Of course, with Greg working on his TruKom rebels, the Spacekrieg escalation must continue. With this in mind I set about painting a mechanized death machine to serve as an example of revolutionary engineering prowess and the inevitability of victory for the latest 50-Year Plan. So what if a few million peasants starve in the process -- look at this frickin' cool giant robot we built!!
The base model is, of course, the Destroid "Monster" from Robotech - "the largest mech ever constructed by humanity" or something. All I know is that it looks vaguely Russian and has some very big guns.
I was pretty lazy and just painted it straight up - no conversion. Me, I'm not that familiar with the Robotech universe so it doesn't look odd to my eyes to see a Robotech vehicle in FuturKom livery.
This shot gives a good impression of the large size of the Monster - it's big! Look out Space Panthers!!
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Stupidly big guns + ridiculously small frame = cooool robot! I met Kawamori Shoji in Japan, the guy who designed the mechas for Macross/Robotech, including this one. It's one of my most cherished souvenirs from Japan. I like your paint job. How did you make the paint chips?
Oooh - very sweet. I have to go look for one of them.
Thanks guys!
Sylvian - I'm curious - what's the souvenir you got from Shoji-san? or did you mean simply meeting him?
The paint chips are a really sneaky cheat that I use quite a bit on my FuturKom vehicles. After painting and highlighting, you paint the small chips/streaks of silver (I use GW Boltgun Metal) in spots where wear would occur, like edges. Then go back and fill in the middle part of the "chips" with a darker rust colour, like GW Dark Flesh, leaving some of the silver visible around the edges. Done!
Dallas - I was in Japan in 92-93, learning the language and teaching French. Kawamori-san was one of my students!!! So I asked him if I could have an interview with him. He invited me to Studio Nue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Nue, where the Macross team designed the characters, the mecha, etc. We talked until late in the night. He showed me some of his latest designs. As you now, the original Battletech stole the design without permission. In '92, Battletech asked Kawamori-san to design Japanese versions of their mechs. http://www.gearsonline.net/btech/
So I saw those designs before they were published, which I found pretty cool at the time. He also showed me transforming robots he was designing for a television anime series. He used Legos to design the transforming frame. I took pictures for an article to be published in Protoculture Addicts http://www.protoculture.ca/Proto/index.htm, unfortunately, the article was never published and they lost my pictures.
very cool, Sylvain!
Oh man -that is AWESOME! Looking great Dallas.
Of course, not only will this provoke more TruKom activity, but perhaps another new space tank from Gün Schwarm...
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