RED KELLY PICTURE 5- ARMOURED APOCALPYSE
I thought it might be educational to see what my Red Kelly Manga Batlesuit costume would look like riding a scale Bolo sentient A.I robot tank....which of course feature in Keith Laumer's (and others!) futuristic Science Fiction stories.
This particular Bolo, Unit N.E.D-1880 of the Line, is a Mark XXXX Bolo “Titanus” Stellar Siege Engine assigned to the 1st Armoured Regiment of the Dinochrome Brigade.
He’s 100 metres long and weighs a modest 49,000 metric tonnes sitting on his four wee tracks.
The main gun is a 105 centimetre Hellmouth anti-proton beam. Secondary armament consists of two restricted elevation Hellrail anti-starship rail-guns. Tertiary weapons are four 95 cm independently turreted Hellbore hydrogen plasma cannon. All in all, frightfully Apocalyptic..
Well, I did say I was a fan of Keith Laumer's books!
I keep a larger photograph of the hull badge which I designed in the "Fantastique Badge Cloak" Photoset, on my Flickr page, it's picture 11.
For the composite photo Adrian Maiolli's picture contributed the costume element, a photo which he took of me wearing the costume at a convention. The sky background comes from a piccy I took at the beach one day. Funny, never noticed the two moons!
The planetscape is built out of texture slabs I lifted from a picture I took of a housebrick found in the backyard. Good old NED is tooled up from a picture I took many years ago of a tank I found parked outside the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Reasonably sure it's an old Centurian Mk5 Main Battle Tank that saw service with the Aussie army in the 1950s,60s and 70s, until they were replaced with Leopard AS1s in the 70s. Vickers would probably be bemused by the upgrade!
Oh....assume I'm wearing seriously magnetic boots. Wouldn't want to fall under those churning tracks!
If you're coming at this picture via a group please feel free to check out other costume photosets at:
www.flickr.com/photos/83287853@N0
Please proceed to picture 6
RED KELLY PICTURE 5- ARMOURED APOCALPYSE
I thought it might be educational to see what my Red Kelly Manga Batlesuit costume would look like riding a scale Bolo sentient A.I robot tank....which of course feature in Keith Laumer's (and others!) futuristic Science Fiction stories.
This particular Bolo, Unit N.E.D-1880 of the Line, is a Mark XXXX Bolo “Titanus” Stellar Siege Engine assigned to the 1st Armoured Regiment of the Dinochrome Brigade.
He’s 100 metres long and weighs a modest 49,000 metric tonnes sitting on his four wee tracks.
The main gun is a 105 centimetre Hellmouth anti-proton beam. Secondary armament consists of two restricted elevation Hellrail anti-starship rail-guns. Tertiary weapons are four 95 cm independently turreted Hellbore hydrogen plasma cannon. All in all, frightfully Apocalyptic..
Well, I did say I was a fan of Keith Laumer's books!
I keep a larger photograph of the hull badge which I designed in the "Fantastique Badge Cloak" Photoset, on my Flickr page, it's picture 11.
For the composite photo Adrian Maiolli's picture contributed the costume element, a photo which he took of me wearing the costume at a convention. The sky background comes from a piccy I took at the beach one day. Funny, never noticed the two moons!
The planetscape is built out of texture slabs I lifted from a picture I took of a housebrick found in the backyard. Good old NED is tooled up from a picture I took many years ago of a tank I found parked outside the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Reasonably sure it's an old Centurian Mk5 Main Battle Tank that saw service with the Aussie army in the 1950s,60s and 70s, until they were replaced with Leopard AS1s in the 70s. Vickers would probably be bemused by the upgrade!
Oh....assume I'm wearing seriously magnetic boots. Wouldn't want to fall under those churning tracks!
If you're coming at this picture via a group please feel free to check out other costume photosets at:
www.flickr.com/photos/83287853@N0
Please proceed to picture 6