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Published: 2015-02-16 00:08:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 560; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 4
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Another Tamiya BA-64b. This time around I swapped out the LMG for a scratch built flame thrower. The soldier alongside it is a Chinese Remnants Commando (an unused concept for Fallout 3, where the Remnants dressed in combat armour). He's made from a Wargames Factory Russian, though with a lot of changes with clay and other parts.Related content
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I don't think that the guys who run the particular shop I bought that and some of my other historical kits from would really appreciate seeing what they sold me turn up like this. However, heh, screw them if people that are actually into the setting are into them. Hmn ...maybe if I told them I added a flamethrower to their kit they'd be happy? Tsk, they should see the KV-1 I strapped a laser onto.
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i know the feeling lol! i went to a scale model contest a couple years ago and got some funny looks. and that was before i really got into bashing kits. sure there are even some on DA that cringe when they see me cutting up expensive militarily models.
but whatever is fun and doing this kinda stuff takes alot of creatively. i say keep it up dude!
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Heh, well people may accepting of cool conversions in certain circles. ...I think it may be universally looked down on when you start tearing up ancient kits which go for a bomb on Ebay. My ethos is that if the base model looks like I can turn it into something cool then screw whatever its value is. ...Of course the stuff which I do have which would have sold for quite a bit I also happened to buy for a pittance, so I'm not to hung up about it.
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see starting out i was always afraid of just completely ruining the kit. happy to say that my skills have improved to the point that that kinda fear no longer exsits and i am just starting to be able to accomplish what i want with my builds. some of my very best work is the stuff and kits that were extremely nice mitlary models and aftermarket, that i completly warped and bashed to kit my own crazy ideas.
but then again i am always a fan of cheap and easy projects too!
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* bang, bang, bang, bang! "Oh what the f**k are you doing out there!?"
...Is the sound of me hammering the hell out of some diecast cars to make some wrecks for a junkyard.
Certain things you can get away with looking like complete wrecks. Others not so much, but I tend not to worry all that much if what I'm making is being used in a post-apocalyptic setting given that there's some leeway in terms of what a two hundred year old vehicle would look like (hey anyone who complains that something looks too messy will get the reply, "oi, you're lucky that thing still has bodywork to rust up").
When I happened to pass a model shop every other day I'd pop in and pick up a kit on a whim for some alleged purpose. Now not so much due to different travel routes, but I'd note that my earlier stuff is typically based on historical kits. Now I tend to keep to diecasts, namely because of the modern setting I'm working on, and that I can pick them up out of the poundshop. I think because I rust things up to hell that people don't really appreciate the vehicles I make all that much, but like I said I do that to fit the setting. My newer S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stuff isn't quite so badly rusted (well bar the ones which have exposed steel armour) at least, but well, I think people will still be rubbed the wrong way by them as they think I'm messing up a perfectly good kit (I've had people say with straight faces how horrible it is to alter a kit in any way).
Meh, but each to their own, and your stuff is certainly impressive.
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hahahah too funny!
yea i get yea dude, and different scales as well. it all depends on how crazy i want to get with a project. sometimes i go all out other its just for the fun. uber detail looks nice and soothing to be produce of but hard and intense. and hey detail is not everything, takes a a eye to paint up things just right and devolve a style, like you have as well.
none of my "local" hobby's shops are anywhere near me. so i have just into the habit of ordering and getting obsessive with what ever i want. very cool how you have evolved your style,materials and builds. think that all comes with the territory as some just see modding into crazy stuff as heresy. military modeling can be quite stuffy at times. anyways i appreciate what you have done and your work involved.
yes to each there own. and thanks man, i try to bring my own crazyness into scale modeling.
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