Topic: Joerhyno's vehicle repairbay(10-1-12 GI JOE/StarWars Crossover idea&question)...

[Reconsgt]

It's comming along good,  I like the hight your suggesting much better, adds a better sense of scale,  If you use the styrene, just fill it in like your photoshop mock up and it will look great,   fantastic start.

[spudafett]

I'll be honest I was a little doubtful at first on this one.  but seeing the actual parts mashed together it looks pretty wicked!  Fill in that area on the back of the hiss tank, behind the cockpit in with some styrene sheet and I'd call it finished!

[Joerhyno]

In before the inlaws... 

I'll be honest I was a little doubtful at first on this one.  but seeing the actual parts mashed together it looks pretty wicked!

So was I, lol...




Thanks guys, yeah, that back part's gonna get filled in with some foamcore(for strength) and sheet styrene on the outside(for looks) and probably add some panels and parts here and there to make it flow.

Extending the bottom is going to be harder, but basically the same method(I hope).. so we'll see.. the wife will be gone all day tomorrow, so hopefully I can get in some me-time!!!

Happy Turkey Day...

-Joe

[Clonehead]

Cool start there, Joe. You surprised me and I just now found your wip pics. For thicker panels, I have used thin craft foam sheet before. It cuts easily and the paper backing makes it very glue friendly.

[Luke Sprywalker]

Thanks for the new pic's Joe and it is a very clever mix. I love the 2 seater cockpit. I would encourage you to use more styrene than foam core on a vehicle. It just doesn't hold up as good over time if it will be played with. I use large for sale signs from walmart as the source for most of my styrene unless I need something thicker. The idea of using fix it will work but take more time, cutting coverings and glueing them on is easier/faster. I like the idea of Sebulba's pod engines added to give it the height as you described as well.

[Tamer]

Welcome to the Yards Joe! Expect this one to hit the FP when finished. It will look good in an ole Asteriod Hangar.

[Joerhyno]

Thanks guys.. I've been testing some colors and the rubber cement thing for battle damage, but that's about it... I just got back a little while ago and got the car unloaded from a local custom meet-up we had at my friend's college he teaches at.

I took all my vehicle fodder(3 8 foot tables worth) and laid them all out for everyone to help me brainstorm on some custom vehicles for the diorama... We came up with some pretty nifty designs, so hopefully mid-week, I can get back to working on this guy, and while he's drying/curing, I can hack up and mash together some more vehicles... so stay tuned...

[Joerhyno]

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Hey guys, remember me? Well, I guess I never finished my freighter that I was working on in this thread, I still have it, so one of these days, I'll dig it out.

I thought I'd post some pictures of what I started working on over the last couple of days.  I'm kinda on a Batman high right now, so I dug out a vehicle I had in storage for the last 5 or so years...




I actually have 3 of these, lol.. one looked like this, another I'm turning into a Bat-Tank and the 3rd is just my reg Tumbler on my Bat-Shelf, lol.. I'll keep that one as-is.

Anyway, I've started getting back into customizing and I wanted to get back into selling some customs, mainly to help with bills, but also to help fund the hobby, I don't collect much, mainly because of money, but I'd like to maybe use some of my customs money to help buy fodder and new stuff to customize.

So, with that, I went at it on the Tumbler. I love the camo one in the first movie and thought it was awesome when I saw more in Dark Knight Rises... so I thought it would be the perfect time finally paint mine up!

My plan is, or course I want all 3 camo ones for my collection, the regular one, the Rocket Launcher one and the one with the big ol' cannon on it. If I thought ahead, I could have bought a couple of these dirt cheap before teh movie came out(I actually got my black one a month or so ago for a couple bucks and shipping, cant beat that)... So.. with them going for $30+ now, I think it'd be a good thing to sell a couple of them, then use the money to buy some more tumblers.. and then customize them again.. then finally I'd have enough to make my three for my collection... that's my plan, at least.. hopefully I can stick to it!

So, with all that wording out of the way, here are a couple pics of where I am at right now...





The other night, I gutted the thing, took out all the electronics, used some styrene and covered up the silly electronic and sound buttons on top. I also glued the cockpit closed, going to make this one for display only, no need to see the ugly insides... lol..

After laying a basecoat of Chocolate brown, I went in and I masked off the areas I wanted to stay brown, and then I'd spray it a tan camo color...

Like so...



This morning, I went and checked on it and then did a little touch ups that I missed and then let it sit for the rest of the day.

About 6 or so hours later, I thought it was time to see what it looked like when I took off the masking tape... I wanted to make sure, paint didn't bleed through under the tape, or anything like that. So here it is as it stands from about a couple of hours ago..





Man, that took FOREVER to do, lol.. actually, masking it took about 4 hours!!! It only took about 45 mins to take it all off. So I guess that wasn't too bad.

Right now, there are a couple parts I'm going to try and fix, bu for the most part, I'm happy with how it turned out. I still have a lot of work to do.

I sprayed it with a clear coat about 20 mins ago, I figured I'd let it sit overnight, and then check on it. I have to take it all apart again, and then the detailing starts.

My main plain is to do some slight dry brushing of silver for wear, then some black for exausts and all that. I'll also attempt to fix any of my over spray mistakes and also use some of them as perfect "battle damage" spots, lol.

I'm hoping to get it finished by Sunday, if not, next Thursday the latest.. here's hoping I can keep to the schedule I set for it.. I'll update a couple more times, but only with some teaser pics of some of the work and hopefully save the rest for the final reveal. I got a desk full of customs in progress, so hopefully you'll see a lot more updates from me in my figure customs thread.

Any tips critiques, I'd love to hear them.

[Mando Assasin]

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[Tamer]

Good to see you checking back in Joe.

The rest of my comments are on the front page.

[Mandalore_1992]

woooow amanzig love the paint look very real good looking tumbler

[Joerhyno]

Thanks guys, it's good to be back. I'll update a couple teaser pics soon.

[Luke Sprywalker]

Joe, good to see you back buddy! Love your tumbler project!

[Darth Optimus]

Welcome back! 

Now get back to work on another kick-@$$ custom!  Time's a wastin'!

[Joerhyno]

Tumbler had to be put on hold, as 90% of my custom stuff was boxed up and put ion storage... Hopefully I can get the stuff out soon.

I did have a question for people though... I don't know if any of ou have seen the cool GI Joe/Star Wars crossover customs that Ian/Prince De Lu... I've been wanting to tackle this mainly because GI Joe and Star Wars were my two toys I played with the most as a kid.. and after seeing his customs.. I though.. WOW.. I can't believe I never did this..

My idea is basically SW characters are here, in the real world, but as Joe/Cobra characters....  So, for me, the Rebel Alliance would be some sort of band of rebels working for the Joes.. as mercs, or a sub team, kind of like Tiger Force, or what not... Same with the Empire.. they'd be working w/ Cobra... Bounty Hunters would prob be kind of like Dreadnoks or something.. Anyway, here's a list of the ones done that I could find...

Storm Viper

Captain Luke "Sky" Walker

Boba Fett

Han Solo


And Dr. Bindy also made his own Joeverse, or really hisverse:

Han & Chewie

So... anyway, with all that said, I know, you're thinking.. this is a vehicle thread.. what's up with all the figs Joe???

Well.. I got to thinking that for my Joe/SW crossover figures, I wanted some sort of Millennium Falcon for Han and Chewie... but there aren't that many "transports" out there that could pass for real world flying discs, lol.. I want to mainly keep this realistic... to a point. I know GI Joe has lasers, and they have walking androids... and even later they have Zombies and mutants and all sorts of weird monsters that Dr. Mindbender did... not to mention Serpentor and the cloning and all that.. so, year.. not totally realistic.. just mostly.

So, with all that said, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for a vehicle to use for the Falcon. I was thinking Blackhawk Helicopter, but the nice realistic 1:18th ones go for a lot.. the okay looking ones at TRU in the "cheap toy" aisle look okay... but I dunno.. There's the chinook(I think that's what it's called), that might work, but it's kind of fat and chubby looking.. I'm thinking helicopter, mainly because how Han can drop in and out of a job, do his smuggling and all that and then bang out in a hurry.. seems something that would translate easy to a hellicopter.

There are a couple of jets and planes out there too, but I dunno.. seems kinda like it goes against what Han would be doing. I'm really liking the C-130 plane at TRU:

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11537933

I think that'd look awesome, but not sure if Han could just jump in and take off if he got in trouble... lol.. he might need a long long runway...  But I really like the features, the back ramp reminds me of the Falcon, but I'd have to do some kind of modifications to give it more of a Falcon look(belly guns, some sort of radar dish, etc)...

Anyway.. last night, as I was going through boxed up vehicles in my fodder, I found a GI Joe RHINO...



I know, it looks nothing like the Falcon.. but I like the way the drivers area is.. if done right, I could mod it so there is only one window on the side, that would kind of mimmick the falcon's cockpit off to the side.. the other stuff, I guess would mainly be paint apps.. I'd probaby get rid of the helicopter part and box it up so there are more cargo areas and maybe even some hidden panels.. etc...

So... what do you guys think? Should the Falcon stay a flying vehicle.. if it's a land vehicle.. even if it's modded to resemble the Falcon, would it come off like the Falcon, or no matter what, it wouldn't be passable because it's a land vehicle..

If that's the case and I'm just going to have to find me a flying vehicle.. any other suggestions for me to think about??

I know, a billion questions.. and not even a single WIP pic, lol.. sorry, since it's a large vehicle and it's probably going to cost a lot.. I didn't want to just start hacking up a $20-30-$50 vehicle and then not like the look of it...

Any help would be appreciated..

-Joe