Hey guys,
I thought I would share this fun and relatively easy little mod for my recently acquired Genesis.
I am a big fan of the silent film Metropolis. It's no secret that designer John Trudeau was heavily influenced by this movie when creating the game. The playfield artwork is literally ripped from the movie's scenes and the robot that gets revealed is loosely based on the robot "Maria" or "Hel" from the film also.
Sadly, the rest of the game's artwork takes no direction from the movie.
One of the things I wanted to try and do was to replace the simple vacuum formed robot with one that was more accurate to the film. I couldn't find any suitable figures online so I located a reasonable 3D model on Thingiverse made by user: Larry009 and I printed it on my 3D printer.
After a little cleanup and some paint, I had a pretty usable model.
Here's how it looks now.
Hope you like it.
I thought I would share this fun and relatively easy little mod for my recently acquired Genesis.
I am a big fan of the silent film Metropolis. It's no secret that designer John Trudeau was heavily influenced by this movie when creating the game. The playfield artwork is literally ripped from the movie's scenes and the robot that gets revealed is loosely based on the robot "Maria" or "Hel" from the film also.
Sadly, the rest of the game's artwork takes no direction from the movie.
One of the things I wanted to try and do was to replace the simple vacuum formed robot with one that was more accurate to the film. I couldn't find any suitable figures online so I located a reasonable 3D model on Thingiverse made by user: Larry009 and I printed it on my 3D printer.
After a little cleanup and some paint, I had a pretty usable model.
Here's how it looks now.
Hope you like it.
