Battle Hopper – bio-/mechatronics grasshopper bike (Bandai)
I participated a group building after year changeover and decided to do something new & small. My first motorcycle model is a bit special while it is an amalgam of bio-/mechatronics parts. Modified to military use, Battle Hopper is a mixture of basic motorcycle and grasshopper … or so I assume. The driver itself is a robot with amazing 375 degrees field of vision equipped helmet.
Battle Hopper kit (Bandai)
Bandai kit was a perfect fit again. The hardest part of the build was the careful removal of all tiny parts from sprues without destroying them. I used a small saw. Painted using MR Paint black primer and black-green camo. Metal parts painted using Vallejo acrylics. Thin dark minimal oil wash to everything. Only modification to the kit is a pair of longer helmet antennas with red/green lights on top. Made them from stretched sprue and blobs of white glue. Jumps of the bike are so high that those navigational lights are obligatory.
This kit was a nice little quick one. Happy rest of the year.
Nice work - something different - looks cool.
Would be intersting in "normal" motorcycle-scale.
Fujimi has a 1:12 scale model of this ...
Nice work IT!
Great to see these interesting subjects.
Well done and very tiny as well.
Yep...what they said.
whatever it is, it looks to me like you did a good job on it!
Nice!
Nice change of topic. V cool.
Man this is nice, I like it very much.
Thank you sirs. I'm flattered by your positive comments. This was very relaxing bike/tiny experience for me. So, maybe I will build a bigger bike (not hopper) and something else very small in the near future. You have been warned.
He's a canny little fella!