Biomech 550 case by Wolverine

Written by Wil Harris

June 12, 2006 | 12:45

Tags: #art #case #magnus-persson #project #wolverine

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Cutting up

I began, as so many case mods before me, with a big hole in the left sidepanel.

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This will not be the usual plexi-covered window, as you'll find out later. The next step was to make a second hole, which I covered with metal mesh. As you can see I mounted three domes over the front window. These will be used to show a set of window-modded Raptor-X Drives.

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Now the work of turning the side into a part of a biomechanical machinery. As there are no biomech kits to buy out there(!), I had to use my imagination. After raiding a pile of old toys I found a lot of stuff that could work. Here you can see some of the parts glued on to the side. There are pieces from a tank, a truck, a Ferrari F40 and a motorcycle on there. It doesn't look biomechanical yet, but that is about to change.

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The next step was to use large amounts of putty to mould it all together - I used 1.6kg of putty on this side alone.

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After a couple of hours of basic sanding, I started working on some of the finer details. I used all kinds of bits for my dremel to sculpt the details into the hardened putty.

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Here we see the details starting to appear.

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This part of the build was very messy, with huge amouts of dust flying everywhere as a result of the intense dremel action. It was also very time consuming but the result made it all worth while. After I was happy with the level of detail, I painted the side with a thick layer of grey primer. Then I did a layer of matte black paint, and as you can see now it looks more like all of the parts actually fit together.
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