Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Customs-palooza! O_O!!

While the snow on my set melts away (stay tuned for an update on this soon), I've been busy making more customs characters with the newest parts I have. Some stuff was posted on the forum, and some stuff is going to be posted here. So be sure to check the Octobertoys.com "Ranic's Custom Configurations section () for other stuff.

Heavy Arms Construction Genedrone: I made this guy WAY back in late may/early june, and I'm pretty sure I never posted the pics anywhere. I invisioned this genedrone being used for repairing damaged vehicles, buildings, space ships as well as being used in construction of buildings. Their large arms provide them with incredible strength and 2 laser-cutters/welders are mounted on their backs to help during building. As they have the back-pack (i.e. "drone") head, they have a very low intelligence and fulfil their functions without much problems.

This configuration eventually evolved into the Zov'rass character from Alien Mercenaries, and as I never got a chance to order more greay phase arms or yellow buildmen parts, I've not had the option of re-creating him. I may re-create this design for other purposes down the road, so don't be surprised if it pops up in one of my photo-comics.

(Front)


(Back)


(Right Side)


(Angled Front View)


S.O.D. (Security Optical Drone): This was just something I threw together with some spare parts for fun one day. It's since been disassembled but can easily be re-assembled as it's just made up of 13 parts (4 shins, 4 Gobon Discs, 1 Gobon Sphere, 2 Phase Arm Male/Femal connectors, 1 Bean-bot Pelvis & 1 Crayboth arm). I picture these things walking around highly top-secret labs using their enhanced eye-sight to search for any intruders. Laser cannons are mounted underneith them and have both paralyze & energy-blast settings.


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(Left Side)



(Back)


(Angled Close-Up)

(Next to Scar Phyden for scale)



Antixx Ground Trooper: Had the thought for this guy a little while ago, back in December I think, and it took a bit of configuring before I got the shape juuuust right. The head was fun to make, and I really love the colors of green & black; they just REALLY pop together.

As I mentioned in my last post, the Antixx are a very dangerous race of large ant-like creatures that have been plaguing the galaxy for several years. They're really hard to get rid of, and tend to just cause more harm then good once they show up. None of this is done out of malcious or evil intent though; they're very much just like standard Earth ants except bigger and a bit nastier. The ground troopers have 6 limbs (an Aerial Warrior has 2 legs, 2 arms & a pair of wings), two being used for manipulating objects, & two used in conjunction with arm cannons

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(Back)



(Left Side)


(Right Side)



(Angled Close-Up)
(Battle Stance)

(Comm. Grott & Rdd'rum encounter!)
Comm. Grott: "An Antixx? HERE??"
Rdd'rum: "Quick! Shoot it before its too late! If one knows, they'll ALL know!"
-Bah'glenn

3 comments:

  1. Where do you come up wit the ideas or the time?!?!? Really nice work, Thanks for a better look at Antixx I like him alot but my new favprite is over on the Forum, Zerpentyne is sweet! I love how you did the textured skin.

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  2. LoL, I wish I could explain it, they just appear somedays. When I have a few minutes at work I'll do some brainstorming for new characters and that cuts down on alot of the sculpting time. Glad you like Zerpentyne, I had alot of fun with that one. The textured skin was easy to do, I'll take some pictures of the process for an up-coming blog entry so you can see how I did it.

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  3. I'll be looking forward to seeing that how too piece because I have a reptilian head I'm working on and I was thinking I needed to do somethig for the skin but wasn't sure which way to go and then I saw your post on the forum. I immediately said I have to try that on him. I have a second head I am working on as well and once done I hope to be able to buy the supplies and try my hand at casting. Now that I have a job I have money to buy the supplies but no time to work on them. LOL

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