Okay, I took pics of my WIP.. and for poops & snickers, I thought I'd take a pic of how my mind works going through a process of picking my vehicle...
First off, I wanted it to be semi easy, a repaint and maybe some added stuff to SW it up. At first glance, I remember getting this vehicle for a Mando ship..
My only problem was like I mentioned above in another post about someone else's entry, I'd have to do too much for it to not be a GI Joe vehicle(in my eyes) cause I've had a vehicle like this when I was little(before they revamped it), and it screams GI Joe to me.
Off to the next idea:
I got this out and was trying to figure out what I could do with it, I saw a Gungan near my fodder and thought.. Hey, I could use it for some Gungan fighter... Then I started thinking about it and if I was looking at something that I wanted to pick for a winner, I don't know if I'd pick a Gungan vehicle, no matter how well it was done, lol... I dunno.. the competitor in me said I had to do something that grabbed someone by the ears and said "LOOK AT ME"... so, off to the drawing board...
With this one, I thought I had that feeling, then some of the WIPs and entries started coming in and I didn't want to be known at the 3rd string mech entry, lol.. so I thought, I loved the idea enough, I can just finish that for myself on my own time...
I started hacking this thing up, parts started coming together, other ships started getting sacrificed to the almighty Customizing Gods and I was happy with how it was turning out.. had it almost ready for paint. Then my son walked into the room and was messing with some of the other vehicle fodder and I had an idea, I thought why not make something for him. I've seen plenty of guys do it here, make customs that their kids play with, so I told him to grab some figures, and was looking at the fodder, one thing led to another, I asked if I could borrow a Jawa and said how about a mini Sand Crawler... Then he went crazy, started pulling out all his droids, lol.. I had to let him know I said "mini" not reg sized... So we pieced together an older GI Joe vehicle, used some different treads and then I let him set it up for the pics...
So, I still have a lot of work to do, I plan on taking the front and totally redoing it, making it go out to a point or whatever how the real sandcrawler does. I like how it splits in two, though I'm missing one of the legs, so if I can't find it, I might scrap the idea for now, or I'll make my own.. it might not look right, but hey, they're Jawas, lol... Anyway, other ideas are a crane for some droids or a claw up front to snag a droid or something like that for him to be able to "play" with it. It got me excited about the project mainly cause it's going to be for him, so I'll have to do my best to make it sturdy and hopefully he'll be nice to it, lol..
Anyway, so there we go, sorry about the long windedness... I'll post a couple progress pics as I get more done... This is how my mind works and why I have about 200 WIPs and probably less than half of that real finished cusoms. I start off wanting to do something simple and it turns into a half scratch build/half rework/repaint, lol... DOH!!!
-Joe
