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I'm very happy with the look of this, apart from the light grey... *sigh*
HEAVILY influenced by Brickmania, seeing as his is just so epic.
Credit for decals goes to Roaglaan.
Legendary Toa of Fire, Lhikan was Metru Nui's sole guardian. In the past, Lhikan led a team of toa against the fearsome Kanohi Dragon, and later, the Dark Hunters. Despite countless betrayals, Lhikan continued to protect the Matoran. He sacrificed his power to create 6 new toa, the Toa Metru, becoming a Turaga himself.
Alternative shots of the Moc. Unlike the set version, he can hold his swords like he does in the movie.
More to come!
This MOC.....it's been done and photographed since months ago. The day that I got my braces to be exact (one week before school started). I kept saying that I would post it once I edited the background, but that clearly didn't happen.
As you can see, this revamp can be made into it's Nuva form by simply adding some armor. This is probably the fastest Bionicle MOC that I have build, only taking a couple hours in one day. I'm really happy how it turned out, there are some things that I would like to improve, but I don't feel that they're that important to fix anytime soon
Here's what you were waiting for Kamil Z, who I kept promising that I would post this picture soon.
This is in my portfolio because it represents my summer vacation this past year.This past summer I made a group of friends that will stay with me until the end of my life. I love my band of brothers to death and I will always be here for them. This was taken when we went to santa cruz this past summer and everything was just fun. And i realized that our time together is limited and i want to enjoy it as much as i can.
So I decided that i wanted to do a little more than just take a photo of myself and then edit. This time I decided to take a a photo of me at Twin Lakes Beach in Santa Cruz and photoshopped a mask instead of my face using the masking tool. The album cover I got the mask from was made by an MC named Dumbfoundead. (He posted a picture of me on his Instagram :D)
I'm getting back into Bionicle since it's returning soon, so this is what I've been working on for the past week or two.
A few things to note about this:
- I realise the upper arms are rather basic, this was because I wanted a decent amount of possibility near the wings for the arms. I might have been able to get around this but I didn't really focus much on that part as they aren't very visible (especially from behind because of the wings).
- The cordak blaster being a bow serves little practical purpose, it's for style more than anything.
I probably need some practise if I'm going to get into Bionicle MOCing, so expect a lot more in the future. They should get better over time.
My first attempt at a revamp, the classic LEGO Technic set "Fire Slizer" from the Slizers/Throwbots theme. Also my first photoshop attempt to place my characters in a detailed background. Stay tuned for more, Ice Slizer coming in a few days!
This short trail had all kinds of surprises, and this one was impossible to miss. Bright purple graffiti on an old foundation wall surrounded by trees and other plants.
revamped packaging. little kraft bags taped with gold japanese washi tape instead of the bronze tissue paper - which was such a huge pain to wrap.
I think it's pretty cute, if I do say so myself.
LDD recently added the Kanohi Hau from the BIONICLE Stars sets, and that inspired me to revisit the Hero Factory–based Tahu revamp I had created here. This time around, however, Tahu has exactly the same piece count as his original form (33), stands at about the same height, and uses only parts that have actually appeared in sets.
The blendy firesword was just me photoshopping a screenshot with a Tr. Bright Orange blade and a screenshot with a Tr. Red blade together — sadly, LDD doesn't currently support multicolor with that part!
Just a revamp that was originally going to be my entry to the Alternate Self MOC Contest but it looked too much like Nuparu. :3
My personal revamp of Ekimu. Originally, I tried to get a look similar to how he appears in the Journey to One Netflix series, but I couldn't figure out the shoulder plates, so it turned out like this instead. :P
Reworking the Duke model. The 3d printed model was stripped down and given a ton of body work to make it nice and suitable for molding.
NOE614R in the Midland Red Coaches fleet was rebuilt with a Yorkshire traction front and really made it look modern it is of course a Leyland Leopard / Plaxton Supreme 3 C49F
This is a Bionicle Dark Hunter that I started building. It started looking too much like Corroder (www.brickset.com/detail/?set=7156-1), so I went with that. Sorry about the bad photo quality, the pic was a rush job. Enjoy!
I just love the look of classic American schoolbuses and have had this particular model for several years. However, recently I built a minifig school bus, and it actually looked better than my old large scale model. Time to revamp it!
In my garden.
Rotten sleepers replaced with brick, and slabs repointed. Tubs thinned out and a few new grasses and ferns to replace the inevitable casualties of the makeover.
A revamp of the original Orca Bio-Mech
The ORCA-II - complete with two flick-fire torpedoes on top and one flick-fire harpoon on a retractable crank and detachable scout drone called Remora
The Revamp project uses reclaimed materials to create Eco-friendly couture fashion.
Eh... I must confess... the centre piece was from my main line jewellery. But the back loop for threading was squashed during the baking process. Stort of B product. I repair and glued onto crocheted necklace body.
Ivory coloured plastic beads necklace is a "genuine junk" from CR charity shop.
Too cheap looks in it's own right, however I mixed into crocheted ribbon body, then It gives nice stiffness and texture to it.
Legendary Toa of Fire, Lhikan was Metru Nui's sole guardian. In the past, Lhikan led a team of toa against the fearsome Kanohi Dragon, and later, the Dark Hunters. Despite countless betrayals, Lhikan continued to protect the Matoran. He sacrificed his power to create 6 new toa, the Toa Metru, becoming a Turaga himself.
Alternative shots of the Moc. Unlike the set version, he can hold his swords like he does in the movie.
More to come!
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
In 1932, the United States Navy contracted the Curtiss-Wright Corporation to produce a modern, two-seat fighter design for use on its growing family of aircraft carriers. Curtiss responded by putting forth their Model 73 - a two-seat monoplane design featuring a single set of parasol wings fitted high atop the fuselage, and the US Navy designated the prototype as XF12C-1.
The Model 73 was powered by a single Wright R-1510-92 Whirlwind 14 series radial piston engine and sported a modern retractable undercarriage. The Curtiss product achieved first flight in 1933 though, by the end of the year, the US Navy had revamped their requirement and categorized the XF12C-1 prototype as the "XS4C-1 scout plane". Once again, this time in early 1934, the US Navy reorganized their needs and labeled the XS4C-1 as the "XSBC-1 dual-role scout-bomber". Curtiss fitted a Wright R-1820 Cyclone series radial piston engine to the design and testing of the prototype ensued.
Among the evaluations was a dive bombing test in September of 1934 that resulted in a failure of the parasol monoplane wing assembly. Testing had shown that the parasol wing assembly was generally unfit for the stresses of what the new aircraft would be called upon to achieve. As a result, the US Navy ordered a new prototype to fall in line with stricter requirements.
Curtiss once again delivered an answer, this time the Model 77, to which the US Navy affixed the designation of XSBC-2. This machine was powered by a new engine,a Wright R-1510-12 Whirlwind 14 series radial. First flight of the XSBC-2 was recorded on December 9th, 1935. In March of 1936, a Pratt & Whitney R-1535-82 Twin Wasp Junior radial piston engine was fitted to the airframe, resulting in the revised company designation of "Model 77A" and the respective US Navy designation "XSBC-3".
Design of the SBC Helldiver was a mix of two eras of aviation: On the one hand, the design was characterized by its staggered, uneven span biplane wing arrangement with thick outboard struts, cabling and skeletal inboard struts holding the wings in place. On the other hand, the fuselage was a streamlined, all-metal construction, contouring finely to a tapered end to which a rounded vertical tail fin was affixed. The undercarriage, while retractable, still sported its visible wheels tucked in alongside each forward fuselage side. Like other aircraft of this period, the SBC took on a noticeable "nose-up" stance when at rest, being fitted with a small, semi-retractable tail wheel at the empennage base and an arrester hook for carrier operations. The crew of two sat in tandem under a single, long canopy with heavy framing with generally poor forward views of the oncoming action. The cockpit was set at amidships, well aft of both wing assemblies.
Being powered by an air-cooled radial engine, driving a three-bladed propeller, the SBC Helldiver could afford top speeds of 234 miles per hour with a base 175 mile per hour cruise speed. Service ceiling was limited to 24,000 feet while range was out to 405 miles.
Armament was rather modest and included a pair of 0.30 caliber machine guns (one forward fixed for the pilot and the other on a trainable mount in the rear cockpit) with an optional 500 lb (227 kg) bombload along the fuselage centerline. The latter was held by a swing arm that would keep the bomb out of the propeller disc during dive attacks and was augmented by additional shackles under the lower wings for single light bombs.
The United States Navy, content with the latest Curtiss-Wright offering, contracted the company in 1936 to deliver some 83 SBC-3 "Helldiver" production-quality aircraft. Initial deliveries occurred in July 1937 to Squadron VS-5 of the carrier USS Yorktown. By all reports, the SBC proved to have a rather pleasant airframe to control. But the constantly changing world of technology in the late 1930s solidified the SBC as an out-of-date design, forcing the scout bomber to undertake second-line duties in the training of upcoming airmen out of Florida. When the Japanese Empire unleashed their surprise attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7th, 1941 - thusly thrusting America into full-fledged world war - the SBC was more or less accepted as an obsolete design.
Curtiss worked on improving the base SBC-3 series design and set one airframe aside for such work. The resulting tests yielded the new Model 77B to which the US Navy appended the designation of SBC-4.
To go along with several improvements, like self-sealing tanks and a bigger bomb load of up to 1.000 lb (454 kg) and additional underwing hardpoints, was a more powerful Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 series radial piston engine of 850 horsepower.
The US Navy signed a production contract for 174 examples of this mount in January 1938 with the first deliveries beginning in March of 1939, followed by formal service entry. By this time, Europe was already completely engulfed in a war that would soon spread beyond its borders, and foreign orders, e. g. from France, ensued.
Regardless, the outdated biplane dive-bomber soldiered on with both US Navy and Marine Corps branches aboard such active carriers as the USS Hornet. But, overall, the SBC Helldiver would only lead a short active life with the US Navy, being soon replaced by much-improved types.
Until its retirement, the SBC still found use in supportive roles. Furthermore, the SBC was, on a limited scale, employed for reconnaissance, patrol and pathfinder tasks in composite squadrons (together with F4F Wildcat fighters and TBM Avenger torpedo bombers) on board of small escort carriers in the Atlantic theatre of operations, where its compact size and good handling were appreciated.
To ensure something of a legacy, the SBC Helldiver was in fact the last biplane aircraft to be purchased by the United States Navy. The longest Curtiss SBCs to survive were 12 aircraft at NAS Jacksonville, Florida, which were stricken off-charge on 31st October 1944.
General characteristics:
Crew: two; pilot and observer gunner
Length: 28 ft 1⅝ in (8.57 m)
Wingspan: 34 ft 0 in (10.36 m)
Height: 10 ft 5 in (3.17 m)
Wing area: 317 ft² (29.4 m²)
Empty weight: 4,552 lb (2,065 kg)
Loaded weight: 7,080 lb (3,211 kg)
Max. take-off weight: 7,632 lb (3,462 kg)
Powerplant:
1× Wright R-1820-34 radial engine, rated at 850 hp (634 kW)
Performance:
Maximum speed: 234 mph (203 knots, 377 km/h) at 15,200 ft (4,600 m)
Cruise speed: 175 mph (152 knots, 282 km/h)
Range with internal fuel: 405 mi (352 nmi, 652 km)
Service ceiling: 24,000 ft (7,320 m)
Rate of climb: 1,630 ft/min (8.28 m/s)
Armament:
1× 0.30 in (7.62 mm) forward-firing M1919 Browning machine gun
1× 0.30 in (7.62 mm) machine gun firing rearward on a flexible mount in the rear cockpit
1× underfuselage hardpoint for a bomb of up to 1.000 lb (454 kg)
or a 45-U.S.-gallon (170-liter) fuel tank
2× underwing hardpoints for 100 lb (45 kg) bombs or flares
The kit and its assembly:
The Curtiss SBC is a kind of ugly duckling and certainly not an aircraft that left any serious impression in history. Nevertheless, its odd mix of modern and vintage design features makes it an interesting subject, and I wanted to build one for a long time. The extended timeframe for the “Old Kit Group Build” at whatifmodelers.com was a welcome motivation to finally dig out a Heller SBC kit (moulds date back from 1979, Matchbox countered with another SBC only one year later) from the stash and build it.
The kit did not see any whiffy mod, was built basically OOB, but received some detail changes and additions. These include a machine gun dummy in the observer’s station, a scratched bomb displacement swing as well as underwing hardpoints, some superficial cockpit and landing gear opening details, as well as lowered flaps and the wiring between the wings – thankfully, only little work of the latter was necessary on the relatively modern biplane design, even though may of the wing wirings are double, so that the work was still challenging. As per usual, I reverted to heated sprues, glued to the kit before painting. The crew (Hobby Master soft vinyl figures) was only added for the beauty pics – in order to make this possible the long greenhouse canopy was cut into four pieces and the sliding parts left unglued to the fuselage.
Otherwise, the kit itself is an easy build with good detail (raised panel lines, though), just the plastic is a bit thin and wobbly, making a good fit not easy. This was not made easier by the fact that the part with the struts for the upper wings had been squashed and bent through other sprues in the box. Getting them back into shape and place for a proper fit was not easy, but with patience and some trial-and-error I was able to save the situation.
Painting and markings:
AFAIK, the SBCs in US Navy service were initially either left in bare metal (with some colorful pre-war squadron markings and the characteristic yellow wings), and, later, some machines operated in the Pacific TO received the early USN Blue Grey/Light Gull Grey livery, and, alternatively, some were painted all-over light-grey (FS 36440?).
I could not find any proof concerning SBCs being operated on carriers in the Atlantic TO, in fact it seems that the SBC was only carried on board of a single carrier, USS Lexington (CV-2). But I deemed the compact aircraft to be pretty suited for smaller escort ships - similar to the Grumman F4F Wildcat, which soldiered on, too, for a long time despite being a pre-war design.
This idea was the basis for my what-if model, and resulted in a machine painted accordingly in the “Atlantic ASW Scheme” with Dark Gull Grey (FS 36231) on the upper surfaces and off-white undersides, with a high waterline. Rather simple and unspectacular, but it suits the SBC well and is rarely seen on USN model kits, most tend to end up in Pacific TO colors.
For painting I used Humbrol 106 (RAF Ocean Grey) and 147 (FS 36495) – both are darker than the authentic tones, but the latter were used for shading (Humbrol 140 and 34, respectively). Reason behind this is that I deemed esp. pure white to be too bright as basic color, leaving no room for post-shading on panels and details. Effectively, it’s a kind of overall pre-shading procedure.
The cockpit became US Interior Green (Humbrol 226), while the visible interior of the landing gear and the cowling became zinc chromate yellow (Humbrol 81), a nice, colorful detail.
The kit was lightly weathered with black ink, too, and received only minimal markings in the form of “Stars & Bars” and a tactical code – another typical feature of machines operated in the Atlantic. As a little (yet authentic) design twist I applied American roundels with a red border, which were mandatory only for a short period in mid-1943 – for the built, fictional SBC they would fit well, and AFAIK this insignia variant lingered on for some time, so that even in late 1943 these must still have been a frequent sight.
After simulating some soot and oil stains as well as flaked paint on the fuselage and leading edges, the kit was sealed with matt acrylic varnish (Italeri).
Again, a relatively simple but subtle whif version of a rather unpopular and forgotten aircraft – but I must say that the Atlantic scheme suits the anachronistic SBC well. With the other colorful details (green cockpit, yellow engine parts, red roundel edges) I was able to make the simple kit look more interesting than expected.
Finally got around to posting this, he’s been sitting on my desk for 5 months already.
Around the end of last year, I saw Joshua Johnson's magnificent Iruini revamp (flic.kr/s/aHskM3zNRb) and decided that my Lhikan could use some beefing up. I borrowed his leg design, and built everything else to scale - this is the first Moc I've done at this sort of size, so I'm not entirely confident about adding all the bulk that Iruini has.
The armpits of all my Mocs in the past have been massive, so I wanted to change that for this revamp. I’m rather satisfied with the result, Lhikan is far more posable than he was, but at the cost of being a touch more fragile. The CCBS shell in the torso is held in place by a single 3L rod angled into a slizer foot, and part of the shell is pushed against a 4L cross axle. It tends to pop out most of the time (some of the pictures reflect this…), which is a shame. I really wanted to use Lhikan’s original swords, but they just weren’t big enough, so Master Tahu’s swords were used instead, albeit with custom handles.
Additionally, this revamp was an ideal time to test out my new lightbox. Looking back at the photos, the lighting probably wasn’t bright enough, so that’s something to work on next time. Regardless, any feedback on photos or Moc are welcome, thanks for looking!
The newly revamped Sequin Park on the Houston Ship Channel near the Lynchburg Crossing provides some interesting photo ops for ship spotters.
Hi, just a little sign of life from me^^. I'm really busy right now, I have found a job, so I'm working full time now. Also I'm in the middle of moving to another city. Most of my dolls and supplies are packed away and I don't have much free time anyway right now. I'm working on a little modding / face-up project now and then, but I don't know when I will finish it, or when I come back to my dolls in a regular scheme.
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So, I'm happy I can show my newest BJD purchase at least: a wonderful Supia Eunice head who replaced my LLT Edria head as Severine^^
Here's my entry for the first day of VignWeek 2022. The prompt is Classic Set Revamp and I chose set 6949 Robo-Guardian from 1994.
www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6949-1#T=...{%22iconly%22:0}
I owned the set as a kid, so I still has some parts and I managed to keep some of the key feature of the set.
#Vignweek2022
Check out the video about this build here: