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Finally finished my Cooper crawler. Was taking up my bench space since New Years. Finally cleared it to make room to start up again on "that other large project"... which has been sitting idle all summer...
Kevin
Inspire onto others as you would have them inspire onto you... or something like that...
Some close-up/details below...
Full build-up is here:
http://s158.photobucket.com/albums/t94/OTnROTSfan/RC%20Jawa%20Sandcrawler%20Diorama/
That is so cool! I'd imagine the thing must be pretty big?
Over two feet long... over a foot high... some day want to do the full size one that you can sit on...
WOW! That thing is awesome!
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That is amazing, man! I love it! What an incredible project.
Mate...what else have you got on the workbench? I'd LOVE to see whatever you're building. Got any WIP pics?
Thanks for sharing the pics, man.
Cheers, LeeTree Remember, Safety Fast!!!
That is awesome!
How exactly did you do it?
Kevin, that has to rank as one of the coolest things I have ever seen!!! The amount of detail in this thing is incredible. I would love to see this one up close.
Eric
OTnROTSfan Over two feet long... over a foot high... some day want to do the full size one that you can sit on...
Wow that is really big, where did you get the Jawa's?
That's a great crawler. I love the Jawas!
That's one of the coolest things I've seen here in a long time. Nice work.
Thanks all. This was a FUN weathering project.... really got into it once I got going. Hopefully will build the Studio-Scale crawler one day, which is big enough to sit on.
The Jawas are just MicroMachines ones (around 1/72) which I shaved down a bit and repainted to try to get somewhat in scale... same with the R2. The full build-up gallery is here:
That "other big project" has been sitting idle all summer, but it is here:
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Needed the bench room to start building out the rest of the structure pieces and the fighters... mostly wanted to finish this one. It looked like a big candy bar when it was just sitting in base-coat for so long...
I remember that "other big project!"
Yer builds are awesome.
Magnific work OTnROTSfan out of all the weathering is outstanding
rtoo speed makes ugly results, too relax don't make results
Wow, that's fantastic! Bet she's got more detail than the old studio model.
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
That is an amazing model !
Did you use LEDs for the interior lighting?
What paint brands do you use?
Thanks all.
Voodo Fx has a lighting kit specifically for this crawler. I cut out a hatch in the top where I can get at it all later.
Used almost all Tamiya acrylics (Nato Brown for the base-coat over flat black primer). The rest were mixes and layered washes of Tamiya weathering power sets and acrylic paints.
The orange/yellow rusting along the top was a mix of craft-store acrylics, since I kept mixing it too yellow, then too orange, back and forth. Found a couple that were close to some different references (it shows up differently in various references) and did mixes of just those and finally got what I liked. Those were also thicker out of the little squeeze bottles, so it went on thick and then random-spot sanded down well to create the heavier rust look, since it pulled some of the undercoat through it...
Freakin' sweet!
I love the look of the 'rusty' plates.
The hardest part of flying isn't flying...it's landing.
Wow.....absolutely awesome!
That looks amazing! Thank you for sharing.
Wow, that's an awesome build!
Who's kit is this? You mentioned Cooper above?
http://www.mycyclinglog.com/profile/dupes
Thanks everyone! Spent more than a bit of time on the rusty parts. It is the Randy Cooper resin kit that came out a while back... randycoopermodels. Lit with VoodoFx module made specific for this kit. Other than that, made a couple of "special modifications" myself...
One minor addition... darkened up the jawas and added more flat. Think I grabbed a jar of flat earth wash originally... they were still a bit light and shiny. Fixed.
FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE DOLLARS!!!
That's why I couldn't just let it sit in the closet... or any longer in base-coat... And to think the real SS one is more than twice as big! I've seen people try to do starter kits for this and it got crazy on the price just for that... At least I got mine for less than $465 way back when...
The awesomeness is overflowing on this!
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WOW my hats off to you for a fantastic build. I can almost hear the evaporator farm running from hear.
13151015
Oh...my...word
What a great build...even my 12 year old a avid Star Wars fan said he could just imagine the time and detail that went into it and how BIG it must be :).
ooteenee! mapit! mapit!
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