Walker
COMPLETE
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PURCHASED:
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BEGUN:
061004
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Each of these kits comes with two fixed and two articulated legs. A childhood dream was to afford two kits at the same time and make one fully articulated walker to do some stop motion animation (I would have also need a camera back then as well). Now, I've got the camera, and I finally had the money and the opportunity to purchase both kits!
I ordered the kits from the model shop up the street from work. There was some delay and it took two weeks before they were finally in. (Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it), it was in that time that I discovered the cutaway falcon and the Polar Lights 1701 Refit sitting on the shelves!)
Now with both Walker kits in hand. I grabbed all four fixed legs and slapped this kit together in under four hours. I spent a day or two putting down about three black washes consecutively on different portions.
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A couple drops of crazy glue on the hip joints. Now the legs stay where they should and the hassle of repositioning them every single time it moves is removed forever.
Future work: needs more washing around the feet. This Walker is shutdown and therefore won't be lit.
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These pictures give a very good reason to paint the inside of your kits black! It's called 'subsurface scattering'. That's when light enters the 'skin', bounces around the inside and exits again, giving a nice soft glow. Looks great on flesh and similar objects, but this guy is suppposed to be metal. And metal simply don't do dat!
