Bobble Bio noggin!

Here is something ive wanted to do for quite some time, a Bio helmet display, from a very much loved movie franchise of mine, Predator!

I wanted a custom Bio lid to display, but for me, they only look good when paired up with a killer set of dreadlocks.

I went to Joe (bambooie) on the hunterslair site and got hooked up with a superb set of 40 foam cold cast dreads, of awesome quality!

I then had to get an undermask to mount my helmet upon, so Jay (monsterroom) on the above mentioned site helped me out there.

The Bio in these pics are of a Mysteria AVP scar, in its first stages of weathering, the Bio that will adorn this piece, will be a Hero P2 from RPF member and all round top bloke, Hez!

Anyhoo, this is where im at so far, and im hoping to finish this up over the Christmas break and get it on display!

Its been quite a refreshing break from the StarWars builds im so used to!

Lee Ralph

Probe droid pod!

This is another project, from my favorite in the SW trilogy, the Probe Droid Hyperspace Pod!

These models, were another quick and dirty ILM build, utilising many parts left over from various larger builds in my own opinion!

This build here, is based around a Tamiya Sd Kfz223 armored car hull, five of them in fact, faceted together, to create a rather nice design and shape!

Many of the parts on this example, are in fact studio accurate, but there has been some elaboration along the way due to lack of reference, or just to improve the general aesthetics of the model!

It really is still a work in progress and some parts have yet to be added, but this is another seldom seen prop, and it does have a larger brother, made from the hulls of another ILM stable favorite...the Tamiya 8rad armored car...this pod variant, will be also built very soon to accompany what you see here.....just so they dont get lonely!

Lee Ralph.

The Empire Strikes Back studio scale ATST!

Here is a project i had the priviledge to partake in earlier this year, the ATST walker from TESB!

This model, is a fully operational, alloy stop motion armature, designed by my good friend, Allan Hansen!

Several were made, though only two are being worked on right now, including my own.

We decided to tackle this, due to quite a passion of this seldom seen prop, and the very lacklustre studio scale garage kit offering from Nice N models, this kit, was far from accurate, in many areas, so we had to address that.

Jason Eaton came to our aid, with some stellar reference of the prop from Japan, these pictures, allowed us to really get down to business, in IDing the build.

Only a tiny handful of donor kits remain unknown, and part that had to be scratchbuilt, are very close to there OE cousins!

Around 40 kits or so are used in the creation of this prop, originally built by Joe Johnston, unfortunately, she was only seen for a few seconds in The Empire Strikes Back, rumor has it, more scenes were shot of the model, but the slip of a background painting, rendered the shots useless, and with deadlines very tight on the movie, they were sadly dropped!

Lee Ralph.