by Sean Brannin

This is Metal Gear Rex from the smash hit 1998 video game Metal Gear Solid. After playing this game way back when and playing the remake on the game cube I had to make a model of this vehicle. It is roughly 1/72 scale and 100% scratch built, mainly using Evergreen sheet styrene and rod. The toughest portion of the build was the radar dish. I used the papercraft model as a base template for the major parts and proceeded to modify them so I could construct it out of plastic.

The paint job was done by airbrushing Tamiya light blue (looks more like a duck egg blue to me) and Tamiya RLM Grey for the camo pattern. The other paint details were done by hand and also done in Tamiya paints. The model was then postshaded with Tamiya Nato black and given a wash and drybrush session using winton oils.

Image: Left side

Image: Lots of detail