Ogres in the Chop Shop: Doppelsoldner WIP

The Doppelsoldner waiting for me to drill out the barrels of the secondary batteries. The Pan European designs are in someways more plausible designs for a large cybertank i.e: they have turrets. However, they don't have that iconic look of the Mark 5.

I magnetized the turret too. The turret bustles hit the body fairing, so I had to gently file them, and cut into the fairing to allow the turret to rotate fully.

I didn't like the fact that the model is designed so as to join the two halves together with the bellows like projections. In my opinion, this puts a lot of stress on the casting, which will be prone to metal fatigue.  So, I cut the projections down and put magnets in them.

 

I didn't go the whole fill the body cavity in with my Doppelsoldner, because look at the vast cavernous space I'd have to fill. So, I just built up lips to hide the lack of an underside.

Interestingly, the Fencer has a lip on the rear of the chassis and doesn't require this modification to hide the fact that the casting is hollow.