Time was not nice to this unit, between their fragility and several moves, they suffered a lot of damage. When I finally got around to working on them again, some 6 years later, they looked more like this:
I spent quite a bit of time repairing these guys. First off, I had to salvage what I could off of the worst of them to repair the other 4. I have no idea where 6 went off to, maybe I'll find him chilling with my old wraithlord... xD. Below are what the remaining walkers look like now.
Although two of my walkers broke off their bases, all of the weapon mounts on my broke off, so this was the next thing to fix. I decided that I wanted to be able to quick-swap the weapons on the walkers, rather than having to build a perplexing number of walkers to give me the versatility I need. This is where my metal-working skills come in handy.
Here is a brass stand-off that i've built by taking a 1/8" brass rod, and by using larger sizes of tubing, I've made stepping to detail the mounts. To make these indestructable, I soldered the brass parts together. After all, I would hate for these to fall apart as easily as the crummy plastic mounts that come with the models.
In order to make the magnet sit properly, and to further detail the mount, I made brass "crowns" to act as a sleeve over the magnets. These guys take about a half hour each to cut out of the tubing, so I have yet to finish them for all the walkers.
The finished mounts I think look pretty attractive and are a good solution to the fragile ones that come with the models:
One of the next steps is to take the wave serpent weapon shields and magnetize those as well. While this might make my War Walkers look more like wasps, the original shield plates were pretty wimpy and I can't really figure out a way to magnetize those!
While I have spent a good amount of time on the walkers, they are more of a back-burner project and only really see progress once or twice a week.
More posts to come. Thank you for reading!
-Valkyrie
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