Junktown Scrapyard Crew - Update - Muthaship Supplies

[clanmac]

Another long delay, a new photo host and about two tubes of glue later, another WIP. This is the Bot Shop, Junktown's finest purveyor of industrial, combat and domestic robots. The Bot Shop has become No1 by constantly tracking the wasteland for signals of robotic activity, messily achieved by a dangerously wired mass of electronic interceptors.

As time has passed since the war, the pile of discarded bits from salvaged bots has grown, almost burying the shop under its own junk.

As ever, I've had some real fun building this one. Like the Gunshop, it's been lurking the back of my mind and it's good to finally make it real. Been saving some of those bits for years.

So to the WIPs



Long shot - the old workshop, now buried in junk on the left, booth in the middle and parts showroom on the right.


The old workshop, including the store's workhorse M34 Deuce, now sadly as defunct as the robots. A few of the working bots on display at the front.









The Bot Shop owner's den.



The tracking hub, based on an old Russian helicopter, one of the many remnants that headed to the airfield Junktown grew from in the post war years.








The showroom, displaying spare heads, power units and torsos for the keen amateur bot builder.







Some of the working models on display.






A few detail shots - rooms minus the roof.







Piles of Bot Bits



The shelves



The Deuce

[YPU]

The sheer amount of prime quality bits thrown together here  how do you keep digging them up man.

As always you are the master of the junkyard, but man this might be my favourite!

The only critique I can level is that I think the whole load of receivers up top should have a LOT more wires and cables going to and fro. Might be thinking that cause I watched ghost in the shell last night.

[clanmac]

The sheer amount of prime quality bits thrown together here  how do you keep digging them up man.

As always you are the master of the junkyard, but man this might be my favourite!

The only critique I can level is that I think the whole load of receivers up top should have a LOT more wires and cables going to and fro. Might be thinking that cause I watched ghost in the shell last night.

Yep, you are dead right YPU. There are a few, but when I took the photos I realised they are lost in the noise - I need to add way more before I throw the paint on. Thank you.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Excellent.

You can spend hours identifying the bits.

[Jagannath]

Absolutely incredible, I love it!

[clanmac]

Thanks all.

UVS, yep, looking for bits is always part of the fun when I look at other people's scratch builds. Happy to play the guessing game - everything from GW, to Mantic, through to Raging Heroes in there somewhere, with some Brother Vinni on the way.

For YPU, getting closer on the wires?

Before



After

[Mr. Peabody]

Oh man, this is truly delicious. 

[zizi666]

 
That is awesome !

[YPU]

Definitely! Personally, I would try to have some variety in the size of them, have a couple which slapdash go from one size to the other and have a few of them dangling with the ends loose to suggest that some parts might not even be plugged in anymore over the many iterations. I mean this is already a lot better than any of my work, but while we are giving pointers. 

Oh and are those lego levers on the top of the copter? 

[Vampifan]

Stunning! Just mind-boggling stunning! 

[Marine0846]

Boy, just what we need, more junk on LAF.
I love it all, really very cool.

[pistolpete]

Wow, just WOW.  Great idea to reduce spare bits but i have a feeling it's probably nothing for yours.  I don't even think I have that many to begin with.  I can't wait to see it painted.

[Dr. Zombie]

Unbelievable good.

You are truly the master of scrounging bits and using them in highly imaginable ways.

[Argonor]

All the right junk, in all the right places  

[julius1880]

I'm really impressed by what you built.