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[Froggy the Great]

Because sometimes your steampunk Romans need a clockwork dragonfly automaton, especially one with twin greek-fire nozzles and an internal clockwork ballista.

Parts list:
-Handle from a kids' squeaky hammer toy.
-zip-ties
-drywall anchor
plastic knives
-contact lens holder
-VCR rewind motor
-contacts from a parallel cable
-headphone jack
-pewter spider legs

[ixminis]

I've been waiting to see this since you made the plastic knife comment - excellent!!!

[cookjimjr]

Amazing! I still can't fathom how you come up with this stuff. Great job! This is probably my favorite thing you have ever shown here.

[Metalchaos]

Brilliant and very original work. I like the plastic knives idea for the wings.
And, the paint job is really nice too.

[joshuaslater]

Amazing! I still can't fathom how you come up with this stuff. Great job! This is probably my favorite thing you have ever shown here.

dig.

[Jordan Peacock]

I could just cry, this is so much better than I'd imagined. :D Good grief, I love that the dragonfly head even has the scrub-brush top (not sure what that's supposed to be called) and the "cheek-guards" to evoke the look of a Roman helmet. The red panels offset with the bronze ribs look spectacular, and those WINGS! Dragonflies + steampunkery = awesomeness. You keep inspiring me to look at random junk and imagine what sort of contraptions, spaceships, creatures, etc., might be hiding inside, with just a bit of cutting and shaping, putty and paint. So, when does the resin kit come out? ;)

[Froggy the Great]

Uh...

[JeffyBaby]

Great custom build.

[Silas Coggeshall]

That's awesome. :D

[cerebro1974]

Sweet, I like seeing kit scratch things!

[Sergeant_Crunch]

Outstanding work. I might even go so far as to say you've outdone yourself on this one.

[captenglish]

When I grow up I wanna be Froggy!

[Fruggs]

awesome as usual froggy :)!

[Anne]

Wow! Incredibly inventive use of materials! That's really inspiring, my first thought was whoa, how'd he do the wings? Great use of materials! A praying mantis was hanging out in my window this morning, a clockwork mantis would be pretty awesome too, perhaps a friend for Dragonfly? They could be like the mantis of Clockwork Carthage peeking over the mountains

[TaleSpinner]

Sweet! I want one IRL. Very well done.