Started the work on the pair of Skullhammas tonight. Figured I’d get the armaments done first, then I can just slap plates and rivets and call it good. I spent about 20 minutes sifting through 4 big buckets of parts and came across these parts.
![Super Tanks! Super Tanks!](http://www.bigshoota.com/blog-photos/skullhammas/skullhammas1.jpg)
I just new I’d have a use for these some day.The square bits are the packs some brands of disposable contact lenses come in – yes I kept a lot of the foil seals from them too. They will make great realistic metal plates and thin bent metals! The caps are from the automated shower cleaner bottles. Yep, I scavenged those too. It’s easy to collect these kinds of things and just throw them into a box and leave’em til ya need’em. The repetition in these kinds of things is what lends an air or function to using them in scratchbuild/kitbashes. Industrial Light and Magic uses the same techniques when making thier models for movies.
I decided to knock out the twin linked big shootas on sponsons as they contain the most fiddly bits.
![Twin Linked Big Shoota assemblies Twin Linked Big Shoota assemblies](http://www.bigshoota.com/blog-photos/skullhammas/skullhammas2.jpg)
![Twin Linked Big Shoota assemblies Twin Linked Big Shoota assemblies](http://www.bigshoota.com/blog-photos/skullhammas/skullhammas3.jpg)
![Twin Linked Big Shoota assemblies Twin Linked Big Shoota assemblies](http://www.bigshoota.com/blog-photos/skullhammas/skullhammas4.jpg)
Last picture shows the half finished sponsons poster tacked to the tanks. All I need to do to finish them up is some plates ib the back and side and some angle iron over the edges with rivets and I’ll call-em done. Oh yeah, a little hatch for the top of each! The little well where the contact rested make perfect hatch circles – neat!
btw – don’t expect these to be super detailed like the other work I produce, I’m purposely moving fast on these as I won’t have time otherwise to finish all of the models I need to by the beginning of October and I’ll probably only use them once or twice a year.
Later!