Sometimes models seem to make themselves, other times it’s like beating a steel plate with a foam rubber mallet. This project was the latter. Jon at Khurasan has been keeping me busy; he gave me a good description and a few concept images to work with. The concepts had differing styles, Crab, Turtle and Arachnid. Jon also wanted a smooth surface free of clutter and minor details, bolts and such. Normally I can just make a concept sketch and get to work but this one was difficult for some reason. Even after the concept sketch that Jon signed off on, I still found myself unable to jell the idea in my head. Perhaps it was my sweet dog Maggie passing. Perhaps such a large model without surface detail intimidated me. Whatever the cause it took a while to find my Design-Fu. In the end, the “Fu” flowed and I was able to give Jon something we were both happy with. You can see from the component view that its a dual layer turret, each can fire at different targets. The head and all six legs can...
