Post by scottwashburn on Nov 24, 2018 13:47:31 GMT
I love the All Quiet on the Martian Front game. It has so many opportunities to do some cool modelling work. As some of you know, I sometimes take a tripod model and convert it into a wreck. The two resin wrecks you can buy are nice, but I wanted a bit more variety. I had done several which shows tripods which have been seriously destroyed.
Like this:
And this:
But I recently started work on a major expansion of my Martian forces and I decided that I needed to make some new wrecks. Ideally, I would have one wreck for every two undestroyed Martians so that I could keep substituting wrecks every time a Martian was destroyed, up to the 50% break point.
So I’m making more wrecks! This time I decided I wanted a few which were not so thoroughly destroyed as some of my earlier ones. Here is the first. I figured that it would be possible for a tripod to be knocked out without it actually falling to the ground.
This isn’t really all that hard to do. Took my Dremel with a pointed cutting drill and just started carving up the model. I broke off a few of the arms and then drilled out the stumps and added a few wires. I also replaced the manipulating tendril with guitar wire to allow me to pose it how I wanted.
I also added the dead Martian pilot.
I made it out of green stuff putty and it took all of about ten minutes to do. Love those soft, squishy Martians!
Like this:
And this:
But I recently started work on a major expansion of my Martian forces and I decided that I needed to make some new wrecks. Ideally, I would have one wreck for every two undestroyed Martians so that I could keep substituting wrecks every time a Martian was destroyed, up to the 50% break point.
So I’m making more wrecks! This time I decided I wanted a few which were not so thoroughly destroyed as some of my earlier ones. Here is the first. I figured that it would be possible for a tripod to be knocked out without it actually falling to the ground.
This isn’t really all that hard to do. Took my Dremel with a pointed cutting drill and just started carving up the model. I broke off a few of the arms and then drilled out the stumps and added a few wires. I also replaced the manipulating tendril with guitar wire to allow me to pose it how I wanted.
I also added the dead Martian pilot.
I made it out of green stuff putty and it took all of about ten minutes to do. Love those soft, squishy Martians!
