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This
is just a dodgy robot I stuck together out of a few bits of two other
robots. I'll put the instructions I modified in just in case anyone
is mad enough to attempt this conversion. The robot was built as per
my edited instructions (which meant loads of putty where involved) and
painted with tamiya paints. The model is based on the azolba (glitch/crash)
with the "batteries" on the back and the lower legs being from the gallient
(crash) model. The Batteries just had all holes covered or filled and
were then stuck on but the lower legs is where the loads of putty mentioned
earlier come in. I sawed through both pairs of lower legs, then attached
the tops of the azolba legs to the bottoms of the gallient legs. Since
they weren't the same shape much putty was required but it doesn't look
to bad. The other modifications include removing all the spikes on the
azolba, putting the upper leg on backwards (by accident but it improves
flexibility) and editing the gallient foot using other bits of the gallient
so that the front part (toes) of the foot are hinged. I think hinged
feet on a 10cm/4" mech aint bad specially if you've seen what I started
with. For painting I used Tamiya jn grey as a base with squiggles of
olive drab and dots of flat brown. The whole was then dry brushed, strangely
enough I find that dry brushing is best done in citadel paint as tamiya
paint dries to fast and ruins the brush. I then used thinned down tamiya
paint as a wash and finally added some scratches in silver. On the whole
it's not the best kit I ever built but I like him (it couldn't be a
she cos it's too ugly) cos he's unique.
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I've
just built a gun for the Mk IX, this gun isn't the type 47 40 mm anti
tank gun I originally designed for the Mk IX it's the all together more
insane type 48 60 mm gatling gun which although lacking the armour penetration
of the anti tank type 47 has a rate of fire of 3500 rounds a minuite
which translates to about 60 60 mm shells a second (fearsome).
The type 48 is made of four lengths of sprue, some plasticard, a citadel
wheel, some balsa wood and brass wire. To make the balsa wood workable
I first carved the desired shape, then covered it in super glue making
a nice smooth surface once sanded. The gun is tamiya flat black dry
brushed with citadel mythril silver. Finally apologies to any
panzer world gallient fans who think this is sacrilege but it was the
only way to make a decent model from the truly awful kits. Check
out the side view and see the Mk IX compared
to the azolba. The azolba has lengthened arms (grey areas) but more
about that here. Update: (you may find this interesting) while looking around hobbylink japan I came across the panzerworld gallient series again, boy was I supprised the models they were selling make the mechs actually look really cool in a sort of gothic/medievil armour sort of style. |
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