#scratchbuild

[ratinasuitproductions]

Models 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the year are complete. These lizards with guns are a unit of skirmishers for a Turnip 28 army I am building.

[livinbythewayside98]

1984 Dune Spice Scout

This was my very quick scratchbuild of one of the barely seen vehicles in the 1984 film Dune.  A small ribbed plastic tree ornament, some scrap plastic shapes, and a plastic clothing hanger trimmed to length.

[wizaardvarksworkshop]

A young dragon that voyages into lost and forbidden parts of the astral plane, or the space between stars, returns transformed into a horrifying star-famished beast. Leaning into cosmic horror, this dragon's theme is the unceasing hunger of a black hole, and the otherworldly awe of pulsing nebulae and dying stars. This is an aggressive beast that locks down its prey with gravitational power and light channeled from beings that live in pulsing, dying stars.

Sometimes, you just need to make a horrid beast. I know this is now incredibly late for Smaugust 2023, but when I saw a vacant-eyed, hollow dinosaur toy screaming at the sky I knew it was right for the prompt "Eldritch". But, I wanted to sidestep the expected 'tentacles like Cthulhu' approach, and so instead I used limbs from a toy lobster and other insects to give it some bony mandibles. The tongue was made by using a leftover tail from the dino that went into a previous build, with a UV resin coat, including a drip along a strand of transparent cotton to give it an icky strand of saliva.

The goal for this build was to gross myself out while making it, and to create a monster that implies something worse out there. And I admit that I love to hate looking at this one.

And with that, my Smaugust work is done for 2023. I'm planning on taking a short break from scratchbuilding to finish some sculptures and other WIPS.

[dark-fuckprincess]

Some more WIPs of my Zone Mortalis terrain. Now letting the glue on this long wall section dry and taking a break for tonight

[sjcraftingworld]

Terrain Tutorial - Truss Walkway - Warhammer 40K, Kill Team, Necromunda

[spacetrashprincessproductions]

Quick snap from the set of 'Rocketship Library' - getting ready for some film tests this weekend!

[chriswuzhere]

[thestonecuttersguild]

Blue Nosed Bastard. Oshkosh 2024

[edspear]

The King President of the Most Glorious Nation State of Zilch in his capacity as "Commander In Chief" gets first pick of military research projects. It was in that capacity that he discovered the design for the Skorpiomega Tonk 9000. Designed by a dying cancer riddled child and arriving on his desk thanks to the "Make Happy the Sad Childrens" charitable organization.

The design includes "Turbo Death Lazer" and "Grabby Kill Claws" and "Built In Dad" Technology. Truly impressed by the specs of what is obviously some sort of prodigy, he put it forward into production. The end result was overly heavy, impossible to move, and the laser cannon proved to put out far too much Ionizing Radiation. It also turned out… that the design was a copy of the more reasonably constructed "SK-47" (pictured above) from the neighboring nation of Burgerstan. Thankfully the dying child was execute, and the MHSC foundation have been branded enemies of the Most Glorious Nation State of Zilch.

Lore Over! This was my first ever attempt at making a Tonk for a game of TONKS. But never finished it because I think the scale was off... but have since decided not to worry about and finish it up with additional valves and a new lid.

[ratinasuitproductions]

So model 2 of the year is this scratch built generator / wires in a box

[frogshunnedshadows]

Finished my 1/64th scale classic arcade change machine a few days ago. Looks good with the rest of the gang.

[wizaardvarksworkshop]

“Not a coin or crown lies in the dragon’s lair. If not for the golden hue, you would think the dragon’s hoard a vast pool of quicksilver. But as you draw near, the surface ripples and, with an unearthly roar, it breaks as a dripping draconic form emerges to defend the boiling remains of its molten hoard.”

For Smaugust 2023 over on Instagram I am following prompt 3, molten. I knew it needed to be the dragon’s comeuppance for hoarding all that gold. Part ooze, part undead, part dragon, this is intended as a surprise boss at the end of dungeon for a lower level party of adventurers. It’s slow enough to keep away from, until it closes the distance along its trail, or locks you down in molten gold.

Knowing that this one was going to be basically covered in hot glue and UV resin, I focused more on overall shape when picking the dinosaur toys that went into this. It let me use some that had already been chopped up for other builds, and others that had defects in their plastic that I could hide under globs of gold.

[sjcraftingworld]

Terrain Tutorial - Fences & Railings - Warhammer 40K, Kill Team, Necromunda

[artapir]

Blurry snapshot of an organicized jungleborg model from a fictional cyberworld somewhere between Koba's ASwars/HyperWeapon and Shirow's Appleseed. Midjourney Niji 6

[bagea]

gunpla save me…. gunpla….save me gunpla