Peppie's egg build episode two..

[peppie]

Part 1.

He guys,

Seeing I've got a whole box off eggs and how much fun I have making these, I decided
to make another one.


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Ok, no blabbering this time. On with the build.
We start, off course, with en egg.

Cut off the top, and try to get out all off the egg white.

This wasn't very easy, since the stuff was glued to the sides. And also the shell
became very weak this way.
So, change off plans.

Cut off a slice from the bottom, and took out most off the white stuff. Leaving the
foam on the sides, to keep some strength.
Cut me a bottom plate (roughly), and stuck it on with some tape. After that I glued in
a front and back plate, only glueing them to the bottom.

Creating a cabine I could work with, because the foam only eats my glue..

This must dry now.

So on to the sparesbox.
Found these fenders from a truck, but only two. No problem since they are way to big.
Out came the tape and scriber.

And now we have four.
Also found me a roof and some wheels from the same truck, wich I replaced for some
nicer ones.

Wheels are a little different, but when we turn them around..

Not much different now are they?

And this is how far I got today.

Oh, one more picture.

Maybe this will help you to guess what I'm going for..


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Sorry, only short report for now, but promise to be back soon.
Thanks for watching.

Comments or tips, yes please


Peter.

[Twokidsnosleep]

You are chicken-scratching out another build

This time I see they are plastic eggs....won't fool me twice!!!

[peppie]

So, with a exploding pc and very busy with work , it was getting a bit tight, time wise..
But I did it Only problem was the computer..... So I borrowed a laptop from someone, so I can show you my progress, and my finished egg off course

Ok, a lot off pics so I'll try to keep the chatter to a minimum.

The glued cabin is all dried now, and then I can do this.

Makes it a lot easier to work on the interior.
The roof, as you see to low and to long.

So I placed some legs in the back, and cut a piece off the front and close that up again with some styrene.

Made me a front window, and all together that looks like this.

Made some nice edges on the cabin and found this piece in the sparesbox and connected it to the back.

But..... what the heck is that doing on the back off a Kubel-Egg? Yep, changed my mind, didn't like the fenders, decided to change it into a Schwimm-Egg. I mean, that allready looks like an egg anyway.


Interior:
Turned this

Into this

Yep..... steeringwheel
Backseat

Only, when I fit it...

Well thats a bit low.... don't think anyone will be able to look outside
Only thing to do, was to raise the floor. Since the real thing has a wooden rack on the floor to keep the feet dry, I decided to do the same.

Made me some front seats.

And dry fitted all.

That will do for my interior, now for the outside.
First up, the exhaust.


And in place.

As you can see, I added a protection plate over the prop.
Cut some glass.

And put on some fenders.

The wheels with the axles.

Spare wheel looked a litle different, so I changed it to look somewhat like the other wheels.

And in place.

Standard issue on these vehicles was....... right, a padle.
Coffee stirrer stick.

Some cutting and sanding.

Et voila.

Yes I now, looks a bit cartoonish... But he, look at the rest off the car..

A gun from one off those sets. The wrong one? Probably, since it was a set off Anglo / American weapons


These

Became the head lamps and the holder for the paddle.



Oh, and made and placed a license plate holder with tail light.
Second standard tool was off course a shovel.

Some styrene plate and styrene tube, and a cocktail stick as a handle.
The dry fit.


Then, after some filling and cleaning up, finally time for some primer and Mr. buffable for the gun and the shovel blade.

Then some colour, detailing, gloss, decals, gloss, wash, etc, etc.......(sorry, bit of a hurry )








Thats it for my build report, rest off the pics in the reveal section.

Thanks for watching.

[m0rce]

That is soo cool

[peppie]

Thanks Buddy

Final reveal pics here: http://www.intscalemodeller.com/viewtop ... 70&t=12285

[Twokidsnosleep]

Great scratch work my friend, Supoib!

How do you get the egg smell out of them??.

[peppie]

Thanks mate

How do you get the egg smell out of them??.

Well let me eggsplain, these are the eggs off a duck raised on Johnny Walker. So they do smell, but not in a bad way..