I've been working on this since around December last year. My son had kept one of the Kinder Easter-egg capsules and wanted me to make something with it. Both of my kids are used to keeping interesting bits and bobs for me. I made some quick initial progress and then stopped because I just didn't know how to get from what I had to the kind of scratch-built wizardry you see posted.
So I looked at a lot of pictures, watched some videos and generally analysed what people were doing to see how the basic techniques worked.
In the past few weeks, I've added the right arm (not the big shoulder-mounted drill thing, that was much earlier) and worked on the "face".
The legs/feet were some of the earliest pieces I made and now I just want to ditch them and do something different. It depends on whether I can work out a way to make better legs while still supporting the model. The current legs cover thick wire supports.
Anyway, last night I built the start of the left arm.
I think I'm getting a lot better. Still lots to learn. I'm not happy with the elbow joint, but the piston-powered mega-chainsword part I think is starting to look really good. I'm hoping to add a few more bits of detail before it goes on.
I'm planning to pore over some more pictures of people's scratch-built orkery to see what else I can learn. Particularly about joints.
I also learnt a very important lesson: Kinder surprise inner-eggs are made from plastic that doesn't like to be glued. AT ALL. By ANY kind of glue.
So I looked at a lot of pictures, watched some videos and generally analysed what people were doing to see how the basic techniques worked.
In the past few weeks, I've added the right arm (not the big shoulder-mounted drill thing, that was much earlier) and worked on the "face".
The legs/feet were some of the earliest pieces I made and now I just want to ditch them and do something different. It depends on whether I can work out a way to make better legs while still supporting the model. The current legs cover thick wire supports.
Anyway, last night I built the start of the left arm.
I think I'm getting a lot better. Still lots to learn. I'm not happy with the elbow joint, but the piston-powered mega-chainsword part I think is starting to look really good. I'm hoping to add a few more bits of detail before it goes on.
I'm planning to pore over some more pictures of people's scratch-built orkery to see what else I can learn. Particularly about joints.
I also learnt a very important lesson: Kinder surprise inner-eggs are made from plastic that doesn't like to be glued. AT ALL. By ANY kind of glue.
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