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resin beast mode Quintesson guards

Posted by crazysteve Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:05 pm

I got my quintesson guards finished last week. I ended up making twenty of them because ten just didn't look like enough and I don't have the time to do thirty. You can see from the close ups that I'm not very good at painting or casting. There are many flaws, air bubbles and rough edges in each piece. All in all the shark portion of the diorama was fun and I'm looking forward to finishing the other pieces and showing it at Iacon One.

Posted by MacrossFA19 Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:06 pm

Re: resin beast mode Quintesson guards

Posted by Burn Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:27 pm

Motto: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings to randomly click things in the Admin Panel to see what it breaks."

crazysteve wrote:I got my quintesson guards finished last week. I ended up making twenty of them because ten just didn't look like enough and I don't have the time to do thirty. You can see from the close ups that I'm not very good at painting or casting. There are many flaws, air bubbles and rough edges in each piece. All in all the shark portion of the diorama was fun and I'm looking forward to finishing the other pieces and showing it at Iacon One.

bah! You're your own worst critic!

These are bloody great! Such a wonderful ingenius idea! And this from the guy who dislikes TF things that don't transform!

But these, these I like!

Posted by crazysteve Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:50 pm

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Posted by Hobbyist Prime Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:06 pm

scratchbuild

Posted by Jestermon Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:10 pm

Re: scratchbuild

Posted by crazysteve Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:34 pm

Jestermon wrote:Are those scratch built? becasue the feet look like Zoids feet, just asking if they are and what zoid is was.

Good catch! The guards are resin castings and I took the feet and arms from other toys I had when I made the master prototype. I used one of the Zoids from the Z-builders set that makes up Matrix Dragon. I think it was the red lion one. You can see how I chopped off the parts of the feet that I wanted when I made the prototype that I cast the parts from:



If you look closely at the movie you'll se that the shape of the feet isn't very movie accurate, but I wanted them to be big so they'd be stable and the Zoids feet looked menacing. All the parts that are white or tan I made out of styrene or sculpey. Then I made molds of the parts and once I cast enough parts for twenty guards I glued them all together.

Posted by MacrossFA19 Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:44 pm

Posted by Pun-3X Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:48 pm

Damn good stuff! I love armies. And these things just look too cool. You really did a great job on them. I especially like the teeth.

Posted by eggshen Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:31 am

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Posted by TFmaster Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:00 pm

I want a one!!! NO!! Three!!!

TFM

Posted by Jestermon Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:15 pm

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Posted by LoC Soundwave Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:56 am

Posted by MacrossFA19 Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:31 pm

Posted by B.I.A.C.S. Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:54 pm

Would you sell them not just in person? As in I pay you through paypal or something?

please? they are SO very cool.

Posted by johndillinga2003 Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:41 am

"Their Cute, Their Visicous!!! Get your S.D. Sharkticons only at Iacon One!!!!"

Posted by TM TM2 Dinobot Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:50 pm

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