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Offline Buzzbomb

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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #25 on: July 01, 2014, 10:22:41 AM »
YES !!!

on so many levels.

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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #26 on: July 02, 2014, 09:44:21 PM »
YES !!!

on so many levels.

Thanks :D

Meanvile I've just have finished scratchbuilding the launchpad.

Here is how the whole idea of this construction was given a birth:


^ At the beginning I've used some old, probably made in DDR, blocks and two arms from 'Robomac' + of course some old CD cake. After some time it started to resemble some sort of stationary forklift.

Then a great deal of detailing took place (by the way it has consumed a lot of spare and salvaged parts from other models):









Finally few shots with mounted fighter:



Now I'm waiting only for putty to dry up and than I'll add primer and start painting that contraption  ;)

Last but not least I've also start to scratchbuild missiles. Well I've decided not to made any fins or stabilizers because in space vacuum it doesn't have any use, instead shortly after the frontal part I've put a lot of maneuver engines. it looks strange but might have some sense:

« Last Edit: July 02, 2014, 09:49:45 PM by Goonie »
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #27 on: July 03, 2014, 12:27:07 AM »
"I spy with my little eye something begining with...HOLY SH*T!" ....this is simply marvelous  :) As Hancock says: Good job :) Wire clamps on the arms of the launcher/catapult are protruding but this is just a detail :)
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #28 on: July 03, 2014, 02:24:10 AM »
Wow!!!
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #29 on: July 03, 2014, 02:39:42 AM »
That launcher has just taken this one step beyond! 8)
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #30 on: July 03, 2014, 02:30:40 PM »
PULL !!!


Great job on that launcher


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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #31 on: July 03, 2014, 04:29:15 PM »
"This is the Captain. We have a little problem with our engine sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and, ah, explode."

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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #32 on: July 04, 2014, 12:32:55 AM »
That launcher's excellent - well done!

The whole thing reminds me very much of '70s sci-fi art.
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #33 on: July 04, 2014, 02:52:10 AM »
Thank you guys for comments :D

The whole thing reminds me very much of '70s sci-fi art.

Hmm... It means that whole goal of that build has been achived  8)
I was afraid that I've a bit overdo with all that mods and launcher.

Next update should be soon.
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #34 on: July 04, 2014, 11:54:26 AM »
Nope, definitely not overdone. Perfect ... maybe not, but it's pretty close. ;)
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #35 on: March 19, 2015, 01:57:46 AM »
Hi Guys!

First of all sorry for almost a year of absence, just have few things to sort out.
But in the meantime I've finished one of old projects started probably somwhere in 2011 na postponed, well for better times ;) .

In 2011 I've fought about building Sherman tank that appeared in Fallout Tactics:

But after some internet searching on Sherman tank varaints I've got stonger and stronger feeling that that Fallout Tactics modification is, well at least exorbitant waste of technology and equipment. Than I fought that if so many Crypts and at least one military base had survived the nuclear holocaust of 2160 than low priority targets like weaponary museums or even some private collections of military vehicles could survie to the era of Fallouts gameplay. So I've taken HVSS suspesion (from AFV Club), than added M4A1(75) Final hull (with “cast in appliqué”) and a final model of differential cover (both made by Panzerart) and changed old barrel for new one - literraly M1A1 Abrams cannon (RB Model). Then there was a long process of scratchbuilding of parts (back part of turret, some details and etc) just to give him an Israeli super sherman look. About 3 weeks ago airbrushing started and a process of building the diorama.
I've decided to make desert yellow cameo instead of metalic grey with rust, beacuse it looks more realistic especially in army like organization. In theory armour is reinforced with that super-duper compund used to hardening the surface of power armour (and it's covered by desert yellow cameo of course ;) ), propulsion is based on fusion batteries (same tehnology used in Fallout's 2 higwayman). i'd say that time frame of that vehicle is somwhere around Fallout New Vegas and later.

Ok enought of talking, here are some photos:







I've added springs from few ballpens and modiified the carriages of suspension to make it fully flexible







in future I'm plannig to made a larger diorama for it and adding a Willys based Fast Attack Vehicle (if all works out good some photos of that vehicle will be posted here around sunday)

As for other builds started in this thread - I'm planning to return to that martian variant of HEMMT, but first some paint removal must be done. Secondly I'm planning to finally finish Avro Arcturus but first there is still a lot of painting ahead...
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #36 on: March 19, 2015, 02:17:05 AM »
Yes!!  YES!!!  A thousand times YES!!!!!!!  8)
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #37 on: March 19, 2015, 02:19:17 AM »
As Hancock says "Good job"  8)
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #38 on: March 19, 2015, 12:43:08 PM »
NCR have their own tanks ???

Nice job

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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #39 on: March 19, 2015, 12:56:02 PM »
NCR have their own tanks ???

Nice job

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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #40 on: March 19, 2015, 05:47:32 PM »
Thanks guys for comments, by NCR i mean New California Republic, nothing else. Didn't even know that NCR might have some real world meaning :)
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #42 on: March 21, 2015, 02:06:03 AM »
This is a gorgeous model.

And that 120MM?  :-*
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #43 on: March 22, 2015, 05:43:33 AM »
This is a gorgeous model.

And that 120MM?  :-*
Thanks for kind words :)
Besides I fought that 120 mm would be more than for enough for any kind of carnivorous fauna or flora encountered in Fallout universe.
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #44 on: August 20, 2015, 07:31:12 AM »
Hi guys,

been a while since my last visit here, though it wasn't intended that way...
But in the meantime I've almost finished one of my never ending projects - some mecha from late 80's anime series called 'Blue Meteor SPT Layzner'. Funny thing is that these series is seriously outdated right now:
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The Story takes place in the year 1996, where humanity is advanced enough to develop long-range space travel, as well as bases on both the Moon and Mars. However, the Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union have not ended; rather, they've escalated as both sides build military facilities in space, and the shadow of nuclear conflict looms over humanity, both on and off Earth.
link: http://www.gogoanime.com/category/blue-meteor-spt-layzner

Model was made by Bandai and as I heard it is some '4th grade' kit (?), basicly it should looks like that when finished:



But after some time spent with that model I've decided to gain bigger insight to the series universe (after all these mecha looks quite mean). That's how whiffed version was born. Except from changing the painting scheme I've added some details to whole body, scratchbuild the backpack (axhausts from some toy motor bike + space shuttle engine jets), shield (Eduard 1:48 Tiger fenders + two Warhammer standard swords) and modified the gun (basicly by adding a large portion of proto X-wing main gun to orginal one).
Here are results:



That USB cable on one of the photos is just for size refernce. Still haven't done all the chipping that was intended, but the model is almost done.
« Last Edit: August 20, 2015, 07:40:16 AM by Goonie »
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #45 on: August 27, 2015, 05:58:04 AM »
WOW!!  :-*
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #46 on: August 27, 2015, 06:32:38 AM »
 Very nice. Layzner had the misfortune to come along about the same time as the early Gundam sequels, and never got much
 love. The show, as I recall, was fun, and the designs were a bit different from the norm, being about half the size of most of the
 Gundam machines, and configured to echo fighter design as much as armor. Almost all featured clear cockpits in the head and
 often had some form of wings.

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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #47 on: August 27, 2015, 04:36:29 PM »
Thank's for comments !

@ Dr. Yokai
As you said it's a big misfortune that this show was somehow subdued by Gundam sequels. First season of Layzner shows quite the potential and got a bit of hard sci-fi tint (as I recall it's not so common feature in mecha anime).
Funny thing is that when the show was originally aired my homeland was still 'on the dark side of force / iron curtain' ;)
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #48 on: February 20, 2017, 11:06:15 PM »
Hello everybody :)
It's been a long time since my last post here, but I'm still alive (and hope to start kicking again ;) )
During last absence (almost 1,5 year without few days of sporadically presence) I've completed a few things, or at least finished or started one or two projects...

First of all, I think I've finished dealing with WH40k COIN Aircraft (finally  8) ) - Since last update I've added some markings, some battle damage and chipping (after all, these large propeller also works fine as a grinder for remnants of shot down enemy 'aircrafts' or hmm... 'flayers'? :D )
[Photos are courtesy of Artoor_K]



[link to album: http://s328.photobucket.com/user/Legate_Scimitar/library/WH%2040K%20Counter%20insurgence%20aircraft]
[thread on BTS: http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=5755.0]

Next thing is a figure - namely Ghost Rider, that turns out to be a poor quality clone of Knight Models original cast. 
I had bought it 2 years ago and since then it was collecting dust on the bench of forgotten projects. At least, not any more:



Base of this model as well as all 'pipes' and other structural elements was scratch build (except the flames - they came unchanged from original base but more 'dynamically' arranged).

Last but not least, I've started to build some vehicle that is heavily influenced by last 'Mad Max' movie 8)
here are few progress shots:




pilot and the gunner:

(two slightly modified sets of 1:24 figures - MASTER BOX 24007 - 1:24 World of Fantasy - Graggeron & Halseya and MASTER BOX 24008 - 1:24 World of Fantasy Kit No 2)

and this is more or less how it should have to look like when finished:



Uff sorry for such a kilometer long post but it's hard to compress more than a year of work ;)
That's it for now, it's pretty possible that some update on last project will be available soon, but can't promiss anything at the moment - let say that I'll need to finish first some commission mentioned in this topic by Artoor_K: http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=7014.0

« Last Edit: February 20, 2017, 11:12:30 PM by Goonie »
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Re: Goonie's Sci-Fi thread
« Reply #49 on: February 21, 2017, 12:15:45 AM »
Looking good! :) :)
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