Shadowtrak Mk 2 plus crew
Posted: 17 Sep 2013 00:38
Hi all- been a while since I last posted- but here is my latest custom vehicle the Shadowtrak Mk2.
As you can see it started life as a GI Joe Warthog- which I've always had a soft spot for- but someting about it never really worked for me so I decided to turn it into a Red Shadow vehicle. I think the shape and angles suggest a 1980's Soviet type design- something which I feel suits the Shads very well. As I was making the model I was thinking of a name for the vehicle and then I simply decided to name it the Shadowtrak Mk2!
I love the original 'Trak, but it's a little exposed for the gunner and not much of an assault vehicle and I felt that my Mk2 was a natural step in improving on the original, but keeping the name as part of it's heritage.
The Missile rack is taken from the Gi Joe Retaliation Jeep, and I like the idea of seeing the Mk2 unload it's payload on the enemy. I used Iron Man accessories to create the missile 'launch' blasts.
Since I was tarting up on the original I thought a new Red Vulture was needed- as he is the Baron's top driver I felt a suitable uniform and upgrade was needed to distinguish him from the other drivers- plus I think it makes him look like a WW2 German Panzer Commander- which I liked!
Red Vulture is made from the ROC Destro and a Kroenen (the mechanical German from the 1st Hellboy film) head sculpt. I also added a radio mic to him as well.
The 2 Shadow crew are Elite Force WW2 Germans with Shadow heads and I added the headphones and microphones from GI Joe Breaker to the helmets to create 'Tanker' helmets- again to distinguish from the regular footsloggers.
Keeping with the WW2 theme- I wanted a crew gunner so I knocked up a Marauder machine gun on a mount and added a Star Wars laser blast accessory to make it look like the gunner is laying down a barrage of lead!
The last pieces were an assault crew to disembark from the Shadowtrak Mk2 showing that it is an armoured personnel carrier- which I envisioned it to be. These are just my standard Shad recipe that I've used before and for the added 'action' I plonked on the Star Wars blasts to simulate the Shads firing.
I recently watched several episodes of 'Sons of Guns' and one episode was the inspiration for the Shadow assault machine gunner. The episode was called 'one man army'. The programme featured a chap in a load bearing backpack running about a firing range with a belt fed machine gun- and I liked this idea so the Shad gunner is the result- again the blast accessory is added to show the action
Hope you like these- comments/feedback always welcome-
cheers all
Fant0mas
As you can see it started life as a GI Joe Warthog- which I've always had a soft spot for- but someting about it never really worked for me so I decided to turn it into a Red Shadow vehicle. I think the shape and angles suggest a 1980's Soviet type design- something which I feel suits the Shads very well. As I was making the model I was thinking of a name for the vehicle and then I simply decided to name it the Shadowtrak Mk2!
I love the original 'Trak, but it's a little exposed for the gunner and not much of an assault vehicle and I felt that my Mk2 was a natural step in improving on the original, but keeping the name as part of it's heritage.
The Missile rack is taken from the Gi Joe Retaliation Jeep, and I like the idea of seeing the Mk2 unload it's payload on the enemy. I used Iron Man accessories to create the missile 'launch' blasts.
Since I was tarting up on the original I thought a new Red Vulture was needed- as he is the Baron's top driver I felt a suitable uniform and upgrade was needed to distinguish him from the other drivers- plus I think it makes him look like a WW2 German Panzer Commander- which I liked!
Red Vulture is made from the ROC Destro and a Kroenen (the mechanical German from the 1st Hellboy film) head sculpt. I also added a radio mic to him as well.
The 2 Shadow crew are Elite Force WW2 Germans with Shadow heads and I added the headphones and microphones from GI Joe Breaker to the helmets to create 'Tanker' helmets- again to distinguish from the regular footsloggers.
Keeping with the WW2 theme- I wanted a crew gunner so I knocked up a Marauder machine gun on a mount and added a Star Wars laser blast accessory to make it look like the gunner is laying down a barrage of lead!
The last pieces were an assault crew to disembark from the Shadowtrak Mk2 showing that it is an armoured personnel carrier- which I envisioned it to be. These are just my standard Shad recipe that I've used before and for the added 'action' I plonked on the Star Wars blasts to simulate the Shads firing.
I recently watched several episodes of 'Sons of Guns' and one episode was the inspiration for the Shadow assault machine gunner. The episode was called 'one man army'. The programme featured a chap in a load bearing backpack running about a firing range with a belt fed machine gun- and I liked this idea so the Shad gunner is the result- again the blast accessory is added to show the action
Hope you like these- comments/feedback always welcome-
cheers all
Fant0mas
is the actual star of the custom set.
many apologies.