Pimp my DeathJack! – Legs
Hello eveyone!! I just want to say thanks for the support on the privatter forums. It took the excitement level of this project to the next level (5-castle). Now that everyone has had a week to go buy extreme juggernauts and deathjack kits, its time to get building. First item of construction is getting the feet and legs together. This is a rather simple conversion. I’ll walk through it and point out anything useful. Make sure your jewelers saw blade is sharp and you have about 5 spare blades handy!
First, saw the knee pad off the leg. You see in Khador, the warjacks are always getting on their knees. It’s part of their training. Irusk insists. Cryx doesn’t get on their knees. Hence, no need for knee pads.
Next drill a hole in the lower part of the thigh of the leg.
Then drill a hole in the mounting tab on the bane knight shield and glue a small brass pin in the shield hole. For these holes, use a 1/16th inch diameter bit and brass rod. It works out well in this case as the hole on the shield is nearly the same size, so you don’t have to drill too deeply.
The final step is to glue the shield to the leg via the pin. It gets pretty snug to the leg due to the curvature of the pieces. No putty or gap filling is required for this step.
Repeat this for both legs. Next, it is time to work on the feet. Take the juggernaut foot and saw the foot like pictured:
Next, drill with a small bit (approximately the diameter of a paperclip) and pin the deathjack foot to the juggernaut foot.
Once the glue sets, fill the gap between the feet using a little modeling putty. In my case, I used apoxiesculpt because it was near by. Lastly, I drilled a hole in the center of the foot’s cup for future mounting. The apoxiesculpt got into my hole (gawd!) because I did these steps backwards. Once its dry, I’ll drill it out. I teach these steps after learning them the hard way.
Work Complete!
As a side note, before the final incarnation of the foot, I tried shoring off half the juggernauts toes. The foot ended up looking like this:
Some feet are too big!
Making the feet like this gave the jack like size 15 shoes(us size). It was a little too big.
That’s where we are leavin off until next Monday. Next week, were going to town on the chassis and mounting the legs like a puppy looking for a beggin strip. Until then, stay off your knees!
Khadorian jacks get on their knees? You shouldn’t talk badly about the basis of your most prized jack. Cryx engineering wasn’t good enough and now you talk badly about the people you went to for support? That’s wrong.
It’s like calling a girl fat after you screwed her cause you feel low about just having screwed a fat girl.
oohhhh sick burn.
laaronml said this on May 15th, 2010 at 10:21 am
Hahaha Its not my fault that the standard chassis for Khadorian warjacks comes with knee pads. I just pointed it out. I can talk as badly about it as I want. After all I changed it up to match the rest of perfection aka cryx engineering, which has no kneepads because their ‘jacks dont practice the ancient art of fellatio on their warcasters….like khador. Hence the knee pads
Thundernuts said this on May 16th, 2010 at 9:58 pm