This thread is exactly as it appears to be on the tin. It's my projects and rambling thread blog where I post ongoing projects and... You get the point. It's also where you can ask me questions about stuff I've done or worked on, and ask me tips ( or sort through to see all of the tips that may or may not be the best, as I am kind of a novice but do have a lot of knowledge on making models of stuff, so if you need help with taking junk and making it into cool vehicles or terrain, i'm your guy. Also need help with different types of glue? Also, your guy. This thread also contains advice on what kinds of things to avoid using super glue on so it doesn't knock you out from the fumes or almost burn your house down.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Recently, one of the projects I've been working on is making a battle wagon, but not just any battle wagon one size to be on par with a ork battle fortress, because I find the current kits too small and am also very broke javascript:emoticon(':\'('); and don't have very much money to spend on stuff, so $4 kids toys glued together it is!
Starting with the earliest photos I have of the project, I bought several vehicles from a local
St Vincent
de Paul for $4, and began cutting them up to form the base of the battle wagon. I had roughly what I wanted to do in my head, but it was just a matter of getting there with the base shape. I knew I definitely wanted a large Cannon on top and a spiky roller on the front, as the ones I had seen other people do didn't have enough spikes, or skulls for that matter. Slowly but surely the bass began to take form and the hot glued pieces of vehicles started to look like something that was actually built for a purpose, not just a broke person's attempt at a proxy battle wagon ( which is exactly what it was)
this image here shows some Gretchen that have been 3D printed to showcase its scale
Automatically Appended Next Post: Next, the process of adding rivets started. After staring at this model for about a week, I began to hate the way these rivets looked, and so went to Dollar Tree and picked up tiny diamond painting sets, which I then promptly used to redo rivets seen in the later photos. The spikes were then also added. It was also at this point that I figured I should mention that I went through an entire can of spray-on super glue accelerant on this project, as the glue refused to cure without it due to the inferior quality of the plastic.
Automatically Appended Next Post: ( More photos and text to come, uploading this stuff just takes forever )
