Tactical Rescue Commando
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All these fan-made addons and mods for Pandemic's original Battlefront II avaiable for free in some forums added so much to the variety and gaming experience of this already epic title. If I could program those features myself I would design a Trooper that looks like this. Got this Clone Heavy Gunner in a figure lot and while I was comparing and testing Citadel's colors I knew I wanted to give him a dark red Color (maybe blood red). After a year I finally got to paint him and spontaneosly added some more details in grey...hope you like my design of this Tactical Rescue Commando! And of course 7th Season of the Clone Wars inspired me to finally do this custom! Let me know what you think about it in the comment section down below!
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Making of:
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- Philipp
General Grievous
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One of my favorite videogames of all time is STAR WARS: Revenge of the Sith. My brother and I love playing the duel mode and co-op missions together. Sometimes we even fight each other with our eyes closed and see who wins at the end - just for fun. When both of us play as General Grievous, one of them has 4 red lightsabers. This lead me to an idea...
I then thought, why wouldn't I give Grievous a full repaint? As I was spray-painting the figure with Citadel's primer, I decided to make a black version of him:
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Details:
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Making of:
Here I show you how I turned General Grievous (TLC BD25) (http://rebelscum.com/TLC25grievous.asp) into this MOC "dark" version on black and red:
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Before I spray-painted the figure with Citadel's black primer, I covered the eyes and green metallic areas of his torso with wax because I wanted to preserve the gut section of his cyborg-suit:
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Removing the wax again:
You can remove the wax with a tool when the figure is painted completely or after it's primed.
I went for the safe way and finished the paintwork before removing the wax:
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Replacing chest-armor:
Well, I got this Grievous loose and incomplete on ebay for 2.80 Euro. I got it cheap because both chest-plates were missing. Would you have guessed that both chest-plates on this custom are custom made?
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Sometimes parts have complicated areas to be casted or are just too fragile. The solution would be a mold at least 3 components. I had to take this 2-component mold apart just to make sure the part doesn't break. It wasn't my best mold anyway and I also used too much sculpting putty this time. But I could remove the lining by sanding it down. This silicone also looses detail when used more than once. It's only meant to be used once but I made several blasters with one mold. You can read more on that in my casting tutorial (http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=10633.msg213019#msg213019).
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Unlike the rest of the figure, I painted the left chest-plate with vallejo's grey acrylic polyurethane primer, which I got just recently. The rest was spray-painted with Citadel's black primer.
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If you want to make parts and accessories yourself, I got a tutorial for you (http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=10633.msg213019#msg213019).
last details:
I used the following paints by Citadel, humbrol and Revell:
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Here (http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=10416.msg221276#msg221276) you can find a full list of other materials I used for this project.
No paints were mixed for this project, but if you're looking for a specific color, make sure to check out this mobile app for mixing colors (http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=10648.msg213425#msg213425), which was shared by forum member Mr.Black!
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Another custom project finished & ready to join the collection:
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Lightsabers:
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I used to buy about 24 Darth Vader figures on ebay from an Asian seller who offers them in lots of 10 for $2.89 each. That was a year ago, but he still has some in stock. By now he also offers the lightsabers seperately in different colors and shapes. You can find the links to his ebay store after the jump (http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=10179.msg221349#msg221349).
Reference Material:
By the time I finally got started with this project, I found out that meanwhile somebody had created a mod of General Grievous for the new Battlefront II game by EA/DICE. Well, sometimes different people have the same idea.At least I can assign this project to the Battlefront section now, although my concept is a little different.
Video by AdiGames: Sith Grievous Mod by Claymaver2000 - Star Wars Battlefront 2:
Credits go to AdiGames (YouTube channel) and Claymaver2000 (modder)
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Comment:
This project joined my list in Summer 2019. I prepared the figure along with my Republic Commandos, which are on my work bench as well! The lack of time to cast the chest plates caused further delay. I also need to cast the two different backpacks of the Republic Commandos before I can finish them. I messed up once and re-casted the right chest plate and lost another - more delay.
But I had some milliput putty for Darth Sion (http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=10186.msg221266#msg221266) left and decided to cast the missing armor-part while the sculpting clay was drying on Sion.
The mod for EA's Battlefront II was added in January 2020. So my concept was not based on this. But it's nice to see that someone else had the idea and added it to this video game. The new Battlefront has become a truly awesome game thanks to all the fans who modded it and added new maps and skins to the overall scarce game. DICE really could've done more right away, but that's a different topic.
So do you like all the red paint apps? Is it too much red on Grievous' head? Have you ever thought of a Dark Side version of Grievous? Let me know what you think about it in the comment section down below!
Here's what I listened to while working on this custom:
Linkin Park: Papercut - Guitar Cover by Dotti Brothers:
- Philipp