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Title: [20-234] Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: Siberian-troll on 20 November 2011, 03:56:53

Suddenly I realized that all this time I glued the [20-234] Marauder II reseen incorrectly -  instead of gluing pelvis detail to the torso bottom, where small round pin is protruding, it better be mounted on the back panel, between torso boxes and bottom edge!

This will make too tall quasi-humanoid mini  into "proper" squat chicken-style unseenish look. 

This is look from the back on working area:

(http://imageshack.com/a/img850/8135/drmu.jpg)

Leg linking part shoud be glued over the grills (which You'd better to sand off or cut out by razor knife)
I'd tried to do it on my ancient, painted by Tamiya paints  mini (It's look soo bad now, that I have no mercy for it), and as I see, now it look better.  ;)

(http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/5101/marauderreworked001.jpg)
(http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/1363/marauderreworked002.jpg)

Upd: resurrected backside photo

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: MistWolf on 20 November 2011, 06:23:03

Blessed Mother of All Catgirls! That does look better

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: rafale56 on 20 November 2011, 06:33:26

 O0 it looks better indeed

friendly

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: Mecha82 on 20 November 2011, 07:11:13

Amazing.

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: jimdigris on 20 November 2011, 08:20:55

 O0

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: HavocTheWarDog on 20 November 2011, 08:44:59

That seals it, I'm gonna do my marauders like that as well, that looks WAY better!
 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: LordNth on 20 November 2011, 08:49:32

What a smiple mistake that makes it look Soo much better!
Way to go and thanks fr sharing S-Troll!

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: Nightstalker on 20 November 2011, 12:50:43

That one little thing does make it look soooo much better.

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: schmitt28 on 20 November 2011, 14:22:35

Nice work, love the PPC's.  O0 O0

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: willydstyle on 20 November 2011, 15:03:36

Have any pics from before the mod, so we can compare?

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: worktroll on 20 November 2011, 18:25:45

Now take the arms; crop off most of the large PPC barrel, and mount the shoulders on the torso about where the heat sink grids are ...

W.

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: TheMaster1955 on 20 November 2011, 18:50:40

cool O0

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: Siberian-troll on 21 November 2011, 01:40:50

Quote from: willydstyle on 20 November 2011, 15:03:36

Have any pics from before the mod, so we can compare?

(http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/3161/mad4k02820.jpg)(http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/599/mad4k02822.jpg)

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: willydstyle on 21 November 2011, 02:10:08

Yeah, the lower stance is much more menacing.  I like how the jeweling was "upside down" on the older one too :D

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: JPArbiter on 21 November 2011, 10:41:40

I have four Marauder IIs in my collection, and they will all be stripped and redone to this standard.

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: ISD on 21 November 2011, 12:45:07

Quote from: willydstyle on 21 November 2011, 02:10:08

Yeah, the lower stance is much more menacing.  I like how the jeweling was "upside down" on the older one too :D

Agree on both! Didn't even notice the effect of that reversed jeweling first :O

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: beachhead1985 on 21 November 2011, 13:03:40

looks amazing! I wonder if this would work on the 75-ton reseen MADs too

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: Dragoon1 on 21 November 2011, 19:36:28

That looks wonderful! Just add the wings and move the arms forward and it might capture the power and grace of the original...or just leave it as is and it will still rock.  O0 O0 :D 8) 8)

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: Siberian-troll on 21 November 2011, 19:47:10

Yes. I'd think already about wings from Osprey.

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: Lysenko on 22 November 2011, 16:08:52

Privyet!

Yes, they low angle makes it look more menacing indeed...more like the Unseen with out being the Unseen. This look makes it easy to understand why the early IS comps pegged it as a MAD-CAT (Marauder-Catapult).  I have a (20-264) Marauder MAD-9S/-5R to put together. I'll have to see if I can pull off something similar.

Title: Re: Marauder IIs unseenning
Post by: Fatebringer on 30 November 2011, 11:36:05

I love the before shot. :)