me.
Most excellent, Frank!
Out-of-this-world in fact!
Brian da Basher
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Thanks, guys. He is wearing a mask, so he's being pandemic-safe.
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Frank, Mr Swift sets the build off nicely & gives a great scale reference, too. :smiley: 8)
I agree. The figure also fits the subject very well, though I wonder if this might not be Mr. Thomas Swift Jr.
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Excellent work!
All those modification paid-off for sure!
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Very cool. Nice work