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by Clyde Jones

Scale: 1/35

Before the Dawn of Recorded History....

No, wait. Just a Few Seconds AFTER the Dawn of Recorded History (Or we wouldn’t know anything about it, right?) pioneering Time Traveller Jason F. Terwilliger stumbled upon the person he’d been searching for, these many many relative years of his personal time line. He was surprised to find it was a woman, rather short and quite strong, with a purposeful glint of intelligence in her eyes. (Actually, for the time, it was the equivalent of the bonfire of brilliance in the eyes of Albert Einstein, but considering what little she had to work with, it was forced to be more of a really good weenie roasting camp fire.)

Having finally found the person he’d been searching for, he lured her away from her tribe with bribes of chocolate (which she happily ate), flowers (which she also ate), and then pushed her over a quite tall nearby cliff. Since he had now destroyed the actual first discoverer of the wheel (whom he held responsible for his wife and children dying in an auto accident involving several semi rigs, two busses, and a Firestone delivery truck, all vehicles with far far too many wheels) he promptly faded from existence having permanently altered that particular time stream.

And things were changed forever.

She had not only discovered the wheel, she had been the leader of her clan, which led her tribe, which pretty much ruled Africa (the only home of Man at the time, having all having migrated from the Southwest of the “North American Continent” because of the beastly weather). With her gone, Ogghhch, a particularly unpleasant male, was able to take control of the clan, tribe, etc. and divert all of subsequent history down quite different paths. For one thing, he discouraged the use of the wheel by the simple expedient of squashing any person found using (or possessing) one. This prejudice was firmly passed down to all his (reigning) descendants. So it was that when Mankind finally progressed beyond the sledge or sleigh, it was directly to vehicles with mechanical LEGS. (Pivots were fine. Real wheels were RIGHT OUT.)

With the loss of that one critical woman, the gene pool of the Human Race was changed also. Ogghhch liked to spread his genes around (a lot, often) and where previously he’d been kept out of the gene pool because of his greenish skin and nasty looks, his line flourished. By the time mechanized warfare had developed, most humans were rather stockier, uglier, and greener then they had been originally.

This machine represents a 6 legged “Doom Stomper” of the “Peaceful Coalition Right Thinking People Working To Eliminate Everyone Who Doesn’t Agree With Us”. It is typical of military conveyances of the time, a product of the DORF Motor Works, Deerhorn, Michugana. The ‘driver’ is one Ungch Mo-digliani of the Northern Digliani’s. This vehicle is depicted in an amazingly clean shape, considering the way it gets used and abused.

The models (this and Entry 05)are built completely Box Stock, considering their divergent time line, fine products of the TMA/TERTL model company. (A few Tiltaliari detail parts were used, but they don’t really count....)

If you wish to duplicate this model with locally available materials, you should start with one US M-80 scout car, 3 Robotech Sentinels, an assortment of Warhammer 40K “Orkamorka Gubbins” for the plates and spikey bits, acupuncture needles for antennas, and an “orc commander’ for the - um - commander.

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