Topic: March 2011 Build Your Own Mini-Rig Contest

[Tamer]

Love that bike DD.

Well folks have until the 4th to get their entries in. I have really enjoyed seeing the constructions.

[Luke Sprywalker]

As Tamer has said you still have a few more days to get those entries in. I can't wait to see the final entries and man, can you imagine what the round up report will look like for this one? So many great entries already and more on the way. Trying to pick one to vote for will be a tough one.

[DocOutlands]

I've been so busy working on new masters and molds that I've barely spent any time on my mini-rig!  It won't be up to winning, but it certainly fills in a gap I had that needed a mini-rig.  Assuming the weather clears so I can use the paint-rack, that is...

[Joerhyno]

Yeah, I'm gonna be a last min entry... my wifey's off work for the week and wanted to redo the kitchen, so that's eating into my mini-crawler time... Here's hoping tomorrow's the last day of that and then I can get back to it. It's gonna be close though, might have to skip a couple things here and there that I had planned, we'll see.

[Commander Wolffe CC #3636]

mine will be last minute too

[Luke Sprywalker]

Great to hear we will have a few more entries!

[Clonehead]

You mean that there is even more coming??
Can't wait to see em guys!

[DocOutlands]

Joe, I know what you mean.  I'm having to skip an "action feature" I very much want to include, primarily because I just haven't yet figured out how to make it work!  So my rig will have a "stand-in" feature until I can pull off what I actually want.

[XRFIWR]

My rig should be ready in the next day or two here, but with only two customs under my belt , and both those being clones, it'll have store bought figures on it. For shame.

[XRFIWR]

Okay, as finished as I'm going to get this.  Here's what I started with.  Next post will be my official entry...

[XRFIWR]

So I present my Pirate Mini Rig.  I repurposed the rollers into rocket launchers, cut a hole out for a gunner position, used a hotel shampoo bottle (what I settled for, not what I wanted) for the fuel tank.  Lastly I took some rubber plumbing tube, the same stuff I used to fix an AT-TE leg problem, and filled it with the guts of a CAT 5 cable to add a little color.  In retrospect I think I should have gone with a more sand brown finish on this, but I went with what I had available when I got rolling on this.    

Probably not award winning, but it was sure fun to do and it's been handed off to the kids as a vehicle for their Bounty Hunters.

This is my entry

[ars30]

THIS IS MY ENTRY
I Started with This:


And Came Up With This:








Allen

[Luke Sprywalker]

XR - your first vehicle custom is a great one! Very imaginative and great eye useing a steam roller for the base. You have also done a great job of repurposing it's various parts. It makes for a great pirate skiff and also gives me the feel of the Trandoshan hunting skiffs used in the season finaly of the CW cartoon. Very well done my friend.


ars30 - that is a cool base vehicle and looks like it would be from Tron but I have not seen it. I like the subtle additions and the colors you chose. The original is so cool it really didn't need too much additions. The weathering looks great and I really like that pilot, he looks superb! It reminds me of the Cruise Missle Trooper/vehicle from the potf2, only way cooler! Great job man.

[ars30]

Thanks Luke, It Did Come from the New Tron I haven't seen it yet Either,
I Found this on the clearance aisle.
Yeah It Didn't take too many Mods.
I Flipped the Wings Around and Took off the Top Piece.
Yeah The Cruisemissle trooper was what it reminded me of also.

[Commander Wolffe CC #3636]

i am this close || to finishing mine mine will come on the 4th