Recently my good friend Øyvind Johannes Meisfjord created an extremely cool customized vintage Battle Ram, and I thought I would feature it here on the blog. Øyvind writes:
I had been fascinated by the Battle Ram ever since discovering the Battle Ram Blog and reading about the titular vehicle.
I decided it would be interesting to try to make my own custom of this iconic vehicle. I wanted to try to highlight the many details in the sculpt, without disturbing the original teal colour scheme too much. I wanted to add LEDs to the laser cannon and the eyes of the griffin’s head, and in an inspirational moment I got the idea of adding flickering lights to the exhaust pipes to mimic sparks and flames emanating from the engine. And, speaking of the engine, wouldn’t it be awesome to have a real engine sound complementing the flickering LED’s in the exhaust pipes?
I finally managed to incorporate the custom features I had planned for, and, in addition, I supercharged the ram part by adding a thicker and larger spring.
I think my custom Battle Ram is my favourite of the vintage customs I have tried my hands on.
Øyvind has put together a series of videos demonstrating the various features he has added, which makes me wish there was a production version that could do this! (FYI, the custom Castle Grayskull in the background is a custom by Guillermo Grande.)
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That is bloody amazing! Superbly done!
Take note, Mattel! 😉
Wonderful color scheme – and the lighting effects are great without being overbearing. This custom really elevates the design!
That’s some great creativity! Nicely done by Oyvind!
Speaking of custom battle rams, I’m making one my own! it’s going to have a base and everything. Though I’m missing the front sticker. Adam, I remember you mentioned in one of the videos that you have photoshopped the battle ram prototype images and printed the zombie hand sticker to use it on your own battle ram. May I have the file? I’m not so great with photoshop.
Sure, I will email it to you. It’s nothing special, nor is it high res, but it was “good enough” for a mockup
Thanks Adam. I emailed you back. It’s definitely better than nothing. I am going to use it for a test and then probably have to come up with a way to make the stickers even better. Might take some time but it’s absolutely worth it. Would you like to see how far I’ve come with the model?
Sure! You can respond to my email 🙂
Sent it on a separate email. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts.
Hey Adam! I remade the sticker with photoshop! This is my first time making a sticker so I don’t wanna say how many hours it took 😆
I have a link here so you can check it out. I’ll also send it to your email as a PNG file.
Feel free to use it in any way you want. my work results on this project are all going to be free for everyone.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RMSekMC4e3DrSLYjjiPe1KhT_fLPKgvF/view?usp=sharing
Hi Adam. I remade all 4 stickers! Here’s a link you can see:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15v17v3tK5YwK_p2kzy-i4yKsPNclZiL4/view?usp=sharing
Also sent it to your email. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
You’ll se a dirty brown straight line on the front sticker but that’s where the sticker is going to bend. So with that dirty line it looks like it’s been bent for years.