Kit-bashed Konflikt '47 M8 Grizzly Walker

[Panzón]

Konflikt '47 is an extension of Warlord Games Bolt Action WWII war-game, which imagines that WWII continues, and new advances in weapons, in the form of robot soldiers and various human controlled walking weapons, are brought to the battlefield.



I got this kit a couple years ago, planning to build it as a steampunk walker, but when I finally began work on it, I decided instead to build it as a disaster search & rescue walker. To that end, I got rid of the weapons, removed the arm-movement hindering shoulder armor, and hollowed out the cannon mount to create an operators cockpit.




I added a beacon light and a whip antenna, and filled the original periscope ports (?) below them with pieces of transparent red styrene which are meant to be infrared scanners. I added a flip-up canopy, and removed the poorly molded lights on the front of the cockpit, and added a searchlight to the base.


I straightened the left arm of the walker, and also opened the grippers.










I added a few random decals from another kit, and weathered the walker with acrylic paints and washes, graphite, and dry pigments. I may eventually build a diorama around the walker, but for now, there are other projects on the workbench.

[digger303]

Very nice, good to see something different.

[RangerNeil]

Now that is a nice piece of work!! Excellent alterations from the base kit, it looks fantastic and I think a small diorama would really set this one off well.

[Panzón]

Thanks for the comments, guys, and thanks for looking!

[aur0ra145]

Really nice!