"Post Apocalyptic Junktown - The Bot Shop" Topic

nother long delay, a new photo host and about two tubes of glue later, another WIP. This is the Bot Shop, Junktown's finest purveyor of industrial, combat and domestic robots. The Bot Shop has become No1 by constantly tracking the wasteland for signals of robotic activity, messily achieved by a dangerously wired mass of electronic interceptors.

As time has passed since the war, the pile of discarded bits from salvaged bots has grown, almost burying the shop under its own junk.

As ever, I've had some real fun building this one. Like the Gunshop, it's been lurking the back of my mind and it's good to finally make it real. Been saving some of those bits for years.

So to the WIPs

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Long shot – the old workshop, now buried in junk on the left, booth in the middle and parts showroom on the right.

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The old workshop, including the store's workhorse M34 Deuce, now sadly as defunct as the robots. A few of the working bots on display at the front.

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The Bot Shop owner's den.

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The tracking hub, based on an old Russian helicopter, one of the many remnants that headed to the airfield Junktown grew from in the post war years.

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The showroom, displaying spare heads, power units and torsos for the keen amateur bot builder.

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Some of the working models on display.

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A few detail shots – rooms minus the roof.

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Piles of Bot Bits

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The shelves

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The Deuce

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Very well done!

I am salivating! What an amazing set of details.

Dan
PS. I'm told that, instead of gauze, dried out wet wipes works great as heavy tarps. Just re-wet with diluted PVA.

Many thanks Dan – will have to give the wet wipes a try.

That's fantastic! Looking forward to seeing further progress reports.

So good! I'm sure it will look superb once painted up.

That's amazing.

The temptation to use all those junk and display bits to build more bots must have been terrific. I'm not sure I'd have the discipline to not just make a junkbot force out of them…

Do you have a site with your other work?

Holy f'ing moly! You continue to amaze.

That is so much awesome, my head 'splode.

Can't wait to see it colored up.

Outstanding!

Brilliant work

I don't know if I put that much effort into an entire project, let alone a single piece.

Great stuff!

That's freakin awesome. I gotta do something like this!!!

MIND BLOWN!

The feel to it is SO spot on for a junkyard kinda establishment.

I can't wait to see this finished!

Hi all, Many thank for the kind comments. Undercoat is already on so I'll be picking away at the paint job over the next few weeks. It'll take a while I think.

For NV Doyle, no specific site, just a few threads on various forums, most of which have been recently wiped out by those gangsters at Photobucket. I am thinking about starting something though. The collection is getting big enough.

A quick update from the workbench – some paint going but plenty more to do yet.

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I am certain everyone's jaws will drop seeing this….🍺

You are absolutely right!!! Unbelievable.

Dan

Finished Bot Shop pics…

And some detail shots…

yup….thats the best i have seen on this forum all year

well done sir..i doth my cap…

you should contact the guys launching Fall Out this year to see if you can support them

I'd give anything to be able to build and then paint shelves like those.

Dan

Thanks very much for the kind words.

Dan, the shelves are simpler than they look. Just plenty of small bits and LOTS of glue. I probably got the photo distance just right so you get the effect but without seeing the misses, gaps and paint in the wrong place!

This might be the coolest thing I've ever seen on TMP. I am amazed.

Your work is absolutely creative and extremely well painted. A pleasure to see!

Terry