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Post by Alteka on May 27, 2006 5:52:35 GMT -5
Sam came home this evening with a large suspicious box from the post office. Poor guy, he's always the one who has to drag home my hoards of boxes. I poked it open and found this inside:  HmmMM! I neglected making dinner and popped the big one open:  Squee! Deathsaurer bits! I snapped a few pics of the sprue bits since I find them pretty:   In this one you can see the air bubbles that accumulate in the thicker areas, which you normally wouldn't see:  The deathsaurer Crystal plastic is actually a little bit milky and somewhat softer compared to normal hard clear stuff. The canopy is still the hard type, so you can see the difference of the material here:  I'm using an exacto heated up under a flame to assist in preventing little cracks & bendy sprue fissues in the pieces. The plastic isn't as bad about cracking as I've heard, but still.. I want to be careful. So far I've got the torso, one leg and the head. I'm replacing the red caps with my NJR Deathy's grey caps, since I think the swap aesthetically benefits them both. Here there are, teamed up to destroy some civilzations:  More to come later  . I dragged out my black light & colour tubes to try some fun stuff tomorrow. |
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Post by Shenny on May 27, 2006 6:16:15 GMT -5
Suh-weeeet. Maybe they made him milky instead of straight clear because of all the wires that would be going down its neck for the light-up eyes. I'm actually a bit surprised that its eye isn't red like the regular one.
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Post by Alteka on May 27, 2006 6:27:01 GMT -5
The led lights up red, no worries. I just have a pile of AAA's and no C's or whatever crazy size the fellow consumes.
As for the plastic, I think the milkyness might be a result of the softer plastic material. The brushed marking on the inside of each piece (which normally would not be visable) seem to be causing most of the visable smoki-ness. You can see a fair amount of the marks on the body casing shot.
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Post by Al Sweet on May 27, 2006 7:08:10 GMT -5
Ahhhhh, where did you get the deathsaurer from??? I've been trying to get one. I just got the Red Horn last week and been looking for a Deathsaurer..... Nice catch there...the other box is the Red Horn right?
Al Sweet
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Post by Tilly on May 27, 2006 7:44:08 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I want the Deathy...I hear so many stories about them being break-happy post-build, even if it's all pretty and cleeaaar.
The Horn, on the other hand, is awesome, and fully responsible for my Horn variant addiction. Set it freeee!
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Post by Alteka on May 27, 2006 16:36:10 GMT -5
Got it through a friend . I've found the clear plastic quite resistant to breaking, and quite a bit more friendly than some regular Zoids, actually. The material seems quite intentionally made to help resist cracks and fissures - Here's a shot of me bending a full length of sprue:  I got another one past 180 degrees, but it developed some whitening. I'm gonna shift this over to the reviews area since I seem to be turning it into one. |
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Post by Lionel on May 27, 2006 17:00:31 GMT -5
On my side, my Cristal Saurer had some parts broken during the moving. The plastic is not as hard than the regular one, but it is more fragile.
Lionel
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Post by chrisjbrandon on May 27, 2006 17:25:13 GMT -5
Nice stuff Alki! ;D
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Post by 尹 眞悟 on May 28, 2006 18:58:55 GMT -5
Tsk, I was meaning to get a set of these but they all sold out before I had a chance. Nice grabs and it seems to me that you're over your virus xp
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Post by ZoidianKing on May 28, 2006 19:37:19 GMT -5
hmmmm its very crystaly looking, very cool zoid you got there Alteka!
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Post by rantinan on May 28, 2006 21:39:22 GMT -5
Stooompy. Cant wait for the blacklight pics.
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Post by Alteka on May 28, 2006 22:00:11 GMT -5
Yup, Mr Fancypants Deathy has helped me fight off the virus, if only because it ran for its life while I madly ripped open the box like a neanderthal. Mr Sam is down with a similar thing right now though, so I was busy keeping him all patched up today.
*Disclaimer: viruses aren't actually alive :3
I'm just about done Deathy now, and going to move on to the Red Horn after. I don't quite have the balls (figuratively and literally) to do a rit-dye on them.. but I'm thinking I might try and spray white chrome on the inside of the horn pieces and see how that looks. If it looks nice I might try it deathy too.
It's kind of hard to figure out what it would look like with the refraction, brushed texture in places and all that.
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Post by Hidocker on May 28, 2006 23:48:45 GMT -5
If you have a gas stove, don't dye, cause it's nigh unto impossible to regulate the water temp. I ruined some genobreaker armor cause the water got too hot and the pieces went all warpy. I did the horn at my old place, on an electric stove.
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Post by Alteka on Jun 1, 2006 2:47:27 GMT -5
Hmm.. okies, I'll keep that in mind, thanks (if I work up the courage to dip 'em). Tonight I did a bit of photography with Mr Deathy and my 'ol black light. Bit busy with stuff so I can't go into detail at the moment, sorry:    ..and my favourite:  |
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Post by Lionel on Jun 1, 2006 4:47:34 GMT -5
Good photos, specialy the red one.
Lionel
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. I dragged out my black light & colour tubes to try some fun stuff tomorrow.
