The Imperial Shipyards
Imperial Creative Engineering => Dioramas => Topic started by: DocOutlands on May 12, 2009, 07:05:43 AM
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Ok, I figured I'd do *some*thing, even if it's wrong. ;D I haven't made anything *I* consider to be a real dio, but here's one posing of my medical staff. We've expanded a bit since then.
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Wow! Look at all of those FX-7s! I like where you are going with this, Doc. It's good for troubleshooting ideas.
Keep going, please.
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Yeah, it started as a smartalec game of oneupmanship in a serious discussion of first-aid kits. Someone carries a Boba Fett fig in their kit as a way to focus a hurt kid on something other than the injury. So I added an FX-7. It escalated from there, and included an uparmored hummvee medic-wagon in Iraq (the poster was stationed there at the time and really was a medic - so we let him count it as a first-aid kit).
All in all, I started breaking out all the medical gear I had for SW figs...and realized I had a fair bit! So I decided I needed to concept-space a medbay. I think it will end up being a good deal smaller than the sprawl in the pic, but setting everything up like that has let me get a feel for the visual spacing I need.
It has also led into the concept of a Rimsoo dio...
(Rimsoo is from a pair of novels - is the phonetic pronunciation of RMSU - Republic Mobile Surgical Unit...basically the were a couple of books on a SW MASH unit. Very nicely written and have TONS of customs potentials and dio ideas. Imagine a MASH surgical tent scene, but populated with armored clones on the tables with FX droids and alien doctors working on them... CRAP!! I need a dustoff Larty now!) ;D
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Dude! I love the RMSU idea! You have got to work on a scene like that! Naturally, I'm partial to clones but the idea sounds really cool!
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This would make a killer Echo Base medical scene!
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I think what makes the Echo Base medical scene are the furniture props and white walls. The walls shouldn't be hard - I've seen some killer Hoth walls this past week. The furniture, tho... The good thing is that I can reuse those props in pretty much any medical setting at all, from Hoth to Death Star to Rimsoo. Don't worry - there'll be a Rimsoo surgical room dio. Or two. Or... well, we'll see. 8)
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http://fingerandtoe.com/octopad.html (http://fingerandtoe.com/octopad.html)
This is a paper model by Finger & Toe Models, available via RPGNow.com (http://"http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?manufacturers_id=797&affiliate_id=29387") for $4. You may have read my review of the Slagtown: Watchtower model over in my 'Station b'Log - this is from the same guy. ( I'm working on assembling another of his models, a heavy bunker.) You'll be seeing this Octopad show up as a rooftop airspeeder platform - or maybe even hanging off the side! - of one of my styro creations. With the 12" pad, it'll seat most of the SW, TCW, and Joe mini-rigs out there! (Yes, I separate SW and TCW into separate entities...)
Jules, this guy has done most of your work for ya!! ;D
(I have an affiliateship with RPGNow, so if you click on the link and buy, I get store credit - which is really great!)
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what a brilliant idea!
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I need to start a thread for writing up reviews of the paper-models I find and test. A couple of the ones I've already gotten and messed with would be more than suitable for those of us who build dio's and do photo-shoots for photonovels and the like.
This Octopad should actually hold the ROC Cobra Gunship, even if a bit of it ends up hanging over the edge. I need to get it bought and built up, then we'll see how things look. :D
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Great link...for $4 I wonder how he makes any money... Great ideas, I especially like the sci blocks.
Cheers Doc, I see you are back on form!
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Yeah, I gotta wonder that myself! I did pull the trigger on the octopod and the gun tower (which looks suspiciously like a Rebel Hoth turret) this morning. Now it's time to start experimenting! Keke wants one on top of her garage...