When I redesigned the Bounce Tortoise, I made the leg bosters and backpack separate parts, allowing me to design other loadout modules for different Tortoise variants. After doing the highly mobile Bounce Tortoise, I knew I wanted to do something heavier. The Striking Tortoise was designed around a shoulder weapon mount backpack and shock-absorbing outriggers for the legs. The first heavy weapon I designed was the Saber Missile Pod. I have plenty of ideas for other artillery type weapons and a couple crazy things, but the clean geometry of a missile pod seemed like a great place to start. I kept the colors simple on this guy to keep the focus on the new accessories, but I could see some variation of these colors becoming a production scheme down the line.
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I’m loving the work you are doing. The only thing I wonder about is the “head shields” . I think having struts supporting the glass like a jet canopy might look cool. Please don’t think I am trying to troll you because I am not you have done an awesome job making these models.
Hi Doug,
Not a troll comment at all! I have actually thought about making a canopy with a frame. The reason I did not do it for the Bounce Tortoise was because I wanted to be able to sand the head bubble smooth for painting all shiny like. If I had a frame on there, it would be much harder to get the sandpaper in there for that smooth finish. I have some stuff I’m tinkering with that might change that, but we’ll see how that goes 🙂
Thanks for looking and for the feedback!