Post by Fulano on Aug 16, 2021 21:52:29 GMT -5
Hi all,
Please allow me to introduce you to the QS-01 Turbo Finch, the Queen's Special version of the mass-produced aerial Zoid unit designed and deployed by the independent Kingdom of Sol.
The Turbo Finch is adorned with the Queen's multi-colored livery, though most production-specific Turbo Finch are adorned in military grays.
The Turbo Finch sports a forward-facing (and rotational) 30mm Gatling gun, with replaceable ammo/storage canisters. The gun canisters can double as Oxygen tanks, fuel tanks, or simply storage tanks, depending on the Queen's purpose.
The head has two 30mm mounted machine guns located on either side of the cockpit. Additionally, the chest armor and head can dispel of heat through multiple exhaust and heat vents, and the front-facing port on the lower chest armor enables the Turbo Finch to refuel in mid-air, if needed.
On the back of the unit, from top to bottom, the Zoid sports the following:
The Turbo Finch is capable of vertical takeoff, thanks to a Hachidori Turbofan thruster located in each wing - the engine can pull air from the vent on the top of the wing, producing intense vertical wing from the thrusters beneath the wing.
The wings are fully posable, capable of retracting, extending, and bending up or down thanks to the series of pistons and inner-frame joints used to create the wing.
Pictured above, the two Hachidori Taimatsu thrusters pointed forwards in rifle mode, allowing the Turbo Finch to fire three particle beams from each rifle per flight. The fuel rods inside each Taimatsu must be replaced after firing.
Pictured above, the inner machinations of the wing. The upper aileron is rotated forward - the Finch can use these flaps to maneuver in the air with extreme efficacy, turning on a dime or coming to a complete stop before accelerating in any direction the pilot chooses.
This (poorly-taken) picture was intended to show the inner-frame of the Turbo Finch, where the legs and wing connect to the body, and the compactness of the engineering employed by the Sol airforce that enables the Finch to be such an effective dog-fighting and aerial assault ZOID.
The Turbo Finch in military livery - I liked how it looked primed so much that I want to make it canon that the normal Turbo Finch is not quite so flamboyant and pearlescent.
Here are the pieces of the Zoid, disassembled and easily reconstructed. I learned so much from creating this little bird - this was my first finished custom Zoid since the days of the second Phenotype-hosted custom contest, perhaps as much as 15(?) years ago. It was my first time properly employing the techniques of airbrushing - the one time I painted my old Konig Wolf custom a flat gray way back in 2005ish doesn't count! It was also my first time applying waterslide decals, but let me just say - I'm in love with them, lol. They look so good. Turbo Finch is also my first foray into true scratch-building, and literally inventing a Zoid from something entirely non-Zoid. I'm very proud of myself.
The Turbo Finch, with Shadow and my work-in-progress HMM Gairyuki for scale. I really like this picture.
To take a page from the Book of Maethius, I'd like to post some inspiration and other things.
The A10 Warthog, the infamous plane built around a 30mm machine gun.
The plumage of all hummingbirds inspired the color scheme. Originally, the Turbo Finch was supposed to be a hummingbird, but I liked the beak so much that I kept it.
Little birds I see sitting in chain-link-fences gave me the idea of a production-ready "Bird" Zoid that could double as a fighter, transport, reconnaissance, bomber, whatever - when I take my dog for walks, I like to image a little flock of Turbo Finch deploying to go bully much bigger predators with their little-man confidence.
The Apache Helicopter - I wanted to design something that could serve as both a hovering weapon and a fast, plane-like weapon. The gun on the front of the Finch feels very anti-person and anti-armor, so...
The F-35, with its vertical-takeoff capabilities.
You can see some work-in-progress shots in the Customs in Progress Thread.
The parts I used are as follows:
The paints I used:
Thanks for reading, everyone, and have a wonderful day!
Please allow me to introduce you to the QS-01 Turbo Finch, the Queen's Special version of the mass-produced aerial Zoid unit designed and deployed by the independent Kingdom of Sol.
The Turbo Finch is adorned with the Queen's multi-colored livery, though most production-specific Turbo Finch are adorned in military grays.
The Turbo Finch sports a forward-facing (and rotational) 30mm Gatling gun, with replaceable ammo/storage canisters. The gun canisters can double as Oxygen tanks, fuel tanks, or simply storage tanks, depending on the Queen's purpose.
The head has two 30mm mounted machine guns located on either side of the cockpit. Additionally, the chest armor and head can dispel of heat through multiple exhaust and heat vents, and the front-facing port on the lower chest armor enables the Turbo Finch to refuel in mid-air, if needed.
On the back of the unit, from top to bottom, the Zoid sports the following:
- A Hachidori FW01 Core engine (the top gold armor with the back-facing exhaust) engineered by Hachidori Corporation of the Eastern Continent.
- A back-mounted Hachidori Xochitl supplemental engine capable of independent thrust vectoring, with two side mounted wings for air-breaking and in-air stability and maneuvering.
- Two twin Hachidori Taimatsu, thrusters that double as twin particle rifles when flipped forward.
The Turbo Finch is capable of vertical takeoff, thanks to a Hachidori Turbofan thruster located in each wing - the engine can pull air from the vent on the top of the wing, producing intense vertical wing from the thrusters beneath the wing.
The wings are fully posable, capable of retracting, extending, and bending up or down thanks to the series of pistons and inner-frame joints used to create the wing.
Pictured above, the two Hachidori Taimatsu thrusters pointed forwards in rifle mode, allowing the Turbo Finch to fire three particle beams from each rifle per flight. The fuel rods inside each Taimatsu must be replaced after firing.
Pictured above, the inner machinations of the wing. The upper aileron is rotated forward - the Finch can use these flaps to maneuver in the air with extreme efficacy, turning on a dime or coming to a complete stop before accelerating in any direction the pilot chooses.
This (poorly-taken) picture was intended to show the inner-frame of the Turbo Finch, where the legs and wing connect to the body, and the compactness of the engineering employed by the Sol airforce that enables the Finch to be such an effective dog-fighting and aerial assault ZOID.
The Turbo Finch in military livery - I liked how it looked primed so much that I want to make it canon that the normal Turbo Finch is not quite so flamboyant and pearlescent.
Here are the pieces of the Zoid, disassembled and easily reconstructed. I learned so much from creating this little bird - this was my first finished custom Zoid since the days of the second Phenotype-hosted custom contest, perhaps as much as 15(?) years ago. It was my first time properly employing the techniques of airbrushing - the one time I painted my old Konig Wolf custom a flat gray way back in 2005ish doesn't count! It was also my first time applying waterslide decals, but let me just say - I'm in love with them, lol. They look so good. Turbo Finch is also my first foray into true scratch-building, and literally inventing a Zoid from something entirely non-Zoid. I'm very proud of myself.
The Turbo Finch, with Shadow and my work-in-progress HMM Gairyuki for scale. I really like this picture.
To take a page from the Book of Maethius, I'd like to post some inspiration and other things.
The A10 Warthog, the infamous plane built around a 30mm machine gun.
The plumage of all hummingbirds inspired the color scheme. Originally, the Turbo Finch was supposed to be a hummingbird, but I liked the beak so much that I kept it.
Little birds I see sitting in chain-link-fences gave me the idea of a production-ready "Bird" Zoid that could double as a fighter, transport, reconnaissance, bomber, whatever - when I take my dog for walks, I like to image a little flock of Turbo Finch deploying to go bully much bigger predators with their little-man confidence.
The Apache Helicopter - I wanted to design something that could serve as both a hovering weapon and a fast, plane-like weapon. The gun on the front of the Finch feels very anti-person and anti-armor, so...
The F-35, with its vertical-takeoff capabilities.
You can see some work-in-progress shots in the Customs in Progress Thread.
The parts I used are as follows:
- RG Freedom Gundam - the chest serves as the base for the head, the cockpit being the beak. The Freedom's arm frames are the bird's wing-arms, and the Freedom's feet frames are the Finch's feet below the "knees". Other parts used include the side skirt rifles as the back tail-vernier-rifles, the front skirts as small wings on the back "Hachidori Xochitl" engines, and the wing ailerons which are pieces from the Freedom's back wings.
- Frame Arms Hresvelgr - the upper half of the Hresvelgr's body serves as the main frame of the Finch. The Finch's legs use the Hresvelgr's shoulder-to-elbow pieces.
- Zoid Blox Nightwise - the Finch's face armor, wings, and the back armor (orange) right behind the head come from a Nightwise.
- Zoid Blox Cannonspider - the top head armor/cockpit is a Cannon Spider's singe leg armor piece, cut in half.
- Lots of Kotobukiya MSG joint parts, from various sets. A ball-joint connects the neck to the body, and inside the head, two pieces allow for the rotation up and down of the head from the neck. The pistons, tail feathers, and everything else are connected via MSG 3mm joints and pegs.
- A decent amount of detailing parts and scratch-built parts.
The paints I used:
- SMS Pearlescent Color-shifting paints of blue-to-green, green-to-gold, gold-to-orange, and magenta
- SMS airbrush-thinned blue-black, as well as Vallejo pale blue gray,
- SMS airbrush-thinned Gunmetal, Silver, and black surfacer
Thanks for reading, everyone, and have a wonderful day!
