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Kibaro Mucking about making rusting lumps of plastic from whatever I can get my grubby hands on. And robots!

The amazing Plainries organises a yearly kitbash challenge, make sure to join in!
19/09/2025

The amazing Plainries organises a yearly kitbash challenge, make sure to join in!

And it’s already time for another sponsor!Have you ever wondered what would happen if tanks could walk? Or if chickens w...
19/09/2025

And it’s already time for another sponsor!
Have you ever wondered what would happen if tanks could walk? Or if chickens were tanks? Wonder no more as the creators of Tankhead have it all figured out!
The brainchild of Emerson Tung and Tim Populier, Tankhead is an alternate universe where tanks have the weirdest shapes and generally walk instead of drive. They combined this in an amazing narrative artbook filled to the brim with amazing and weird designs as well as the lore to understand their place in the greater Tankhead universe.
They have generously donated a signed (by Tim Populier) copy of their Tankhead narrative artbook for the prize pool! And not just any copy, but the “Deluxe edition”, which comes with a lot of extra goodies.

A great prize for those that like weird designs, or that need some inspiration for their builds.

Check out their work here:
https://www.instagram.com/tankhead_mecha/
https://www.instagram.com/timpopelier/
https://www.instagram.com/emersontung/

If you want to know more about the current prize pool, check out www.peculiarrobotcontest.com/prizes
It just keeps on growing!
https://peculiarrobotcontest.com/rules/
Join our group! Have fun! Make robots!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/peculiarrobotcontest

For this weeks sponsor we have another awesome garage kit maker: Handshake Models!You should know them from their extens...
11/09/2025

For this weeks sponsor we have another awesome garage kit maker: Handshake Models!
You should know them from their extensive social media posts on the making of their models.
A fully traditional maker, Handshake Models makes handcrafted, scratch-built, original sci-fi cast resin garage model kits. They strive to create high quality kits of original design, and if you’ve seen some of their kits you know they do a good job at this.

Recently they also made a brilliant Greeblies kit, full of cool detail parts to really make your model pop. They have kindly donated a set of these greeblies to give away in our contest!
What better prize is there for a crowd of scratchbuilding maniacs such as us ^^

Check out their work:
https://www.handshakemodels.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550339578738

If you want to know more about the current prize pool, check out: www.peculiarrobotcontest.com/prizes

For joining and the rules
https://peculiarrobotcontest.com/rules/

Join our group! Have fun! Make robots!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/peculiarrobotcontest

A new week, a new sponsor!As a great fan of weird designs I am very pleased to report that ‘Xingning’ will be joining u...
28/08/2025

A new week, a new sponsor!
As a great fan of weird designs I am very pleased to report that ‘Xingning’ will be joining us as a sponsor.
Xingning is a relatively new producer of garagekits established in Ningbo, China in February 2022. With research and production located in London and Ningbo.
Xingninig studio has a unique product concept: they encourage creators to express their ideas freely, ensuring that even non-standard and unique ideas are brought to life. None of their works are designed to chase trends, instead they aim to take on the weird and odd.
This is exemplified with their first releases, a model series called DREAMING UNDER THE BRIDGE, a series of beautifully sculpted organic looking floating vessels. At the same time, they are looking into collaborating with more creators and artists around the world to launch more works with unique ideas.

They have offered to sponsor us with their 'Sparrow' garage kit, a cute floating boat that just begs for some nice weathering.

Check out their awesome works!
https://www.facebook.com/julia.ali.18062533
https://www.xingningstudio.com

If you want to know more about the current prize pool, check out: www.peculiarrobotcontest.com/prizes

For joining and the rules
https://peculiarrobotcontest.com/rules/

Join our group! Have fun! Make robots!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/peculiarrobotcontest

It’s been a while but we are back! We had some problems on the homefront, but these are mostly solved so we are back in ...
17/08/2025

It’s been a while but we are back!
We had some problems on the homefront, but these are mostly solved so we are back in action!

To continue where we left off we will kick-off our sponsor appreciation posts with Richard ‘Plainries’ van der Meijden!
Richard has been on board of this contest since the inception, completely voluntarily of course, no pressure at all, none.
Richard will not only be returning to judge your creations, he will also sponsor our contest!
For our prize pool he will donate a set of his Plainries kits! These kits are 3D designed (and printed) kits of his own weird and wonderful creations. They are a joy to build (I should know, I have most of them) and very fun to paint.
If you don’t know Richard yet, just wait until the upcoming Fantasy Figures International ( #33) will be released.
And for those that want to know now, check out www.plainries.com or Plainries to see his work.

If you want to know more about the current prize pool, check out www.peculiarrobotcontest.com/prizes
It just keeps on growing!

https://peculiarrobotcontest.com/rules/

Join our group! Have fun! Make robots!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/peculiarrobotcontest

Our third and final judge is none other than Jan Buragay! Another of my favorite designers, he has a design style that i...
23/04/2025

Our third and final judge is none other than Jan Buragay!
Another of my favorite designers, he has a design style that is very distinctive and unique. Somewhat reminiscent of a blend of Yokoyama and Kobayashi, he has made some of the most awesome designs I have ever seen.
To state I am a fan is an underestimation XD

You can check his Instagram or Cara accounts for his awesome designs. And if you want even more depth and content, check out his patreon where you can find digitized sketchbooks, digital paint walkthroughs and more!

We are very happy to have him aboard!

Check out the short interview to get to know him a bit better (and sample some of his work).

https://www.patreon.com/c/Metalskin/
https://www.instagram.com/rags23/
https://cara.app/rags23

For our second judge we have secured one of my personal favorite mecha designers: Maung Thuta!Not a scale modeller p***e...
14/04/2025

For our second judge we have secured one of my personal favorite mecha designers: Maung Thuta!
Not a scale modeller p***e, he is a veteran concept artist and has produced an enormous amount of different mecha designs (that you can check out on his socials and his Artstation).

His facebook profile not only displays an awesome array of mecha designs, but also a large amount of helpfull basic element sketches for mecha design.
His artstation is pure inspiration gold.
If you didn't know him yet, follow him now! (and shame on you!)

Check out the short interview to get to know him a bit better (and sample some of his work).

https://www.facebook.com/CypressD
https://www.artstation.com/cypressd

We are two months into the contest and we have seen some very promising starts already!We may have been a bit quiet thes...
31/03/2025

We are two months into the contest and we have seen some very promising starts already!
We may have been a bit quiet these last weeks, but today we amend that, it’s time to meet your judges!

We start with our returning judge of last year, the venerable Richard PlainriesPlainries vd Meijden!

Be sure to check out the short interview to get to know him better, see some examples of his work, and maybe tailor your build to his taste for bonus points 😛

Plainries painted the prototype of my upcoming resin designertoy.Look at how cool it is!
03/03/2025

Plainries painted the prototype of my upcoming resin designertoy.
Look at how cool it is!

03/02/2025

The results of the Plainries challenge are in!
Some amazing entries, one even included a FR3DD13!
Congrats the the winners!

It's the 1st of February and that means it's go time!!!The Peculiar Robot Contest 2025 has officially started.Please mak...
01/02/2025

It's the 1st of February and that means it's go time!!!
The Peculiar Robot Contest 2025 has officially started.

Please make sure to read the rules before beginning
https://peculiarrobotcontest.com/rules/

The entry pass needed for the start and work in progress pictures can be found here:
https://peculiarrobotcontest.com/entry-pass/

No idea what to build yet? No problem! Just hop over to our inspiration page:
https://peculiarrobotcontest.com/inspiration/
Or check out the entries from last year!
https://peculiarrobotcontest.com/entries-2024/

For more info and the rules:
https://peculiarrobotcontest.com/
Join our group! Have fun! Make robots!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/peculiarrobotcontest

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