cylonchaney

Wart are you guys on about now? Without jumping to conclusions, I'll take a leap of faith and say Zach will be a prince if he can get a frog Thor minimate released before I croak.

My latest iteration of the canopy is a success. I'm not going to post a photo as it looks pretty much the same as above. There is a ball shape at the back and a ball shaped recess at the top of the headrest. It now closes with a satisfying snap. That snap has been the highlight of my weekend. LOL For those unfamiliar, this is the Colonial Viper from the 70's Battlestar Galactica, deformed into a minimate style vehicle. These are the good guys. My first vehicle, the Cylon Raider was the bad guys ship.

I'm getting to a point where I'm pretty happy with the Viper but some engineering challenges arise. I'd like to make the canopy shorter which would also make the nose appear longer. The problem is that the canopy hinge is basically two tall blocks that slot into the fuselage. This design makes it fairly easy to assemble and have a friction hold at the hinge. However, If I move the front end of the canopy back those hinge blocks will be sitting in air. I can kill two birds with one stone by adding a console with room underneath for the pilots legs. Shorten the hinge blocks to not poke through the bottom of the console and we're back in business with an even slicker design. However, I'm still working on the current canopy and suspect I may just leave it as is. I think it fits in very well stylistically with the factory Mark V and my Raider.

So there's the first Viper prototype. I will be changing quite a few things before releasing it. But I'm pretty happy with it as the first go. Now that it's printed, I see that I should be able to make the canopy smaller which will be an improvement I think. I'm considering narrowing the body and engines and maybe make the engines a bit longer. As is though, I think it fits really well with the factory Viper MK V. That's about it really. There are a ton of smaller tweaks that probably no one but me will notice. Together they will give it a more polished look I hope.

They could be customized into the two Klingon women from one of my favorite scenes ever when Riker serves on the Klingon ship. Klingon: They are curious how you would endure. Riker: One or both? Everyone laughs. Riker begins to break down a wall. Great stuff.

Lord knows it's time for Dr. Who mates. Maybe they'd regenerate some interest in the minimate line.

Starting to prototype ...

I hated that Xindi season. Super-cool give away but I was an anti-fan of the character.

I'd buy the crap out of anything that gets me 3 colours of Next Gen uniform, and a sculpted Klingon head. You don't need to be too skilled of a customizer to take it from there. A Geordi head would be nice but not a deal breaker. No red uniforms would be even better as I already have a ton of extra Picards.

Nice! That jacket and some Old Man Biff pants might work. LOL

Not a bad resemblance to Alfred Molina. As always, looks amazing Luke!

Hey folks, Anyone got any brilliant ideas for a sleazy used car salesman QC? Hopefully parts that are easy to find. Thanks.

What we'll get is a Battle Damaged Robot Old Man Picard and Admiral STFU two pack. And "Trek is just not selling. Look. We tried."

He released some First Contact freebies. There was Data's face wtih and without the patch of human skin. And a Borg assimilated Neil McDonough among others.

One fine day at the Bumble Bee Barn. 😅

Sooooooo close! I'm quite happy with how far that line made it though.

Badoon King reminds me of Lrrrr, ruler of the planet Omicron Perseii 8. LOL Nice work Luke!

Whippersnappers! LOL I had a bunch of the originals and love these. Hopefully there's a lot of us "old man" collectors. I expect bhm will like Bulletman. Next wave will be the same but with Kung-Fu grip. I'd love to see DST try that with a minimate hand.

Clearly. 😆

Nice work!

Funny to get a new comment on this thread today. I'm trying to render my latest iteration of the mini Viper right now. I'm on vacation in Thailand and contracted some kind of stomach bug. Too adventurous about what I eat here I guess. Stuck in my hotel room trying to recover, I decided to work on the Viper to kill some time. I'm at the point of adding detail lines and still need to re-work the canopy but it's getting very close. I think I might do non-retractable landing gear that can just be removed and replaced with a cover piece. To answer your question, I'm not that much of a comics guy. And I think the Quinjet might be hard to make with the tools I'm working with. I've started to add Blender into my workflow a little. Maybe when I become more proficient with it but I have a lot of higher priorities myself. I might try to do an A-Team van at some point which I assume could also be worked into a Punisher van and a Turtle van. Hmm. Any other vans we need? Once the Viper is done, the Buck Rogers starfighter is next as I've done a bunch of work on it already. I may try to do the Draconinan Marauder after that so there's someone to dogfight with. I'm really happy with how my raider turned out and will definitely continue designing vehicles. I find it quite fun. So eventually anything is possible.

I'll just use my phone. I'm not going to be posting much anyway. I just thought it was interesting timing for this thread to pop up again.

I'm currently on vacation on Thailand. When I hit the site from hotel wifi it says banned. But on my tourist cell plan I'm good.