Over the years I've accumulated a lot of 'extra pieces' from halo sets and once or twice I get a mega bloks blok squad which I regret and all these sat in a box. So one day I look at the box and was moved to such pity for parts I will never use that I drummed up a model using them. What resulted was a bulky truck. After a few rebuilds I decided this was good enough and superglued the parts together. Painted it and voila!
This undertaking was a study. What can you do with all the parts that you don't want? Those brightly colored bricks can be used for something. A little paint is all you need. What matters is the FORM OF THE BUILD, train your eye to see the build with a cohesive color scheme and you can make a lot of stuff with all your multi-colored-will-never-use-them-instead-maybe-for-filler-bricks.
As with all my builds, it was important to have a purpose to the design. The idea was, as it surfaced, a heavily armored APC used by intelligence operatives working in jungle environments. This APC would also serve as a mobile base for a small recon team.
I superglued everything, then primed with Bosny Spray paint (flat black) then painted with industrial latex (Boysen latex, raw sienna, thalo blue, burnt sienna, thalo red) and finally weathered with tamiya silver and coated with Bosny flat clear. Industrial paints are cheap, which was another facet of this 'study'. You can achieve results with even the cheapest of materials, you just have to use it well.
The interior was a little sparse so I drew a few maps and keyboards on cardboard paper and glued it in practical places.
It also came to my attention I had parts of an arctic warthog and one of those EVA warthogs. And an orange spade. They suffered the like fate.
I present to you the 'UNSC Agile Sulcata Pugilist Merriment Van' and if you look closely at the words it is synonymous (somewhat) to Ninja turtles Party wagon. Because it looks like it.
This undertaking was a study. What can you do with all the parts that you don't want? Those brightly colored bricks can be used for something. A little paint is all you need. What matters is the FORM OF THE BUILD, train your eye to see the build with a cohesive color scheme and you can make a lot of stuff with all your multi-colored-will-never-use-them-instead-maybe-for-filler-bricks.
As with all my builds, it was important to have a purpose to the design. The idea was, as it surfaced, a heavily armored APC used by intelligence operatives working in jungle environments. This APC would also serve as a mobile base for a small recon team.
I superglued everything, then primed with Bosny Spray paint (flat black) then painted with industrial latex (Boysen latex, raw sienna, thalo blue, burnt sienna, thalo red) and finally weathered with tamiya silver and coated with Bosny flat clear. Industrial paints are cheap, which was another facet of this 'study'. You can achieve results with even the cheapest of materials, you just have to use it well.
The interior was a little sparse so I drew a few maps and keyboards on cardboard paper and glued it in practical places.
It also came to my attention I had parts of an arctic warthog and one of those EVA warthogs. And an orange spade. They suffered the like fate.
I present to you the 'UNSC Agile Sulcata Pugilist Merriment Van' and if you look closely at the words it is synonymous (somewhat) to Ninja turtles Party wagon. Because it looks like it.