Ian McQue style diorama

[Mossie]

Glad you're still going with this, it'll be worth it in the end!

[NARSES2]

Creative Gizmology and Freeform Kitbashing, I like these terms. 

As do I 

I really do admire the imagination 

[rickshaw]

*BUZZ*Click+Clunk*BEEP*BEEP*BLEEP*   

[kerick]

Thanks again everyone!

[Rick Lowe]

Creative Gizmology

Created by Shep Paine, back in the - what, 60s or 70s?

[kerick]

The Astromech Mk1 has another coat of white paint and the eyes on the WALL-E predecessor have been flipped around and the whole thing painted silver. I bought the Valeho weathering paint set to start trying to paint the tower. It needs a base coat of some industrial color then lots of different shades of dirt and rust. Enough to look well used but not a total junk pile. It will eventually be on a base with that generator and the shipping container. I want some sort of believable transport vehicle too. Lots to work on.

[kerick]

I took a mental break from the junkyard dog tonight and worked on an ancillary build for my Ian McQue project. I took down an old build off the shelf a few months ago of an old Roco minitank (I think) of the West German assault gun from the 70s Kanonenjadgpanzer that I converted to the HOT antitank missile version. It was 1/72nd scale or there abouts and I ripped off the front and have been building a 1/48th "cockpit" for it to become a tracked tug for pulling cargo around. I found the floor and one side of I think a spitfire cockpit, the seat from some other thing, made the back wall from the cockpit floor of some three seater and other parts of sheet plastic. Now I have to rebuild the areas over the tracks and add details. I'll probably paint it yellow or orange or something construction like. I found a pilot figure to fit without too much chopping but I'll have to make him look less military. Pulled out a couple of other sitting pilot figures that could be demilitarized. Checking the status of truck wheels to build a wagon out of. I've got four of what look like deuce and a half wheel from possibly a 1/48th kit. I've all day tomorrow to search through the junk boxes.

[NARSES2]

Sounds fascinating 

[kerick]

Here's some pics to illustrate what I'm talking about. This is square one.



Some driver compartment accommodations.



At the moment this is the situation. Ready to paint, probably red with some different color replacement parts. Needs headlight and a hitch still. Seat is removed for the painting as it was already painted.





A rumble seat for a passenger to look after the cargo wagon. He better keep his head down when driving under low hanging structures!





I might do a hitch for a farm tractor with a transverse bar with multiple holes. This already has a lot of tank parts so time for something a little different.

[Rick Lowe]

 

[zenrat]

 

Don't forget cup holders and a CB radio.

[su27rules]

 

[kerick]

I painted the tug buggy good old Testors red. No paint weirdness even over the 25 year old original stuff. Touch ups are required but no biggy.

[buzzbomb]

I find that super cool.  love it

[Old Wombat]

It has a 1960's/early-1970's Sci-Fi TV show look to it.