Ground Pounder Power Armor W.I.P.

Asphalt · 04-02-2012, 10:09 AM

I am posting this as a W.I.P. in hopes that it will keep me on my toes and make me finish it. I have too many unshown WIPS that are just collecting dust. So keep me working guys.

Ever since Hawkeye posted that he got the prototypes for the power suits I have wanted to make one or 20 into power armors. I am going with turret head look for two reasons, I like symmetry, and why does power armor need a head?

The body and legs were quite easy to take apart. They are mostly screws and light gluing. The arms are entirely plastic welded so I haven't gotten them apart yet. I am priming them in krylon flat black.

It goes back together just as easily.

I need to built the turret mount, but this is how the main gun will sit.

I want to keep the mods simple so I can complete this quickly. I don't want this to become another project in the bottom of the box.
I want him to have a pack of some sort on his back. Any ideas?

TR2009 · 04-02-2012, 10:53 AM

Looks very neat so far.

Asphalt · 04-02-2012, 03:12 PM

It took a couple tries but I got the ball and socket mounted. The hard part was getting it to sit low enough to look solid, but high enough to allow movement.

r3v3n63 · 04-02-2012, 03:42 PM

Looks like we both were thinking the same thing on modding it for Joes. On mine I raised the shoulder sockets up so it has more range of movement and I also replaced the head with one from HALO. I still need to swap out it's weapons and pick up some decals before I can get back at it and get it done. Just waiting for my payday.

CrimsonGuard101 · 04-02-2012, 04:20 PM

I am sure they will find some way to put a 5pt articualted figure with this thing and release it in some future joe line and cal lit a B.A.A.T. It's to opened for my tastes, be intesring to see what you finsih it up with. You going to fill in the open areas with sculpty or something?

Asphalt · 04-02-2012, 05:11 PM

This first one is going to be a fairly straight forward repaint. I will take a pic tomorrow of how I openned up the top of the cockpit so a joe fig will fit in.