Friday, February 27, 2009

#018 - the great work begins






















what you see before you are the first stages of construction - the glorious opening to what will surely be the magnum opus of my conversion career to date... and its been a pain in the ass to be exact...

the hip assembly was simple... i clipped the right side of one and the left side of the other from the two defiler kits, applied glue, then stuck them together... the next step was simply taking two of the armor plates from the weapon sprues, gluing them to face forward on the front, then taking the dozer blade and attaching to the plates... the twin exhaust systems in the back are spaced almost equidistant by sheer accident, which made me happy... roughly the size of a rhino already, the hip assembly makes for enough of a platform to construct the torso upon...

which brings us to the legs... the initial problem with the defiler's legs is that there are four to a kit, and i wanted this beast to be tall... by ordering a third leg sprue, i was guaranteed more than enough parts to work with, and it worked out very well... the second problem with the defiler legs is that they are sculpted complete, a right and left half on each leg... so i had to sit there and clip, glue, and shave each section's right and left halves together, then glue the sections together until i had 6 legs... as you can see, each leg is composed of 4 separate sections, and took forever to get everything even... there are still blemishes, of course, but that is what green stuff is for, is it not?

also, i went to radio shack tonight and picked up a circuit board, amplifier chip, and a power switch... the board itself is about half a playing card in size, so i have plenty of breathing room to work with when making the torso... also finished at the moment is the twin-link blastmaster, made from the two flail arms of the defiler kits, two dirge casters from the vehicle upgrade sprues, and lots of armor plating... its looking rather prehensile at the moment, and very virile to boot - oh how slaaneshi it is...

i will, thankfully, be able to bypass the "make the circuit" step for now and concentrate on positioning the legs and developing the torso... probably start working up an idea for the arms as well, since i have enough parts to make two of them... but for now, sleep... /post

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