Building Junk-Bot City Guardians [Trash Bash / Lid-Bot Challenge]

This Junk-bot Project strays from typical projects as I wanted to participate in a casual online challenge issued by @toddler_dragons. The 'Trash Bash' challenge's goal was to collect and assemble household bits to create a complete model using nothing more than found objects. Influenced by Mobile Suits and Gundam cartoons and models, I manufactured Junk-bot City Sentinels – three-story-tall robots built in the style of two outstanding creators – Crafty Ric and Andy Mecha (links below).

00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Robot One
01:59 - Robot Two
03:30 - Robot Three
05:15 - Detailing
06:24 - Painting
08:18 - Final Images

I had initially aspired to create more structures for the layout, but the scale of most junk makes it oversized for the fine detailing required for N Scale; thus, I decided on robots. The backstory is as follows: robots once patrolled the borders restricting citizen movement, and the Dystopia had become a captive state. After the catastrophic collapse of society, the sentinels, abandoned, now exist as lifeless monuments marking the city limits.

This project was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed meeting new people in the trash-bash/scratch-build community. I appreciate having project variety as it keeps me inspired, and I'm thrilled with the results of this project. I never imaged needing robots, but now that they're on the layout, I can't imagine not having them.

If you haven't already, please check out these other creators:

Toddler Dragons:
  / toddler_dragons  

Crafty Ric:
  / craftyric  
   / craftyric  

Andy Mecha:
  / andy_mecha  
   / andymccarter  

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