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Colt Ward

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Dissect that creation! Tau whatever
« on: 04 January 2019, 17:51:45 »
To help folks get some ideas for building their own terrain, I thought I might encourage what I do- which is look at pictures of other DIY terrain to see where they got bits and what they did with them!



So for this one, two that jump out to me is the two ellipsoid towers on the left and right are deodorant applicators- Right Guards?  with all the bits pull out and mounted on some sort of base.  The second is that around the center column set it what looks like groups of four would be old keyboard keys!  Pried loose, flipped over and used for detail work.  I also see a few in other place around the ring- one to the left and two to the right with what maybe hazard warnings.

The offset tower looks like a upside down detergent cap too.
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Re: Dissect that creation! Tau whatever
« Reply #1 on: 04 January 2019, 18:14:54 »
Concur with all your assessments, save that Right Guard isn't the only deodorant to use that design.

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Re: Dissect that creation! Tau whatever
« Reply #2 on: 05 January 2019, 03:54:03 »
Lol, I was hoping someone else could figure out some of the little fiddly bits.
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Re: Dissect that creation! Tau whatever
« Reply #3 on: 06 January 2019, 19:24:25 »
i think the ring of the thing holding the panels to the main tower is a busted standing fan base. and the main tower looks an awful lot like an old disposal casing i saw earlier.
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Re: Dissect that creation! Tau whatever
« Reply #4 on: 06 January 2019, 22:29:45 »
The outer ring has lego control stick bases on top:


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Re: Dissect that creation! Tau whatever
« Reply #5 on: 06 January 2019, 22:35:06 »
...it looks like the inside of my Dyson vacuum cleaner...  ::)

Maybe no one will miss the vacuum for a while?.... I can say it was stolen by ninjas....  8)

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Re: Dissect that creation! Tau whatever
« Reply #6 on: 07 January 2019, 10:26:08 »
Good spot on the lego piece, I kept wanting to say the two discs near the front were lego small dishes but I was not really sure.
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Re: Dissect that creation! Tau whatever
« Reply #7 on: 07 January 2019, 10:30:12 »
The round things on the bottom center came off a G.I. Joe HAVOC
https://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/86/havoc/
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Re: Dissect that creation! Tau whatever
« Reply #8 on: 15 March 2019, 23:20:01 »
The ring around the very top of the big tower is corrugated cardboard.

At least one of the pieces of the 'smokestack' left of the big tower is a plastic bottle cap turned upside down.

The orange oval things on the sides of the deodorant towers could be the caps of the deodorants.
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