WarBot!
Inspired on the designs of Ashley Wood’s World War Robot series. I am a big fan of those rusty bots.
This is my version in roughly 1/35 scale. I combined the Bertie and Martin designs.
The body is built from the bottom half of two capsules I had in my parts box. The back pack is the top from a candy container. Details were added from the parts box.
The legs and arms were built from sheet styrene. I worked out the design in Sketchup and printed it out. Each pattern was cut out and sprayed glued onto plastic sheets. I colored the portion of the pattern that I was working on so I could see it easier. I layered several sheets of styrene for each part to build up the thickness. I cut each layer as close to the pattern as I could. After I had the desired thickness I sanded and filed the plastic to the edge of the design. Both the arms and legs bend at the joint. After looking at these photos, I am thinking the legs are too small. The WWR Bertie design has smaller legs as well. I just don’t like the large gap between the body and the legs. I may beef them up a little.
I need to add details to the arms and legs, add hands and feet, add the bags and rolls (typical in the WWR design). I really look forward to painting this guy.
I made the pattern for the arms in Sketchup. Then I used spray glue to attach the printed pattern to sheets of styrene. I colored the parts I wanted to build so I knew where to cut. Then I layered several sheets of plastic to build up the thickness, cutting each layer as close to the pattern as possible. Once it was done I sanded it to follow the pattern.
Test fitting the parts. I like it so far.
