Where the large kit has tracks included, the small version has simple wheels. The claws also are static, but the arms move and the front grate opens. As with the big model, I decided to customise it considerably, cutting out the front of the vehicle and adding in some interior detail to represent the grinding and crushing apparatus. The cockpit included a tiny thunderbirds pilot, which I cut out and replaced with a golden Zoid pilot. I had used this figure in the large model, but due to the difference in scale, I swapped it to the small kit and used a Mega Rig figure in the bigger kit. As the kits are quite simple and toy like, I wanted to preserve the toy look, so I kept the paint job minimal and relied on the self coloured plastic. The kit came with a similar scale Mole, molded in yellow and blue, the Excavator in silver and blue.
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Saturday, 24 March 2012
In a hole ? Stop Digging
Where the large kit has tracks included, the small version has simple wheels. The claws also are static, but the arms move and the front grate opens. As with the big model, I decided to customise it considerably, cutting out the front of the vehicle and adding in some interior detail to represent the grinding and crushing apparatus. The cockpit included a tiny thunderbirds pilot, which I cut out and replaced with a golden Zoid pilot. I had used this figure in the large model, but due to the difference in scale, I swapped it to the small kit and used a Mega Rig figure in the bigger kit. As the kits are quite simple and toy like, I wanted to preserve the toy look, so I kept the paint job minimal and relied on the self coloured plastic. The kit came with a similar scale Mole, molded in yellow and blue, the Excavator in silver and blue.
Cool bloglet Wote. Which Thunderbirds Annual is that great Excavator artwork in?
ReplyDeleteIt's the 1966 one
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