Man, no update here since January?!
Sorry guys I have been buisy herre at the yards and with other custom projects. The contest here take a lot of my time and today I want to update with a mini rig I made for our current contest. We only allow 5 pictures in the mini rig thread, and I have about 30, so I picked the best ones and will post them here.
Presenting the Rebel's newest creation in short range vehicles, the Recon Scout Skiff or RSS. It features an elaborate array of sonar and scanning equipment, an astromech to pilot the ship, convey information and can operate the guns. The guns can also be manned by personnel on the skiff if desired. The RSS has become heavily used for scouting operations in locations requiring a vehicle that can fit in tight places and stay undetected. The modular nature of the craft when in landing position allows it to be fully armed if it's personnel take off on foot.
Great for single person transportation and scouting, Julian these next shots are in honor of Ace Azzameen and all your hard work.
but can accomidate 2 people when needed.
Landing mode with defence systems
This little thing took several forms over the last few weeks. It is a Hellicopter Transformer and I had a small mobile platform in mind when it began. The back piece stayed flat with the deck and hinged down. As it is now I dremeled and filed then sanded a lot away to get it up that high. I had also added some side panels that folded down, a part to another broken transformer on top of the front area to hide the passengers. Long story short it looked hideous. I pulled everything off, started thinking about the Rebels building Uglies with a permanent droid in the nose. So I took out my BAD parts and split open a can to get the part that receives the head. Decided it would fit on top, marked it out and dremeled away for about 40 minutes being very careful and checking the size often. The funny thing is I removed more than I added to the original piece to get here. The on the transforming part I had to dremel and sand a ton more to get the guns to fold forward for the deadly look. As a final touch I added a display panel and a few buttons for the personnel on the skiff and she was off to paint. The droid was a re purposed one that had it's memory wiped and re programed for it's new duties. In a rush they attempted a quick repaint of it's dome to help camouflage the yellow underneath.
