Like it says in the subject! Nothing super crazy here, but I didn't have a Wolves painted until now, so it seemed long overdue.
I
had to make some adjustments to a few of these sculpts. As you all know the hips on this
Linebacker normally sit right underneath the main body, and give you no ability to rotate the torso. So I build it up underneath said torso with some laser-cut parts, and after fixing the thigh-hip attachment points (boy those are thin) it actually looks like it could both walk and torso-twist. At least, if you ignore the swim fins it has for feet. :P
This
Pouncer kinda drives me mad, because I like the sculpt, but the attachments points at the "shoulders" for the arms are basically nonexistant. It's infuriating. I have no idea how the sculptor ever intended the arms to stay attached to the torso. I therefore sculpted a layer of greenstuff to thicken the torso in the z-axis, and give the shoulder nubs enough volume to actually stick the pins of the arm parts into mating holes, along with adding some volume to the hips to match.
I tried a few new techniques on these 'Mechs, including using my airbrush and a mask to lay down the base colors (top half/bottom half). It worked out pretty well! Not sure when I'll try that trick again, but it was nice to see it work out pretty well.
Funny story though: I've owned that
Mad Dog since I was a young teenager, and when I got it fresh from the blister it was missing the hip piece. Since I was basically a child and didn't know how to get a replacement part or return it (the store was almost an hour away from my house), I instead cut a chunk of the sprue to fit, with a pair of nubs sticking off to slot into the tops of the legs. If you look carefully you can see where I stacked two layers of sprue to make up the hips; in hindsight, I should have torn it apart and rebuilt it properly nowadays, but it was already assembled (for yeeeeaars at this point) and I just didn't feel like fixing it. It's passible, but it does wobble a tiny fraction if you hold it just right. Boo.
