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Finished my 1/96 Sandcrawler... finally!

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  • From: Illinois: Hive of Scum and Villany
Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:25 PM

Well................the Jawa vehicle is in 1/96 scale...............maybe the builder is busy on a 1/96 scale Revell USS Constitution.Hmm

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Posted by Bish on Saturday, May 23, 2015 2:18 PM

Olivia, unfortunately, Kevin has not posted on the forum for over a year, so you might struggle to get an answer. Its a shame as this is a great model and would love to see more like this.

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Posted by BashMonkey on Saturday, May 23, 2015 1:55 PM
U'TEENEE !!!!
That's Jawa for Nice model :-D

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Posted by tsstudio on Thursday, May 14, 2015 2:19 PM

Kevin,

This model is amazing! I am starting to work on my own model and I was looking into trying to use pre-fabricated treads. Did you make yours from scratch or steal them from a tank or something? So cool! This is the best model of the sandcrawler that I've seen so far!

Olivia

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Posted by Thecat40 on Monday, March 26, 2012 7:55 AM

WOW, that's an awesome looking build... I love all the little details and weathering you've done. YesYes

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Posted by SLW 45 on Saturday, March 17, 2012 10:38 AM

Word cant do this justice Bow Down

                 

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Posted by Morbane on Friday, February 24, 2012 4:58 AM

ooteenee! mapit! mapit!

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Posted by CBennett on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 7:55 AM

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 :).

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Posted by Shaun34 on Thursday, February 9, 2012 12:07 PM

Oh...my...wordBig Smile

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Posted by Hercmech on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:42 PM

WOW my hats off to you for a fantastic build. I can almost hear the evaporator farm running from hear.


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Posted by OctaneOrange on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:22 AM

The awesomeness is overflowing on this!

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Posted by OTnROTSfan on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:40 PM

That's why I couldn't just let it sit in the closet... or any longer in base-coat... Cool  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...

Kevin

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Posted by dupes on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 10:05 AM

FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE DOLLARS!!! Ick!

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Posted by OTnROTSfan on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:35 PM

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... Big Smile

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.

Kevin

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Posted by dupes on Monday, September 26, 2011 4:48 PM

Wow, that's an awesome build! Surprise

Who's kit is this? You mentioned Cooper above?

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Posted by Woody on Saturday, September 24, 2011 11:17 AM

That looks amazing! Thank you for sharing. Big Smile


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Posted by Stage_Left on Thursday, September 22, 2011 5:13 PM

Wow.....absolutely awesome!

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Posted by Klik on Thursday, September 22, 2011 4:37 PM

Freakin' sweet!

I love the look of the 'rusty' plates.

oneyearwar1

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Posted by OTnROTSfan on Thursday, September 22, 2011 3:41 PM

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...

Kevin

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  • From: Illinois: Hive of Scum and Villany
Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 6:47 AM

That is an amazing model !

Did you use LEDs for the interior lighting?

What paint brands do you use?

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Posted by Gamera on Monday, September 19, 2011 3:14 PM

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

 

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Posted by bsyamato on Monday, September 19, 2011 10:23 AM

Magnific work OTnROTSfan Bow Down out of all the weathering is outstanding

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Posted by DrShrinker on Monday, September 19, 2011 8:35 AM

Yer builds are awesome.

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Posted by Griffin on Sunday, September 18, 2011 9:15 PM

I remember that "other big project!" Yes

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  • From: Milwaukee, WI
Posted by OTnROTSfan on Sunday, September 18, 2011 9:05 PM

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:

http://s158.photobucket.com/albums/t94/OTnROTSfan/RC%20Jawa%20Sandcrawler%20Diorama/

That "other big project" has been sitting idle all summer, but it is here:

/forums/t/126177.aspx

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... Big Smile

 

Kevin

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Posted by usmc1371 on Sunday, September 18, 2011 8:18 PM

That's one of the coolest things I've seen here in a long time.  Nice work.

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Posted by Griffin on Sunday, September 18, 2011 8:08 PM

That's a great crawler. I love the Jawas!

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Posted by GreySnake on Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:17 PM

OTnROTSfan

Over two feet long... over a foot high... some day want to do the full size one that you can sit on... Big Smile

 

Wow that is really big, where did you get the Jawa's? 

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  • From: N. Georgia
Posted by Jester75 on Sunday, September 18, 2011 9:15 AM

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

 

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