Ok this is a weird one. It's based on this drawing by Jan Buragay.
The head started with a pink styrene tube that came from a pocket lint roller. The central eye was a polystyrene craft bead that I sanded to the contour of the tube by wrapping it with sandpaper. I made a counterbore and inset a polystyrene half sphere for the lens. This assembly was glued on and blended in with a little epoxy putty. The four pods on either side of the tube were from a 1:72 helicopter kit, topped with the same counterbored bead / half sphere combo. The white, rear portion was 3D printed with polystyrene filament. I blended this with 2 part epoxy putty (Aves brand). The side ribs were cut from .5mm PS sheet.
I made a removable insert for the bottom of the head, decked out with some choice bits from the greeble patch.
For the rocket legs, I had a couple of fuel tanks from a junky Lindberg snap-together Space Shuttle kit. They're ribbed, unlike the smooth ones from the illustration. More places for crud to collect during the weathering stage can't be a bad thing, right? These will need a fair amount of work to hide the seams.
I printed this part to hold the legs at 14° from each other, which looks about right judging from the drawing. The flange on the Lindberg tanks press in and are a nice snug fit.
For the torso, I started with a backpack from a 1/44 Gundam kit and glued a couple fishing floats for the shoulders (polystyrene is everywhere). This was busied up with some 1:72 model bits, courtesy of Revell of Germany.
Front
Back
Here's the torso and legs temporarily assembled. The 3mm rod helps locate everything and will register some additional detail behind the head. I know it look suspect at the moment...
The shoulder armour was printed in resign. These were a bit tricky for me to make in the CAD program.
Here's everything mocked up so far.
Thanks for tuning in. update coming soon...
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