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So, update time again.
I started working on another hand for the arm, took me about an hour to get everything right and then my superglue tube burst and it got covered in a nice thick layer of superglue. There was no saving it so I just trashed it. The ruined hand is the upper one in the picture.

I redid the wiring on another hand, this time applying the glue in a different way and also keeping the tube way out of reach ;P
I forgot to take pictures from step one, but I’ll explain.
I first, gently, made a shallow incision in the plastic along the length of the fingers. I enlarged the incision with a line cutter (or whatever you call those things, panel scriber or bla). I than brushed the hand strongly with a toothbrush to remove the dust and plastic residue that remains when scraping lines. This also polishes the hand a bit for a nice gleam effect when building ;P
I also traced parallel lines somewhat in line with the metacarpals (hand bones).
This hand is going to have poison injectors coming out of the knuckles and the lines are where the injectors will be sunk into.

I glued the injectors in per pair with one pair being longer than the other pair. This is mainly to remove the wolverine effect.
The injectors themselves are about 0,3 mm thick iron tubes. I managed to scrounge them from work. They are needles from a DNA sequencer that has been out of use for years and I was allowed to take the spare parts with me. They are pretty strong considering their thickness, but can be bend and cut quite easily.
Next I added an armour plate to cover them up.

This armour plate curves around the edges of the hand and is still way too thick. I already filed it down a bit but I did not take pictures of it yet. Maybe tonight (if the wife permits me, she needs attention once in a while as well )

Also, thanks to this commission, I just received another commission. To make two bionic arms with scorpion claws instead of hands (what is it with people just wanting arms these days, I’ve not been asked for a full mini in years). New thread will appear shortly (sadly, this really cuts into my ironbound time. But hell, new things to make and earning a bit as well). This work also leads me to revise my Ironbound, I want to add some armour plates, as I did with this arm, to beef them up a bit and make them somewhat more attractive.

Beork

I got a bit more work done, not much mind you.
I cut and filed down the armoured plate on the hand, GS details to come later.
I also began working on the shoulder armour, which will consist of two or three overlapping plates in the same design as the arm plates.

I used a shoulderpad rim to base the armour on, it also strengthens the otherwise delicate 0,3 mm plasticard.


Then I filed indentations in at regular intervals, until I was satisfied with the end result. I also strengthend the sides by adding a strip of 1x1 mm plasticard.

And on the 1/35 mock up:


More to come. Sadly, I'm distracted a bit by the fact that catholic carnaval is coming fast and I need to make my sons costume. For people who visited Hobbyhawk before it mysteriously dissapeared, I'm going further back into the past this time for the costume, far further even.
Let me show you all a small hint, if you can guess you should become the next Uri Geller ;P




cheers,

Beork

Excellent conversion work! That about sums up my feelings, but I'm sure you understand.

I've always wanted to try my hand at styrene rod based mecha/bionics, and every example I see is further inspiration. Keep it up!

Added armour plate to the upper arm, and some guitar wire to beef it up a little. GS’ed remaining cracks.



And with mister muscly:


I also GS’ed finger joints on the outside of the fingers


Next up is detailing the hand plate with GS and wire and adding detail to the palm.
Also GS’ing the other hand.
Arm is about done

Beork

Dang your a pro at making robo things. super nice job man. The guy your building that for is going to be happy thats for sure