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Adventures in kitbashing
« on: 05 April 2018, 12:49:21 »
Taking a plastic VV1 Ranger and converting it into a twin-turret VV22 variant? That's easy, just find a decent turret and glue it in front of the existing one somewhere.

Having to scratchbuild the entire front end because the piece of plastic that makes up the front and top of the driver's compartment fell off sometime before the mini came into your possession(likely during manufacture, going by the complete lack of glue residue), and doing so in spare moments at your office using only bits of styrene and a post-it note or two? That's hard.
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Re: Adventures in kitbashing
« Reply #1 on: 05 April 2018, 14:55:34 »
Turret from a DI Morgan?
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Re: Adventures in kitbashing
« Reply #2 on: 05 April 2018, 15:18:06 »
Bingo. Since the Morgan's TRO art and stats don't have the mini turret on top, it was getting removed anyway. :)
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Re: Adventures in kitbashing
« Reply #3 on: 05 April 2018, 15:59:31 »
I swear most of the time the sculpts for mwda just threw extra turrets on things just because.
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Re: Adventures in kitbashing
« Reply #4 on: 05 April 2018, 16:04:59 »
I just wish they didn't feel the need to cover every square millimeter with greebles. Some of those things, it's hard to find a nice blank spot for faction and number decals!
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