After quite a while I finally finished my Mini Rattler. A few years ago I got the idea that I wanted to take a bunch of the Star Wars Action Fleet (Micromachines), and other vehicles that were out at the time, and make some small scale G.I.Joe items. I put a Rattler together but the "mini army" idea died out. I didn't want to spend tons of time on a little army when I had lots of full scale ideas I wanted to do. So the Rattler is the only thing to be made. Eventually I might try making something else, but right now I don't know when I will.
So now that I got that intro out of the way, here's how I did it. There was a military line that came out years ago. They had tanks, planes and some other stuff. That's where the idea really got off the ground with me. In this case I had picked up an A-10. What was required to make it a Rattler is cut the engines off the back, cover the area that the engines came from and reshape that area, hand build the back tail engine and tail, reshape the back engines so that they'd fit in place on the wings, cut a chunk out of the inner portion of the wing (where the landing gears are) so that the wheel (pods) were closer to the body like the Rattler has, build up the center of the body and make a gun port, and making missiles plus of course paint. The little guy required a little work, but mostly paint helped him.
The gun port was a task in it's self. I wanted to make something that had a seat and a little mini trooper, but it was just so small that it got to be too time consuming. This alone is part of what made me put the plane down and come back to it over and over. Once I finally got something built, I had to figure a way to cover it. All the work of sculpting a figure, painting him, and every other inner work was shot to crap at this point. I couldn't get the clear plastic to stay on without super glue. With Superglue it kept fogging the plastic. I finally got enough of that too and decided to just paint a thin coat of white over the clear to disperse the fog. Now it just looks like tinted glass. I'm still not happy with it, but I gotta call it done for now. I might still eventually go back and redo the gun port one day.
Anyway, here's the pictures:
