EARTHWORM JIM

This is fairly brief as it was a quick one (about 2 weeks). The hardest bit was having to eat a Pot Noodle for it.

Before any sculpting was started, I got some reference so that I could get a good idea of the proportions for the armature. I also finalise the posture at this stage and make sure I know all the relevant sizes for things the figure may hold or sit on...

The Worm

The bulk of Jim was sculpted from super sculpey.

For some reason, I end up sculpting hands separately. For no reason what so ever.

The Jet

 For Jim's jet engine I gathered a few parts to form the interior of the jet engine. Shown here is some guttering, a sauce pan lid (left over from the build of my Greeter from Oddworld) and a bit of a Pot Noodle container. (I needed a cylinder which tapered and the container was the perfect size)

For the outer shell of the jet engine I cut up an old measuring jug of mine and sanded off the numbers to make it smooth. The parts where then painted and glossed.

For the turbine inside the engine an old 80mm PC cooling fan was used and sprayed yellow.

The detail

Earthworm Jim was painted with Vallejo Air acrylic. It took a lot... A LOT to get a consistent white finish. Accents were airbrushed with a faint light blue.

Some thin blue ribbon was then added for the detailed area.

The attitude

(I know, right?...)

HASHTAG HOLLA AT MY LED STRIP LIGHTS

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ADVANCE WARS TANK (+SPECIAL GUEST)

This one is was a really quick build - and so the write up is brief... I based the overall design on the tank shown here, but I added some stuff...

Some plans were drawn, which were mainly for scale - as for speed and time I changed some minor details depending on what materials I had to hand and what looked better in the moment.

  

The entire tank is built from scratch out of styrene. I had a hard time working out how to do tracks thought... Then I got lucky and found some Lego caterpillar tracks which weirdly fit perfectly - Honestly so perfectly, like, to the millimeter.

Some other pieces were taken from my box of not-want (recycled plastic). I kind of kit-bashed myself. Pieces include knees from my Slig, fuel rods from the Hunter and old favourites - ping pong balls and bits of pen.

It needed a gruff bloke sticking out of the top of it though... So who better than the solider from Team Fortress 2.

the mesh seen here is from a cheap plastic sieve, and the other rectangular shapes are buckles from an old bag I had...