Kit-bash Show-off Thread

[tmax]

Hey team. Thought it would be cool to have a thread specific to kit-bashed models. It’s something I’ve been diving into the last year or so and man, I wish I’d done it sooner. So much fun!

“Kit-bashed” is a pretty open category and I think we should keep it that way. While some of my own builds are traditional kit-bashed models, others are more outside the box. For example, all metal builds from vintage found parts (more of those later).

So feel free to post your kit-bashed creation for all to enjoy. And include a couple “progress” picks if you can, so we can all glean from your process.

Here’s one to kick things off…

 

[Joseph C. Brown]

Me likey!

 

[Snow Builder]

Came out great. Like the new thread.

 

[Joseph C. Brown]

A favored kitbash of mine is the rather obscure submarine "The Raven" from Irwin Allen's The Amazing Captain Nemo. The sharp-eyed Jay Chladek spotted clues in the few screencaps I'd made which showed the model builders that Irwin had used a Mattel Eagle as the basis of their build - I went cheap and used a AMT/Ertl Eagle:

 

[Treadwell]

Great stuff!
Mine:

Rag-Tag Fleet custom build

After years of researching, planning, buying kits for but as yet still NOT BUILDING several Studio Scale models, I recently had the yen to just jump in and make a custom scratch build/kitbash from the ground up, with only a vague idea of where it's going. No accuracy to worry about = FREEDOM! I...

www.therpf.com

 

[publiusr]

Simply stunning

 

[CosmicQuest]

These are great!! I love this thread. Can't wait to see what everyone posts

 

[pengbuzz]

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[BoontaModelling]

Cool thread!
Here’s one of my kit bashed / scratch built pod racers.

 

[Millenniumf]

Love this thread! Here are my contributions:

Corellian YZ-775 Medium Transport (literally too big to find a good space to photograph it)

Incom 4L4 Fusial Thrust Engine

Asp Mk 3 explorer

Imperial Turbolaser tower (this is almost 100% scratchbuilt from paper, but it looks like a kitbash, so it counts, right?)

Imperial Customs Corvette

 

[edge10]

What talented people can do with paper, blows my mind!

 

[tmax]

My first kitbash. The H.A.G. (Heavy Arms Gunship)
13” long, made from vintage toy parts.

 

[CosmicQuest]

I've already posted my builds, but I'll throw a pic of each one up here too .

 

[bingoh]

This one might be my favorite Gundam kitbash. Props for anyone who can ID the original kit I built it on.

 

[JNordgren42]

Hey team. Thought it would be cool to have a thread specific to kit-bashed models. It’s something I’ve been diving into the last year or so and man, I wish I’d done it sooner. So much fun!

“Kit-bashed” is a pretty open category and I think we should keep it that way. While some of my own builds are traditional kit-bashed models, others are more outside the box. For example, all metal builds from vintage found parts (more of those later).

So feel free to post your kit-bashed creation for all to enjoy. And include a couple “progress” picks if you can, so we can all glean from your process.

Here’s one to kick things off…

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That's awesome work, looks like it has lots of dakka! Any self respecting orc would be happy to pilot it.

 

[tmax]

Here’s another racer/fighter thingy…

 

[tmax]

Here’s a kitbash I did from a $5 thrifted Buzz Lightyear toy…

 

[tmax]

This was a fun one…

 

[rbeach84]

One year not too long ago, our model club had an annual club build themed '3-kit bash' to get folks to exercise their creative muscles. The results were varied and for myself, I was quite happen with the result (which was inspired by Kow Yokoyama's 'PKF.84 Falke') I achieved. Details of my build are posted on the club website so you can see the breakdown there (link at the bottom below the other entrants:

2017 Club Challenge: 3-kit ‘Mash-Up’ or Channeling Your Inner Frankenstein | Hampton Roads Scale Modelers

Hampton Roads Scale Modelers -

hamptonroadsscalemodelers.com

Unfortunately, I realize now that I never got around to posting pix of the final result, so will do so as soon as I can get it done... but the almost nearly finished model pix gives a good idea of the outcome:

Big part of the joy I had was in creating this 'sprint engine' section:

Cheers!
R/ Robert

 

[alexbailey]

This is a great thread, love the models.