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Get to the Choppah!

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So I found this piece of artwork and it made me do stuff
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I wish I knew who drew it but I don't. Anyway it made me build this
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Here is the whole photobucket so you can see how I got there.
http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50 ... r/Choppah/
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That looks like a stephan Martiniere painting. This is his home page.
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Hile Gunslinger. Thankee for the link. I suspect the artist is a Deviantard who has a similar style. I really need to go back and find out so I can credit him or her :oops: Here is progress
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http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50 ... r/Choppah/
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After a quick reverse image search I found the name of the author, and it took me a couple of minutes to find it on deviantart.

http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=wanbao& ... =0#/dvzr5y
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Thanks for that Agent.
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Major mockup
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You've got the blades on both rotors going the same direction. You need one set going the opposite direction for it to fly correctly. Otherwise it'll have a tendency to just spin in circles. Looks good otherwise, so far.
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Very cool kit-bashing. :)
What scale is it?
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Blades fixed
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It is 1/48 scale. Thanks for the comments .I am pleased you like it.
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I think it'll look a lot better when painted. Right now it just looks like two models stuck together.
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How about now?
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Oh snap! That looks gorgeous.
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Ok it...eh..It looks too DARK now... A softer Earth tone I think would have been better... Still, that looks like it can take on some serious shit.
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I very much like this. It's very impressive how you joined the two fuselages - I would've thought it would look really discontinuous, but this doesn't really have that problem. Looking forward to the final result.
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Black is probably just a basecoat. Impressive-looking work there, I look forward to more.
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Thanks all y'all. Black is just primer. Here she is resanded and with floats, forward wings and rotors
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Of course it's still just a mockup at this stage. I have a ton of putty to apply and then resand before I can put camo paint on her.
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Moar putty
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That really does look like something Martiniere would design. Or some dud on Deviant Art, I suppose. Amazingly successful kitbash.
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Thanks Gunslinger. No model kit is safe near me
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Those are all awesome. Seriously, I would love to know your kitbashing secrets. Open your mind to me...
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8-bladed props? Gah! Inefficiencies errrggg...

Seriously awesome work there. How long have you been modeling?
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Thanks very much my brothers :luv: I have been kitbashing and scratchbuilding since I found out that's how they built the models in Star Wars. I can honestly say that I haven't built a kit OOB for 16 years. Most of what I built before that was modified in some way.
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Feel free to ask any technical questions. I will be happy to answer them.
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Hawkwings wrote:8-bladed props? Gah! Inefficiencies errrggg...

Seriously awesome work there. How long have you been modeling?
Those are counter rotating props :shock:
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excellent work so far! I wish i had some skills like that
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Heck that ain't so much skill as practice and some more practice and then some more.
And a hell of a lot of putty and sandpaper.
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