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| I've been trying to work out what to do about reasonable looking spacecraft when my eyes lit on a couple of 'dead' mice. Just the simple act of removing the mouse wheel and replacing it with a fin made a good shuttle craft... |
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| We also had to replace our kitchen scales. Here it has a different mouse stuck on top of it to make a canopy. |
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| I kept this one 'clean' but the design would appreciate some spaceshippy detailing... |
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| The back few shows the tops of a couple of used superglue lids to hide the worn out buttons on the mouse. The 'probably needs more detail' shows up on this view... |
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| The shuttle was a very successful change of use. Don't think I could really call it a conversion! Originally I was thinking about painting it red and black to match thecrew figures but decided on plain grey so it would also be useful for other races. |
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| Daleks, for instance. The shuttle is a bit small for Daleks - too low - but I'm not going to let that put me off! |
What excellent work, it really looks the part!
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland
The use of a mouse as a shuttle does work very well. Stupid thing is, if I bought a new mouse and used it chances are that would be cheaper than any wargames model I could find!
DeleteA splendid piece of ‘upcycling ‘ or would it be ‘game- cycling’…
ReplyDeleteAll the best. Aly
I'll admit to being pleased with them.
DeleteIf you could cut out a nicely shaped round-ish hole in the top you could sit two Daleks (side by side) in one - that would look good and put an end to all those jokes about stairs!
ReplyDeleteDaleks first flight was back in 1988... Remembrance of the Daleks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_cJ9BlMCw8
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