The Imperial Shipyards
Imperial Creative Engineering => Custom Vehicles => Topic started by: spudafett on October 01, 2009, 05:50:49 PM
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I know I've posted most of these before in my previous thread, but... since we have a new section I thought I'd go through and repost all my custom vehicles.
I'll try to keep this as organized as I can with each vehicle posted in a seperate post in this thread... this may take me a few days to get everything up too, so keep checking the thread.
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first up is my custom from scratch AT-PT. I fell in love with this vehicle when I was in middle school and got my fist coppy of the "essential guide to star wars vehicles and vessles." I was obsessed back then (like I'm not now) and did countless concept sketches of my own shadowing what I saw in my guidbook...
anyway, enough nastalgia, here is the AT-PT from scratch.
(http://th03.deviantart.net/fs45/300W/i/2009/088/8/3/atpt_running_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://th03.deviantart.net/fs42/300W/i/2009/088/5/3/ATPT_top_finished_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs42/i/2009/088/a/9/ATPT_open_cockpit_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs42/i/2009/088/8/4/ATPT_finished_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs42/i/2009/088/9/e/ATPT_front_cannons_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs45/i/2009/088/4/5/ATPT__Coming_together_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs44/i/2009/088/1/1/ATPT__one_leg_balancing_act_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I only used sheet styrene, cardstock, and a couple lego technic parts and alot of superglue to create this monstrosity...
I know it looks pretty horrible now that I look back on it... I will probably revisit this custom and repaint it and add some greeblie details to it.
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next is a realy early custom I did. This is just a darth maul sith speeder with some added greeblies... I was trying to make a speeder for boba fett that he could use to cary extra jetpacks and equipment on... I never finished this one and it's sitting in my fodder box now...
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs41/i/2009/041/1/f/boba_fetts_speeder_4_front_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs41/i/2009/041/8/7/fetts_speeder_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs41/i/2009/041/7/7/fetts_speeder_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
not at all my best custom...I've removed everything I added to it since then and have been meaning to do something different with that speeder.
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heh... not realy a vehicle per se, but I guess it qualifies.
"spider fett"
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs40/i/2009/041/9/7/__spider_fett___by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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The kidos have been in cub scouts for two years in a row now and I've had the priviledge of helping them make their pinewood derby cars. These arn't star wars customs but they are still "customs" in my mind.
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs40/i/2009/021/c/d/pinewood_derby_cars_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
in each car they came up with the design ideas and I did the dremeling and most of the painting.
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classic collonial viper from scratch in action fleet scale:
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs40/i/2009/021/1/7/colonial_viper_front_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs41/i/2009/021/e/8/colonial_viper_top_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs40/i/2009/021/8/1/Colonial_viper_right_side_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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another early and yet unfinished custom... this time it's the LAAT/c in action fleet scale. I got the action fleet atte and wanted something to carry it without having to buy another hellishly expensive gunship and chop it up...
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs39/i/2008/338/8/a/LAATd_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs39/i/2008/338/c/8/LAATd_comparison_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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custom painted snap tight atst
"shadow atst"
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs39/i/2008/338/4/6/atsts_front_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs38/i/2008/338/0/f/atsts_back_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs38/i/2008/338/8/0/atsts1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs38/i/2008/338/1/8/Shadow_scout_walker_AT_STs_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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This is my "rogue geonosian" custom figure with a chap mei beetle for his trusty steed.
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs41/i/2009/041/f/5/geonosian_and_beetle_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs40/i/2009/041/1/1/geonosian_beetle_mount_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs40/i/2009/041/c/6/geonosian_and_his_mount_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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this is probably one of my favorite ship customs I've done. Everyone's favorite jedi starfighter...
this time though it's several years into the imperial era... underground race circuits are cropping up everywhere. Driven by crime lords hungry for the bet money young pilots trick out old starships and create some of the fastest and most dangerous ships in the galaxy. In a race where not only speed but weopons and self defense is necessary the winner of the race is usually the last person alive! Experienced raceship pilots usually get drafted into the smuggling rings as runners, evading not only competition but imperial entanglements...
lol ok enough crappy backstory...
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs41/i/2009/047/4/b/raceship__wings_folded_in_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs41/i/2009/047/5/d/raceship__extended_wings_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs41/i/2009/047/8/3/raceship_back_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs41/i/2009/047/7/8/raceship_pilot_and_his_droid_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs40/i/2009/041/b/d/raceship__unpainted_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs40/i/2009/041/4/2/raceship_pilot_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
again... not my best custom... but I realy like the concept. The pilot, a mutt figure with extra junk added on, has since been dismantled for other projects. The astromech was just a stand in...
I did open up the astromech socket so that an actual droid figure could fit in it though, that's probably the best thing about this one. The wings were messed up to begin with so I had to improvise with them and glued down the bottom ones and let the top ones flap freely... the spring mechanism was busted when I got the ship.
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this was my first from scratch speeder bike. All that was used in the making of this bike was layers of sheet styrene glued together and then dremeled into the shape it is in now. The handlebars are just bent nails.
this was a bike made especially for my scarlett gi-joe figure turned mandalorian.
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs43/i/2009/081/9/b/swoop_bike_top_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs43/i/2009/081/8/8/swoop_bike_finished_back_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs42/i/2009/081/5/8/swoop_bike_finished_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs42/i/2009/081/f/8/swoop_bike_wip2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs43/i/2009/081/0/e/swoop_bike_wip_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I've been wanting to do another of these but never got around to it... thought about doing this type of speeder for the custom speeder contest but alas, I did something different for it too...
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next is another unfinished wip...
I'm beginning to see an unsettling pattern with my vehicle customs...
this one was supposed to be a two seater y-wing based off of the depiction of the y-wing in the holiday special cartoon...
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs43/i/2009/121/b/2/y_wing_custom3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs45/i/2009/121/f/9/y_wing_custom_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs43/i/2009/121/7/f/animated_holiday_special_ywing_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs42/i/2009/121/c/0/2_seater_y_wing_wip1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
unfourtunately I couldn't get it to be quite as spacious as the cartoon depicted it... you have to know your wingmate pretty good before you crawl into this thing with him!
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transforming swoop droid:
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/180/8/d/swoop_bike_transformer_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/180/e/5/transforming_swoop_bike_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/180/c/1/swoop_bike_chick_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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one of my favorites... the republic fighter tank
"Forrested Terrain Fighter Tank, FT-FT"
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/202/9/3/christian__s_dio_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/207/e/f/ft_ft_wip_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/207/a/9/ft_ft_back_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/207/f/3/ft_ft_back_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/207/0/e/ft_ft_front_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/207/f/5/ft_ft_front_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/207/f/1/custom_clone_troopers_and_tank_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/207/6/c/ft_ft_removables_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/207/0/c/ft_ft_gas_tanks_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/207/f/b/ft_ft_cocpits_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/207/d/6/ft_ft_bfg_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/207/7/7/ft_ft_in_the_field_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/207/a/a/ft_ft_in_the_field_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs49/i/2009/207/7/c/ft_ft_in_the_trees_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/207/8/4/ft_ft_custom_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I've been thinking about going back to this one and redoing it's camo scheme... I wanted it to resemble the kashyyyk trooper camo but be a different color combo... it just didn't come out like I wanted it too. the brush strokes look to much like... well... brushstrokes. Unfourtunately I don't have the steady hand nor the patience that the uber camo painters like clonehead have!
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of course I've got the speeders... you guys know that:
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/208/c/2/speeder_bikes_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
probably all but a few of these bikes will wind up being customs, some already have become customs...
the zepher-g bikes will not even be touched though!
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speaking of speeders, here is my very first speeder bike custom. An old POTF speeder bike with a custom (enamel.. ack!) camo paint job.
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs37/i/2008/241/2/f/Yard_patrol_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs37/i/2008/241/0/e/Comparison_speeders_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs36/i/2008/241/e/8/Do_you_see_me_now__by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs37/i/2008/241/c/3/Speeder_bike_comparison_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs36/i/2008/241/a/a/camo_speeder_and_Kashyyyk_trpr_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs37/i/2008/241/0/e/Speeder_bike_repaint_RHS_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs36/i/2008/241/1/0/Speeder_bike_custom_Finished1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I've still got this one, regretibly though the electronics that I had in it fell out during handling of it one day and I havn't fixed it yet... they wern't put together very well and consisted on just a flat watch battery soldered onto a switch and the LED in there... The LED is still in place on the speeder so I will eventually revisit this one and replace the battery conection with something more permenant.
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Hey, I never seen pics of that scratchbuilt walker when it was green. That still is a cool scratchbuilding job.
I like that Spider Fett. Are those legs attached to a backpack, Spud?
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the speeder shack:
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/226/6/5/dio_set_9_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs49/i/2009/226/4/d/dio_set_8_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/226/1/7/dio_set_7_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs49/i/2009/226/0/e/dio_set_6_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/226/0/3/dio_set_5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/226/3/2/dio_set_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/251/7/6/dawn__s_bike_and_rider_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs26/i/2009/251/5/b/finished_bike_comparison_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs23/i/2009/251/d/8/finished_dio_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/212/c/9/speeder_bike_bottom_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/212/7/0/speeder_bike_and_biker_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/218/4/7/heavy_speeder_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/218/4/a/droid_swoop_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/218/e/b/droid_swoop_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/218/7/e/skull_swoop_wip_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/218/d/5/speeder_bike_custom_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
the above bike just sold on e-bay btw...
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/220/9/9/sport_swoop_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/220/7/0/sport_swoop_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs49/i/2009/220/e/2/sport_swoop_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/220/4/e/swoop_gang__s_hangout_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/219/5/b/the_mechanic_wip_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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Hey, I never seen pics of that scratchbuilt walker when it was green. That still is a cool scratchbuilding job.
I like that Spider Fett. Are those legs attached to a backpack, Spud?
the spider fett was made using a broken boamar monestary monk droid thingy... the big ball thing that has the brain in it and the big bulbous tail end was both missing when I got the piece in a junk auction... All I did was add a peg to the "thorax" piece of the monk droid and viola, instant crazy 6 legged back pack...
let me look to see if I have any othe pics of that thing...
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well clint I thought I had some more pics of that in my deviant art. I'll dig it out in the next week and take some better pics of it from a different angle.
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xanadu blood
Cad Bane's personalized magnaguard starfighter...
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/262/8/6/xandu_blood_7_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/262/0/3/xandu_blood_6_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/262/f/8/xandu_blood_5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/262/b/0/xandu_blood_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/262/6/3/xandu_blood_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/262/a/f/xandu_blood_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/262/2/7/xandu_blood_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
well guys, that's all for tonight. there are still several action fleet customs and the two x-wing mods that I'm working on to add to this list...
I hadn't realized I'd done this many vehicles! :o
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All these are Spudafett!! I really love the speeder bikes and the tank. Great job all around.
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Great stuff Devin. I like that shadow atst and love the led light on that speeder bike. Ever thought about lighting up an atat or atst?
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lol tamer, I would think about if I had it... unfourtunately I don't have either and atst or atat... you wanna send me one to work on I'd be happy to ;D
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Well now, that is some food for thought.
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Spud you have made some awesome vehicles man. I love the Xanado Blood and man what a speeder/swoop collection. No wonder you decided to build a garage!
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lol they had to go somewhere spry!
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Sorry guys I just had to post this...just to see our banners together!
(10 seconds later)
SWEEET!
Hey, I just noticed the Speeder Bike with the LED...
SWEEEET!
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You really need to do a pic or three showing how you mounted the LED...
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realy, all I did was drill a hole just big enough for the LED to fit snugly into, then superglued it.
I then just soldered two wires from the LED's positive and negative leads.
on one lead I soldered a switch
on the open end of the switch I soldered another wire
the two loose ends of wire were then pressed up against the correct sides of a flat watch cell battery (trial and error to figure out which wire is + and which is -)
after I figured that out I took a flashing curicuit from an old set of christmas lights and wired it to the switch as well. Because the switch was a 3 way toggle I was able to toggle the light from off to flashing to constantly on...
I'll have to fix it back up and shoot a video of it cuz I don't think I ever took a video... :(
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That would be awesome. I so want to start adding LEDs to my work soon :\
However, bottled lightning and I never work well together!
I had to mount a ceiling fan this last spring and the entire time I thought I was going to go "toaster oven" knowing that my SW stuff would go to my wife... This allowed me to take extra precautions to protect myself.
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Man, it's been forever since I've been on this site... I need to stop my slacking... Okay, I'll comment on the stuff I haven't already commented on in the order that I see them!
- AT-PT: sweet, I freaking love those things, and yours actually looks dead on! You just need to paint one in imperial gray, then It shall be grand!
- Boba Fett speeder: Kinda weird looking, especially with those droideka arms on there, haha. I still think Durge's swoop bike fits boba's style perfectly.
As for boba with spider legs, that totally makes me think of Invader Zim! Where did you even get those legs from?
- Shadow AT-AT: bad ass, love those toe claws!
- Jedi Starfighter racer: also awesome, great paint job, sweet little wing things on the cockpit and the out-too-far heat diffusers. Definitely best without the droid though, which would make sense that it wouldn't need one being a repulsorlift vehicle that doesn't do hyperspace jumps anymore... though I suppose if they made custom droids that were good at GPS navigation of the race track, that would come in handy.
- Two seater y-wing: definitely how I always thought Y-wings were supposed to be, with the separate rotating canon and being a bomber, pilot and gunner always made sense. They are sitting a little uncomfortably close without that cockpit closed though, aren't they? Lol
And as for that magnaguard fighter, well, that just makes me sad. ;D
Awesome stuff you've got in here! Glad to see it all!
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xv, I think you missed the point with the "race-ship"
the races in which the ship would be flown in would be in space, making quick light speed jumps in the least ammount of parsecs would be part of the race.
The way I pictured it would be that the ships would have to race a circuit that not only tested the ship's speed but also the pilot's creativity and awareness. The pilot would have to defend himself against other racers as weopons would be allowed. Thus the reason the ship still has laser cannons. The pilot and ship's navigational prowess is also tested and having a good astromech droid always helps in that area...
I had a big write up about how the races were held, who ran them, who bet on them, and what type of events and challenges were in each circuit....
I guess I should write up a short story based on the concept and put it in the fan-fic section...
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the Imperial commando stealth speeder:
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/278/f/1/before_paint_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/278/5/6/imperial_commando_and_bike_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/278/2/5/imperial_commando_and_speeder_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/278/f/7/commando_speeder_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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I'm rebuilding my Fighter Tank...
heres a WIP to wet your all's appetites
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/278/a/1/fighter_tank_rebuild_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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Nice turret on the tank, Devin. What paint scheme are you going to go with? The one on the tank or something different?
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This looks like it has a lot of firepower!
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That Imperial Commando Shadow Speeder is pretty sweet looking! That Tank looks like it'll have some pretty sweet upgrades as well!
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Looking good man!! I love the shadow speeder bike.. Can we see some close up pics out in the sun?
Tank is looking massive as well. I pity the droid army that thinks they could escape this baby!
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I'll try and get better pics of the commando. I think I'm going to work on touching up the paint job tonight.
the tank will have an urban camo scheme this time around, the same as I did the three animated clones in (I think)...
although I'm very open to suggestions guys! I'd like to hear what you guys think it should be painted as... I definately don't want the crappy camo that is on it to stay! lol.
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Man I love that Imperial Commando I need to get that figure. It looks like you have made him SA with your Joe pelvis and upper leg swap, nice pose. Great job repainting the speeder bike to match, a red LED would be awesome on that bike. As for your tank in progress, I love the way you have up gunned it. As far as a paint scheme just try one you have not done yet, the urban camo idea sounds pretty cool.
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by your command spry, tomorrow's project is adding an LED light, complete with step by step instructions. ;)
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ok, more WIP pics of the tank
I'm calling this version of the tank the
Heavy Artillary Hover Tank
HA-HT
phanetically "hawt" or "hot"
Obviously I wanted this tank to be a menacing sight, briming with weopons. I'm done adding weoponry to the tank and now just have to figure out a paint scheme and add a few more greeblies.
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/279/a/b/haht_wip_5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/279/0/3/haht_wip_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/279/9/5/Haht_wip3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/279/9/0/HAHT_wip2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/279/b/3/HAHT_wip1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
well, is it too much? or just enough? please tell me if I need to change anything before I go and paint this sucker!
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ok let me be honest..
I really like the extra weapons and the idea of a new paint scheme looks like a good idea. Not that I don't like the current one, but I think the pattern is too small for the size and scale of the vehicle and it is so "camo" that you actually lose some of the detail.
I think a larger scale urban scheme would look nice. Finally at this point I don't know if I'm in love with the extra large turret on top. I like the extra weapons, but I'm not sure that the GAR would outfit a vehicle of this nature with that type of turret. It wouldn't allow for very good visibility or range of fire. It would allow for a very large boom, but maybe cost the GAR more to produce than needed. However, if the goal is a "specialized" role for which no other vehicle can fit into then yes, you'd want to create a very unique piece of equipment.
That's just me, I try to look at usability and destructive firepower at the same time.
Keep up the great work though!! What ever you choose to do will look cool.
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GAR? I'm not familiar with that term.
I also don't understand how the larger turret gives it a limited range... do you mean limited mobility and deployment range, or limit firepower range?
I'm thinking of this vehicle as a specialized high speed high powered cannon on wheels.. well... repulsors...
It is called in to quickly destroy enemy shields, blow through entrenchments and other barriers and then get out of the way.
I also figure that the vehicle's cockpits would be nearly enclosed anyway and have an array of sensors and equipment to allow the pilot/gunners the ability to target from the protection of the inside of the vehicle.
have you ever looked at a modern day tank? they have almost NO open windows or viewports, everything is done with camera's and such to protect the soldiers inside.
btw the main cannon on top does swivel 360 degrees as well as can be tilted up to a steeper angle.
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Kinda like the German Stug III of WWII, then? Or the modern-day "engineering tank." I'm thinkin' with all the added weapons that it looks like an anime-special... and given the anime style of the CW, it fits right in.
Many a time I've been in one in BFII and WISHED I'd had a pair of guns like you have mounted right in front of the cockpit!! Getting a Droid wedged inbetween your mandibles where ya can't quite shoot him is SOOOO frustrating!!
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lol I knew someone would like those middle guns.
I thought it looked very animeish too... I'm glad that it doesn't pull away from the vehicle and make it look too cartoonish...
I'm adding a big "cooling grid" thingy to the back of the tank, I figure with all the heat generated by the added guns it would need a better cooling system...
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GAR I think means Grand Army of the Republic, but I could be wrong usually am. I like those side cannons with the bullet belts, really cool feature.
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tamer that sounds about right...
got to thinking more about it today, even sketched a digram on the back of my hydro test I got back... (which I failed with a 38/100! yipea!)
I think I am going to use the sanding drum on the dremel and sand down the curved edges on the turret and give it some sharper angles.
I also think I am going to go with a non-environment specific color scheme.
I feel that this vehicle would be designed as a replacement for the ATTP (the ugly 3 legged walker). So a generic grey and black color scheme just like the walkers usually have is something I think I'm going to try.
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GAR= Grand Army of the Republic
First I want to say that I love the tank. ANY custom is better than stock =) I think what I was trying to point out is that no army would "over outfit" a fighting vehicle. Too many weapons and you over power the crew and give them too much to drive, track and shoot. The added turret also gives it a very high side profile. I like it though, and I like the direction you're going in. Sometimes I forget that it's a fictional world =)
GAR? I'm not familiar with that term.
I also don't understand how the larger turret gives it a limited range... do you mean limited mobility and deployment range, or limit firepower range?
I'm thinking of this vehicle as a specialized high speed high powered cannon on wheels.. well... repulsors...
It is called in to quickly destroy enemy shields, blow through entrenchments and other barriers and then get out of the way.
I also figure that the vehicle's cockpits would be nearly enclosed anyway and have an array of sensors and equipment to allow the pilot/gunners the ability to target from the protection of the inside of the vehicle.
have you ever looked at a modern day tank? they have almost NO open windows or viewports, everything is done with camera's and such to protect the soldiers inside.
btw the main cannon on top does swivel 360 degrees as well as can be tilted up to a steeper angle.
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I think the ATAP would look a lot better with just two legs. I also think there should be an IFT version with gi-normous missile-launchers in place of its guns. I had an idea on how to build the pods for it... Just gotta see now if it *works*!
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oooo that was an idea I had too doc. I was eyeing the boy's helfire droid as we were packing it going... those missile batteries would be perfect for customs! All you would need to do would be drill holes for the pegs on those suckers to outfit them on a new vehicle...
as for the side profile I see what you mean about it being tall now... but heck look at the AT-AT! that's the most IMPRACTICAL of all star wars ground vehicles! lol
As for giving the driver's too much to track and control I think I'm going to add an astromech or another droid of some sort to the mix to give the vehicle an "automated" targeting system that would help aleviate the issue of having so many weopons!
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as so requested I added an LED to the speeder:
I broke my red LED so I wound up using blue:
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/280/a/9/commando_speeder_bright_LED_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/280/1/2/commando_speeder_side_light_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/280/d/4/commando_speeder_custom_LED_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/280/7/9/commando_speeder_front_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I put some scratches in the paint on accident while I was putting in the LED... but I kinda liked how it looked with parts of the old paint showing through so I put a few more scratches in there....
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Looks good, the paint on the speeder bike fits the fig very nicely
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video is up on youtube on how I did the LED:
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Wow, I love how those scratches look! That blue led looks great also.
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Good vid, too! I'll be on the lookout for those blinking LED strands this year.
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Haha, you're right, I totally misunderstood the racing concept... I was thinking the ship was converted for planetary racing and given repulsorlift engines (like landspeeders), but now that I know it's hyperspace racing, I see why it has the astromech. Although I am still confused about how you can make a hyperspace jump in "the least amount of parsecs" since a parsec is actually a measurement of distance... So basically when Han said he made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs, it was like saying he ran a mile-long race in less than a mile, hah!
I guess the only way it could make sense is if you have to jump to certain landmarks (spacemarks?) along a route, and you can shave distance off by jumping closer to those places, like taking the inside track when running a track race... the difficulty could then be in your precision when jumping so close to things, because the closer you get, the more likely you are to hyper-jump into them. Or something, I dunno, lol.
As for that imperial speeder with the L.E.D., freakin' sweet! I love that LED, and it totally makes me want to wire up my Virago, but I have a feeling I would totally break it... I think I tried taking an Action Fleet apart and it wouldn't give even after taking off all the screws... must be glued and screwed, I guess. Also don't know how I would change the batteries once I got it all in there. I love how you just kinda crammed all the wires under the body, hilarious! You definitely need to light up more vehicles.
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The speeder bike looks even better with the LED in there. Thanks for the video, I would love to try something like that.
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Although I am still confuse about how you can make a hyperspace jump in "the least amount of parsecs" since a parsec is actually a measurement of distance... So basically when Han said he made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs, it was like saying he ran a mile-long race in less than a mile, hah!
I guess the only way it could make sense is if you have to jump to certain landmarks (spacemarks?) along a route, and you can shave distance off by jumping closer to those places, like taking the inside track when running a track race... the difficulty could then be in your precision when jumping so close to things, because the closer you get, the more likely you are to hyper-jump into them. Or something, I dunno, lol.
actually your completely right.
A parsec is a meassure of distance. The thinking was that when making hyperspace jumps You have to go in strait lines. Because of this your navigational computer (or astromech) would have to calculate strait line jumps in a series to get to your destination. Because, as han said "flying through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops boy, you miscalculate we could fly right through a star or come out to close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick wouldn't it?!"
(or something like that my memory is a little fuzzy with all these pain killers...)
so basically... to get from point A- Point B you would like to fly in a strait line, but you can't because there is stuff in the way. but the close your nav-computer can get you to a strait line the "quicker" you will arive at your destination.
make sense?
of curse, at sub-light speeds star wars craft still perform regularly and would compete for who would be the fastest in a short closed circuit (like, I'll race you to the moon and back!)....
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just watched the clone wars season 2 episode 3, "children of the jedi"
first appearance of Cad Bane's Xandu Blood, his modified P-38 magnaguard fighter.
here is a screen shot:
(http://www.starwars.com/img/prw/theclonewars/guide/episode203/img22.jpg)
here are some concept art shot depicting it that I pulled from the official clone wars web site's episode guide:
(http://www.starwars.com/img/prw/theclonewars/guide/episode203/bts01.jpg)
I wish I had these when I was painting up my version. It looks alot darker, with more green in it than the titanium version does...
I think though, all things considered, my version got pretty close? idk, what do you guys think?
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This is kind of funny because when I was watching this episode with my son I saw the ship and started picturing your custom and thinking hmmm, looks like the colors are a bit different. You did a great job on the ship but it was much darker in the CW cartoon.
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i worked on the hover tank some more today.... this is what I finally decided on:
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/288/c/c/haft_revisited_wip_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/288/9/6/hawt_wip_revisit_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/288/0/0/haft_wip_revisited_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
well, does that work better than before?
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;) looking good spud!!!
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Looks good dark like that, Spud. You should weather the heck out of it.
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lol it aint even close to being done clint. But I will weather it good. Black isn't the color I'm going to go with though.
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Oh, just a primer coat then?
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yup... I have a silver/grey that I'm going to use as a base coat and then come back over it in a few spots with black highlights and then give it some weathering. I'll be trying to emulate the look of the AT-AT and AT-ST.
what do you think of the simplified top turret?
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I like it! and you changed out the top turret. I like the dark look for now and can't wait to see the silver over the top. I liked it before but the new design is even better. Can't wait to see more and glad you are feeling better.
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It was so dark, I didn't even notice the turret. I like how it's more of a gunner's station, now.
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what do you think of the simplified top turret?
now it's truly perfect
I liked it before when it was transplanted from the AAT, you know I thought it worked as a turret, but this is hella better and more Republic-esque
black is an improvement too, looking forward to seeing what you do with the final paint job
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lol hawkeye over at st6 I think is the only one who has had any negative comments on the new look. He thinks that the big cannon looks "barely attached" and says he see's problems with a tank like this having too much recoil in the big cannon....
My explanation for that... well... the tank hovers, so any recoil would be transfered into a backwards shift in the tank itself right? and perhaps the cannon itself is recoiless, with recoil shock absorbers built in... idk
well it's pretty muggy outside so I think I'm going to try and go out and paint in the garage and hope that the paint drys right. I hate this time of the year in ky... always wet, muggy and saturated.... :P
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it's Star Wars, where lasers are everywhere, people carry killing glow sticks, and explosions in space make noise
recoil of the cannon and physics are not an issue IMO
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it's Star Wars, where lasers are everywhere, people carry killing glow sticks, and explosions in space make noise
recoil of the cannon and physics are not an issue IMO
lol so true!
hey I've got a treat for you guys... I'll post in just a min.
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The Viper-X Project:
basically this is a heavilly customized x-wing with alot of dremel work. The only thing that I used that WAS NOT a part of the original ship was the styrene sheets for the wings and top fin.
I present the first WIP pics of the Viper-X
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/289/1/6/viper_x_no_wings_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/289/4/d/viper_x_wip_5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/289/e/d/viper_x_wip_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/289/3/6/viper_x_wip_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/289/e/a/viper_x_wip_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/289/e/e/viper_x_wip1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
well, what do you guys think so far? I've so far since these images added apoxi sculpt to the opening in the nose, and a few cracks between the wings and engines, and the guns and wings. I'm going to repaint the entire thing as well as add some extra plastic sheet "armor" pieces to the wings to give them some more depth.
any ideas on what to do better? different? Paint schemes?
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Looking good so far can't wait to see it finished great job Spud
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Very nice work on the Viper X.
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Looking good, it's really taking shape.
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That one looks sleek, Spud. So did you decide on a paintjob?
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not yet...
I've got 4 options as I see it now...
follow an x-wing paint scheme.
or
the original classic viper scheme
or
the reimagined viper scheme
or
come up with a completely new one.
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I love it! It looks freakin SWEET!
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heres an updated pic of the viper-x with a coat of white primer and some black spray paint weathering.
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/290/e/a/viper_x_with_primer_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
Heres the finished Heavy Artillery Fighter Tank (HAFT):
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/290/8/5/HAFT_wip_side_view_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/290/0/6/HAFT_wip_back_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/290/7/6/HAFT_finished_5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/290/4/1/Haft_finished_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/290/f/f/haft_finished_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/290/b/2/haft_finished_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/290/4/c/HAFT_finished_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
well guys, what do you think of the finished product?
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That looks great to me.
But whats with the belt fed chain gun?
Guess you could say its a throwback slug thrower type weapon.
Nice work.
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That tank turned out great, Spud. I like the belt fed guns and that aat turret looks alot better with some paint on it. Looks like a front pager to me.
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thanks clint!
DRS, I figure that sometimes, a weopon that throws good ol slugs is needed to take down enemies the old fashioned way.
Besides, a chain gun laser just doesn't make any sense to me... I guess it makes sense that a laser emitting barrel would over heat and a repeating barrel "gatlin" gun would give each barrel time to cool... BUT... with all the other technology in the star wars universe I think that it'd be obsolete.
And... theres always the chance that some sheilds would be impervious to blaster fire but allow sollid rounds to penetrate... at least, that's my thoughts.
Oh... and I forgot to mention that the little web thing on the back of the tank is supposed to act like a heat disipator, since all the added weopons would add more heat to the vehicles power supply...
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Spud it came out great I love it! Awesome job!!! I soooooo want to have some extra $$ to go buy myself one :\
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I'm assuming that this is what you'll be entering in the contest,so......
Now may be a good time to say that some stray dog ran off with my entry...Yeah, that's what happened.
Kick ass tank, dude.
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lol ribbit, since I issued the challenge I don't think I qualify for entry...
I did however make this in the spirit of the challenge. but it will not be an entry.
you better chase down that dog ;)
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HOLY SHIT
pardon my Basic but I can't find more appropriate wording
Devin, that's incredible. I mean like WHOA-inducing coolness. It doesn't look at all like the same vehicle anymore, it's like 24 kinds of cooler!!
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thanks nfc, if you loved that your going to use alot more colorful explatives when I get the next one up in an hour or so ;)
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here is some concept artwork I did using my photo-editor to help me decide on a color patern on the viper-x
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/290/7/c/viper_x_photoshop_colors_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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thanks nfc, if you loved that your going to use alot more colorful explatives when I get the next one up in an hour or so ;)
seriously?
man, I can't even imagine what else you've got waiting in the wings
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well.... I officially hate vista and internet explorer. I had typed up a good long intersting explanation of why I blended together concepts of star wars and battlestar galactica.... and then IE crashed and I lost it...
I guess it's your all's lucky day cuz I don't feel like retyping it all....
basically it was an explanation of my fan-fic idea of the Galactica jumping into the star wars galaxy instead of to earth in it's final jump....
but...
you guys don't care about all that anyway, all you want are the pictures:
Ok... but first... before any of you clowns go saying something about the backgrounds! I took these on my pool table thinking it'd be a better background... of course I forgot about the crap my sister has decorated the basement with. Unfourtunately I didn't live here when she moved in and she had free reign to decorate the basement... (what you don't see in the pictures are all the disney posters, the giant coke bottle painted on the wall, and random psycadelically collored geometric shapes spongied onto the walls.... I feel like I'm on drugs every time I come out of my room...)
anyway, viper-x
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/290/d/f/viper_x_right_side_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/290/3/6/viper_x_front_and_to_the_side_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/290/1/a/viper_x_bottom_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/290/c/3/viper_x_top_view_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/290/e/a/viper_x_low_side_view_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/290/0/6/chilaxin_on_da_ride_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/290/d/8/viper_x_with_pilot_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/290/e/f/viper_x_final_paint_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
well guys?! what do you think!? I'm realy realy proud of the way this one turned out. I've had more fun building this custom than I have in a long time.
I think the next project will be customizing that Matt Tracker figure that's in the pictures to be this ship's permenant pilot. He already looks realy good with the ship as he is!
after I finish the pilot I think I'm goign to dig out my dad's old cylon raider model and modify it into a one seater 1:18th scale fighter.....
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none of you guys probably realy care about this one as it's not star wars... but to me as a kid it was substitute star wars:
this is an old Gi-joe jet that also was a squirt gun in it's prime... I have had this plane since I was a child, as long as I can remember... I never had any joes as a kid so the only pilot figure I had was a POTF luke skywalker... as I also never had an x-wing, luke always flew this plane instead.
Back then it was a drab greay collor, over the years it turned yellow. The squirt gun doesn't work anymore from where as a kid I played with it in the sand box (doh!).
I found it in a box of old stuff the other day and decided it'd look realy good repainted as a stealth fighter. So a couple coats of spray paint later this is what I've got!
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/290/3/d/gi_joe_jet_squirt_gun_repaint_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/290/5/a/gi_joe_plane_repaint_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/290/7/1/stealth_squirt_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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(http://web.mac.com/barefoothiker/Customs/Media/rock.gif) WOW, awesome job on the tank and Viper X. Lovin 'em!
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That is the coolest tank man
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WOW !!! Dev that tank looks super wickered mate you are pumping out the customs
Great work on the viper too you high school musical loving hippy lol :P ;)
great job all round did you try the alcohol rubbing technique
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spud.....as we say in england THATS THE BLEEDIN' NUTS ,SERIOUSLY THE DOGS BOLLOCKS!
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thanks guys. I realy appreciate it! Yeah I do feel like I'm just busting them out this week. Probably has alot to do with the way I feel... I'm like a new man after this surgery!
I still had a hard time getting down close enough to those last three ships to spray paint them! I was crawling around on the garage floor on my hands and knees cuz I still can't bend over...
I'm realy happy with both the tank and the viper-x. Both turned out very nice. I think the tank could have been better though... it's hard to see in the pictures but my black detail lines are horribly crooked. It looks like a 5 year old drew them! I wish I had some paint pens, that'd helped alot... since I tried to follow the preexisting grooves on the plastic I could have just put the tip of a pen inside them and gotten the lines alot straiter.
I honestly didn't want to weather the tank too heavilly but when I started the weathering it covered up some of the sloppiness of everything so I went a little overboard with it!
I realy love the weathering on the viper-x though. That came out so beautifully if I do say so myself... now I just need to customize the pilot, because as NFC put it
"the figure looks good with the ship, but custom pilots are prefered!"
lol
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basically it was an explanation of my fan-fic idea of the Galactica jumping into the star wars galaxy instead of to earth in it's final jump....
but...
you guys don't care about all that anyway, all you want are the pictures:
don't care about it? are you kidding? THAT would get the BSG universe some RESPECT in my mind finally. As of yesterday I have zero interest in it or the characters or the show. but the unexplored idea of those folks being blended into the Star Wars universe? yeah, THAT has potential now!
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The weathering job on that Viper x did turn out well and was not overdone. It has just the right amount. I like that underbelly shot. Nice job, Spud!
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thanks clint...
ok... I guess nfc asked for it so blame him for this! (hopefully my computer doesn't act up again while I type this up)
basically the battlestar galactica theme for every episode was
-hyperspace jump to new location
-explore new location for resources
-cylons jump in and reak havok for the rag-tag fleet
-fleet jumps to new location and it starts all over...
untill in the final episode (now I'm talking classic battlestar, not the crappy reimagined series, the last 2 seasons of that show were a joke and should be disregarded as completely nonexistant!), where the galactica jumps to earth to find a 20th century earth unsuitable for the galactica's integration.... and of cource the cylons come soon after and to save earth from total aniahilation from the cylons the Galacta engages them in combat and again jumps away to lead the cylons off on another whimsical chase...
now... what if we take the Battlestar story line which is stated in the opening theme "that even now brothers of man are fighting for survival somwhere out amongst the stars" and combine that with the reimagined series concept that "the galactica finds earth and begins a new colony there and they were our ancestors..." From that we can assume that The Battlestar Galactica story took place BOTH a long time ago AND in a glaxy far far away.... If we assume that the same line is literal in star wars then both battlestar and star wars (and our own existance) is in the same universe.
so....
what if the Galactica and the rag-tag fleet of the 12 colonies jumped into the star wars galaxy instead of finding earth?! What if they jumped into the SW galaxy during or soon after the clone wars had begun?
My thinking is that the galactica, the fleet and their crew would imediately seek out the galactic center (courascant and the republic) and ask for assistance, amnesty and assymilation into the general SW galaxy population. I think that the republic war generals (as well as palpatine) would see the galactica and it's technology as a new source of battleships and fighters to supliment into the Grand Republic Navy. The great deralict Battlestar would be grounded in a shipyard with it's vipers in tow and subsequently stripped down to be studied. Admiral adama would be assymilated into the grand republic forces and probably start out as a commander (as his rank would be null in the republic, he'd have to earn it all over again). The ace pilots of the galactica as well as their engineers would assist in retrofiting star wars tech with galactica tech. Putting the new "jump" engines in grand republic star destroyers and installing launch tubes for viperesque craft.
now... at the same time, as is always the case, the cylons wouldn't be far behind galactica and they too would jump into the SW galaxy. Being mechanical beings which love conflict they would immediately asses the Clone War situation and side with the seperatists, using their cylon forces to at first suppliment the seperatist droid armies. As the cylons are more advanced "droids" the seperatists soon began winning battles and become a force to be reconed with....
of course the cylons wanted control, and eventually took over the seperatist movement for their own and turned it instead into an invasion force....
with Adama's experience fighting the cylons he soon became a high ranking military official in the GRA again... Palpatine begins loosing control of his preplanned take over and fears that his plan is lost....
With the galactica and it's crew now fighting the cylons in a new galaxy with new weopons they are not only fighting for their own survival but the survival of their new home....
Palpatine has already gained emergency power (as this was before the events of the arrival of galactica in the galaxy) and retains control after the cylons are defeated....
eventually the cylons are defeated, but not beaten or destroyed. Instead they set up their own sector of operations in the outer rim and become their own entity in the first galactic empire. Palpatine see's them for what they are, great untapped power, and begins to blend them into his Empire. Using the bio-mechanical knowledge of the cylons he creates better more efficient clone denizens as well as some black book projects such as the Dark Trooper project, which is a fully automated "cylon droid" uber trooper....
of course the rebelion begins soon after and the refugee crew of the galactica and it's fleet being more or less used by palpatine, their ship being taken and their lives at the mercy of the empire begin to have feelings of contempt for the emporer. As the uneasyness grows in the galaxy Admiral Adama and his crew become a deciding factor in the creation of the rebelion and it's subsequent success... Technology from the old battlestar and it's fighters once again is grafted onto SW tech with the rebelion's ingenuity.....
so.... things like the viper-x are born.
Entirely new classes of star wars ships are created. In republic times battlestaresque ships carried troops and space fighters into battle.
cylon basestar like crafts began carying seperatist troops and droids. A mobile automated carrier of sorts...
Cylon droids in imperial times are disperesed throughout the galaxy.
Cylon technology became a staple part in the imperial arsenal. The Tie-D, or droid tie, is a specific case of this cylon technology being used by the empire.
so... yeah, there are countless ways this story arc could be followed. It'd be fun to write a short story from adama's or appolo's perspective of their assymilation into the star wars universe.... There are so many possibilities and it could be merged so seamlessly I think too!
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lol Wow dev you have too much time on your hands *joking*
now that sound like a great story arc mate i like it maybe you can start a fan fic in here and do your idea of apollo point of view story, i think you could do brilliantly
i was hooked and i really enjoyed what i just read, and if you did do it you have a reader in me mate
well done ;D
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Man the Viper X came out great! and the back story was a great idea the first time I saw it. There is some fan fic somewhere of the Star Trek peeps being warped into the Star Wars galaxy.. look for it, it's not to bad. Of course I think they just reverse the polarity of the warp core to escape :P
Keep up the great work man and don't worry about ppl not liking it, I think we ALL love the customs no matter where they come from.
At least I know I do =)
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Really like that Viper. You did an excellent job on it, and that overhead pic really shows how straight everything is.
Dude, I've been watching some of your Youtube videos of you working with an Exacto knife. For the kiddies, you may wanna put up a disclaimer as to how sharp that knife is.
I fear for your remaining fingers (yeah, I know that, as I'm typing this, you still have all of them),everytime I see you applying pressure with that thing.
Glad to hear you're feeling better since the surgery. Can't wait to see that Cylon Raider.
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believe me, my fingers have taken a beating from that exact nife over the years! funny though that i've injuered myself more doing customs than I did building and shooting spud guns.....
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thanks clint...
ok... I guess nfc asked for it so blame him for this! (hopefully my computer doesn't act up again while I type this up)so.... things like the viper-x are born.
Entirely new classes of star wars ships are created. In republic times battlestaresque ships carried troops and space fighters into battle.
cylon basestar like crafts began carying seperatist troops and droids. A mobile automated carrier of sorts...
Cylon droids in imperial times are disperesed throughout the galaxy.
Cylon technology became a staple part in the imperial arsenal. The Tie-D, or droid tie, is a specific case of this cylon technology being used by the empire.
so... yeah, there are countless ways this story arc could be followed. It'd be fun to write a short story from adama's or appolo's perspective of their assymilation into the star wars universe.... There are so many possibilities and it could be merged so seamlessly I think too!
Devin, that's BRILLIANT. A property that I previously had less than zero interest in before now has an interesting new dimesion IMO and now I hope you further this idea. The inclusion of Dark Trooper project as sort of a melding of the Cylons and super battle droids is really really really cool.
DH
rad!
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Oh man that tank is awesome! I like the final color scheme. Great weathering the only thing for me is that it looks like the guns are weathered much less that the tank. Esp. the top gun, it could be we are loosing some details to the camera flash though. Still great looking tank you have there.
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lol yeah... I kinda weathered the tank seperately than the guns... so... they kind of got shafted. BUT, the flash does take off alot of it. My thinking is that the crew would keep the guns cleaned and maintained but disregard the rest of the vehicle and allow it to get dirtied up... I like cop outs...
yeah NFC, theres alot of things I'd love to do with that story arc... makes me want to get my dark trooper back out and swap it's head for a classic cylon centurian head and give him a swoord! (funny thing is that the phase 1 darktrooper has a vibro-blade included in the design.... Cylon influence anyone!?!?!)
I think I'll start another "brainstorm" thread somwhere for brainstorming some more ideas like this, I know NFC will participate, anyone else wanna throw their thoughts in the mix?
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(funny thing is that the phase 1 darktrooper has a vibro-blade included in the design.... Cylon influence anyone!?!?!)
ya know... I never made the connection before... I do believe that's a EUREKA moment
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Spud, you have some excellent work there! I love your final rendition of your HAFT tank, it looks stunning! I have a LONG ways to go on mine if I hope to even compete. Your Viper X is awesome as well! Came out really nice! If you don't mind, may I make one slight point of criticism with it? It may even just be the way it looks in the photos, but it looks like your red paint stripes are a bit jagged and crooked. Is it just the photo? Not to say it's not an awesome piece, and with some of the moldings on those things, I can see how it might be difficult to get it perfectly straight without the paint running. Just wondering.
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none of you guys probably realy care about this one as it's not star wars... but to me as a kid it was substitute star wars:
this is an old Gi-joe jet that also was a squirt gun in it's prime... I have had this plane since I was a child, as long as I can remember... I never had any joes as a kid so the only pilot figure I had was a POTF luke skywalker... as I also never had an x-wing, luke always flew this plane instead.
Back then it was a drab greay collor, over the years it turned yellow. The squirt gun doesn't work anymore from where as a kid I played with it in the sand box (doh!).
I found it in a box of old stuff the other day and decided it'd look realy good repainted as a stealth fighter. So a couple coats of spray paint later this is what I've got!
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/290/3/d/gi_joe_jet_squirt_gun_repaint_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/290/5/a/gi_joe_plane_repaint_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/290/7/1/stealth_squirt_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
if i'm right thats based on the old northrop YF-23 fighter being evaluated for the U.S. Navy..
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Spud, you have some excellent work there! I love your final rendition of your HAFT tank, it looks stunning! I have a LONG ways to go on mine if I hope to even compete. Your Viper X is awesome as well! Came out really nice! If you don't mind, may I make one slight point of criticism with it? It may even just be the way it looks in the photos, but it looks like your red paint stripes are a bit jagged and crooked. Is it just the photo? Not to say it's not an awesome piece, and with some of the moldings on those things, I can see how it might be difficult to get it perfectly straight without the paint running. Just wondering.
lol it's not your imagination, it's my spasming unsteady hand. the lines along the wings and the front end are realy jagged... I honestly tried to cover up some of it with the weathering.
I like to use the excuse that the red markings were added hastilly in wartime to distinguish squadrons... ;)
I realy need to go back and tape off the lines and retouch it I guess... that's what I should have done to begin with!
some of the paint did run into the grooves that I'd incised on the wings, that was realy unavoidable... The white primer surface is also very strange to paint on with brush paints, it tends to soak up the paint and cause it to spread along the surface of the primer...
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while I had the red paint out I finished up my old scratchbuilt action fleet scale clasic viper:
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/291/3/1/scratch_built_viper_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
and I got bored a little today so I hangarbay'd myself! lol
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/291/6/4/launch_tube_viper_x_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
that is a rendering of the galactica's viper launch tube done by a guy on deviantart. what do you think HB!? could I give you a run for your money? I think not.....
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(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/291/6/4/launch_tube_viper_x_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
awesome! that totally blends well together
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thanks, it's not perfect... the bay is too dark and the ship is too bright comparatively... but it's ok by my standards.
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thanks, it's not perfect... the bay is too dark and the ship is too bright comparatively... but it's ok by my standards.
looks fine to me, bro, I didn't notice too much of a contrast with the lighting at all
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Even if you are not entering the tank in the contest you should put up pics there to stir some interest or ideas for others. What do you think?
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by your command.... ;)
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looks like a good photoshop effort to me Devin.
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Spudafett, tha's a very clever render, you know the shot you wanted and got the perfect image.
I'm currently tutoring Clone Commander over Skype, so if you want any pointers or tips install Skype, get a webcam and contact me, I'm hangarbay94.
I suspect that if you got into photophopping your images you would have quite a unique style as your sense of fun would carry through to your artwork.
I've not been Hangarbaying this week as I'm working on my customs but I'll probably be back in the hot seat next week.
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I've been thinking about installing skype to do some live customizing at least. I used to have a skype account.... a long time ago....
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Do it! Do it now!
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well... here is that big box of action fleet ships I was talking about...
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/297/6/9/box_of_action_fleet_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
Be expecting to see some of them in this thread in the next month!
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WOW!!! I am SUPER jealous now :P
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lol it looks like more than it realy is... half of the box is taken up by the transforming playsets that came with the ships... I think there were two death star ones, a yavin rebel base, and a hoth playset all in there..
the majority of the ships were junk, alot of scratched up ships, missing parts, loose hinges, broken canopys...
fortunately for me the ships that I didn't have in my collection all were in pretty good shape.... except for the rancor who is missing his rear end! :(....
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WOW! What a great score. Do you plan to use those transforming playsets? You should line everything up and give us a better pic of the loot. I would love to screw that Death Star to my sons wall.
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except for the rancor who is missing his rear end! :(....
an assless rancor?
that's criminal! the bastard that disabled the beast should be ashamed of himself!!!
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WOW, thats alot of action fleet great score
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yeah, apparently (I did not know this untill seeing the figure) the rancor mouth opens and you can feed him gamorian bites... and then open him up by the tail and get the figures back out that way.... I think someone in development of the figure had too big a sens of humor! but the tail is gone where it hinges up and opens... so he's got no bottom.... gamorians go right through him :( (if only the lot came with the mini-figs....)
anyone have any action fleet or micromachine mini-figs they want to get rid of so that i can actually have some figures for these things?! I only got two mini-figs in the entire lot, a jawa and an a-wing pilot.... :(
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here are some pics of the action fleet virago I'm working on puting LED's into.
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/298/b/3/cluttered_table_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/298/e/c/virago_taken_apart_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
the a-wing is dismantled for primer and is going to be a blue concept a-wing eventually
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Is that your secret to making awesome customs? Mixing prescription drugs with JIF? Hell, if it'll help, I'll give it a try.
here are some pics of the action fleet virago I'm working on puting LED's into.
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/298/b/3/cluttered_table_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/298/e/c/virago_taken_apart_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
the a-wing is dismantled for primer and is going to be a blue concept a-wing eventually
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My kids think that "pooping Rancor" is the coolest thing I've ever found...
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dang... you figured it out ribbit... what you don't see is the can of red-bull, ritz crackers, and pepperonies! (btw if you've never tried ritz crackers, peanut butter and pepperonies together your realy missing ut)
check this out guys, it's a z-95 headhunter in action fleet scale that I'm building using an x-wing body. The hump behind the cockpit is apoxi sculpt
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/298/d/2/z_95_wip_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/298/9/b/z_95_wip_side_shot_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I'm probably going to cast a copy of the A-wing canopy which is more rounded so that I can make a canopy to go on the z-95 without makeing my a-wings canopyless....
here is a reference image for those of you who may not know what the z-95 is:
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/4/4c/Z-95_Headhunter.jpg)
lol doc you posted while I was writing this, that's too funny... he is a pooping rancor... my rancor just has the constant runs I guess, since whatever he eats just goes right through him....
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awesome stuff man awesome!
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Looking good Spud. The shape of the area that you sculpted looks like a R2 droid body shape in the reference pic. It looks like you could split one from the BAD collection in half and mount it back there. Then just sculpt the edges to blend it in. Can't wait to see the LED's in the Viagro.
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Wow Devin, you hit the mother load!
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Looking good Spud. The shape of the area that you sculpted looks like a R2 droid body shape in the reference pic. It looks like you could split one from the BAD collection in half and mount it back there. Then just sculpt the edges to blend it in. Can't wait to see the LED's in the Viagro.
luke, I am pretty sure that the build a droid part would be too big. this is an action fleet x-wing remember, the width of the fuselage is less than an inch.
you are right about it resembling half a droid though. My first sculpting attempt didn't quite get it right as I was trying to blend the style onto the squared off cockpit sheild.... I'm probably going to redo it after casting a copy of the a-wing cannopy which is rounded and making a different version with it and a more pronounced rounded area behind the fuselage....
but... as a prototype and proof of concept I think this works fairly well.
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Oh yea that looks very much like it. I was just wondering if something like the droid would work. I knew it was action fleet but didn't realize that area was that small. I have not had mine out in years. Every action fleet vehicle used to hang from my son's ceiling with the solar system plus a few SW planets revolving around his ceiling fan...those were the days.
I can't wait to see the rest of this project.
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I think at some point every collector of action fleet ships had them hanging from the ceiling... mine did the same thing when I was a kid! I don't have enough seeling space to do that now though! I have too many.
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so I just want to throw this in here for the heck of it...
I'm thinking about doing an action fleet scale babalon 5 starfury:
(http://www.gkane.de/3dfiles/images/starfury_5view.jpg)
I think that the virago with it's wings removed would be the perfect starting point....
now I just need an extra virago...
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that would be cool.
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Ok guys this was just a spur of the moment custom I threw together while looking at all the extra action fleet parts I had laying around.
I took apart an x-wing and had two extra b-wing wings that came in that lot of ships I got on e-bay the other day. I rearanged the x-wing's engines and completely removed it's wings and came up with this:
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/303/1/d/stealth_wing_wip4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/303/9/4/stealth_wing_wip3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/303/7/1/stealth_wing_wip2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/303/1/5/stealth_wing_wip1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I am planning on painting it up as a stealth fighter as for some reason it screams stealth to me. there are some gaps in the way the wings and engines fit together that I will fill with either apoxi-sculpt or sheet styrene. Because I used the bottom x-wing engines on the side I removed the landing gear and now it has a t-shaped hole in the engine. I am thinking about filling it in with apoxi sculpt OR making a grid inside it with styrene and make it look like vents of somekind.. what do you guys think?
any ideas for this ship guys? Does a shadow style paintjob seem like a good idea?
also... I don't know if I'm going to keep it.. so if anyone wants to make an offer for it when I'm finished pm me! you guys get first pick on anything I'm planning on selling from now on, before I put it on e-bay that is.
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Spud that is awesome! Reminds me of the T-Wing fighter from TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance. I'll take it! lol.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/T-Wing
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huh.. I don't remember that one in tie fighter... but your right it does look like my kit bash. I knew it looked similar to something I'd seen in the past.
lol if you realy want it wait till I finish it... then decide....
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That looks really cool, Devin. Simple but elegant in design. It does remind me of the Viper but it is so much different.
If you go for a shadow paint scheme, make sure you include a bunch of grey, perhaps even throw some reds in there to break it up.
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Great Customs Spudafett.
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Good-looking T-Wing!
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Hey, that is looking good spud.
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thanks guys... I realy wasn't going for anything specific with it, just throwing parts together. Since it resembles the t-wing so well I guess that's what I'll go with... a stealth version of the t-wing.
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Spudafett, that is really different, I don't recall ever seeing anything like that before. Superb job!
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Good job man! i like it alot =)
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got another action fleet wip:
heavy atst
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/304/7/2/heavy_atst_wip3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/304/1/3/heavy_atst_wip2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/304/4/8/heavy_atst_wip1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I'll paint it tonight with the others.
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Man, wouldn't it have been cool to see rockets launching off the side of this baby in the movie! Nice so far Devin.
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Awesome Spud, that AT-ST looks menacing!
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got another action fleet custom (expect a great deal of these for the next few days, lol)
this one is the gian speeder, normally it has these humonguous missile launchers on the sides... :
(http://www.starwarsactionfleet.com/images/items/gian_speeder_1.jpg)
so I removed the rediculous cannons since I didn't have the missiles for them and replaced them with an a-wing's guns... (look forwardto the a-wing getting the rediculously huge guns! lol)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/304/6/5/gian_speeder_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/304/e/d/gian_speeder_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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this one is for phatty, no realy it is. he commissioned a tye wing, die wing, or tie ugly (whichever name you prefer) from me in exchange for him trying to locate me two of the new single carded evo style bobas....
so here is what i've got so far. I used a saws all to remove the y-wings engines, it was just quicker that way... and I couldn't get a cutting wheel in there at the right angle.
right now it's just set up with the engines lying in the right position, nothing glued together. I will eventually glue them on and then use apoxi sculpt to fill in the cracks between the tie fighter's wings and the new engines.
here ya go phatty:
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/304/5/a/__die___wing_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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Looking good Spud. Nice to see another TYE-Wing around. :)
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finished heavy atst:
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/304/2/2/heavy_atst_front_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/304/c/5/removable_missile_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/304/5/4/heavy_atst_back_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/304/0/f/heavy_atst_fin2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/304/d/5/heavy_atst_fin1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I'm not sure how I feel about this one. I don't think I like it after painting... :(
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here is the finished stealth t-wing:
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/304/7/d/stealthwing1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/304/5/c/stealth_wing2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs51/i/2009/304/a/9/stealthwing4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/304/4/d/stealthwing3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
eh... I'm realy not happy with the way this one has turned out either. I think I should have just gone with the traditional look and painted the b-wing wings to match the x-wing body.
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I don't think it looks bad. Heck try a brighter red and see how it looks. If you don't like it, You can paint the rest of it white. I kinda like the atst but heck, go ahead and throw a camo scheme and see how it looks. I know that I am curious to see what it would look like.
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clint I realy don't know where to start with the atst and a camo scheme....
If I repaint it I still want the basecoat to be that primer as I don't want to have to reprimer it and paint all the details again...
what if I painted the armor pannels grey and did a black/white and grey urban camo scheme like I did on my trio of clones? And then left the under areas the rusty brown color? idk.... I might just repaint the entire thing...
same with the t-wing... I'm so frustrated with these right now. I think I'm going to go out to the garage and fix my spud gun.... lol
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I still really like that urban camo scheme that you did on those clones. I am half tempted to try to copy it on that shadow pilot fig that I am working on.
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go for it clint, I think your version would put mine to shame though.
I think that's what I'm going to do with that atst. Redo the entire thing in a base coat of light grey and then paint in the black and white and dark grey patches in a similar style to yours.
I am feeling more confident after getting my old spud gun back up and running and shooting off a few rounds :) lol
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Looks like a good start! This'll be fun to customize!
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Nice work indeed on those action fleet ships, Spudafett. I like that AT-ST a lot, reminds me a bit of the one you have to fight on Kashyyyk in TFU.
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Spud I don't see what is wrong. Both look good to me.
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thanks luke. I appreciate that. I guess it bothers me that they don't look how I pictured them in my mind's eye when I started... Usualy with a figure I can picture it my head and then the result is usually exactly how I pictured it... for some reason vehicles give me problems. It's hard for me to picture a vehicle's end result and then get it the way I want it to...
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I like the red on the at st it works, I think it just has to be a little more uniform, maybe more muted.. though It really makes it stand out.
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The Heavy AT-ST is amazing looks great would love to have a 3 /34 inch version for my Empire
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Love that atst Devin. Looks great. Front page bound.
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Hey, I've just caught up with this...you may not have liked it but I LOVED the stealth X-wingy thing...superb. And the ATAT is also awesome...
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thanks hb. It's growing on me... Like I said, it just isn't how I pictured it in the beginning....
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The Bwings on teh Xwing really adds a flavor to it, I like it, Gets me thinking of the old "uglies" that used to be very popular in SW lore, those seemed to have gone away but I loved the concept.
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i like those uglies too, always a good concept.
In fact I'll be finishing up the dye wing tomorrow so watch for that one.
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concept a-wing I've been working on and another a-wing in the background:
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/314/7/4/concept_a_wing_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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Coming along good, Spud. This custom is still on my to-do list. And by to-do list, I mean... God knows when lol.
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I wish Hasbro would give us this version instead of the green one all the time! Looks good Spud.
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I finished up Phatty's die wing.
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/320/f/f/die_wing_opening_compartments_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/320/b/b/die_wing_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/320/5/8/jango_painted_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
well what do you guys think? I'm leaving it unpainted so that phatty can finish it up himself.
(edit: Idk how that pic of jango got in there, I fixed it with the correct image, my bad!)
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Spuda,
Love the WhyTie! that's the kind of thing seen in the Xwing game Mods...
Superb.
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That turned out great, Devin! Plan on that one making it to the front page today.
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Very cool Spud. I always have wanted to make an ugly from Rogue Squadron.
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thanks guys, there are a few cracks between the engines and the wing pylons so I'm a little disapointed about that, but it isn't very noticable and they are holding realy well. I used apoxi sculpt on both the tie body and the engines to fill in the holes and make a nice even gluable surface to attach them together. Unfourtunately when I went to glue them together the apoxi sculpting I'd done wasn't evenly flat. I shaved at it with the exacto knife and got it close enough for each engine to be glued on securely however. I just hope that it will be able to survive a trip through the mail.... it should.
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Looks great, that one is now on the front page!
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Great job bro! Love it
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Looks sweet Devin! I can't wait to get this one in! My custom work to-do list is ever growing, it seems!
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(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/329/4/1/freeco_bike_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
got a freeco bike yesterday.... definately have to get rid of that clone wars deco... but I havn't had any ideas of what to do with it... any ideas!?
I'm thinking about adding some extra wing/fins/stabalizers to the front and some weopons.
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Oh yea, that's just waiting for some additions!
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I would just use some nail polish remover. I used it on a republic back pack but, my wife got pissed because I used it.
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That thing just looks silly... like an X-wing tadpole... give it some wings or fins or something... can't wait to see what you do with it.
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I would just use some nail polish remover. I used it on a republic back pack but, my wife got pissed because I used it.
LOL. LOL again. Spud I would go with an imperial grey with some blaster marks and perhaps an imperial symbol with some more heavy weapony, some small wings off the side or attached to the engines with some cannons would be cool too.
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well after seeing Doc's work on the CORPS! hovercraft I just had to get one too... the vehicle is a realy nice looking toy to begin with. I'm realy impressed actually at the construction on this thing. and at 10.00 from wal-mart it's hard to pass up!
the construction lends itself to customizing like no other vehicle I've worked with. This hovercraft doesn't have a single screw in it! everything is tab and socket clips. Some of the clips were dificult to get unattached, like the engine rings, so a flathead screwdriver came in handy. The ability to just pop off the parts is going to make painting a sinch!
anyway, enough talking about it here is what I have done so far... just like doc I got carried away and started this project before I got a picture of the stock toy! DOH!... but this is pretty close:
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/333/4/2/CORPShovercraftwip_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/333/8/4/CORPShovercraftwip2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
as you can see I've added a couple things already. The large "gatlin gun" cannon on the front was added by drilling a groove in the "hood" and then laying it down into that. I'll glue it on after I paint everything, right now it's just in there by friction. There is also a small gun on top that is an old plastic boat model part, I have no idea where it came from, it was in a fodder box of old model parts...
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/333/8/6/corpsenginemod_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/333/7/8/CORPSengines_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I've added parts to the engine housing alot like how Doc did his. I used the same film canister caps for the front, I realy liked the look of that... and the back part is a couple PVC pipe fittings I had left over from my old spud gunning material bins... My plan is to leave the very center of the film canister lids unpainted and clear and put a red LED inside the engine ring so that the light will shine out from the lid....
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/333/5/e/CORPSbatcomp_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/333/c/9/CORPSwip1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
ok, here we have the inside and bottom of the hovercraft. I've cut a hold in the bottom and slid in a battery compartment for two AA batteries. This battery compartment came from a christmas light DISPLAY at walgreens. if you've ever been in there around this time of year you'll notice that most of the cardboard light displays have a "try me" light string built into the box... When the display box becomes empty of product they throw these displays away... When I worked there I would rip open the displays and take out the battery packs, wires, and lights. I used to use them as battery packs for spud gun projects, but they have come in handy for alot of things! If you have a walgreens local to you I would ask to see if they would let you have the empty display cases....
anyway, the battery pack will eventually power several LED lights I plan on adding to the vehicle. I plan on putting two Red LED's inside the engines, a red LED light in the "vents" there infront of the engines, two white LED's in the front as headlights, and I MIGHT put some in the cockpit.... I still don't know if I'm going to tackle trying to make the cockpit see through, if I don't there'd be no point in puting lights in there....
well... what do you guys think!? I'm torn between making this a "speeder" or trying to add wings to it and making it a space fighter... what do you all think I should do? I know doc's is going to be a speeder so I may decide to do the fighter just because I don't want to be a coppy cat! lol
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well... since I've been working on this thing I can't put it down! I've set up some mock wings in two different configurations and I've decided on which one I'm going to use but I thought I'd get your all's input anyway.
I could go with a set of very broad sweeping wings like this:
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/333/1/0/corpsfighterwingtest_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
or keep the "boxy" feel of the vehicle and add some short stumpy wings that act more as weopons platforms:
(http://th06.deviantart.net/fs50/300W/i/2009/333/6/f/CORPS_hovercraft_wings_wip1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I think I'm going to go with the smaller set.... but what do you guys think?
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I like the small winglets =) and it's coming out great Spud!! Awesome job!!
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I agree. It is turning out great, Spud!
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I like the lil' winglets, lol... maybe a matching one on the top in the middle too?
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lol if I had another set I might do that...
but those two are the only ones I've got. That's what I've decided on so far. I might make a couple little fins out of polystyrene sheet on the top or something... we'll have to see.
I'm still taking sugestions on a color scheme guys....
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WIP shots:
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/335/a/7/corpsprojwip1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
Top shell of the CORPS hovercraft with a black base coat and hot glue blobs for a simulated cammo...
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/335/9/8/corpsprojwip2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
Grey secondary coat....
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/335/f/c/corpsprojwip4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
Check out that mess of wires... the white box is a battery comp. for two AA bateries, I showed that b4 in a previous post... all the wiring is for just 6 LED lights, two white and 4 reds
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/335/1/3/corpsprogwip5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
The switch for the lights is on the rear pilot seat's instrument pannel! (clever right!)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/335/2/e/corpsprojwip6_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
here is the shell put back together and ready for the final paint touch ups and the winglets to be added back on.
more pics and a write up on the vehicle to come shortly.....
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The LAAS
Light Assault Atmospheric Speeder
(I'm taking suggestions for better names.. maybe with the word Interceptor in them...)
the LAAS is a rapid response multi-role military platform. The speeder was designed for atmospheric use and utilizes repulsor lift engines to acheive verticle flight. Two high performance thrusters give the speeder incredible forward speed... the ability to independently steer each thruster and menuvering winglets on each side of the craft makes the LAAS extremely agile.
Pressurized for high atmospheric missions the LAAS can be used as an extraplanetary vehicle... however with no hyperdrive and limited meneuverability in no-atmosphere environments the LAAS is an awkward vehicle in the vastness of space. However, because it is spaceworthy it is often launched from an orbiting vessels hangar bay instead of a ground base... this makes it an excellent support craft for the larger LAAT, a troop transport.
Once ground troops have been deployed the LAAS turns into an eye in the sky for troops as well as aerial support.
The LAAS is also an excellent interceptor and excells at taking out enemy aircraft. Two forward mounted ion cannons in tandem with two light laser cannons can disable enemy vessels quickly and efficiently. Another single laser cannon turret is mounted on the top of the cockpit as well. A high powered repeating cannon can be used to strafe enemy ground targets... and when that is not enough three concussion missile tubes are revealed under the LAAS's armored shell.
a crew of two pilot the LAAS, the rear pilot being a gunner.
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/335/6/7/corpsprojfinal1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/335/f/8/corpsprojfinal2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/335/4/c/Laas1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/335/c/2/LAAS2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/335/3/1/LAAS3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/335/0/9/LAAS5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/335/a/a/LAAT6_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/335/8/d/LAAT7_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
Just to recap:
the LAAS is constructed from the CORPS! hovercraft. The entire vehicle was repainted. A battery compartment as well as wiring for 6 LED's was added. The large "repeating cannon" or gatlin gun was added to the "hood". The small turret gun on top was added (it doesn't swivel...). two small wings were added to each side which orignated on a GI-Joe jet-pack/ hanglider. I think that covers it.
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Wow! That was fast. Another cool vehicle you have now spud. I love the LED's, they really make it shine...pun intended.
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great ideas
you're very creative
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Very nice Devin. Wow, do you folks see that this thread has 14 pages!
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yeah... but most of it is all wip shots and discussion.... I counted them all today (I was curious) and I've posted 33 vehicles... half of which are permenant WIPs..... lol
I have several more vehicle customs in the works though, I have the Freeco Bike that I want to customize first... then I found two old model car engines, doing the same type thing that I did to my speeder bike contest entry I'm going to build a frame around the engines and make a couple more striped down speeder bikes... should be fun.
I've got to put alot of stuff up on e-bay this weekend too.... I'll probably be puting some of the speeders that are in the garage dio up for sale...
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devin that looks awesome mate
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I love it! the LEDs make it and really highlight it. The winglets are cool and mounting the on/off switch inside the cockpit was awesome!!
I'm going to add LEDs to my next large project.
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Devin, you are on fire with the vehicle thing. This latest one turned out great and those shots with the lights are priceless.
Be sure to give us a link to your eBay stuff.
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Devin, you are on fire with the vehicle thing. This latest one turned out great and those shots with the lights are priceless.
Be sure to give us a link to your eBay stuff.
I'll make a thread about any items I put up for sale in the e-bay section.
thanks for the praise guys, those LED's were tough... took alot of soldering and working out alot of issues with how to wire them...
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The LED are the bomb.
The "rorschach-flage" is not as big a win for me.
the LAAT?
Sadly, I can't think of a better name, :)
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That's one helluva vehicle, Spud! Really nice work there, especially with using the hot glue to make the camo pattern and the LEDs are really the icing on this fine cake you've made. Coolness 8)!
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Damn, Devin! I'm blown away by your lighting alone! I can't get mine to work for squat! The paint job looks great. Any thought to trying to fab a windshield from a clear plastic?
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I thought about donig a windshield... but ultimately I decided not to. I know the side widows would be a sinch to do, but the front panel has some realy weird angles... I could probably do part of it, but then only part would look odd.
It is a shame that the only way to see the inside LED lights is with the cockpit open though...
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Really great job, love camouflage.
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Looks good Devin. Daggone you are getting good with those led lights. I really like that feature. I have got to send you that one item sometime.
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yes, you do, tamer, yes you do!
thanks for all the kind words guys... im definately happy with the way that one turned out
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Tamer you'd better hurry up with that item or I'm going to run out of LED's...
Yall remember a few pages back I showed you a pic of the Freeco Speeder Bike? Well I decided not to modify it and keep it basically stock, except for adding LED lights. The bike already has "headlights" in it's design, and these just realy screamed "stick some lights in here"...
I ran into several problems right of the bat with trying to put lights in here. Once the LED's have a resistor soldered onto them they are realy realy long.... that doesn't lend well to tight spaces. I took this as a challenge though and tackled it by rearanging alot of the configuring of the wires and resistors...
second problem I ran into is that there just wasn't enough space for the battery pack on the inside of the bike. There is a small cavity behind the cockpit where the rear landing gear fold up into the body shell.... I thought about removing the landing gear completely as I figured a speeder bike didn't NEED landing gear, it's a repulsorlift vehicle... But I looked back at the footage of the episode which the bike is in and it shows it using the landing gear, so I decided I needed to leave them and find a work around.
I decided on trying to use 3 button cell watch batteries instead of 2 AAA's. Problem was I had to jerry rig a battery holder for the three batteries. Luckilly I had a plastic tube that they fit perfect in, so I put two wires in there and clamped it all together and secured it with some electrical tape and so far it's holding up....
anyway... enough bla bla, here are the pretty pictures (which I am sure most everyone has skipped all of the above and gone strait to!)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/341/f/7/freeco_inards_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
the two halves of the stock freeco bike before any of the inner framework was dremeled away or any LED's were added.
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2009/341/3/1/freeco_bike_insides_LED__s_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/341/2/3/inside_the_freeco_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
the insides with the lights and battery pack
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2009/341/e/4/freeco_engines_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
the engines, underneath you can see the on/off switch.
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2009/341/d/b/Freeco_speeder_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
Looks pretty much the same from the top....
(http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/300W/i/2009/341/4/a/custom_freeco_bike_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/341/6/7/freeco_light_bright_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2009/341/9/d/freeco_bike_LED_lights_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2009/341/0/2/Freeco_speeder_LED1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I think it turned out realy good. Probably alot better than if I'd tried to turn it into something completely different....
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excellnt mate
vehicles with lights are the best
you did a great job
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Spud, you are like the mad scientist of custom vehicles. I think that this is your best led endevor yet. Amazing work, dude.
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spud that looks the bollocks mate and minty ones at that!
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This is awesome Spud. You are indeed the mad scientist of our crew here. I have an EPI store display that is not holding up so well and I am thinking I should rob the LEDs out of it and throw away the cardboard. This is very inspiring! and beautiful!
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It definately took alot of patience, tinkering, and time to figure that one out... it was a good test, the next thing I'm going to move to is even smaller... I'm going to put some into my action fleet virago! That's going to be the ultimate challenge...
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I had to front page this one, Devin. Very nice work there, buddy. a lit up action fleet custom, eh? Man, you are getting into tight quarters there.
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yeah, the action fleet will be the most dificult. I will have to get some smaller button cells to make it work...
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This looks awesome Devin. Wow your LED lighting techniques are sweet and are giving me too many ideas.
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awesome job!
Spud could you give us the parts list for the LED setup? what resisters... what LED's.. etc.. and maybe a wireframe of where the resisters go.. between..etc..?
Thanks!
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very cool, I have no idea how LED's work, so reading your posts is always informative.
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Looks and works great.
Very welll done.
But I dont think I will try that with mine.
Not for a while anyways....
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That looks very cool, the lights are done extreamly well,
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awesome job!
Spud could you give us the parts list for the LED setup? what resisters... what LED's.. etc.. and maybe a wireframe of where the resisters go.. between..etc..?
Thanks!
to be honest I don't think I'd be able to tell you that stuff... I made sure to purchase the LED's from someone on e-bay who would include the correct resistors with each set. You can also find some LED's that come with the resistors already soldered on with wires as well to make it even easier!
I did find out that you can't wire the LED's in succession, with one in line after the other. Basically each one had to be wired independantly to the battery leads... it's complicated, it took alot of trial and error... Google "LED light basics" and you should come up with some basic info to get you started.
Just make sure to purchase LED's with resistors included, it makes things alot easier!
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Thanks Spud,
it may be time for me to take a trip to the radio shack to buy some test materials :P Just need battery pack :P
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seriously, buy your stuff online... radio shack is WAY to expensive. I had to get a battery pack and a couple switches there the other day (didn't want to wait on shipping) and it cost me over 15 bucks for just a few tiny items....
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Wow. That's fantastic!!! Im not into those sorta CW 2 packs, but i would seriously consider buying one of these. If only Hasbro had the initiative to do what you have done, we Star Wars fans would be a lot happier...but out of a hobby!! The lights remind me of Anakin's speeder in AOTC. Great job!!
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Thanks
fourtunately for us hasbro doesn't do this, cuz the vehicles would cost WAY to much! Honestly only about MAYBE 4-5 bucks worth of electronics went in there, and most of that is those dang expensive button cell batteries....
of course, hasbro being a huge corporation mass producing these things could add the electronics in AND keep the vehicles at the prices they are.... but if it were up to them they would DOUBLE the price instead! ::)
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Snap, I haven't checked your vehicle thing in forever either! First off, that BSG Viper, HOLY CRAP that is freaking AWESOME! That Z-95 headhunter is totally going in the right direction, very nice! With the wings, what I did with mine that looked nice was to fuse them, add a little extra gel-type super glue around the edge, and then scrape-shave around it to blend the two wings into one (I also gave mine a bit of a rounded edge, mainly because I was trying to make the whole thing look more rounded rather than really going with the canon version). The action fleet AT-ST, very sweet, love those guns, they really make it look mean! That stealth e/b/x-wing thing is really cool looking too, I like it way better than if you had painted it standard rebel colors, especially the red-tinted glass, very nice. Also, great work on the Freeco speeder, you really do know how to light things up nicely!
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This is a custom camo barc speeder and ARF trooper that Dawn started before she moved out.... And I've been meaning to finish it so that I can sell it on e-bay...
needless to say I didn't realy try very hard on this one... the majority of the work was hers...
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/350/3/4/cammobarcarf7_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/350/6/5/cammobarcarf6_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/350/9/7/cammobarcarf_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
... yeah, I'm ready to get rid of this one...
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here is some that I'm a little more proud of...
first up a custom racing swoop called the "Blue Bird"
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2009/350/b/c/bluebirdswoop2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/350/2/3/bluebirdswoop1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/350/5/f/bluebirdswoop3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
this started it's life as a cheap toy 4-wheeler from the dollar store. I removed all the weels and axels. Put in a "thruster" where the rear wheels would be... which is realy just a small PVC pipe fitting. I hand painted everything in blue, the chrome was on the original bike... Then I covered the entire thing in a coat of clear gloss.
what do yall think? This one is destined for e-bay as well....
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here is another custom S-Swoop that I finished today
S-Swoops were originally built as racing swoops, but were made famous by the ruthless gangs depicted in shadows of the empire...
basically this is a stock POTF swoop that I have just spraypainted.
Base coat was a coat of "nickel" to give the metalic look to the support struts and menuevering fins.
that was masked off and then a second coat of red was put on. Then purple was sprayed from a distance to cover the center... then a fourth color, blue, was sprayed on the front end at an angle so that it would "blend" into the other colors...
I think I achieved a pretty cool "hot rod" like color blend...
here is the spray paint before detailing and weathering:
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2009/350/4/d/customswoopwip2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/350/a/e/customswoopwip_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
here is the finished swoop after weathering:
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/350/e/8/customswoop6_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2009/350/e/9/customswoop5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2009/350/e/6/customswoop2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2009/350/0/6/customswoop1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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here are two WIP shots
another S-Swoop:
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/350/d/f/S_Swoop_custom_WIP_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
and the racing drag speeder
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/350/4/8/wipracespeeder2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/350/5/3/wipracespeeder_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
neither one is finished, I'm going to do some detailing and weathering to the outside and the cockpit of the drag speeder...
both of these when finished, will be put up on e-bay.
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looks very iteresting mate, the S-swoop looks really great
and also the camo BARC-speeder is a brilliant vehicle
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Yeah, I can understand the one about the camo barc. (As I sigh ).
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Great job on the swoops man.. they look great!
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Mate the speeders all look great but the camo speeder is awesome.
Ron
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I realy hope that camo speeder is awesome enough that i can get rid of it.....
That one, plus several other speeders have been put up on e-bay. EVERYONE please go check it out, if you don't see anything you'd like then please send a link to someone who might be interested... I realy need the money and I realy need to get rid of these.
http://shop.ebay.com/custom_scoundrels/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
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You and me both man.. I had sold my Custom Elite Speeder on eBay only to have the guy not pay in the end... now it's back up and my combat speeder is about to go up as well.. needing money sucks... :\
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well... I owe my parents a good sum of money now for a variety of things... and I'm going to have to start paying on student loans soon... And I don't have a job (yet...)... so, yeah... not having a source of income sucks.
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Im a sucker for any camo custom. Great job spud.
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Great speeder run, Spud. I like the flashy colours a lot, but yeah, that camo speeder really rocks. Great work, bud!
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alot of customs but there all great
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not realy a vehicle but it's for transportation so I'm putting it in this thread.
after cloneheads comment about the dewback and my nile monitor being so similar, and if the dewback had the same coloration it'd be hard to tell the difference, I've decided to customize the dewback.
to start with I wanted to attempt opening his mouth. I took my exacto knife and sliced open the mouth along the groove of his lips. I then trimmed it up a bit and got this result:
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/012/4/d/dewback_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
as you can see the head is hollow, as is the body I'm sure. this makes it very interesting... When you squeeze the head like I am in the picture his mouth will open wider. I don't know yet how I might add to the mouth's inside, but I'd like to be able to add teath and a toungue of some kind. I need to do some background research on the dewback and see if there is any established information on it. I know someone mentioned somewhere that the dewback was suposed to be herbivorous and NOT eat my rebels.... so I'm thinking baout adding some kind of crushing or grinding teeth to the inside of his mouth.
I havn't figured out HOW i'll do that yet though.
my second plan of action on this is to paint a diamond pattern in black and grey colors along his back to simulate a more scaley apearance.... I'm not sure yet though if I realy want to do this as I don't think it's cannon... but that has never been a real issue with any of my other customs! :P lol
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You could easily mold into the bottom of the jaw some nice flat grass eating molars and tongue out of sculpt. You should also be able to do the top of the mouth while the bottom is out.
I guess the hard part will be in re-attaching and either getting a hinge jaw back, or some other way to open and close it.
Cool idea though and I would really love to paint one of these... adding lots of dark wash, and dry brushing would bring out the scales and colors alot.
Keep us posted!!
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main problem sten is that they didn't realy sculpt this with scales. It has a more leather like texture to it. It's hard to explain.
Have you ever seen a turtles skin? that would be the best way to describe the type of texture they went with. It's not scaley like a snake or lizzard like I would expect it to be. there are some lizzards with leather like skin though.... most interestingly I ran accross a breeder of Bearded Dragons a while back that sells a breed of dragon they call a "silk back". They've basically bread the scales right off of them! Much like breeding furless dogs or cats, these are lizards who ahve been bred to have no scales. The most interesting thing about these scaleless lizards is that the color paterns which would normally be on their scales is depicted in their skin! it's very cool looking (but they are also highly expensive!)
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Here is a link to that breeder of bearded dragons:
http://www.dachiu.com/beardeddragons/projects.html
this is what I was talking about, compare the picture of a normal bearded dragon to that of the silkback
(http://www.dachiu.com/gallery/hettrans25.jpg)
(http://www.dachiu.com/gallery/silk67.jpg)
how weird is that?
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reading up on the dewback on wookiepedia I've decided that my orignal plan of giving it a molted pattern similar to my nile monitor's pattern is definately consistent with established lore about the dewback.
but doing some research on different depictions of the dewback I found this:
(http://www.sandtroopers.com/sandwatch/dewback/detail.jpg)
it's a gentle giant sculpture, and I think it realy puts the detail into the scales that the new hasbro version lacks.
as you can see, hasbro's version looks like it emphasized a more leathery hide than that of a scale covered hide:
(http://www.rebelscum.com/TLC/Creatures/Dewback/LC-753.jpg)
I realy wish they hadn't done that....
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ok, so I think I might have found out why hasbro changed the style.... apparently the new figure is based on the depiction of the dewback in the phantom menace.... apparently the anatomy and style of the animal was changed for that movie. This explains the smaller head and less stocky build of the body that I've been wondering about...
I found this image on rebelscum humorous, look at the difference between all three versions of the dewback:
(http://www.rebelscum.com/TLC/Creatures/Dewback/LC-1352.jpg)
seeing them side by side I realy do like the new version's shape and size alot better... but I realy hate the lack of scales...
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Very interesting project, Spud, you've done a lot of research to it already. Wookieepedia also states Dewbacks were omnivorous, so maybe you could make teeth out of white plastic toothpicks and make the points a bit blunt?
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Yeah, when you put em side by side like that, the new version does look better.
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I think I have decided on a natural patern to emulate for my dewback. This is a native desert lizard to the american west, the collered lizard.
Famously the collered lizard has a bright yellow head and blue body, but that is just the males, and the patern is most brightest during mating season. the females more drab coloration and pattern are what I want to emulate:
the more colorful version:
(http://www.biocrawler.com/w/images/3/3b/Collared-lizard.jpg)
what I want to be more close to:
(http://www.desertusa.com/aug97/collared_01.jpg)
(http://imnh.isu.edu/DIGITALATLAS/bio/reptile/lacer/crbi/crbiaml.jpg)
I'm thinking that I might be able to simulate the look of scales if I meticulously use thick drops of paint on the dewback instead of brushing on the pattern as a whole... it'll be like making the pattern out of individual dots. I figure if I use some of my tinyest brushes it MIGHT look like scales when the individual dots of paint dry....
it'll take forever if I do it that way though....
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not realy a vehicle but it's for transportation so I'm putting it in this thread.
after cloneheads comment about the dewback and my nile monitor being so similar, and if the dewback had the same coloration it'd be hard to tell the difference, I've decided to customize the dewback.
to start with I wanted to attempt opening his mouth. I took my exacto knife and sliced open the mouth along the groove of his lips. I then trimmed it up a bit and got this result:
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/012/4/d/dewback_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
as you can see the head is hollow, as is the body I'm sure. this makes it very interesting... When you squeeze the head like I am in the picture his mouth will open wider. I don't know yet how I might add to the mouth's inside, but I'd like to be able to add teath and a toungue of some kind. I need to do some background research on the dewback and see if there is any established information on it. I know someone mentioned somewhere that the dewback was suposed to be herbivorous and NOT eat my rebels.... so I'm thinking baout adding some kind of crushing or grinding teeth to the inside of his mouth.
I havn't figured out HOW i'll do that yet though.
my second plan of action on this is to paint a diamond pattern in black and grey colors along his back to simulate a more scaley apearance.... I'm not sure yet though if I realy want to do this as I don't think it's cannon... but that has never been a real issue with any of my other customs! :P lol
I have a book excusivley about the wild life of starwars that has quite a bit on dewbacks
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I've looked up a little bit about that book, thanks helix. Does it depict the dewback with any other coloration?
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Spud you're talking about Pointillism. If you're going to do this, try it first on a test subject (like some sheet plastic) and see how a section of pattern comes out.
You'll have to work small and I'm not sure how scales on leathery base texture will look. However, I think you have got the right idea here and I can see where you're headed with it.
KEEP IT UP and STAY ON TARGET!!
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Spud you're talking about Pointillism. If you're going to do this, try it first on a test subject (like some sheet plastic) and see how a section of pattern comes out.
You'll have to work small and I'm not sure how scales on leathery base texture will look. However, I think you have got the right idea here and I can see where you're headed with it.
KEEP IT UP and STAY ON TARGET!!
sten... I don't then I'll be able to pull off what I want with that technique, the more I think about it the more I think it'll just be too dificult.
What I'm thinking about doing now is using spray paint and using globs of rubber cement glue to cover areas that I want to keep certain colors, much like the way HB did his hovercraft. I am hoping that the rubber cement will give it a natural looking shape as well as be able to form the shapes that I want done.
I think I'm going to start with a base coat of rust brown, do a few rust collored stripes by coating it with the glue, then come back and give it a light spray coat of black. then come back and do the undderside a more prominant white. Then do white spots by hand...
the other option would do the entire dewback in white primer FIRST, then make the white dots show through by dotting it with the glue... thenn go back and do brown stripes, and finally give the back a light coat of black over it all... and then do touch ups where necessary by hand.
I'm hoping I don't ruin the dewback though.... does this sound like a good idea to you guys?
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Makes me nervous just thinking about it. Good job on opening the mouth. I'm with you in that I wish they would have molded some scales on the new one. I think it would have made it a bit easier to paint if there were some drybrushig to be done.
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well... I owe my parents a good sum of money now for a variety of things... and I'm going to have to start paying on student loans soon... And I don't have a job (yet...)... so, yeah... not having a source of income sucks.
I have been out of school for ten years, only paid on that thing for a year and a half, there are ways, my friend.
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The good news is that if you screw it up, you can just spray paint it a new base coat again :P
Try your idea out on some cardboard first... at least the color combinations.. nothing lost for practicing. Or have HB photoshop up your idea? =)
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lol sten I was actually messing around with a photomanipulation of the dewback myself last night but couldn't get it to do what i wanted it to...
guys I got another question for yall to mull over while I work on this project. yesterday I picked up an obi-wan's jedi starfighter, the longer one, at the flea marked for $9.00. Seemed like a good deal so I couldn't pass it up. I figure I can customize it and sell it on e-bay (or keep it if I like it enough!).
but I'm at a loss for ideas. anyone got a good idea of what I should do to it? and I don't want to just paint it another collor and call it another jedi's ship. I want to modify the ship so that it looks different too.
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I've looked up a little bit about that book, thanks helix. Does it depict the dewback with any other coloration?
i think there was an albino in somewere there but whos to say that theres only 1 species on all of tatooine
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helix from what I've read up on it there are at least 3 documented species. the normal docile dewback, a mountain species, and an agressive variation of the regular ones which is "canabilistic" and will eat just about any small animal including it's young.
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helix from what I've read up on it there are at least 3 documented species. the normal docile dewback, a mountain species, and an agressive variation of the regular ones which is "canabilistic" and will eat just about any small animal including it's young.
cool, i figured there had to be more, thinking of them being a large lizard, i can just picture a 3 ton male doing terretorial pushups and throwing a rider flying, LOL
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I picture a male doing the whole lizard head bob/push up thing. that'd be great.
I read that during the mating season all dewbacks have an urge to return to the same place to breed, and even domesticated ones have to be let go so they don't hurt themselves (or their owners) while they fight the instinct to breed.... pretty interesting but it raises the questions about dewbacks which are taken offworld... what happens to them? do they know if they aren't on tatooine?
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i decided that the way I was going to attack this project is to first paint a coat of black on JUST THE TOP of the dewback... then come back with brush on paints and paint on my patterns. The bottom of the dewback will be left it's original color.
here is the black on it so far:
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/015/e/7/custom_dewback_wip_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
created ann interesting effect didn't it?
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it doesn't look too bad Devin!!! the way you were talking you almost had me convinced it wouldn't work but its looking great so far...
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Yes, great first step!!
I like it!! I think it makes for a very interesting effect and will blend well with the pattern you plan to put on it.
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I finished up the dewback this morning. Idk if I realy like the final result, I definately like it better than the original, but IDK how well the spots came out... let me know what you guys think:
the mountain dewback is a species of dewback which makes it's home in the rocky mountainous areas of tatooine. More agressive and territorial these dewbacks have vibrant colorations and patterns to help break up their pattern against the rocky alcoves they live in.
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/017/1/a/mountain_dewback_5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/017/f/6/mountain_dewback_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/017/4/b/mountain_dewback_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/017/e/c/mountain_dewback_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/017/f/2/mountain_dewback_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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sweet dewback dude!
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I don't know, buddy. I liked it better in the shot where you had just put on the black.
Where is that shot where we first started talking about this? Do you think it would be harder to simulate the coloring on that lizard?
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yeah i agree with Clint... im not too sure about the spots either he almost looks like some hippys got ahold of him (flower power!!) the red along the spine looks pretty good too but it needs something else, i cant think what but maybe a more earthy color
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I think the flash makes the grey (they are actually a light grey) spots show up in contrast too much. I think I'm going to go back over them with a darker color to soften them a bit...
I'm not too thrilled with the spots either. They do look like flowers... I think maybe it could have done without them entirely, but it's too late now. I hope I can soften their effect by masking over them with somethign a little darker.
bottom line is I think I'll probably sell this one and get another dewback and try it again.
btw clint, here is a better reference picture of the lizard who's markings I was trying to recreate:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Collared_Lizard_Albuquerque_NM1_1.JPG)
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I like it, but I agree with the others. It needs something. I like the spots, but I think they don't match the lizard example. You should be able to scrub down the dew back and get the paint off with out too much trouble.
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I just found this. Devin, I think it does it better justice than the original paint job and can see the scale effect you were going for. I like the mountain dew back name though. Great one.
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Spuda once again awesome job.
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Excellent work on the dewback I really love the paint scheme you've given him.
Ron
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thanks for all the compliments/criticisms guys. Both are greatly appreciated. I think I might get a second dewback soon to do another.
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If you were to rid yourself of that dewback i would gladly buy it. I love the paint scheme and it looks exactly like some overgrown Hssiss from korriban in the KOTOR games!! Good job on it. And yeah, my camera does the same thing when it flashes. A dark blue ends up looking extremely light. I now photograph without flash in natural light. Does the customs more justice.
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lambon if your interested in one I can paint up a second one in no time... I just need the money for the purchase and then shipping costs. PM me about it if your interested,
that goes for anyone btw! PM me if you would like me to do any customs for you and we can work out the details.
hey guys, while I'm writing this, I need your help. I have an obi-wan's jedi starfighter, the long pointed one, and I have no idea what to do with it. I want to customize it more than just repainting the color scheme. anyone got any ideas? I'm thinking about ading some larger wings and fins onto it and some bigger weopons...
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before you get rid of it why dont you try a different color for the spots maybee a darker color . or a darker red ::)
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before you get rid of it why dont you try a different color for the spots maybee a darker color . or a darker red ::)
because I like this one the way it is and I'm not getting rid of it. :P
like I said, if anyone is interested in having me paint them a dewback similar to this one (I'll even do different colored spots or leave them out alltogether) then let me know and we'll work out the deal.
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oh my bad sir i miss understood.... :'(
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lol np man. I just wanted to make sure everyone realized that if they wanted to get one like it that I'm willing to do a completely original one and give (for the price of the figure and shipping) them the new one.
well guys I'm going to start customizing my at-st and my obi-wan jedi starfighter today (thanks for all the wonderful suggestions on what to do with the starfighter :P )....
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one of my favorites... the republic fighter tank
"Forrested Terrain Fighter Tank, FT-FT"
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/202/9/3/christian__s_dio_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/207/e/f/ft_ft_wip_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/207/a/9/ft_ft_back_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/207/f/3/ft_ft_back_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/207/0/e/ft_ft_front_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/207/f/5/ft_ft_front_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/207/f/1/custom_clone_troopers_and_tank_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/207/6/c/ft_ft_removables_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/207/0/c/ft_ft_gas_tanks_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs48/i/2009/207/f/b/ft_ft_cocpits_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/207/d/6/ft_ft_bfg_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs47/i/2009/207/7/7/ft_ft_in_the_field_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/207/a/a/ft_ft_in_the_field_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs49/i/2009/207/7/c/ft_ft_in_the_trees_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs46/i/2009/207/8/4/ft_ft_custom_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I've been thinking about going back to this one and redoing it's camo scheme... I wanted it to resemble the kashyyyk trooper camo but be a different color combo... it just didn't come out like I wanted it too. the brush strokes look to much like... well... brushstrokes. Unfourtunately I don't have the steady hand nor the patience that the uber camo painters like clonehead have!
THIS IS THE BEST CUSTOM EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE THE FIGURES WITH IT AND THE VEHICLE AND THE WAY U SHOWN IT OFF OUTSIDE
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ha... too bad I repainted it :P
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Excellent work bud, keep it up.
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ha... too bad I repainted it :P
lol oh well if you are happy with it i am ;D
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my current project was going to be trying to customize/weather the at-st to make it screen accurate. BUT... I just can't bring myself to do anything to it. I am still trying to find a solution for the one detail on the back of each leg, the little bar thing that connects to the back of the ankle joint. That is the only thing I want to fix. I might try weathering it just slightly to bring out some of the details but I am very hesitant about it.
my other project is to customize a jedi starfighter I picked up recently. I have been talking to a guy on deviantart who does kit-bashed ship concept images and asked him to mock up some variations on the starfighter design that I mgiht be able to make using the actual toy... here are a few he came up with:
(http://st.deviantart.com/minish/main/blank.png)
(http://st.deviantart.com/minish/main/blank.png)
(http://st.deviantart.com/minish/main/blank.png)
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs30/f/2008/048/9/f/Doc__s___Specialty___Kitbash_by_kavinveldar.jpg)
(http://st.deviantart.com/minish/main/blank.png)
I especially like the last one because it is the closest to the original configuration and thus won't need as much scratch building! The others are so far off from the original concept that it'd take alot of kitbashing or scratchbuilding to make it, and if at all possible I don't want to have to cut up another vehicle to make it.
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Holy S%#@ WOW I'd love to see that when it's done.
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hmm well crap, for some reason it won't show his other pics, here are links to them
http://st.deviantart.com/minish/main/blank.png
http://st.deviantart.com/minish/main/blank.png
http://st.deviantart.com/minish/main/blank.png
http://st.deviantart.com/minish/main/blank.png
all of his mock ups are realy well done, his screen name is kavinveldar, here is a link to his gallery: http://kavinveldar.deviantart.com/gallery/
I've actually decided to go with a look similar to the image that actually worked in my previous post. I scrounged up two vintage x-wing bottom wings and am working on various configurations with them on the jedi starfighter.
Which brings me to my next issue, I am running one laser cannon short, I realy need another vintage x-wing laser cannon. Anyone have an extra laying around they could give me?
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just a few shots of the jedi-starfighter mocked up with the x-wing engines and wings.
I am planning on adding the x-wing parts to the bottom of the starfighter. The spring loaded winglets have been modified so that only the top ones work, the bottom ones have been glued shut so that the new engines and wings can be attached there. The pop off sections will still work as well and I'm debating ways to modify them.
I also opened up the starfighter to study the inside mechanics as I was curious to how it functioned... I don't recomend doing this. I don't know if you can tell it from the first two photos but the insides of the jedi starfighter have ALOT of moving parts and ALL OF THEM are spring loaded... opening this thing up is a recipee for disaster! Although... i was able to find all the parts that fell out and put it back together and THANKFULLY it still works! :P
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/032/4/6/jedi_starfighter_inards_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/032/6/5/jedi_starfighter_insides_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/032/5/2/starfighter_mock_up_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/032/9/8/custom_jedi_fighter_mock_up_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/032/8/2/custom_jedi_fighter_mock_up_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/032/3/b/custom_jedi_fighter_mock_up_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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Spud those links don't work for me...but your project is looking awesome. I really like the look of this ship in the overhead shot. What a great idea...my only input would be don't overdo it with all the laser cannons. I think it might look better with less of them. Just personal opinion but I can't wait to see where you go with this.
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This looks to turn out pretty cool, Devin. I like how it looks with the JSF sides detatched and the missiles exposed.
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Yes, Devin, that looks awesome! I can't wait to see it all finished up and painted!
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LOL, Spuda, you never cease to amaze me with your customising methods...kind of reminds me of that evil kid from Toy Story, but in a good way!!!
I'm rather partial to ship customs, and this is looking very nice indeed....
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I really like the profile of your latest. The X-Wing wings and Starfighter body work well, and make an attractive profile. Can't wait to see how this comes together.
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You gave me some Ideas of what I can do with some old x-wings that I have that aren't the right scale. I'm gonna make me some Uglies.
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LOL, Spuda, you never cease to amaze me with your customising methods...kind of reminds me of that evil kid from Toy Story, but in a good way!!!
I'm rather partial to ship customs, and this is looking very nice indeed....
kit bashing is the only way to go for ship customs... I just can't scratch build worth diddly squat.
Thanks everyone for the comments... I hope I get further along on this one than I did on my y-wing... (which I've never posted here I don't think).
I plan on attaching the new wings with a couple screws, then gluing the two together with a two part epoxy (super glue doesn't hold large stuff like this together), and then using apoxi sculpt modeling clay to fill in the cracks and try and make it seamless.
I have NO IDEA what color scheme to go with when I finally get around to the paint work. Any suggestions? I don't want it to be anythign that's been done before.
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If it was up to me, I'd go with the figure that goes with the ship, Take My custom Mando white paw White, Red And Black. With some ( not to over do it with the battle damage , maybe some blasters marks or something.) Or Paint it to match your Mando of yourself.
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I havn't decided on what figure to put with this ship yet...
I'm afraid that my super arty figs might not even fit in it... I know that the tie pilot will not fit in it, and my western mando (self mando) won't fit in it because of the way I made the armor (the figure just doesn't sit down right).
I'm thinking about super articulating the female x-wing pilot from the evolutions pack and then using it for the pilot of this ship. I am going to go with a highly stylized version of the x-wing pilot and deviate from the standard look of the pilot and make it more of a "jedi-pilot" figure.
the way I see it is that the jedi wouldn't all just wear their robes while flying... I figure some of them would wear a modified flight suit as well, just like the clone wars jedi-generals wear modified clone armor.
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I like the idea of the modified flight suit for a jedi pilot. Sounds like a cool idea. I do believe that you had posted that y-wing custom here. You are talking about the two seater version?
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yeah, the two seater... had I posted it here?
eh, I probably did. I never have finished the dang thing. It's still in pieces sitting in my junk closet...
I'm going to start working on the starfighter and the pilot b4 work today. maybe I can get a little bit done.
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just a few tiny updates (please excuse my messy backgrounds as these were taken on my work desk and my "customs display rack" has suffered a pile up of shelf divers beneath it.... I just havn't gotten around to tidying up and it's starting to show :( )
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/039/9/6/jedi_starfighter_wip_5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/039/d/c/jedi_starfighter_wip_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/039/3/3/jedi_starfighter_wip3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/039/7/2/jedi_starfighter_wip2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/039/6/9/jedi_starfighter_wip1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
so.... the misiles on the pop out wings are from the gi-joe glider I got a while back... I realy like the way they look on there, but So far I havn't been able to get them to stick well enough. When the wings "pop open" they usually come unglued and get catapulted across the room... I'm currently trying to figure out a good way to get them to stick better. there isn't enough room on the wing to drill through it and put in a screw or anything like that...
and I tried using two part epoxy resin glue but that didn't hold either.... I might have to just scrap that detail entirely...
However I have gotten the x-wing wing additions secured. I attached a single screw to each to hold it on as well as filling in the space between the added wings and the bottom of the jedi-fighter with two part epoxy resin for extra security. so far I've had no problems with them moving or wanting to wiggle...
I'm just putting the final touches on it now (like the missiles), if I can find another x-wing cannon for the other wing I'll be able to primer it all up and start painting (if the weather ever lets up...)
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Love the wing addition and that extra thruster, but that missile looks slightly odd to me. Don't know why, maybe its the shape. Either way, that vehicle is looking awesome. Paint scheme?
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I hear you on the weather thing. Expect this one to hit the fp when finished.
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I hear you on the weather thing. Expect this one to hit the fp when finished.
I'll never get it finished if I don't find me another x-wing laser cannon! :(
I might scrap that missile on the pop out winglet, since it doesn't want to stay on....
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looks good so far dude!
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Spud I like where this is going.
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so, if your keeping up with my figure thread you saw my comments about the at-rt project I have going. I got the revel at-rt model and I was actually very disapointed in it. It was super fragile and several pieces broke as I was puting it together/ posing it. SO... it's going to stay in the configuration it is in and my arf trooper is going to be it's pilot... the figure that came with the model was pretty sad.... a rubber dummy of an at-rt driver.... ::)
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/090/5/8/revel_AT_RT_vs_TCW_at_rt_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
so here is what i've gotten done on my tcw at-rt, it's in pieces at the moment getting ready for primer paint
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/091/6/3/tcw_at_rt_disasembled_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
then after the paint is finished I'm going to work on installing some LED lights. :)
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Spuda, I know what you mean about the Revell Kit, my sone was unconsolable when the leg parts snapped...
Nice little project here..I'm keen to see you work you magic!
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Dam bro atleast now I dont feel to bad about the mess on my work area just call it organized chaos. Makes everything easy to find.
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Dam bro atleast now I dont feel to bad about the mess on my work area just call it organized chaos. Makes everything easy to find.
lol is that a crack about how messy my work station is? I am actually realy bothered by how messy it is right now. All my finished figures are basically piled up in the corner of my desk, I bumped it the other day and they all fell off the rack I'd built and I never put them back :(. I havn't had time to just sit down and pick through everything and clean it up! Every ounce of free time I've had to work on things has been devoted to projects, and the projects just pile up and make more of a mess! ::)
anyways, a little update on the at-rt:
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/091/9/6/at_rt_wip_primer_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
Got the parts primed and the LED's picked out and the battery pack worked up. The battery pack is going to be 3 button cell batteries in a plastic tube to hold them together and a set of wires to each end of the pack that will be soldered to the batteries. There will be two white LED's in the front of the at-rt as spotlights, one white LED on the gun which will be able to move with the gun, as well as a red LED shining up on the figure from the control pannel.
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ok, here we go guys. I couldn't get an LED on the gun to work like I'd wanted to but here are the results of my LED work:
(http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/300W/i/2010/092/8/1/atrt_primed_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/092/5/7/at_rt_LED_lights_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
as you can see there are two white LED's in the front as "spotlights" and then one red LED in the control pannel that will shine up on the rider
Like this:
(http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/300W/i/2010/092/8/b/crimson_scout_at_rt_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
sorry for the blurry, small pics but I didn't have time to set up my tri-pod and take decent photos... I'll get more shots after I get the walker painted tonight.
btw... if anyone (hangarbay, squirepec?) would like to take that first image and photoshop the color details onto it to give me some ideas for how to paint my red on black color scheme onto this sucker I'd love to see it! I'd realy like to have a refereance of an idea on how to paint my colors onto it, but I have no idea where to start.... someone with a more aesthetic mind should give me a template!!!!!
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very nice, that thing is going to be insane when its finished. Great job!
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Sweet work, Spud. You are the LED guru. Cant wait to see this one painted up.
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Dude, that is tight! Awesome work!
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Sweet work, Spud. You are the LED guru. Cant wait to see this one painted up.
thanks, it's not realy that hard. you just need to get practiced with a soldering iron and solder and then have a mind for how the wiring has to be set up, be able to plan ahead and make sure everything is going to fit where you want it to before you start hacking up whatever your working on...
I put the switch in the bottom of the walker right behind the "hips" because I have a few little greeblies and additions I want to put onto the back of the walker to make it more realistic instead of toony.
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That is awesome Spud. I love the red control panel glow on the trooper. I need to try this sometime. I have saved a few led's from junk toys, store displays and book light that broke. I can't wait to see some paint on this thing!
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that is inzanely cool! awesome work
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its lookin wicked devin! cant wait to see this one painted up!
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Daggone this is downright phenomenal. On the front page Devin. As usual. I loved the Bossk and now this. I would love to see this on an at-st too. Looks awesome.
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Turned out great, I always like seeing added features such as the led work on ships, adds depth. Do you have these set up on watch batteries or AAA for power?
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Nice vehicles! Really liking that AT-RT! bbfet
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I have saved a few led's from junk toys, store displays and book light that broke. I can't wait to see some paint on this thing!
You'd have better luck buying brand new LED's from someone who has packaged the correct resistors with them... using junk LED's in old toys before I've ran accross some that don't have resistors, or the correct resistors, and wiring an LED without a resistor you can easilly overload it and destroy it... trust me, I have ruined several.... :(
good news is that they are actually very cheap and readily available on e-bay and at electronics stores...
. I would love to see this on an at-st too. Looks awesome.
Thanks, I have been toying with the at-st trying to decide whether or not to mess with it... theres a few problems I've run into though... 1: hasbro went all out and realy hid the construction of the cockpit/head area very well, I just can't figure out how to take the sucker apart! 2: Even if I could take it apart I don't think there is any room for a battery compartment that makes logical sense.... 3: other than lights in the cockpit I realy don't know where I'd put any other lights to make the project worth doing....
Do you have these set up on watch batteries or AAA for power?
There was very little room inside the vehicle, a double AA or tripple AA battery wouldn't fit... I wish I'd taken a photo of the set up but it's almost identicle to what I did for the freeco bike. In both vehicles I used 3 button cell watch batteries. They are small and give enough voltage to light up the LED's correctly and will last a long time without having to be changed, which is good because getting inside this vehicle is a B@#$@ and changing the batteries will be too....
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Thanks for the info Devin. How about the book light? It wasn't a cheap one. It telescoped taller and the plactic broke but the wires, led and battery holder are perfect.
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Thanks for the info Devin. How about the book light? It wasn't a cheap one. It telescoped taller and the plactic broke but the wires, led and battery holder are perfect.
I would think that if you use ONLY the LED that was in the booklight to begin with, and ONLY the battery pack that it used then taking it apart and wiring it into a custom should be fine. It's when you start trying to use LED's from something like that with a different power sourcer or adding more LED's to the circuit that wern't originally there when you run into problems. If you use it with the same wiring set up as the original booklight then I think you should be able to use it just fine.
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update:
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/094/8/e/at_rt_black_coat1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/094/8/1/at_rt_crimson_arf_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
as you can see the rider will actually NOT be my wier custom but rather his companion from the comic pack, sporting a new cast resin modified arf trooper helmet (non removable).
what do you guys think of the helmet? should I keep the modified arf helmet, redo a new cast with a non-modified arf helm, OR go with the original scout trooper helmet?
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awsomeness at its best!!! thats a wicked addition lights and that clone looks even more awsome leave the arf head !
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Great AT-RT custom spud. I hope you will make a custom with the Revell version some day.
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I like the Arf helmet, I wonder what the AT-RT helmet (ROTS) would look like? Looks great though Devin.
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I like the Arf helmet, I wonder what the AT-RT helmet (ROTS) would look like? Looks great though Devin.
I wish I had an at-rt driver helmet... that'd be great. I was thinking that since it's the arf troopers in the toon that are driving the at-rt and it's resemblance to the scout trooper helmet would fit in better next to the gen. wier custom.
thanks guys, I'm slowly working on getting it painted, I can't wait to get it finished and get some good shots of it and gen. wier's speeder bike.
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cool at-rt, keep up with the good work men! :)
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TEASER:
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/097/4/6/at_rt_teaser_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I'll take more time tomorrow night to upload more pics.... with more lighting.
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HOLY CRAP NOW THAT IS BANGIN!!!
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thats awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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finished:
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/097/b/2/crimson_shadow_at_rt_10_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/097/a/9/crimson_shadow_at_rt_9_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/097/0/a/crimson_shadow_at_rt_8_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/097/6/e/crimson_shadow_at_rt_7_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/097/6/0/crimson_shadow_at_rt_6_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/097/8/d/crimson_shadow_at_rt_5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/097/6/2/crimson_shadow_at_rt_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/097/1/a/crimson_shadow_at_rt_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/097/c/b/crimson_shadow_at_rt_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/097/8/f/crimson_shadow_at_rt_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/097/4/6/at_rt_teaser_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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There is nothing about any of this that I do not like!
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Devin that looks the dogs mate!
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that is incredible awesome!
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THATS BAD ASS BRO!!
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wicked Dev just plain wicked!!! you are the LED king!!!
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Those pics with the led's are off the chart wickid! I want to see that 3rd from last image Hangarbay'd! or Peck'd for that matter!
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You've got some awesome stuff as always here, devin! I love the Mountain Dewback, very cool idea. I was also looking back at your Freeco speeder, and saw how the red LEDs in the back are bleeding light into the body.... if you want to stop that, you can paint the inside of the body back there black, I've been watching a guy on Youtube who is lighting up the Falcon and does that. But, that's only if you even care, haha. Good stuff!
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You've got some awesome stuff as always here, devin! I love the Mountain Dewback, very cool idea. I was also looking back at your Freeco speeder, and saw how the red LEDs in the back are bleeding light into the body.... if you want to stop that, you can paint the inside of the body back there black, I've been watching a guy on Youtube who is lighting up the Falcon and does that. But, that's only if you even care, haha. Good stuff!
LOL... I thought the bleed through was a cool effect for the engines. If it were anythign else I'd probably paint the inside like suggested, but I thought since it was supposed to be an engine effect it looked pretty awesome glowing like it does.
I do find it odd that my freeco speeder's LED's are alot brighter than the at-rt. I think I might have gotten the LED's mixed up and either used blue or UV lights for the headlights on the at-rt instead of my white ones. :( the red one is bright and looks good it's just that the front lights are rather dim.... but it's not that big of a deal for me to take it apart and resolder all the conections to put in new LEDs!
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Both the trooper and the vehicle are awesome spuda! You've hit another milestone =) Keep up the awesome work!
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mate, if there's 1 thing I like in collectibles, it's lighting! amazing job there!
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thanks for the kind words everyone. after looking closer at my pics I see alot of spots that the flash brought to my attention, alot of shoddy red/black transition spots that need to be touched up on both the figure and the walker. That's what I get for staying up till 3 am trying to paint after working all day....
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finally finished gen. wier's crimson speeder bike. This finishes that set of figures.
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/106/f/1/crimson_speeder_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/106/7/0/crimson_speeder_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/106/0/3/crimson_speeder_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/106/c/6/crimson_speeder_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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Just going by the pics, that's a really nice paint-job! Very good "graphic match" between rider and bike - they almost look like two parts of the same whole.
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cool speeder dude! i love that color combo that you came up with
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B.A.D.A.S.S speeder
Biker Assault Desert Advanced Sand Scout speeder
The SandTrooper Scout is a Trooper which relies heavily on himself and his machine while on duty, and thus knows his machine inside and out. You will not see two sand scout's speeders be modified or equiped the same, each trooper has the freedom to make any modifications he sees fit.
In this particular case the trooper has opted for modifying a civilian built swoop. The vehicle was already designed for harsh climates and needed no special modification there.
This particular bike has an added set of handle bars which lead to added control surfaces and steering vanes which have been added to help control the bike at high speeds.
Also added to the bike are two water containers, several packs of suplies (food rations, and temporary shelter). There is also a working holster for the rider's rifle.
The BADASS speeder is intended for speedy recon and not actual battle so it does not have many weapons. It does however have two concussion grenade launchers on each side giving the rider some defensive capability.
more pics:
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/107/2/0/badass_speeder_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/107/8/4/badass_speeder_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/107/8/c/badass_speeder_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/107/6/6/badass_speeder_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/107/6/7/badass_speeder_5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/107/f/8/badass_speeder_6_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/107/2/1/badass_speeder_7_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/107/e/0/badass_speeder_8_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/107/e/c/badass_speeder_9_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/107/2/f/badass_speeder_10_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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This is freakin' sweet Spud! Great story that makes the whole thing work. I have always liked that speeder bike and I really like your mods to it. The steering veins look better than the original. The Snow Trooper backpack looks just right and you know I love that soft goods holster for the riffle. The paint scheme and weathering really bring it all together. I really like the bike and trooper! He looks even better weathered. I can't tell you how much I like the addition of the scarf with that helmet! I looks like it is meant to be just for him.
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WOAH that is a great speeder/ scout!
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thats really great!
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Agreed! That speeder and Desert trooper are fantastic.
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The sand (B.A.D.A.S.S :D) speeder bike is a great looking vehicle.
Awesome detailing and perfect weathering.
10/10
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The sand (B.A.D.A.S.S :D) speeder bike is a great looking vehicle.
Awesome detailing and perfect weathering.
10/10
thanks FB, I wish I had done a few more things to it that I'd wanted to do, and I may go back and add them. For one I wanted to have a grill plate added to the front of the bike, right under the steering vane's, the blank empty detailess spot bugs me. I think a grill section or intake manifold of somekind would look good there. I also wanted to add some other weopons and gear but just couldn't figure out a configuration that looked well. I also didn't want to make it look to loaded down and cluttered... I think I reached a good balance.
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Wow Devin. You cranked it up a notch again. Love the name. On the front page.
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nice. did it start out as anakin's speeder wen he went out to slice the tuskies?
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Great job Spuda! Your vehicles have been awesome as of late!
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that is drop dead gorgeuess ness i have no other words but that ( literally falls off chair ) :o
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nice. did it start out as anakin's speeder wen he went out to slice the tuskies?
yes it started as that swoop/speeder bike.
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got a couple new vehicle projects. More speeders/swoops. I picked up a 4 pack of die cast motorcycles today from wal-mart. I forgot the brand but they look pretty good and I've used them in the past to make swoops so I'm going to use them to make a few more of various styles.
the first of the bunch is going to be this one:
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/111/6/f/dirt_speeder_wip_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/111/1/e/dirt_speeder_wip2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I plan to remove the wheels of course and replace the front tire with steering vanes and the rear tire with some kind of exhaust nozzle. I plan on making this one into a civilian "dirt speeder" or recreational swoop... It'll be something that you would be likely to see proped up on blocks out in watto's yard or behind some old moisture farmer's garage....
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Interesting...
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Interesting...
I have three other bikes that I'll be doing this too, should start work on them later this week.
If you look back through this thread and come accross the other speeder bikes I did you'll see the end-result/technique I'll be trying with these 4 new bikes.
like this one:
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs49/i/2009/220/e/2/sport_swoop_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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got a couple new vehicle projects. More speeders/swoops. I picked up a 4 pack of die cast motorcycles today from wal-mart. I forgot the brand but they look pretty good and I've used them in the past to make swoops so I'm going to use them to make a few more of various styles.
the first of the bunch is going to be this one:
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/111/6/f/dirt_speeder_wip_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/111/1/e/dirt_speeder_wip2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I plan to remove the wheels of course and replace the front tire with steering vanes and the rear tire with some kind of exhaust nozzle. I plan on making this one into a civilian "dirt speeder" or recreational swoop... It'll be something that you would be likely to see proped up on blocks out in watto's yard or behind some old moisture farmer's garage....
times were hard for the empire, so they decided to crete a new type of lethal trooper to concer rally's all over the galaxy.they were called,DIRT BIKE TROOPERS!!! just kidding mate, awesome customs and i like the way your doing civilian swoops and speeders, it's cool seeing some stuff that normal people from star wars use every day like speeders and delivery trucks
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I just found them at my wife's WalMart today - made by Maisto. I was holding one of them up against one of the new "deluxe" Iron Man figs, the ones w/ the slip-on armor with scads of engine/thruster nozzles.....
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I have loved your past swoops, spud. This one will surely rock as well.
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I just found them at my wife's WalMart today - made by Maisto. I was holding one of them up against one of the new "deluxe" Iron Man figs, the ones w/ the slip-on armor with scads of engine/thruster nozzles.....
doc that'd be a perfect set of thrusters and greeblies to add to some of these. Some of these maisto bikes, and even the 1:18 hot wheels ones (although the hot wheels bikes do not use screws to hold them together and are much more dificult to take apart.... fyi) work realy well for civi speeders and swoops.
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so you guys remember that dirt bike I showed you earlier?...
well here it is now:
F.W.U.P.S.
Feather Weight Urban Police Speeder
The FWUP speeder is an ultralight, bare essentials speeder bike built for urban patrol units in response to the increased criminal activity of swoop gangs throughout the galaxy.
The FWUP speeder is highly meneuverable and able to make drasticly tight turns that most speeders would require slowing down for.
Without weapons capabilities the Trooper must rely on the FWUPS' speed and meneuverability to aprehend suspects.
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/118/2/8/FWUPS_7_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/118/9/c/FWUPS_5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/118/8/f/FWUPS_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/118/b/4/FWUPS_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/118/8/b/FWUPS_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/118/d/d/FWUPS_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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two more shots of the FWUPS
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/118/d/2/fwups_top_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/118/9/8/fwups_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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some more swoop customs
first up is a red Kawasaki swoop
before customizing:
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/118/9/3/kawasaki_swoop_wip_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
after customization:
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/118/d/9/kawasaki_swoop_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/118/9/b/kawasaki_swoop_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/118/f/4/kawasaki_swoop_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/118/7/d/kawasaki_swoop_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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and I'm not finished yet:
I've got two more of these bikes to work with
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/118/c/2/hog_wip_swoop_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/118/a/5/1_18_scale_chopper_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
both will be more difficult to do since the figures don't realy sit quite right on them as is. The handlebars will need to be moved way back to get them to sit righ on them.
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lovin those swoops spud they look wicked!
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Nice work spud! Both are very cool. I would get rid of or add greeblies to the number plate on the first one.
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they look awesome!
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Nice work spud! Both are very cool. I would get rid of or add greeblies to the number plate on the first one.
you mean the front plate of the police bike? right below the handlebars... I was actually going to put another insignia decal onto it but didn't have one available at the time that'd fit it.
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That might work, still with something else added. It just stands out as a number plate to me while the rest is believable. I really like the decals on the back. Oh man what would be sweet is some type of light to signal people to stop. I know the swoop is too small for that though.
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That might work, still with something else added. It just stands out as a number plate to me while the rest is believable. I really like the decals on the back. Oh man what would be sweet is some type of light to signal people to stop. I know the swoop is too small for that though.
I could add a mock light probably... and I'll bet you money I could get a battery in there somehow... but it'd be dificult to get a working LED and all the fixings inside it...
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Those are looking pretty darn good! I love the Imperial Biker Scout one!
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Awesome, stuff, Spud. yep, that biker scout one is my favorite.
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Spuda,
Absolutely love the featherweight speeder, such a clever yet simple idea...I love the paintwork as well!
Typical Spudafett idea...
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Oh yeah, that Urban Police Speeder is freaking sweet Devin. On the front page.
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nice, really nice, bikes and the female rider!
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Very cool Spuda! I have a few biker friends who would love to go ridin with these chicks . . . .till they would run into the scout anyway. Awesome man!!
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ohhhh yeaaa this is great i think you should add paint to the kowasaki
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thanks for the FP treatment guys.
As HB so elegently put it, this was a very simple design and build. and an even easier paint job... The hardest part of these is taking the original bike apart without breaking something that you don't want to break...
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I like it.... I may have to look for some bikes now!
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awesome new bikes, cant wait to see the new ones!
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First off, your Desert Speeder: very awesome! I especially love the back end, it looks like it's nice and packed with gear. That little silver and red bike on page 25 looks a bit odd, though... like the fork with the steering vanes is coming out of the wrong part of the nose area... I think if it were more in line with the handlebars it would look better, but the rest of the bike is good. Your police speeder looks good but it looks more like a bike than a motorcycle, you should kinda bulk it up a bit! I really love that red kawasaki bike on pg 26, but those steering vanes look unfinished! You need to give them some detail, like your desert speeder. Time to Knock it Up a Notch, Bam!
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i really like how you amde the bike into a swoop. :)
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First off, your Desert Speeder: very awesome! I especially love the back end, it looks like it's nice and packed with gear. That little silver and red bike on page 25 looks a bit odd, though... like the fork with the steering vanes is coming out of the wrong part of the nose area... I think if it were more in line with the handlebars it would look better, but the rest of the bike is good. Your police speeder looks good but it looks more like a bike than a motorcycle, you should kinda bulk it up a bit! I really love that red kawasaki bike on pg 26, but those steering vanes look unfinished! You need to give them some detail, like your desert speeder. Time to Knock it Up a Notch, Bam!
great comments. I put alot more effort into that desert speeder (and it was already a speeder bike to begin with) which is one reason it looks alot better than the others.
the silver speeder you mentioned does look a little odd, it was actually made as background filler for my speeder bike garage dio back during the speeder bike challenge.... so I've been meaning to go back and mess with it a bit...
the police bike does look a little sparce, like I said I wanted it to be an "ultralight" but perhaps some bulking up somewhere might help...
the red bike does need some adjustments made to the steering vanes, I agree. Someone on another forum suggested adding another set of vanes as well as makeing them more rounded to reflect the edges and style of thebike itself....
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so it's been a while since I posted in here... I wanted to post this in the misc. thread but that isn't realy a vehicles thread... AND this is technically a star wars vehicle, or at least it was.
It seems most of us think along the lines of "how can I make this NON-star wars vehicle fit into the star wars verse?" and not many people think the opposite... I set out with the oposite aproach in this project. I took a TCW republic hover tank and turned it into a suped up version of the cobra water moccasin boat, and I call it.....
The "Cottonmouth"
The watter moccasin, sometimes refered to as the "cottonmouth", is a feircly venomous snake. When cornered or threatened it will curl it's black body around it's head and rear back, opening it's mouth to display a pure white mouth with two large fangs. This would normally deter any would be predator...
Cobra's legions utilize the Cottonmouth as a suped up version of their versatile water moccasin. The cottonmouth is able to hold a crew of 3 where as the moccasin only held 2. The cottonmouth also has a larger weapons payload. This includes two fixed forward mounted 50 cal. machine guns, an anti aircraft turret, two large diameter missile launching tubes, and two sets of hellfire missiles... this impressive payload makes the cottonmouth Cobra's set of proverbial fangs...
the standard Water Moccasin:
(http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/84/watermoccasin/watermoccasin_iso.jpg)
the Cottonmouth
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/187/8/9/cottonmouth_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/187/7/3/cottonmouth_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/187/1/3/cottonmouth_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/187/8/9/cottonmouth_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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You pulled a reverse on us! Looks good. On the front page.
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Freaking awesome Spud! I really like this, everything works perfectly. Love the decal on the side.
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omg it really floats!~
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awesome!!!!
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That is awesome, Spud! It really took to the transition from a land craft to a water one.
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one word ' speechless'
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Spuda...in your own words...
WOOT
a perfect blend of coolness and playability!
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thanks HB. I always feel that when I am making a custom I don't want something that is going to sit on a shelf and be a static model... I want something that the kid inside me will play with! Posabilitily and playability is a key factor in all my customs...
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That looks great, Devin! You are the master of combining different toy lines!
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so coooool!
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KEWL!
-Jack
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that is amazing how you made a clone intercpeter tank into a cottonmmouth amazing job spud !!!!
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Ever since I did my action fleet version of the Royal guard Tie Interceptor I've wanted to do it justice in the 1:18th scale and make a royal guard pilot.... so I bought a TRU exclusive interceptor and gave it a go....
I also cobbled together my own version of a royal guard pilot by kit bashing together a resin cast royal guard helmet with a resin cast tie pilot helmet. I like the way the helmet turned out but the figure itself I think could be better... I wound up using a menagerie of joe parts to build the basis of the figure and then cut some red fabric for the "robes". I went with a kama and cape style instead of full robes because I felt like a pilot wouldn't need the full honor guard style robes but still needed to retain that royal guard feel.... I think he could be better but I think I'd have to start over from scratch.
There are alot of pics because I couldn't get the lighting right in any of them... the red just doesn't photograph well....
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/196/b/a/royal_guard_tie_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/196/b/d/royal_guard_tie_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/196/8/b/royal_guard_tie_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/196/7/f/royal_guard_tie_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/196/7/c/royal_guard_tie_6_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/196/3/2/royal_guard_tie_pilot_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/196/9/1/royal_guard_tie_pilot_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/196/d/9/royal_guard_tie_pilot_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/196/c/2/royal_guard_tie_pilot_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/196/8/0/royal_guard_tie_pilot_5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/196/1/b/royal_guard_tie_pilot_6_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/196/1/2/royal_guard_tie_pilot_7_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/196/8/b/royal_guard_tie_pilot_8_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/196/d/0/royal_guard_tie_pilot_9_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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sorry for all the pics.... i went camera happy on this one. ???
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great job on the pilot and vehcile they both look spetcular im suprised u bought hte tie interceptor for the 57 price range
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superb custom Interceptor and excellent pilot mate ! 10/10
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its absolutely awesome!!!! :o :o :o :o
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Excellent work!
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very nice. I love the helmet mod for the pilot on this guy. As usual, you are pretty hard on yourself. I like it a lot. On the front page.
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1st off love the Red!!!
It looks great!!!
The helmet and figure are great!!!
The ship is amazing!!!
WOW!!!
I wish I could find better words to say how I feel!!
Great job!!!
Rich
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Very nice repaint on the ship. I really like the figure, that helmet mod rules!
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thanks guys,
I realy am happy with the helmet mod... just not the robes or the figure itself. I got realy lazy with the paint apps on the figure after focusing so hard on the ship. this has been one of the longest projects I've worked on lately, and yet one of the easiest...
when you consider all the things I had to do to put together my "snake monger" armor (in my misc. customs thread) and realize I put that one together from start to finish in a single 3-4 hour period in one day and this tie interceptor and pilot took me almost a week to finish because of all the detail painting and crap....
have I ever mentioned that the painting is my least favorite part of this hobby?
the other thing I was disapointed with were the photos... I just couldn't get a good balance of lighting for the shots of this figure and ship. the flash made the red too bright and washed out the details... without the flash the details didn't stand out...:(
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thanks guys,
I realy am happy with the helmet mod... just not the robes or the figure itself. I got realy lazy with the paint apps on the figure after focusing so hard on the ship. this has been one of the longest projects I've worked on lately, and yet one of the easiest...
when you consider all the things I had to do to put together my "snake monger" armor (in my misc. customs thread) and realize I put that one together from start to finish in a single 3-4 hour period in one day and this tie interceptor and pilot took me almost a week to finish because of all the detail painting and crap....
have I ever mentioned that the painting is my least favorite part of this hobby?
the other thing I was disapointed with were the photos... I just couldn't get a good balance of lighting for the shots of this figure and ship. the flash made the red too bright and washed out the details... without the flash the details didn't stand out...:(
yeah spud i get that problem i can never get the lighting just right
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Great job on the Royal Guard Interceptor! The pilot looks great as well!
-Jack
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Love the pilot great job
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Devin, I love that helmet mod!!!! I think the pilot turned out fine and the ship looks quite minty.
Whenever I upload my pics to flickr, they have a decent editing program available that would allow you to minipulate pics with any lighting issues fairly quickly.
Looks good, buddy.
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Spuda, that last custom is simply stunning. It is my favourite of all your customs I've seen so far. The pilot is just something else and makes the whole set really extraordinary.
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Spuda, that last custom is simply stunning. It is my favourite of all your customs I've seen so far. The pilot is just something else and makes the whole set really extraordinary.
you realy think it's the best one out of ALL my customs?... huh... I think it's the worst (at least of the ones I've done lately). I guess I'm my own worst critic.
for instance, you can't see it in the images but I accidentally spray painted the top half of the interior of the cockpit red because I didn't mask it off like I meant to (derp!...), the black lining around the edges of the panels is pretty sloppy because I didn't want to risk messing it up by masking it off incorectly and using spray paint so I hand painted the black on after spraying the entire thing red... I don't like the color I used for the weapons, I should have used a darker black/silver mix and not that greyish gunmetal mix I used....
and don't even get me started on the pilot figure... lol
I will have to say I do like the general look of the tie itself, It's something I've been wanting to paint up for a long time and I'm glad I've got it out of my system. It'll look good sitting on the shelf next to my baron fel tie interceptor and my target red viewport tie.
but still... the best custom I've ever done.... idk... If I had to pick vehicle whise I'd probably pick the x-wing/viper crossover fighter I did a while back as my best vehicle custom to date (that is specifically star wars).
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Spuda, the images you've shown must hide the truth then...but I just love this concept. I love things with figures to match, and this really is classy.
Perhaps I will retract my previous statement and re-phrase. It is one hell of a great job!!!
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Spuda, the images you've shown must hide the truth then...but I just love this concept. I love things with figures to match, and this really is classy.
Perhaps I will retract my previous statement and re-phrase. It is one hell of a great job!!!
i guess I am my own worst critic when it comes to this kind of thing. I personally just don't think it came out like I saw it in my head, and you all, not being able to see what my minds eye saw in the conception of this project have the ability to appreciate it more I think...
Like I said, knowing what I WANTED in my mind and seeing what I wound up making I feel like the figure is almost a complete failure... I realy do like the way the ship came out (I just wish I hadn't painted over the interior of the cockpit's upper half...)
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I guess that's what happens when you are a perfectionist...It's not good when a project ends like that...
I however still think the concept is great and the ensemble really is eye catching.
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rex lewis the doctor chest is a very good idea for that custom , very good and the tie . if you make another ill fall of my chair and kill myself its that good ( im jealous ) ;)
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Spudafett
I must say, I really like the Royal Tie Intercepter, however, I really love the pilot!
I love how you created the helmet!!!
I read on another posting that you were wanting to get a HISS tank? I've got a couple of them, just collecting dust. If you are interested in them, let me know. I am willing to trade. Contact me if you are interested.
Gwest
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I took the avatar gunship and popped out the side panels on the inside of the cockpit allowing for enough room for a joe to sit inside...
then I weathered it, and applied some ROC decals...
enjoy:
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/218/c/f/avatar_gunship_1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/218/2/d/avatar_gunship_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/218/d/9/avatar_gunship_3_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/218/c/0/avatar_gunship_4_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/218/d/5/avatar_gunship_5_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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thats a great gunship man!
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Looks sharp, Devin.
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I love it, Devin! That turned out slick. Kinda kicking my self because I passed up on one of these.
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Nice work. I have one of these and the Amp suit both were $10 ea. I could not pass that up! I may do the same with mine rather than moding it into a SW ship. I like what you have done here.
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pure .... coolness
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I guess this week is the week for odd joe vehicle customs... after jule's unveiled his mobile pit base project I find this at the flea market:
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/221/f/a/gi_joe_vehicle__by_SpudaFett.jpg)
I have no idea what it's suposed to be... I know it is incomplete. It is obviously suposed to have two of those mini-subs on the sides, and it only has one... BUT for 5 bucks I couldn't pass that up!
oh... and I also got this sweet batmobile with pop-out bat-plane.... I plan on keeping it a batmobile and repainting it, adding lights and customizing a joe fig into my own take on batman.
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/221/f/2/batmobile1_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/221/2/8/batmobile2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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I'd love to see what you do with both those vehicles...the Batmobile especially...I can see that being some mad speeder.
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nice vehicles!
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Mate totally love the Gunship and can't wait to see wonderful amazing things you do with these vehicles.
Ron
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another WIP:
I thought the ravage transformer would be a good base for a basilisk droid, what do you guys think?:
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/223/4/f/basilisk_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/223/f/e/basilisk__by_SpudaFett.jpg)
now... he's obviously not as gigantic as a true basalisk should be... but I think he could pull off the general look of one and I might be able to get away with making it as a "light scout" basalisk or something....
here is what a basilisk should look like:
(http://www.legendgames.co.uk/acatalog/Basilisk_War_Droid.jpg)
it makes me think of a shrimp with wings...
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I think that's a great start Spud! It's gonna look awesome!
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i got that tf ! great idea a bassilik scout hmm i may steal that lol
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Devin, I think that's a wonderful start. It doesn't look that far off. Some bondo, some sculpey, some sanding, some priming, and you could complete that without much effort. Sure, the size is smaller, but so what?
As for your other WIP projects, that Joe vehicle looks like it'll be lots of fun, and I can't wait to see that Batmobile all lit up!
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Wow this is most impressive can't wait to see it painted.
Ron
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DO THE BATMAN JOE CUSTOM !!!
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(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/223/4/f/basilisk_2_by_SpudaFett.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/223/f/e/basilisk__by_SpudaFett.jpg)
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Man this is going to be awesome!
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DO THE BATMAN JOE CUSTOM !!!
lol I'm working on it.... Eventually.
I've got several different projects going right now! I'm going to have to wait until I have a decent day off to work on the electronics in the batmobile, I still havn't decided how to do it yet...
as for the bassilisk it's sitting on my table begging to be worked on too. I'll eventually get to it.
It's almost to the point that I need to take my next two days off to do a purge of my work station and clean up the mess/clutter so that I actually have room to work on these larger projects.
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your customs rock.do you have a custom at-st clone wars? O0
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but i thought basilisk has many variants? so it doesnt really matter even if u don't follow the actual picture right
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but i thought basilisk has many variants? so it doesnt really matter even if u don't follow the actual picture right
I'll go for that! I've read conflicting articles about that. In one it says that "mandalmotors" mass produced them for mandalorian warriors... in another article it said they were captured tech from a rival world.... and in yet another article it said that mandalorian warriors built them and personalized them the way they wanted...
I still need to get back onto this project. I've shifted focus to other projects and havn't come back to this one. I find that with most projects that require alot of building/sculpting I usually put them off as long as possible...
but as for the bat-man project I've finished it and it is now showcased over in my "misc." customs thread here:
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=3567.msg76150#new
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The H.I.S.S. II modified with the POC hiss tank's tread assembly.
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/258/1/8/modified_hiss_ii_1_by_spudafett-d2yt0cc.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/258/6/6/modified_hiss_ii_6_by_spudafett-d2yt0fs.jpg)
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(http://th02.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2010/258/1/4/modified_hiss_ii_5_by_spudafett-d2yt0ex.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/258/4/a/modified_hiss_ii_8_by_spudafett-d2yt0i4.jpg)
Front comparison:
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/258/5/7/modified_hiss_ii_7_by_spudafett-d2yt0hk.jpg)
(http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/89/hiss2/hiss2_front.jpg)
isometric:
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/258/8/3/modified_hiss_ii_2_by_spudafett-d2yt0cz.jpg)
(http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/89/hiss2/hiss2_leftfront_iso.jpg)
back:
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/258/b/0/modified_hiss_ii_4_by_spudafett-d2yt0e8.jpg)
(http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/89/hiss2/hiss2_rear.jpg)
well... what do you guys think? Totally awesome or did I just ruin two hiss tanks?
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Love it...that is an amazing bit of re-working Spuda! are we going to see your it with a paint job?
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Very cool. The tracks look great being bigger for the vehicle. Can't wait to see some paint on her.
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Love it...that is an amazing bit of re-working Spuda! are we going to see your it with a paint job?
yeah... I want to tie it all together a little better. I kinda like the blue but I do want it to be a little different. The red guns defiantely are going to be changed.
any ideas on a color scheme? I was thinking about doing a desert deco.
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That is definitely an improvement over the original. I was thinking of doing the same kind of custom with an original style HISS tank.
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That is definitely an improvement over the original. I was thinking of doing the same kind of custom with an original style HISS tank.
I was hoping to do the same but after messing with the POC treads a little and doing some measurements the original hiss will look WAY wonky with these huge ol treads. It's chassis is just too small I think. It could be done, but I think it'd look funny.
now what I realy wanted was a DTC hiss tank.... but could never find one on e-bay cheap enough for this project.
btw I plan on painting this one up in standard black hiss coloration.
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I do like the newer POC treads better than the original. It'd be sweet if you could do a double tread on both sides, as in, one ramping upwards, the other downwards. Still, I think it looks meaner. can't wait to see it painted up!
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Wow, I keep seeing the McQuarrie concept art that look a heck of a lot like this! Get us that concept snowtrooper they released last year and a paint job to match and i think this HISS is daggone close! Ofcourse I put this on the fp.
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tamer I'm assuming that you are refering to this:
(http://www.starwars.com/img/movies/episode-v/chronicles20100310/2.jpg)
and while I've also commented on the similarities between the two the size variation is huge between the concept art and any version of the hiss tank. Although, the height of my latest kit bash comes closer to the concept art, there are alot of things that stand them apart... I just don't think the vehicle I created would fit into that concept's role...
When I think of star wars I don't picture treaded vehicles, to be honest I think the only wheeled, or treaded vehicles in the entire saga (at least the only ones that come to mind) are the jawa sandcrawlers and then the turbo tank. everything else is either walkers or repulsorlift driven.
To be quite honest I'm starting to wane away from star wars customs. The newest lines of figures are great, but they truly pale in comparison with the POC wave of gi-joes.... Thus, I've gotten into a joe mindset of collecting and customizing more lately than the star wars end of it.
anyways. I guess the hiss tank could be a crossover vehicle. There's no reason it wouldn't fit right into the star wars universe. It's futuristic enough I think it'd work well.
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Really neat conversion on that HISS II. Even though the size differential is there, it does capture the *feel* of the McQ art - enough so that I'd love to see the "Snowmurai Trooper" posed with it!
I know what you mean about the sheer awesomeness of the ROC/POC figs! Heck, even the 25th Anniv. figs fall in there. I'm scooping up Joes, but I'm getting them to create SW customs to illustrate my Fixer tales. Still, cool toys are cool toys!
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Spuda there were those little vintage tanks that never appeared in the movies. Vintage Star Wars MLC-3 mini-rig
(http://www.collingswoodking.com/swvintagevehicles/swvintagemlc3.jpg)
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i'm not saying tracked vehicles don't belong in star wars... your right, there are more examples than just the sandcrawler and turbo-tank mandalore.
It's just that I did make this tank specifically to be a cobra/gi-joe custom... if I ever get a few standard HISS tanks I might make a mcquarrie concept one.
to be honest i never got the concept snowtrooper... I never realy liked it much. :/
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i think they only use treaded vehicles on worlds where magnetic interference makes repulsor unstable... i saw a similar description from the treaded rebel tanks in empire at war, and they have a few of it. there's also that weird looking tank with turrets at weird points from battlefront on PSP, and TIE crawler too.
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i'm not saying tracked vehicles don't belong in star wars... your right, there are more examples than just the sandcrawler and turbo-tank mandalore.
It's just that I did make this tank specifically to be a cobra/gi-joe custom... if I ever get a few standard HISS tanks I might make a mcquarrie concept one.
to be honest i never got the concept snowtrooper... I never realy liked it much. :/
Meant no offense spuda
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i'm not saying tracked vehicles don't belong in star wars... your right, there are more examples than just the sandcrawler and turbo-tank mandalore.
It's just that I did make this tank specifically to be a cobra/gi-joe custom... if I ever get a few standard HISS tanks I might make a mcquarrie concept one.
to be honest i never got the concept snowtrooper... I never realy liked it much. :/
Meant no offense spuda
none taken, I was just explaining my reasoning.
ah... how could I have forgotten the tie-crawler! doh!
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finished it again.. this time I moved the treads up and out to give it a wider footprint but also a lower center of gravity. I added a cockpit cage to the gunner station that had mounts for missiles (it was off an old joe vehicle that didn't have all it's parts, IDK what it was called) and I repainted the entire thing to match and applied decals from the POC tank set.
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/260/9/c/hiss_bash_final_1_by_spudafett-d2yxpsq.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/260/0/9/hiss_bash_final_2_by_spudafett-d2yxpt5.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/260/f/6/hiss_bash_final_3_by_spudafett-d2yxptn.jpg)
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(http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2010/260/8/7/hiss_bash_final_5_by_spudafett-d2yxpux.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/260/b/4/hiss_bash_final_6_by_spudafett-d2yxpvg.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/260/8/f/hiss_bash_final_7_by_spudafett-d2yxpw0.jpg)
(http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2010/260/5/0/hiss_bash_final_9_by_spudafett-d2yxpxl.jpg)
(http://th06.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2010/260/5/4/hiss_bash_final_8_by_spudafett-d2yxpx9.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/260/6/a/hiss_bash_final_0_by_spudafett-d2yxpy6.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/260/7/c/hiss_2_poctreads_by_spudafett-d2yxq0e.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/260/7/f/hiss_comparison_1_by_spudafett-d2yxpyu.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/260/2/c/hiss_comparison_2_by_spudafett-d2yxpzd.jpg)
better? BTW the treads are at an angle... because I thought it looked cool and it was easier to get them to fit in this position if they were tilted. They still roll perfectly. If you look at the original hiss2 the treads are slightly tilted on it too so I thought it was a neat look....
let me know what you guys think
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LOL. I didn't mean to start a controversy when referring this to the McQuarrie concept art. Still, you gotta admit it would look good in the SWverse. To each his own though.
I like the new look, sans the tank treads that are tilted. Having served with some armor while in the service I know what tilted treads gets you. Lots of work! Still, I like the look and the paint job better than on the new version and really could see this thing white with some imperial accents and think it would go great in a Battle of Hoth dio.
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what do *I* think??
BAD-@$$!!!!! Pure & simple! It's Joe, all the way. the paint scheme is just right. Realistically, I agree w Tamer about tilted treads, but this is Joe, so they work.
One thing that struck me and Brendan about the new Hiss is how the treads resemble that on the Snail Droid tank...maybe it is a Sep vehicle rather than an Imp..... hmmm... if you got some battle droids handy, that would be an interesting pic...
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what do *I* think??
BAD-@$$!!!!! Pure & simple! It's Joe, all the way. the paint scheme is just right. Realistically, I agree w Tamer about tilted treads, but this is Joe, so they work.
One thing that struck me and Brendan about the new Hiss is how the treads resemble that on the Snail Droid tank...maybe it is a Sep vehicle rather than an Imp..... hmmm... if you got some battle droids handy, that would be an interesting pic...
hmm the longer this thread goes the more vehicles that are mentioned that have treads! lol I'm going to have to post a retraction saying I'm a doofus and wasn't thinking about it hard enough! lol.
I know the tilted treads are unrealistic. And I think that it's the biggest problem right now with the new configuration, however if you take a look back at the previous version where I posted the comparison pictures with the original HISS2 tank's pics you'll notice it's treads are slightly tilted.... I also think it gives it an outlandish "cool" look which is what I love about the vintage joe vehicles, they were usually so over the top that it's almost laughable!
what do you guys think about the added roll-bar cage for the top gunner? do the missile racks sticking off the side look out of place? it looked ok in person but in the photos it looks kind of wonky and out of place to me. Funny how a photo's perspective can bring out details that wern't noticed before...
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I like the roll cage and think perhaps the missle racks might look better to you if there were two more on the other side. I think they look fine though. I like the color they give the whole vehicle too. It really is a nice vehicle mod Devin, much better than the original and the newer one.
I do apologize if my perspective always draw back to SW as that is my chosen like. I really do like seeing all the great non SW conversions and customs you do too. It really is quite jaw dropping to see the modfications you can make as well as the light effects you can add.
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I like the roll cage and think perhaps the missle racks might look better to you if there were two more on the other side. I think they look fine though. I like the color they give the whole vehicle too. It really is a nice vehicle mod Devin, much better than the original and the newer one.
I do apologize if my perspective always draw back to SW as that is my chosen like. I really do like seeing all the great non SW conversions and customs you do too. It really is quite jaw dropping to see the modfications you can make as well as the light effects you can add.
why apoliogize? I used to be the same way! For instance I mainly look at the joe figures and think "hmm that part looks like it could be used for this Star Wars character!!" lol.
There is already an arctic version of the hiss tank out there that might work well for the star wars samauritrooper concept tank.... it was an internet exclusive though and kind of rare.
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There is already an arctic version of the hiss tank out there that might work well for the star wars samauritrooper concept tank.... it was an internet exclusive though and kind of rare.
Thats just my luck it would be rare. If I ever get around to doing the other projects I want to do I would love to see the McQuarrie Tank realized. I believe I might know who I will try to comission for this once I get my main Walker Hangar done.
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I just got caught up reading this thread. Devin, I love what you have done here. The details on that hiss tank are really cool compaired to some others. I love the treads and the mouting position but they seem to be at too much of an angle. Just my opinion on that one aspect but the whole thing is just KILLER! I can see where others are going with the concept vehicle but this just looks nothing like that vehicle. I can say it reminds me of it but honestly does not look the same. I think your base vehicle could be modded into that if you were to take a different rout. I LOVE the cage you added for the gunner, totally bad ass and a bit more realistic for me. I am also glad you forgot the desert paint scheme and went with this one. It seems everyone goes with a desert worn look. As far as the missles, I like them, even just on one side. Joe stuff doesn't have to make sense, look at all the wonky vehicles they have released! This is a perfect vehicle for the Joe universe, well done!
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epicness... maybe u can have a separate elevation for the top cannon? it looks like an artillery cannon when u lift up the top turret's cockpit frame thing
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I think the "lopsided" missile-mounting is fine. The Bradley only has a missile-box on one side, too. Plus, I think the roll-cage looks a lot better than the gunner just being exposed. I'm not bothered at all by the tilted treads - it's a Joe/Cobra vehicle, after all. It LOOKS good - and for Joe-stuff, that's the deciding factor, imo.
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Love the finished product! I think it looks better than the stock version of the new HISS tank. If Hangarbay hooks me up with some tank treads I'm going to build something like this.
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thanks guys. I've decided to go ahead and straiten the treads. Won't be a dificult fix. I'm then going to fix some painted spots, mainly on the turret and then i'll add some weathering and then coat the entire thing in a clear coat to protect the decals and the paint job...
I was thining that maybe the ice dagger (is that it? idk...), the arctic joe vehicle that was blue with the pop up missile box in the back end... that was release for the ROC line might be a good base for another kit-bash using these treads.
now I've got to figure out what to do with the ROC tank's awkward looking top half...
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Send it to me... :D
Yep on the Ice Dagger - I have one sitting about, waiting on me to have time to whip out a custom from it.
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I seem to remember a rather awesome at-st like vehicle you made using styrene and am thinking that body attached to some at-st legs might look cool!
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I seem to remember a rather awesome at-st like vehicle you made using styrene and am thinking that body attached to some at-st legs might look cool!
ya know... that isn't a bad idea. I might have to just make a walker out of it! great idea. It even has joints at it's "shoulders" that would be good anchors for mech arms!... THANKS TAMER! great idea! I was realy stressing about what to do with it and whether or not I'd wasted the money on buying the toy JUST for the treads. now to find a cheap at-st... anyone got an old POTF chicken walker they don't want!?
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i'm not saying tracked vehicles don't belong in star wars... your right, there are more examples than just the sandcrawler and turbo-tank mandalore.
It's just that I did make this tank specifically to be a cobra/gi-joe custom... if I ever get a few standard HISS tanks I might make a mcquarrie concept one.
to be honest i never got the concept snowtrooper... I never realy liked it much. :/
Meant no offense spuda
none taken, I was just explaining my reasoning.
ah... how could I have forgotten the tie-crawler! doh!
I'd love too have a vehicle of that
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Cool. The Hiss has always been one of my favorite Cobra vehicles.
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i'm not saying tracked vehicles don't belong in star wars... your right, there are more examples than just the sandcrawler and turbo-tank mandalore.
It's just that I did make this tank specifically to be a cobra/gi-joe custom... if I ever get a few standard HISS tanks I might make a mcquarrie concept one.
to be honest i never got the concept snowtrooper... I never realy liked it much. :/
Meant no offense spuda
none taken, I was just explaining my reasoning.
ah... how could I have forgotten the tie-crawler! doh!
I'd love too have a vehicle of that
therfe was a 1:72 model kit floating around a while back that was in good scale with the action fleet vehicles at about 7 inches long... I think there was even a resin kit that came wiht just the treads that you could kit-bash onto an existing action fleet tie....
I don't know how you would manage making treads for a full size 1:18th scale tie though... it'd be dificult to make them and make them actually work. I'd think it'd be pretty simple however to make a large MOCK up version with small hidden wheels underneath them so that it still rolled (much like the old way hasbro did the joe vehicles that had treads...)
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I always envisioned the TIE-Crawler as having treads more like the Snail Tank or the new HISS, not that ludicrous slab-sided monstrosity. So maybe I should go buy another new HISS and find a smaller TIE and make my own version of the TIE-Crawler.
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Spud, I love the missile and modded gun mount. Something about the missiles buggs me. I think that it is the harsh red color and think that a more industrial tone with some markings or instruction/warning type decals would give it a more real feel.
I too think that the angle on the treads is a bit much and am glad that you are going to change it. I would love to see the rumored "walker" version of this. I am racking my brain trying to imagine what legs would look best on this one. The ATAP back legs could work if you could find 4 of them but some trial and error would be necessary to determine if it had the right look.
Awesome mods, my man!
Oh, I do agree with you on those new joe figs.. They are straight up sweet and I have picked up several already.
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I believe I have worked out a trade for the old POC tank body... so this one won't be customized. If I get another POC tank in the future it might be.
I don't know that there is a smaller Tie body doc... I've seen concept art though that pictured the body of the tie crawler more like that of vader's tie... so that might be a good base to start.
clint, the harshness of the missiles was an issue I had as well... of course it's a personal battle over "simulated reality" and "classic joe".... do I make it look more realistic or do I keep that classic look of the outlandishly bright colored missiles? lol
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Curse you, Spud!! A new POC HISS now sits here, glaring at me as it awaits customization!! :D
I have a plan.....
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Curse you, Spud!! A new POC HISS now sits here, glaring at me as it awaits customization!! :D
I have a plan.....
do tell... ?
I can't wait to see what you do with it... The POC tank that donated it's treads to my custom has found a home with someone else so I won't be doing anything to it... but I do have another POC tank that is going to be customized pretty heavy.
I'm going to try and straiten up the treads and see what that looks like today and I'll probably take it outside and get some good "action photos" of the tank out in the wilds.
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Spuda, you hit the nail on the head with this one my fine custom making friend!
Love the colour, love the parts, love the tracks, love the concept and loooove the guns!!!
One hell of a fine piece of custom heaven!
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Well, it involves a set of legs if I can find them... that's the current quest...
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Spuda, you hit the nail on the head with this one my fine custom making friend!
Love the colour, love the parts, love the tracks, love the concept and loooove the guns!!!
One hell of a fine piece of custom heaven!
it aint over yet.... check the next post I make!
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well... I tried to straiten the treads and two things happened.... the treads no longer fit as good and the front view looked awkward... so I didn't even take a picture and I left them the way the were... so if you think they need to be strait, make your own :P lol.
I did however go and weather the tank, then I took it outside and grabbed some shots too...
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/263/c/b/hiss_2_1_weathered_1_by_spudafett-d2z56x7.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/263/3/7/hiss_2_1_weathered_4_by_spudafett-d2z5705.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/263/9/6/hiss_2_1_weathered_3_by_spudafett-d2z56zi.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/263/3/7/hiss_2_1_weathered_4_by_spudafett-d2z5705.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/263/a/d/hiss_2_1_weathered_5_by_spudafett-d2z5718.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/263/3/3/hiss_2_1_weathered_6_by_spudafett-d2z5721.jpg)
the dirt on the treads is real dirt... I just rolled it around outside for a little while and thought it looked pretty good so I just left it!
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/263/6/e/hiss_2_1_outdoors1_by_spudafett-d2z57bv.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/263/c/6/hiss_2_1_outdoors2_by_spudafett-d2z57cp.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/263/e/3/hiss_2_1_outdoors3_by_spudafett-d2z57da.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/263/d/3/hiss_2_1_outdoors4_by_spudafett-d2z57e8.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/263/8/9/hiss_2_1_outdoors5_by_spudafett-d2z57f8.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/263/b/4/hiss_2_1_outdoors6_by_spudafett-d2z57g2.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/263/0/5/hiss_vs__bug_by_spudafett-d2z57i7.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/263/1/6/hiss_vs__bug_2_by_spudafett-d2z57ip.jpg)
sorry there's so many pics... I couldn't decide on any favorites! lol
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You know me, Devin, I am more of a realist. I love the missile paint apps and those outside shots rock! damn, I want a Hiss now.
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Yepper, those missles look much better imo too and seem more a part of the vehicle. The treads really look pretty good too Devin.
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Devin, that is pure awesome! The changes you made with the missles and the weathering are perfect. You just cant beat the effects real dirt gives and I love the look you have ended with. The outdoor pics are the iceing on the cake. Thanks for all the pics and I really like the Snake Armor mod you did displayed with this. That is one tough as nails group coming at the Joes! Now I have to add I could see you making a Joe/SW cross over speeder bike for the viper to make him a scout for the group.
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I thought about making a crossover conceptual idea that this is an independant squad of "separatists" that remained independant even after the empire was formed.... now they are more of a mercenary/terrorist group for hire, reaking havoc on "the man" whoever that may be, republic, empire, rebels, etc...
and then of course they can still be the "real world" cobra terrorist organization as well.
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ohhhh that is aaaaaaaweeesome
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that looks really awesome!!!!
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what year did the body of that hiss come out
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what year did the body of that hiss come out
multiple years it was re-issued. it's the boddy of the "h.i.s.s. II" according to yo-joe.com the first year it was issued was 1989.
http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/89/hiss2/
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thanks
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Got me a big-AT-AT yesterday...
what should I do to it!?
Highly weather it?
Paint it up in jungle weathering (IE: endor at-at)
or
leave this giant sob alone and not ruin it!?
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sounds like another spudafett masterpiece
I was always a fan of the Endor AT-AT walker that was shown in the movie that's why I would like to see the jungle weathering walker together with some jungle
AT-AT pilots (ultra articulated of course ;) ).
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sounds like another spudafett masterpiece
I was always a fan of the Endor AT-AT walker that was shown in the movie that's why I would like to see the jungle weathering walker together with some jungle
AT-AT pilots (ultra articulated of course ;) ).
sad sad news....
my super articulated at-at crew don't fit in the at-at!!! :( I'm tempted to completely gut the walker and remodel the interior to be honest. I just think there is ALOT of wasted space in there.
I've got alot of other projects to work on so this one may be on the backburner for a while until I get the nerve up to do anything to her. It's a dificult task for me to validate tearing up a $100.00 toy...
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Hasbro seems to have a problem with forgetting to measure fig's and cockpits on their vehicles - the Joe stuff suffers from this as well.
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Hasbro seems to have a problem with forgetting to measure fig's and cockpits on their vehicles - the Joe stuff suffers from this as well.
doc it's not that they don't measure... its that they don't remold anything. The majority of the vehicles they currently sell are remolded from old vintage vehicles which fit the old Real American Hero and Valor VS Venom lines which actually measured 3.75" and not the 4" of the current 25th and newer lines...
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Well that just stinks! Time to gut that bad boy then. I hear you on tearing up a 1oo dollar toy though.
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Oh, I can understand it on the old, reissued stuff... but WHY does the pilot not fit right in the ROC Gunship? Or Obi-Wan not fit in the Freeco speeder? Seems to me I have routine, consistent problems with the new vehicles having pilots that just do not fit inside when closed up.
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Oh, I can understand it on the old, reissued stuff... but WHY does the pilot not fit right in the ROC Gunship? Or Obi-Wan not fit in the Freeco speeder? Seems to me I have routine, consistent problems with the new vehicles having pilots that just do not fit inside when closed up.
hmm... I didn't have any issues with the freeco speeder. I remember having to wedge his feet in funky to make it work but it did work ok.
I agree, sometimes I don't think they have it together. It's almost like seperate teams are working on the vehicles and the figures and not communicating...
I didn't know about the ROC gunship issue... I guess that confirms my initial instinct on passing that one by...
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ohh god . tearing up a at at ,,,, SWEET ! cant wait
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I loved the new mando speeder bike as seen in the clone wars cartoon... however when I got the bike's toy version I wasn't impressed. The figure doesn't sit well on it and the orientation of the rider looks rediculous. I've wanted to customize one for a while and I've finally gotten around to it. But I wanted to take this a step further and try something new.
I wanted to add lights to this very small vehicle... in the past I used button cell batteries, but they run down quickly and are dificult to change. So instead I'll be building a diorama with a connection point for the speeder to connect it to an external battery pack of AA's.
here is the WIP shots I've gotten done so far:
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/040/d/b/mando_speeder_wip_1_by_spudafett-d3978e9.jpg)
the shell was opened up and alot of unnecessary crap was removed. I realized that ther wasn't a WHOLE lot of room inside for the electronics but enough to put in what I wanted. I decided on two LED's, a headlight and an instrument pannel light.
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/040/a/0/mando_speeder_wip_2_by_spudafett-d3978f7.jpg)
you can see above that I moved the foot petals to the rear and added a power plug connection to an external battery pack.
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/040/c/c/mando_speeder_wip_3_by_spudafett-d3978g1.jpg)
something I never understood with this speeder was WHERE THE HELL IS THE ENGINE? what pushes it? so I added a few greeblies, including an engine underneath....
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/040/0/0/mando_speeder_wip_4_by_spudafett-d3978gy.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/040/3/7/mando_speeder_wip_5_by_spudafett-d3978hh.jpg)
and then finally begun painting... the paint-scheme has been inspired by a mando figure I've already completed.
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Good lord, Devin, that is a flamin masterpiece! I love your mods to the speeder and your idea for a dio designed around a battery connection is problem solving in the custom world at it's finest! The lights look good and I like the color coordinated color scheme of the bike. Consider me juiced about this project.
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OMG!!!!!! Wow. Very Slick.
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Finished up the speeder and threw together a very basic dio-stand. The stand is just a sheet of plastic with a few crates and cans glued down around a battery pack.
One of the drums has the male end of a power connector that fits into a socket on the speeder bike. when the bike is pushed down all the way onto this connection it not only holds the bike up off the ground but also activates the LED lights within the bike. Taking the bike slightly off the conector turns the lights off.
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/040/d/e/mando_speeder_10_by_spudafett-d397h31.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/040/5/f/mando_speeder_11_by_spudafett-d397h3f.jpg)
here is the dio base. It's incredibly simple right now, I may go back and add more detail to the "floor" or paint it a dark grey. you can see in the one barrel the connector for the bike.
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/040/0/4/mando_speeder_9_by_spudafett-d397h2h.jpg)
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/040/1/4/mando_speeder_8_by_spudafett-d397h23.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/040/7/5/mando_speeder_7_by_spudafett-d397h1q.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/040/9/1/mando_speeder_5_by_spudafett-d397h0v.jpg)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/040/2/a/mando_speeder_6_by_spudafett-d397h17.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/040/8/f/mando_speeder_4_by_spudafett-d397h0n.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/040/b/2/mando_speeder_3_by_spudafett-d397h0f.jpg)
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/040/8/3/mando_speeder_2_by_spudafett-d397gzr.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/040/e/8/mando_speeder_1_by_spudafett-d397gz3.jpg)
and to finish up here are a few comparisons of the custom to the original:
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/040/f/0/mando_speeder_comparison_1_by_spudafett-d397h4n.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/040/f/4/mando_speeder_comparison_2_by_spudafett-d397h50.jpg)
changing the orientation of the foot-pedals completely changes the look of the bike. The rider goes from sitting in one of the most awkward and seemingly un-natural positions to something much more fluid that makes much more sense.
what do you guys think?
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as I said over at DA: super cool looking bike !!! and clever dio with nice details. *three thumbs up*
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i love that figure and that speeder is a great addition !
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That bike turned out just plain wicked looking, Devin! I love how the stance of the rider is with the new foot rest orientation.
Remind me to put this one on the fp later today.
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This is great, on the front page. That light connector is out of this world.
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yeah I love the new positioning so much for the rider that I am actually going to convert the other speeder I have but without moving the handlebars. I believe I'll set up my new camera and do a quick video tutorial on how to do it too... if enough folks seem interested. It realy is a simple conversion.
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WOW that is awesome with those skills you will be building a real one in no time bbfet bbfet
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that looks superb Devin fantastic attetion to detail mate and the LED's take it over the top ;D
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Oh yeah man, that speeder looks sweet!
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Great mod to this speeder. The led's and the base really make this a great one.
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Absolutely fantastic! I love the paint job on both the bike a and rider, the cape looks superb in the rear shot and adding lights takes it to a whole new level.
A object of envy my friend!
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awesome
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well done Devin
the paint job looks phenomenal
the lights are definitely the highlight of the custom speeder
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Very Cool Speeder! The lites are hard work, nicely done!!
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I believe I'll set up my new camera and do a quick video tutorial on how to do it too... if enough folks seem interested. It realy is a simple conversion.
pm or email me that video embed code when you do (width 425 pixels please) and I will get that on the front page because I and I know the real cusotmizers here would love to see how that was done.
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That really is amazing work! Newbie customizers like myself should be required to take a class in Spuda101: even earning a "C" in such a class would bring me 100x's closer to the awesome work you put in. I love the Mando speeder (and dio)---saw several of these but wasn't sure I wanted to spring the cash---but you've persuaded me to find one before they disappear from shelves around my neck of the woods...
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JAYSUS!!! :o Effin' CRISPY work, spud!!!
Yah, you better make a vid! Or else!
And a tut on making that duster wouldn't be amiss, either.
I think the fig orientation on the bike is accurate to an old Boba Fett comic, but I thought it looked pretty stupid then, too. eh-heh - I think a local store still have one or two of those bikes, so I need to go snatch them up poste haste.
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hey spuda i really like this speeder even more i bought one over weekend original made really cheap figure very hard to fit on seat night & day compared to yours so bravo !!! ;D ;D ;D
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Hey Devin that speeder simply rules man! I love the paint, lights, mods, and the exhaust pipe is killer. That speeder is a serious crotch-rocket SW style. VVVVVVVOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!! It's gone baby.
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thanks guys... I'm going to do a poll in a new thread for what speeder gets this treatment next so watch for that thread and vote (or give me ideas)
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hey guys, I finally uploaded my mandalorian speeder tutorial.
This is a video going through the entire process, start to finish, for moving the foot pedals from the front original orientation to the backwards "crotch rocket" orientation.
Sorry for it's length, I had a shortened, edited video but I uploaded the wrong one....
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Devin, thanks for sharing this with us. It is now on the front page.
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Devin, thanks for sharing this with us. It is now on the front page.
thanks tamer... something that I noticed is that the anotations don't all show up when your viewing it on the front page... to view the anotations better either watch it full size or on youtube. But most of those are just afterthoughts that aren't realy important to the gist of what I was doing.
Sorry it took me so long to get that uploaded guys.