A closer look at the warehouse, background fodder, and support vehicles

This is just a follow up to the last post, with a closer look at the MARS warehouse.

Like I mentioned, it was meant to be a simple photo backdrop that went further than I expected. It was built from a pair of torn down Defiant shells, with the backs cut to sit side by side, and the fronts used as side walls. The cat walks came from a Defiant heat shield, and a general platform.

For the background fodder, I did a couple of "cargo box" looking pieces, one was from a GI Joe: Sigma 6 weapons locker.

The laser cannon, a random piece of MARS weaponry, was a simple combination of a Pogo and a CORPS! cannon.

The Crane was originally going to be mounted, but I couldn't find a way to do it that didn't look overbearing and clumsy. I wanted to throw together something simple, but it just would not go together that easily. I am happy with the construction, but I wish my impatience had not gotten the better of me, and I had given it the same yellow-weather paint job as the Cherry Picker.

Finally, and my favorite piece of the project, the ARBCO Industrial cherry picker. I patterned the look after some of the equipment I had worked with at my last job. Everything was badly worn, and covered in dirt, grease, oil, and other random industrial fluids, even the ones that were only a couple years old. The were beaten up pretty quickly, but they kept working. I wanted that feel for this. Plus, the Cobra Adder makes a great base for field and shop floor trucks.

That is it for this project, at least for now.