Ten-Four, Good Buddy

The "Red Markets" RPG I'm playing in is set in a Zombie Apocalypse, so that's scifi enough for me.

A couple weeks ago the GM asked me if I could "whip up" a semi towing a flatbed for one of our upcoming "jobs", like I had thrown together the Russkie choppers for Night's Black Agents a couple years ago. I toyed with getting a toy or carboard model to use instead but the toys near 28mm scale (arguably 1:56 I think) aren't cheap and I couldn't find anything at Sarissa or the like.

So I limited myself to cardboard, paper, balsa, googly eyes, and sprue scraps, and got to scratching. I found a decent set of line drawings for a longnose semi and roughly scaled them appropriately. Then I went to work.

Everything's by eye - the only times I used a ruler were for a straight-edge fold or cut. Was super-fun. I was going to do another layer of detailing to sort of "Mad Max" it out, but then I remembered that this is a limited-session prop to put 28mm figs on and is going to be pawed by aging gaming gorillas for a couple of nights.

I'll hit it with a gray prime job and then maybe paint some other stuff. Maybe.

 Testing pics.

On the Shelf | Star Wars | Joe Johnston Concept Snowspeeder

We all saw it in our [i]Empire Strikes Back Sketchbook[/i] and thought it was super cool: Joe Johnston's vision of a Rebel snowspeeder made out of a spare Y-Wing cockpit pod.  

Well, I had TWO SMT resin Y-wings at the time, and there was no way I was going to do THAT again (it's a huge chunk of resin) so...

I think it's a true statement to say that the only kit pieces I used were the pod itself and the cockpit piece.  And the little round "this was where the turret was" round thingie on the back roof of the canopy.  Everything else was snipped from styrene, and maybe some solder for small pipes.

I remember using naughty words when I realized I had glued the canopy framing together without painting the interior edges.

As often typical for me, I went straight from "can I do this?" fooling around to "holy crap, I'm doing it." midway through, so very little measurement.  Most everything is by eye.

I have to say I've always been pretty proud of this one.