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Imperial Creative Engineering => Dioramas => Topic started by: hangarbay94 on September 21, 2009, 12:17:51 AM

Title: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: hangarbay94 on September 21, 2009, 12:17:51 AM

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2496/3722862751_365101b5d2.jpg)

I'm not sure, but did I show you folks this?

Before:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3303/3593378361_d1bd7ec216.jpg)

After:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3342/3594187690_eb357d87dd_b.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3567/3593377817_f6f1db0feb_b.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3553/3594160444_7e7556ce19_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2428/3593376859_ce6ab72957_b.jpg)

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: TheCloneCommander on September 21, 2009, 01:35:26 AM

awesome mate i wanna come and play with it looks like so much fun  ;D

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: Clonehead on September 21, 2009, 03:53:53 AM

Yep, you showed that one but not those pics, Jules. I love what you have dome to those sets.

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: Psyclone on September 21, 2009, 04:05:32 AM

Nicely done.  Did you use an airbrush on them?

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: Phatty on September 21, 2009, 04:31:28 AM

I had that playset as a kid, and have it again now.  As much as I loved it before, it looks so much better now!  I'm thinking I need to find another one to customize myself!  Your lighting use makes it even better looking!

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: spudafett on September 21, 2009, 05:04:42 AM

that looks amazing!  Although it looks like rebels have infiltrated the "imperial outpost!" ;) lol.

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: Reconsgt on September 21, 2009, 06:24:47 AM

Nicely done, Good use of the dagobah slime off the x-wing.

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: StenHunter on September 21, 2009, 07:16:32 AM

great job turning a bland white playset into a jungle funfest!!

awesome work again!

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: DS-61-2 on September 21, 2009, 09:27:43 AM

very nicely done, I have the same Imperial Outpost toy I have put mine in my hoth dio I am working on, but this is very sweet

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: Tamer on September 21, 2009, 10:04:19 AM

Wow, this looks great. You ever consider doing anything Battle of Hothy Jules? ;D

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: hangarbay94 on September 21, 2009, 10:47:06 AM

Oh yes, I'd love to do a Hoth custom, in fact that was the first subject I wanted to do a dio about. BUT Hoth is possibly the hardest subject to work with, also it looks as though Hasbro have got their first, their latest playset looks pretty cool! Plus the Professor made the best Hoth dio I've ever seen, I couldn't possibly do better.

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: jkno on September 28, 2009, 11:19:30 AM

Great customizing the playset!!

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: narceron on October 11, 2009, 10:37:56 AM

lame!









Just kidding, thought I'd see how that went over, ;0

Looks great, man.

funny, first dio I wanted to do was mustafar, lol.

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: JTrooper on October 12, 2009, 08:00:18 AM

Awesome outpost 

Hangerbay can you tell me how you did your lighting in the Endor platform send email

Thank you

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: JTrooper on October 14, 2009, 01:40:27 PM

Awesome rebel outpost is that styrofoam or a playset that came out

Title: Re: Custom Imperial Outpost
Post by: hangarbay94 on October 14, 2009, 02:41:16 PM

Jtrooper, firstly, thank you for checking out my work.

I created these sets to go with my Endor Platform as the kids wanted a rebel base to play with at the same time.

Hasbro or Kenner produced these sets quite a few years ago and I just put in low bits for a couple of old, incomplete sets on ebay. Both are the Hoth Playsets, there is one other I didn't buy which was the Probot Playset, which featured a better turret.

I put a LED in the turret and it's now used as a night light in the kids bedroom, my youngest is convinced that the troops protect him at night. 2AA batteries have lasted about 2 months.

To create these sets I used a spray stone effect paint to give the sides a more rocky look. I then spreayed them in a grey basecoat, then added layers of varying earthy and green colours. I used a picture of a rocky/mossy surface as a reference.