Archive&Future
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The whole Maschinen Krieger deal is kind of underrated on here, too bogged down with Star Wars/Trek and Iron Man builds I guess!
For those of you not familiar, Ma.K is of course an abbreviation of "Maschinen Krieger", and is a fictional univerese created in the 1980s by Kow Yokoyama. It's set in around the 2700s-2800s, but the aesthetic is like the love child of ILM models and WWII German military vehicles. Here's the Wikipedia page at any rate
Here is my concept artwork. I envision it as some sort of low to mid altitude reconnaissance fighter or something.
So I started off with the body of an F1 car, glued a tank turret to the cockpit and messily milliputted around it
Now this is where it gets weird-as; I had to mould a (plastic) egg and cast it twice....
I made an experimental mix to cast it in; it's a 60% polyurethane resin and 40% polyfiller mix. It's lighter than solid resin, because it's very bubbly, BUT, it seems to expand! So after I mixed it up, and poured it, I started tapping out bubbles and lo and behold the bubbles came up and the whole mixture started to expand and froth out of the pouring spout. It's a good mix though, there are basically no big bubbles on the castings.
I used bondo to attach the pods to the body
And that's as far as I'm at! If there are any other Ma.K enthusiasts on here, now would be a great time to give me suggestions; and if there aren't then I hope I've introduced something new to y'all
For those of you not familiar, Ma.K is of course an abbreviation of "Maschinen Krieger", and is a fictional univerese created in the 1980s by Kow Yokoyama. It's set in around the 2700s-2800s, but the aesthetic is like the love child of ILM models and WWII German military vehicles. Here's the Wikipedia page at any rate
Here is my concept artwork. I envision it as some sort of low to mid altitude reconnaissance fighter or something.
So I started off with the body of an F1 car, glued a tank turret to the cockpit and messily milliputted around it
Now this is where it gets weird-as; I had to mould a (plastic) egg and cast it twice....
I made an experimental mix to cast it in; it's a 60% polyurethane resin and 40% polyfiller mix. It's lighter than solid resin, because it's very bubbly, BUT, it seems to expand! So after I mixed it up, and poured it, I started tapping out bubbles and lo and behold the bubbles came up and the whole mixture started to expand and froth out of the pouring spout. It's a good mix though, there are basically no big bubbles on the castings.
I used bondo to attach the pods to the body
And that's as far as I'm at! If there are any other Ma.K enthusiasts on here, now would be a great time to give me suggestions; and if there aren't then I hope I've introduced something new to y'all
