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Published: 2013-12-20 01:02:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 5169; Favourites: 110; Downloads: 114
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When the UC (United Colonies) decided to take back the wasteland, they knew they needed much more than just tanks. Β The Freki Battlewagon was built upon old world wreckage/salvages as cost saving measures but has been upgraded to survive and dominate. Severing as an all-round utility vehicle, it's highly valuable in recon, salvage and Odin support. Highly mobile, fast, rugged and with ample stowage space, a single Freki can travel for days in the waste without resulpply. For the scrum that is encountered, a modified mounted rail gun, back dual mounted machine guns and smoke launchers can easily eliminate most threats. Working independently,in a pack or by Odin's side, the Freki are as deadly as a ravenous wolf.This is my finished 1/35 kitbashed Humvee. Built up from an old and very crappy kit, with added kitbashed, photo etched, scratch built and resin stowage details. Painted with enamels and weathered with art acrylics and MIG pigments.
I built this Humvee to hopefully match my Odin tank for an upcoming diorama. While I am not 100% happy with it, it will need a bit more weathering and maybe a few more details (flag, forgot antenna too lol) I do like it allot more than the first time I built it. The kit was really crappy, so everything was a bit warped and off and details really lacking, while I feel like I upped the detail a bit, I'll have to buy a better Humvee kit someday and bash that too XD
Anyways sometime after the holidays Ill get to work on the diorama for this and the Odin tank. Should be a solid amount of work and fun, so I am a little excited to get it started. Thanks to everyone that helped me brainstorm names for this thing and BIG thanks to for suggesting Freki. Β As always questions comments and suggestions are welcome.
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I don't know how your this good at building, it's amazing!
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thanks buddy! i try my best.
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All the little details you put on, like the mud splatters and the rust, and the dark lines for the mattress⦠My patience would have dried up a LONG time before that.
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thanks dude! yea patience is something that grows on me with each build.
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thank you! hopefully i can make the base match.
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The "abused" appereance that you give to your works remainds me a childhood memories. When the first Star Wars was released I was six or seven (I don't remember the release date here in Italy) I went to the cinema on summer, an open cinema, front row, and when it begins I forgot to blink till the end, cause all seemed so real. One of the strongest elements to create this illusion was the used and dirtyΒ appearance of the ships andΒ other means,very different, for example,Β Β to the "clean and perfect" Enterprise or all of what we had seen until then. Your dioramas are the same, but much better. You should work for Hollywood!
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thank you very very much! star wars blew my mind as a kid and really inspired me(still does) your right the thing that makes it really believable is all the dirt and age on all the ships.
as a kid i wanted to grow up to make the models and such, unfortunately CGI has taken over most of that need. but hey i cant conplain, i have alot of fun with my hobbie and how knows maybe someday, ill find a way to use these skills to make a little money lol.
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CGI has infinite possibilities in it but, to say the truth, has stolen most of funny in watching sf or fantasy films!! The great question: "How did they do this?" has ever the same answer: "They drew it..." Bleah. With all the respect for all the amazing artist who realized films in CG (^ ^), when I was a child, every styrofoam packing became The Black Death in my fantasy, 'cause I where guided to think in this way by great films ...
I think you would gain lots of money selling your models, and in Hollywood you could become the consultant who makes credible the environments (I don't konw if this figure exist, but it should be in every SF film, I think).
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Ahhh yes! There are allot of classic films of my childhood that had brilliant piratical effects and scale models. I think it takes allot of talent to make the CGI but in the ways you describe is immersive breaking (cause our brains KNOW its computer generated) some recent sci-fi movies and others have employed CGI with scale models, that creates very nice effects. Have both work with each out seems to be the best rout.
But I am still a beginner in allot of ways and have allot to learn. I am always trying new things and trying to improve my skills. I have really only been building/painting for about 2 years. Maybe years from now when I am a master, opportunity will unlock for me. But regardless of where my hobbies brings me, I am happy just making them XD
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The same for me... is not for gaining is for the pleasure of doing something unique!
Happy to know that CGI is marrying models!! ^ ^
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With this and the Odin tank you could kick anyones ass!
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lol yea pretty much! now i am feeling bad for my raider models, they are a bit underpowered now, gonna have to correct that sometime soon.
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Always room for one more gun
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lol yea there is!
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XD
thanks dude, dont think this would take on one of our tanks but ill make something to defeat you soon XD
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Fuck... Just in time when im reorganized my fctory (broken arms) Again Nazi gona hat supremacy on battlefield.
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That is not funny. Father gonna tuning tan, brother hat a Mercedes to build... World is cruel... 8[
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No problem. Tuning somthing and put photo hier. Im gonna hat lot of time to prepare somthing biger 8]
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thanks dude! i really was torn tho and kinda of regret the grays on this(would of been alot better with tan and rust) but i was locked in cause i wanted it to match my Odin. next time tho....
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Very nicely done!Β Combination of a Hummer, a Gun Truck, and a LRRP vehicle!
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thanks dude, was tons of fun and makes me want to make an even better guntruck.....
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They do look nice in a junky kind of way.Β Ugly, cumbersome, heavy, and efficient:Β The ultimate weapon to give a soldier.
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yea i like them, i got a model under the tree that will build up to a good one(hopefully0
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nailed it hard man, really dig ur rail gun
lovable stowage overall
and that hose work
color is nothing special, but nothing beats apocz theme and railgun
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thanks buddy, wasn't especially in love with this build but i think the stowage saved it. the rail gun came OK too, looked to big to me but hopefully it fits in.
yea dude, i almost went in a different color direction but was locked in with it matching the Odin. don't worry i am packing up the grays XD
thanks again dude, happy you like this one. was a real pile of crap when i started working on it.
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haha, apocz theme is suppose to be a pile of poo put together, i really enjoy ur apocz products manΒ
keep on the good work mate
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lol thats what i keep reminding myself, no one will ever really know once i get this paint on. anyways it was good to kick butt and take names on this one. happy i got it done, one step closer to working with fresh plastic XD
thanks man, you know ill do more in this style(with less gray) coming up soon.
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Love your mud effects dude! 
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thanks man, i had wanted the effects to be a bit better but i kinda had to match it to the Odin so i didn't change the mix much. really hated this stupid kit(was in my top 5 wost its i have done) so it felt good to save it from the bin. will be happy to display it now.
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What manufacturer was it again? Bronco?
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this was an older academy...one of the kits that made me realize how much i hate them. i mean it came from a cheap box lot and was a gift so i cant complain too much but man i would not recommend this release. lacking in detail, poor to very bad fits and IMO the proportions are just a bit off.
ill have to get a better Humvee kit to bash at some point now......
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I get what you mean -_- i'm like that with Zvezda :UUU
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XD
yea everybody's got their fav brand and there most hated. everything about them now makes me cringe. really when i started bashing it and was cutting into the plastic i remembered alot about this kit and other academy's i have build. just pure disgust.
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You love some you hate some I guess
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i might XD
modelers RAGE XD
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