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I'm almost hesitant to put this with the rest of my models; will it try to assimilate their paper into itself?

Here's one I've been working on for a while, a Replicator Bug from the Stargate series . For those of you who don't know, Stargate was originally a sci-fi movie in the early '90's, which had a long running spin-off series, Stargate SG1 (with 10 seasons plus 2 finished and one planned straight-to-DVD movies), which in turn had its own long running spin-off series, Stargate Atlantis (5 seasons plus 1 straight-to-DVD movie), and now that both are over, they're making yet another spin-off series, Stargate Universe .

ANYWAY, the Replicators are a "race" of machines capable of rapid reproduction and self-reassembly (is that a word?) when damaged. This, of course, comes at the cost of total consumption of all resources. Basically, they're a swarm of locust. (If only the metaphor ended there; building this one drained my ink cartridge dry )

Unfortunately it can't stand on its own; the back legs both buckled (at the same section on each, actually) under its own weight. Perhaps if I had used cardstock... well, even with the makeshift wire stand underneath it looks bad-ass.

The model itself was more tedious than anything; since I wanted to do it justice and leave it very detailed, the individual pieces ended up taking quite a while to finish. If you were to "break" it down to individual blocks (even more-so than in the action shot), there are a total of 158 making up the model (about 50 pieces, though). I took a few liberties on its underside, since the real Replicator blocks are magnetic and hold themselves together, mine has something of a skeletal structure, with the piece of four blocks where the legs meet actually being cardboard (it's explained in the "Partial Assembly Guide" linked below).

The final build came out to 19" (48.5cm) long, 22.5" (57cm) wide, and 10" (25.5cm) high, and easily took a good 60hrs collectively to build, probably more. I scaled it as close to life-sized as I could based on views of them from the show, since I couldn't find any actual dimensions.

I did have to cheat a little and bend a few blocks to get the angles in the wings and such... but whatever, it's close enough. It was actually somewhat reminiscent of making the Rez Avatar . I just had to make several (albeit more complex) boxes and glue them together. Most of them were even interchangeable, so I could just keep everything in a big box.

Action Shots

PDF of Pieces

PePaKuRa PDO

Partial Assembly Guide

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Have you built this or one of my other models? Feel free to let me know how hard you thought they were!

Description
I'm almost hesitant to put this with the rest of my models; will it try to assimilate their paper into itself?

Here's one I've been working on for a while, a Replicator Bug from the Stargate series . For those of you who don't know, Stargate was originally a sci-fi movie in the early '90's, which had a long running spin-off series, Stargate SG1 (with 10 seasons plus 2 finished and one planned straight-to-DVD movies), which in turn had its own long running spin-off series, Stargate Atlantis (5 seasons plus 1 straight-to-DVD movie), and now that both are over, they're making yet another spin-off series, Stargate Universe .

ANYWAY, the Replicators are a "race" of machines capable of rapid reproduction and self-reassembly (is that a word?) when damaged. This, of course, comes at the cost of total consumption of all resources. Basically, they're a swarm of locust. (If only the metaphor ended there; building this one drained my ink cartridge dry )

Unfortunately it can't stand on its own; the back legs both buckled (at the same section on each, actually) under its own weight. Perhaps if I had used cardstock... well, even with the makeshift wire stand underneath it looks bad-ass.

The model itself was more tedious than anything; since I wanted to do it justice and leave it very detailed, the individual pieces ended up taking quite a while to finish. If you were to "break" it down to individual blocks (even more-so than in the action shot), there are a total of 158 making up the model (about 50 pieces, though). I took a few liberties on its underside, since the real Replicator blocks are magnetic and hold themselves together, mine has something of a skeletal structure, with the piece of four blocks where the legs meet actually being cardboard (it's explained in the "Partial Assembly Guide" linked below).

The final build came out to 19" (48.5cm) long, 22.5" (57cm) wide, and 10" (25.5cm) high, and easily took a good 60hrs collectively to build, probably more. I scaled it as close to life-sized as I could based on views of them from the show, since I couldn't find any actual dimensions.

I did have to cheat a little and bend a few blocks to get the angles in the wings and such... but whatever, it's close enough. It was actually somewhat reminiscent of making the Rez Avatar . I just had to make several (albeit more complex) boxes and glue them together. Most of them were even interchangeable, so I could just keep everything in a big box.

Action Shots

PDF of Pieces

PePaKuRa PDO

Partial Assembly Guide

.=-=Difficulty-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-.
=-=-=-=-=-=Rating-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-=. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -=
=- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .=-
-=. . .Piece . . Not. . .Getting. . . . . . . .Holy. . -=
=- . .o' Cake . .Bad. . . There. . . Gahh. . .Crap!. .=-
-=. . . .1--------2--------3--------4--------5. . . -=
=- . . . . . . . . /\. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .=-
-= . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .-=
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
'=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-'

Have you built this or one of my other models? Feel free to let me know how hard you thought they were!