John Klein
King City, Ontario, Canada
An old, beat-up AMT 1/11 scale “Star Wars” Speeder
Bike and Scout Trooper were John’s starting point. “I thought I could rebuild
and repaint the bike and rider, eliminating the glossy-white ‘forest’
camouflage and, with the addition of a sniper rifle (as in the computer games),
give the figure a more-dedicated role,” he says. John used styrene sheet and
rod to replace missing pieces on the bike, then airbrushed a three-color scheme
reminiscent of German World War II camouflage. He did the same for the trooper
after stripping its thick, gloss-white paint with oven cleaner. The rifle is a
conversion of a Tamiya 1/16 scale MG 42.