The Imperial Shipyards
Imperial Creative Engineering => Custom Vehicles => Topic started by: Raylen on December 04, 2021, 10:54:36 AM
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Figured I'll start this thread with the last custom I just finished. I still had the Kenner Landspeeder from when I was a kid. Shifter was broken, decals barely there, windshield and seats glued as well as other things that had broken years ago. So I decided to give it new life and turn it into a fancy new speeder. The biggest mod was to cut the engines off. I cut down and heavily modded engine's from Hole in the Ground Productions' "Lars Speeder" kit. Added a ridge to the hood. The windshield had a big crack so I cut the top down. Cut out the connection between the seats. Covered over the shifter hole. Beefed up the center engine pylon with styrene. Decals scavenged from other things with the black and silver striping cut from vinyl.
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Looking awesome! I hope to see more o/
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Looking awesome! I hope to see more o/
Thanks! Having just starting posting to the site, I'm trying not to dump everything at once. LOL
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This is fantastic too!
Wow.
So off to share this. What a great mod.
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Custom Speeder Bike
First I have to give credit to being inspired by someone I saw many many years ago who modded a STAP into a speeder bike. However I took it quite further here. I combined parts of a STAP along with a POTF2 Speeder Bike. The center kick stand is part of a POTF2 EV-9D9 leg and additional bits of legs used for side engine detail. The shifter is from a 21-B. Additional misc bits were used as well.
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Now this is great! I recognized that STAP right away.
Off to share this on the front pages.
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Well, I searched for "STAP" on our forum this morning, but couldn't find the custom vehicle you referred to. This is a design I think Moronarama could've come up with. Also larifari & Foxtrot Delta have made some cool stuff.
I love the quality of the paint job you gave your custom vehicle! The STAP will always stay one of my favorite designs and it's cool to see it being developed further!
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This is the vehicle I was thinking of.
All the way back to potj stuff.
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The bike looks really good. Its a welcome variante from the more skinny swoops bike we usually see.
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I like it. i like it a lot. The stap front end looks really great!
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That STAP based speeder is fantastic. The design totally works and it fits together really well.
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Pick up a $6 CORPS multipack at Ollies the other day for $6 just to get this tread bike. I didn't feel the original foot pegs and handles location worked very well so I lopped them off and added my own. Extra set in back for a passenger. The handlebars are just a piece of aluminum rod and can pivot to help pose the figures. Had fun painting this up and it shows how much perception of quality can be attributed to a good paint job.
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That's a really cool vehicle. You adjustments totally make sense. The paint job is brilliant, I can see what you mean about its impact on perception of quality.
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Wow, that so fits at home in our SW Verse. Looks great.
Off to share on the front pages.
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Inspiration goes to Jake Jakes after I saw a repaint of this Adventure People rover. It works great for a Jawa vehicle. Although Adventure people were 3 3/4", they were very narrow and this vehicle was even tight fit for them. I couldn't really get a full size figure in it but its perfect for Jawa that aren't fortunate enough to have a Sandcrawler.
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Nice. Very nice.
I am very familiar with Jake James. That dude knows how to customize and army build.
Off to share on the front pages.
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Love your Adventure people/Jawa Rover, and all your other vehicles for that matter. Nice work on all! I used the Adventure people land speed racer often as a ship for my kenner figures when I was a kid. You have inspired me to dig out my adventure people bin, I haven't seen them in many years.
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That's a creative idea to expand the vehicle pool. I totally buy it as a Jawa transport. I can also see Ugnaughts using something like that.
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Raylen, these are awesome, real nice customs!
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Ok, so this isn't a typical custom vehicle per se but I just installed lighting in my Sail Barge. And for $10, its not half bad and I didn't have to disassemble of damage it in any way. I can video posted on the the tube.
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Man, I am gonna copy this. Great all the way around for only ten bucks.
Off to share.
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Inspiration goes to Jake Jakes after I saw a repaint of this Adventure People rover. It works great for a Jawa vehicle. Although Adventure people were 3 3/4", they were very narrow and this vehicle was even tight fit for them. I couldn't really get a full size figure in it but its perfect for Jawa that aren't fortunate enough to have a Sandcrawler.
That turned out really well, I can see these being perfect for the Jawas and can see several of these fitting inside the Sandcrawler, driving off the ramps and fetching parts scavenged from areas the Sandcrawler can't get close enough to like in tight ravines in the deserts of Tatooine.
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Was saving this post for awhile. So this project was one I did back in 2016-2017 and its one I'll likely never top. Finally decided to make a video as well. Rex's modded AT-TE from Rebels
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AMAAAAAZING!!! The attention to detail is incredible. I would call this a custom masterpiece. Your design sense really shows in this project. Just...WOW!
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Wow so awesome. I can't imagine how many kits you would sell if you offered this one up.
Off to share.
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You really blew my mind when I watched your video on YouTube! I completely forgot it was you, so I'm glad to find your video here, too! I asked for permission to share it here, but no need to do so! Your build looks fantastic! I think you captured every little detail from the show! This is the first time I saw someone do this. Man, what a cool project!