{"id":12523,"date":"2014-01-17T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T22:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=12523"},"modified":"2014-01-17T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T22:47:12","slug":"custom-halo-mega-bloks-mini-scorpion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=12523","title":{"rendered":"Custom Halo Mega Bloks mini Scorpion"},"content":{"rendered":"

GoodwillHunter (GWH) is back yet \u00a0again! Following up his Vulture from earlier this week<\/a>, GWH brings us his version of a mini Scorpion.<\/p>\n

Here are his pics and word on the mini-project:<\/p>\n

I knew I had to do a Mini Scorpion, but this build was on life support until I rethought an important element. I tried a half dozen approaches to reducing the treads, and even considered cutting up an actual tread before going back to some of the guide images I used to do my original Scorpion rebuild. Looking at the renderings, I realized that black angled bloks might be the best way to simulate a reduced tread. Combined with some flat plates, I think they make for a pretty good tread pod. Building them from scratch also allowed me to make the rear pods shorter than the front ones as they appear in the games.\u00a0<\/span>\"GWH<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>I originally wanted to do green, but for the bloks I needed and had on hand, gray was the only way to go.\u00a0<\/span>\"GWH<\/a><\/span>I used peg and hole bloks to allow the tread pods to rotate, but they aren\u2019t loose like on the original Scorpion. The turret also rotates and moves up and down\u2026after the treads, this was the trickiest part of the build to figure out.\u00a0<\/span>\"GWH<\/a><\/span>Here it is next to my figure-scale Scorpion for a size comparison.<\/span>\"GWH<\/a>GWH’s attention to detail, even in these mini builds is amazing.<\/p>\n

-Sal<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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GoodwillHunter (GWH) is back yet \u00a0again! Following up his Vulture from earlier this week, GWH brings us his version of a mini Scorpion. Here are his pics and word on the mini-project: I knew I had to do a Mini … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fan-art-and-other-non-written-media","category-bloks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12523"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12529,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions\/12529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}