The Imperial Shipyards
Imperial Creative Engineering => Dioramas => Topic started by: Darth More on March 14, 2010, 12:53:14 PM
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Hey guys,
I have been working on a bigger model of Mos Eisley for a long time...and I would like to show you some pictures of the buildings and the figures on it although it isn't really finished, yet. But before losing more and more time I prefer giving you a short overview of it. I am still woking on it as far as school is allowing that.
The pictures will come, soon...
List of Contents:
Pages 1-9: Mos Eisley modular diorama - Work in Progress from 2009-2011
- shared project: Artist Agatha Vincent and his Cantina Project for Chicago Comic Con 2019 - Page 9, Reply #131 + #135
- Cantina Section - Page 10, Reply #136
Upcoming Projects and Updates for 2019:
The Story of a Toy Maker
Updates:
- Update of all buildings: Repaint, Modification
- Furniture & Accessories for Tatooine
New Projects:
- Tower Building (Star Wars Battlefront II)
- Window-sill diorama (modular)
Future modular projects:
- Geonosis
- Mygeeto
- Felucia
- Mos Eisley Part II
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So here are the tools and materials I used to build the diorama of Mos Eisley:
List of Materials:
- hobby knifes - saved my life
- ruler - for general measurements, it's actually always good to have two of them
- metal/aluminium ruler - perfect for cutting along with a hobby knife
- set square - regular and big size to measure and draw all angles needed
- pencils
- sandpaper
- calculator - to estimate size and scale (1 meter are 5,5 cm in 1/18 scale)
- styrofoam - cheap and good to work with
- spatula/depressor
- styrofoam glue
- wood glue
- filler/screed
- sand
- plywood / medium-density fiberboard = MDF plate
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And here are some pics of the result...
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I used chipboard/plywood for the base plate. The plate measures 160x110x3 cm (~63x43x1.2 inches). The base plate (~$28), the wooden strips (~$12) and the two pillars (~$60) are from a building supplies store and cost about $100.
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After all strips were fixed I painted the plate in mat black:
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It was a rainy weekend - the best weather for some model building!!
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With a stencil the STAR WARS emblem was applied with silver paint:
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The two pillars and the base plate were expensive, but I can use them for many purposes. I'm also planning on doing different dioramas on this plate like Endor, Hoth, Geonosis or Felucia.
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dude this is incredible! i wanna see it all filled up with some figures!
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Legion my friend your dio is the best. I'm so happy that you now here on the Shipyards.
All the detailing and the sand, it's just perfect. Can't wait to see the finished dio.
great job so far
10/10
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holty ............ that is great there are loads of mos eisleys round here they should change trhe nasme to mos eisly yards lol great wrk man
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Oh Man.............Looks like we got another dio master around here.
Very nice work, Legion! Show us more,, please :o
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Wow! Awesome work! Kind of puts mine to shame scale wise.
Hope to see it full of figures soon dude!
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Hello guys,
To be honesrtI am very ashamed that you are so excited about the three pictures of my Diorama which I only could upload and post with FialaFernbrugg's help.
But thank you all so much for your kind words!
I have to say that I am disapointed of myself because the project takes too many time that I haven't got as a student of the 10th grade at a German school...so I wanted to finish this diorama of Mos Eisley as perfect as possible, but I still have to work so hard for school of course.
The first impressions I got for this project were playing the Battlefront II game of Pandemic( and I also hope that there'll be a third part of this fantastic game!!)
So after making thousands of screenshots of the Mos Eisley map I started to create a first draft of the buildings I wanted to build for the plate.
After the first buildings were done I wanted to upload the first tutorial on how to make the palte-system I invented with a good friend of mine Fabian.
Fabian and I were working on this project of Mos Eisley and we wanted to build the whole map of BFII, first!! But when we had counted the buildings of the map we decided to focus on our favorite buildings.
You see this is a very long story and I recognized that I was only talking about finishing it, soon, but I hardly found time for continueing the project...by now Fabian lost the interest to finish his part of our intended two plates...and I think his buildings are awesome, too. What I was sad about is that the color of my buildings is not similar with the color of the first styropoor glue we used so the color of three of my four buildings is a bit too light.
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So I want to say to you my friends is that I am very happy to read your reactions and comments about my work after the uploading on YouTube has failed some time ago...then fortunately I joined the incredible ShipYards and could upload the first pics of it (be sure that the state of the project has changed again by now;))
So on this point I want to thank:
FialaFernbrugg
-for all the pacience and interest you showed and for your GREAT support for the final publishment on the internet
-for your great ideas and all the appeals to continue working (and I am always missing words when I see your absolutely unique customs)...but I had to convince myself to go on working on the project although I got confused with it somehow sometime....and I also had to buy some suitable figures and accessories for it.
So thank you so much! I am proud to know you!
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SithLord229
-for making me happy every time I watch your fantastic reviews on YouTube and for giving me the idea of making the doors out of 1-2mm thick wood (...)
-for being there whenever I wanted to speak to you although you are still busy with all your great fans and with studying for college without disregarding your friends, your family and your hobby wich is connecting all of us.
I cannot express how happy I am to know You ALL!! Thanks to all of you to share your pictures, reviews, opinions and comments with me and all the other great members!
DarthOrvan
-I enjoyed working with you on this project and I hope that you'll also finish your part of your diorama
-Glad to know you and to collect with you! Please, keep on your interest in Star Wars!
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Great job so far. Can't wait to see how this turned out. I was thinking about making a Tatooine, but decided an Endor would be easier.
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You can be sure that you will see further photos an pictures describing the whole story of this large project. I will finsih this dioram in the next two or three weeks when I'll have Eastern holidays for two weeks.
I am glad to welcome Fiala here to modify my dio for the last steps and to visit the JediCon2010 for the first time with him...
It will take some further time, indeed, to downsize all the pictures I took of every single step of doing this work.
You can count on me. I will show you all of them in the near future! Stay tuned for them and may the force be with you, ever!
Yours faithfully
Philipp
legion078
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Fabian and I were really inspired by LucasArts/Pandemic's STAR WARS Battlefront II video game:
We actually planned on building the entire map of Mos Eisley in 1/18 scale!
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I spent hours of playing this game and exploring every square-inch of this map:
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Before I actually started building the diorama I made several drafts and crafted a paper model of the four buildings:
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Figures and vehicles were used as reference to make the buildings accurate and in scale:
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There will be so many more pictures the next days...I will take some more photos of the model full with figures -as you already said Steve;)
Hope you're doing well!
See you next time here. Looking forward to reading your next comments and to watching your new reviews...
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Nice work. I see you used Battlefront II as a base for your dio. Nice idea. Still can't wait to see how this bubbles over. bbfet
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I've just ventured outside of my comfort zone in the art and photonovel forums and WOW! this is amazing...
I'm very keen to see how this develops.
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Can you give us a figure. For the scale size of the dio it's going to look grat
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this is looking very nice Phillipp great job so far!! welcome to the yard buddy you are gonna love it here!!
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nice diorama!
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...so here we are, finally. But what I was afraid of most was that you would lose the interest in this diorama which was a big piece of hard work so far and it is still unfinished and it still will take some time to finish it that way I thought of before...I had wanted to upload the very first steps of building this dio first and then wanted to raise the suspense from picture to picture...
Finally I'll give you some pics of it's current state because you gave me lots of requests for doing this. I have to say that there are not many pictures of it on the forum, yet and but anyway: The diorama of Mos Eisley is on the front page today....Please keep enjoying the development of completing this little village.
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Before I had finished all window flaps, I already tried to bring some life to this part of Mos Eisley:
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Fortunatley I found some loose metal parts on a jumble sale for a couple bucks. Many thanks to Steve (SithLord229) for sharing his great model, which really inspired me...I was of the opinion that those metal parts are quite hard to find if you want to get some suitable parts for your diorama instead of some normal bolts or hex nuts...So thank you, Steve!
Your dio looks so awesome with all the datails...
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The next big problem still is to create all the furniture for all buildings...and the thing that's worst is that there are hardly examples in the original movies...and I can say that I took millions of photos of every single scene taking place on Tatooine of episodes I, II, IV and V...but the few furniture you see is very difficult to re-construct. So I would be VERY pleased if you could help me by giving me some examples of Tatooines's tables, chairs, beds, accessories ... Thank You very much!
Darth Orvan and I already have built some of the mentioned items, but we need LOTS more...
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cool dio men!
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Shab, this is majorly cool.
Maybe there is a chance that we can do a small German/Austrian Shipyards meeting at JediCon. Let's see if I can squeeze the Con into my schedule...
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Dude, that is really slick! Way to go! Keep us updated as you go along!
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Man that is a big dio great looking can't wait to see the finished product. Thank you for the figures so we can see the scale of the dio. I just have to say we have a lot of talented people in our forums between custom figs and the dios I think we have the best of the best.
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Sorry it has taken so long for me to get here to see your dio but it is coming together nicely. I love the size of this thing! Love the removable roof revealing different rooms inside. Great plaster work and painting. As far as suggestions on filling the rooms, I would repeat some of the cantina and Jabba's Palace style of furnature. Then expand upon that with every day objects and old junk toys cobbled into new creations for cooling systems, generators, kitchen items, bedding, everything you would need in a home. This is a great project! Now my question is is all the sand loose or glued down? It looks loose...
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This is amazing. Great job
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So at the moment I am sick so unfortunately I cannot go to school...but to use the time I'll show you some further pictures of my diorama.
I got some very cool new ideas for the buildings and their furniture, but I couldn't realize them, yet. I hope to become healthy again, soon...because I cannot afford to miss so much lessons at school and I would like to go to the largest fair for models lf all kinds: The Intermodellbau in Dortmund (Germany)...
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Wow, real nice. Its coming along really well. Hope you feel better soon ;)!!
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looking nice soo far!
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Wow, that really looks cool! On the front page.
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Cool, can't wait to see the finished product!
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Oh...well my diorama is on the frontpagem, again...well...fortunately I am doing better, again so that I really can go to the German fair "Intermodellbau"...
On Sunday I will show you more pictures of the detailed building-steps of the diorama...you'll see the matirials, the doors! and the sand!...and I can say you that we had big problems with the doors especially with fixing tfhe sand first.
I hope you aren't bored, yet, but I really takes some time to transform all the pictures I took.
But fortunately I also took some pictures of Fabian's buildings when I visited him last week so I hope you're looking forward to seeing these pictures...
Until then...keep collecting, may the force be with You and stay healhty!
legion078
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Great job on the building. Can't wait to see this finished! bbfet
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great jobkeep up the good work!
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This is one of my favorite buildings in your dio. It looks really awesome and as I said many times before I can't wait to see the finished product.
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You have a new cheerleader!!
My son and I tossed around the idea of doing the same map - until we started figuring out how BIG that danged map is!! So we are going to do like you - focus on our favorite buildings and make smaller sets - possibly that could be connected together to eventually make the full map in 3D. Granted, we'll need my dad's 40'x60' shop - emptied - to do so.....
I'm eager to see how you guys are making the buildings! What material are you using for the walls?
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Hello back,
since I have been very busy the last months I was not able to continue working on the diorama...but now I have a five day break and started working again at Friday to do some detail I had imagined by planning the model a long time ago. The result is making me happy and you can be sure to see some pictures of the datail, soon, but I cannot say a confirmed date, yet because I have to convert all the photos I took, first, that I can upload them...
I hope that you are still interested in this diorama and I will do all possible in my way, but in beginning of June I have time, again, to finish the first plate.
Until then I will give you some older pictures and decent datails to the diorama.
Hope you still enjoy having an update on this topic and I can promise you that I want to bring this to a final end, too.
And I want to share my experience I gained by doing this model and I am sure you have some tips to improve myself so, please, leave a comment.
See you, soon, and thanks for your support.
legion078
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Well, as I looked at all the pictures I need to organize, first, I noticed that they have a total size of 712 MB!! By now I have taken so many pictures of every single step that I'm able to give you some datailed tutorials in chronological order...
So here are some details of the diorama and the four buildings:
-size: 150 x 108.5 cm (59.06 x 42.72 inches)= 16.275 cm2/2.7075 m2
-material: The whole diorama is made of styropor (foamed polystyrene/styrofoam), wood, plastic and sand.
buildings: styrofoam, wood and plastic
doors: wood
furniture: wood, plastic
display board: wood
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Hello back erveryone,
so today is the first day of the 6 week summer vacation!! That means I've time for my hobby especially for my project, again...so now I start to post all pictures of the Tatooine diorama I took to show you all details of every single step...
First I will give you a look at the building's walls which are made of styrofoam:
1. After planning the buiding and it size you cut the wall-parts out of a plate of styrofoam. For the walls I used 19mm thick styrofoam.
2. The second step is to cut the ground and the housetop out of a sheet of wood. I used a 4mm plate for that.
3. Now you have to glue the angles of every wall part and put the building together. If you want to be able to open the buildings top later, please, DO NOT GLUE THE BUILDINGS'S ROOF.
4. The stability of the building is warranted after 6 hours. I used the styrofoam glue of "GENIUS Pro" for glueing the wall-parts and to paint the buildings.
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Then I started to build the stairs for two of the four buildings...
In the first picture you can see the gluten shortly after I brushed it on the styrofoam. The stairs are made out of styrofoam and wood.
So here are some further datails:
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If you look at the picture "stairs-building D" you'll see a little hideout for astromech droids or for any "bad" characters of the original movies like Garindan.
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Thanks a lot for the great tutorial my friend
I think a lot of people here on the yards are happy with some tips n tricks
Your diorama is very well detailed and it's awesome that you have some time for your outstanding project
thanks and keep up with your great work
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Next up I will show you how I made the buildings bottom. I thought it would be best to use a piece of rubber fly-screen.
For painting the four floors I used the following colors of Revell (picture 2).
I put some adhesive tapes at the edge between wall and the screen to avoid that the paint gets on the wall.
In pictures 3 and 4 you can see how I painted the floor of building C with 381 SM.
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looking nice so far!
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Thanks Lux, but there is still a lot to do. Stay tuned for more pictures I'll upload over the next days...
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KEWL!
-Jack
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Toaday I'll show you how I made the building's doors and the frames for them...
Let's start with a little tutorial how I made the frames:
I used a 5mm x 5mm thick staff of wood for the door frames. You can move the doors in between the frames so that you can get a figure through the entrance into
the building (...).
The longer staffs have a length of 14cm and both shorter ones are 12cm long. The size of the doors is 12cm x 7cm so you don't see the doors from the outside when they're behind the wall...
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It's important that the door covers the doorway so that the door cannot fall out of the frame.
In the first picture you can see a frame with a piece of wood of the same size like the doors I made out of 2mm wood and 2 profiles which are each 1mm thick...so the doors are 4mm thick and have 1mm space between the wall and the frame because the frame's staffs are 5mm thick...That's how I made it in the past, but, indeed there are better ways to do the doorframes...
The second picture shows a door from outside the building C...
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That's some sweet work, legion! You are quite the builder.
Man, that door is awesome!
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Nice work!
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The door is perfect. The weathering is awesome.
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yep, that door is awesome! :o :o
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Thanks a lot guys. I am pretty honored that you like the shape I posted first, but there is still a lot to post like the 6 further door-profiles I also have done ...stay tuned for that and have a nice day.
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So here is a detailed look at how I build the doors. The part in the middle is a 12x6x0.2 cm piece of wood and the two pieces beside are have a size of 12x6x0.1 cm and got the individual door profile.
After cutting the profile out of the 1mm balsa wood you can glue the profiles on the middle part from both sides of the door. I used the wood glue of PONAL for glueing all wood parts...
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After the wood glue has dried (after about 6 hours) I painted the doors from both sides with a combination of Revell's beamless 85 and 37.
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...and here are some further ideas of Tatooine's door-shapes I also made:
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I cut them out of paper first. Then I drawed the profile on the balsa wood and cut them out.
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And on the same way you can fabricate the window shutters. I took three pieces of balsa wood so the shutters have a deepness of three mm and bruched them with the same colors of the doors (Revell's beamless 85 and 37).
Then I locked the shutters into the block-ou of the walls.
Depending on how many windows a building has you need quite a few window shutters for Tatooine buildings and preparing them all is a bigger piece of work...
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great doors man, really like them!
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This is just great. thanks for showing us how you do it. On the front page!
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Wow! Those look cool as hell! Thanks for the How-to.
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No problem, guys, and thank you very much for your comments! Stay tuned for more tutorials, soon...
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Awesome door work! I have done a few like this but in cardboard. Great designs!
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Tedious work but it is worth it, they look great.
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Legion078, I have to say, I am totally impressed. Your creations hark back to model making pre-plastics. My father used to build stuff like this! You have an amazing skill, thank you so much for giving us an insight into your creations. You really are a master!
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Today, I will continue showing you further details of the doors and how to build the frame.
In the pictures you can see the five diffenrent door shapes I used for the diorama. For the second plate I will create some more. As soon as I will have adapted the building's wall paint I will do the door frame's shape like in the original movies and comics...
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And here you see that you can move the doors in the frame perfectly, although tje frames are made out of wood...I thought of doing them out of aluminum, later, but that had not been suitable to the wood doors...
Perhaps I will put a painted styrofoam cover on the right side of the frames so that the frame covers the door when it's opened...
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In the last picture of the previous post you can see that the buidling on A2 has got a little chamber on its roof...In the pictures below you will see that it's even possible to include a door in such small buildings, too...Although you are not able to move the doors from side to side like you am at the larger frames, but you can move the doors up and down to open and to close them.
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For further questions depending how to build the doors or for a request of getting the shapes I used, please, write me. Of course you can write me for questions of every topic I posted.
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At the moment I concentrate on all the details I have planned for this diorama like the dump and the droid-trade outside or the laborious furniture inside the buildings...
Here is a little tutorial how I made the two awnings of building B2:
I used the cloak of TPM which is included in the Tatooine Accessory set of 1999. (It's a pity that Hasbro stopped producing those great accessory sets since 2002).
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For doing two awnings out of one cloak you need the following component parts:
-cutter-knife (a whole set available in each model making store for about 10 Euro/8$)
-cloth (e.g. Qui-Gon Jinn's cloak)
-6 toothpicks (or similar wood sticks)
-sewing cotton (accordant to the colors of the cloth you use...)
-needle (not too long)
(-)pair of scissors
First you have to cut the cloak in two halves and remove the four buttons Hasbro sewed on it.
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Now, you have to sew the toothpicks (or similar wood sticks) carefully onto the cloth. Please consider that there is a little part of each wood stick jutting out of the cloth so that you can sting the awning into your styrofoam wall, later.
Then you're finished with the awnings (see second picture).
Fix the single parts where you want to on the buildings...and it looks great!
FOR CHILDREN, BE CAREFUL by doing the steps I explained to you by now. When you work with sharp instruments like cutter-knifes or scissors or when you sew different parts, please, ASK YOUR PARENTS FOR HELP!! You'll see you get a great achievement together!
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By now I built three chairs for the U-buidling suitable to the table I made out of wood.
The chairs are made out of styrofoam and wood and are painted with Revell's beamless 84 (leatherbrown), semi gloss 381 (light brown) and semi gloss 374 (grey).
Take a look at the models of a chair I invented by myself. So the model you can see below is not an original one of the movies. By the way it's quite hard to find some furniture of the original movies. The only examples you can find in Episode I, II, IV, V and VI, but most of them are in the Cantina or in Jabba's palace.
I will do my best to build a lot of further different models of furniture suitable for a Tatooine diorama...
And I am sure you also have some ideas how they should look like and how to build them. Let me know if you do so, please...
1. Cut out a piece of styrofoam (3x2.5x3 cm)
2. Cut three big pieces out of balsa wood (6x1x0.1 cm)
3. Cut out the little pieces of balsa wood for the decor of the chair's bottom
4. After glueing the parts together you can paint the chair(s) (I painted them in the three colors accordant to the building's floor and the table)
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Great fabrication skills, Man! I love that awning build up. Watching your skills in action is inspiring.
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In the beginning of this project I was wondering if there are plants on Tatooine...Of course I read the story of Tatooine, then, on Wookiepedia. Also in the movie of Episde IV "A new Hope" you can see some smaller plants growing on the hills round Mos Eisley, but I ask myself if there are enough plants to guarantee the oxygen supply...after the Czerca Corporation had controlled most of the mines on Tatooine they left the planet, when the raw material was gone...What they left are the Sandcrawlers which were occupied by the Jawas, later...
The Tusken Raiders, Tatooine's original inhabitants, began a war with the new invaders called Rakata and even banished them from Tatooine. But the Rakata gave them a fast reaction and bombed Tatooines surface with nuclear warheads so Tatooine has been radioactively contaminated for a long time...Additionally the two suns over Tatooine dried the planet out over the next years...
If you want to read on about Tatooine history, visit Wookiepedia:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tatooine
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But anyway, it's obvious that different plants shouldn't be missed on Tatooine...
So here is a first model of an artificial plant set in a cup of a sharpener. The cup is painted with Revell's anthracite (beamless 9).
I will go to a flower's shop the next days and will buy some further artificial desert plants...
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You can see that a little touch of green and brown is making a desert diorama livelier...
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Ah...I sat for the whole day to post all the pictures you can view from page 4 to page 6...But I am very happy that I passed this little challenge of managing one GB of pictures...The achievement now is the time worth...There is hardly anything nicer than sitting here at my desk...writing to you, expanding the tutorials how I made this little diorama and listening to my favorite band: LINKIN PARK ;D
Stay tuned for further pictures this evening...but a friend of mine just called me that he found some new figures in a local store...I will go to hunt them down.
See you later...
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This is coming along great! Love all the small details you have thought out and executed so well. The plants are a great touch, looks just like donky's tail , the common name for the suculant.
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lp bleed it out is the best and the new one is too , great dio
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@ Wattoh
Yes, I love Linkin Park!! Every song of them is so awesome...and I listen only to Linkin Park since 2008. My favorite song is "Somewhere I belong" of Meteora...
Linkin Park is so great and I am happy that there are a lot of LP fans here on ImperialShipyards...
They will give 12 concerts all over Europe in October this year and five of them will be here in Germany...It's a real pity that I will be abroad in the USA from August to January so I could miss them out, again...
I became a fan of them in Fall 2008 when I watched and listened to a video of AOTC Arena Showdown with FAINT in the background on YouTube. Just before I watched this and became a fan they had a concert in my area...I am still so frustrated that I missed them out.
So I hope they will give some further concerts in the US round November, December and January. Perhaps I will see them this year...
Hope you enjoy the music of LP and the memebership on Imperial Shipyards!
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Holy crap!!!!!!!!
That is freaking awesome!!!
Gave me a lot of great ideas for my tattoine dio.
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By the way, during my little break I took today, after posting all the pictures and tutorials, I was successfully on my hunt at REAL,-...
I found the Legacy Collection Imperial Scanning Crew member with the left arm of HK-50 for 12,99 Euro. Since the figures are too expensive, there, I only bought one figure, but I am very happy to own him, now.
Beside the two Scanning Crew members they had Malakili, Major Panno, Queen Amidala (TPM wave), a Gungan Warrior, Clegg Holdfast (Pod Racer), Darth Sidious Hologram, a few blue-white carded TLC figures like Wioslea and some Clone Wars stuff, but, sorry, I really don't care on Clone Wars so I did not keep the figures in mind...
I will post a little astonishment, tomorrow. Stay tuned for that as a final post of this diorama. Of course I will continue working on it and I will also give you some updates of my progress...
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Very well done! vadsab
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legion my friend I can't thank you enough for your outstanding diorama tutorial.
Thank you so much for making this tutorial. I know it takes a lot of time but I'm sure a lot of people here on the Yards can use your tips n tricks for there own projects.
Your ideas are awesome mate and I'm sure the completed dio will blow us all away.
Keep up with your great work mate
cya Christoph
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So here we go, finally...SDCC'10 is coming to a final end...I hope you've enjoyed all the previews Hasbro displayed on this huge fair. Let's wait until Celebration V...I think Hasbro hold back some new stuff approximately coming out this year like the Landspeeder or the rest of TVC Basic Line 2010.
Well, for myself, I am really looking forward to seeing Hasbro's upcoming products selling under The new Vinatge Line, as an accurate continuance of the very well done Legacy Collection...it's a pity that the "build-a-droid line" has been stopped as well as the Comic Pack line.
The Comic Packs were perfectly suitable to release characters of Expanded Universe. I would have loved to see Kal Skirata and Walon Vao combined in one Comic Pack...
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At this point, as far as my progress on my first diorama is acceptable, I want to thank you all for your support, your comments depending the discussions about Star Wars and Hasbro, your interest in me as YouTube and ISY member and for your great friendship!
Therefore I took some pictures on the Tatooie diorama, dedicated to the Imperial Shipyards, to Tamer, the leader of this absolutely awesome forum, who hepled me to publish the pictures I took, to my friends who supported me over the time and to all fans on YouTube and this awesome forum who I got to know by now. Thank you very very much for all the nice comments, the messages and for sharing your talent on the Imperial Shipyards!!
Your nice attitude and your high spirits as well as your great humor gave me new power to go on working on my project(s)...
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So here are some pictures dedicated to Christoph aka FialaFernbrugg who has become to a very important person in my life by now. He gave me so many ideas and inspirations with his work on his custom figures especially on the unique diormas...and our friendship has become stronger and stronger over the time.
Also the idea with the little posters you'll see below is one of his ideas.
Thank you so much for everything, Christoph. I cannot express how happy I am to know you!
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And I want to thank Steve the world famous SithLord229 who gave me the inspiration of creating a Tatooine diorama the way it really is now. Steve is the reason why I joined YouTube in 2008...I saw his deadly awesome reviews and wanted to comment on them...
By now over 8.219 fans all over the world and I still enjoy his reviews every day and more and more fans find his channel on YouTube and AFT. I simply cannot stop watching them because they are so fantastic and his collection is as massive as his entertainment skills...
So Steve I am very glad to have found your channel on YouTube...otherwise I probably would not be on YouTube or on the Shipyards, now...
Keep on doing your great reviews as far as you have fun by doing them and as far you have some time!
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And of course I want to thank THE TAMER for supporting the ImperialShipyard and all fans and forum memebers of Star Wars and the 3 3/4 inch figures!
Tamer, thank you so much for letting me be here on this totally AWESOME forum. I'll add a lot of other comments and support tutorials on your page. I love the whole community, here, as well as the great design of this forum.
Have a nice day and let the Galactic Empire rise!
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brilliant work Philipp!! your dio is coming along!! great job buddy!!
awesome tributes too the guys will be chuffed! ;D
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And also special thanks to HASBRO for the great great years of collecting, spending time with other fans and friends on Star Wars and for their by now very nice detailed and modified products of the whole Star Wars universe!!
After Legacy Collection came to a final end the new Vintage Collection starts and will obviously delight us for the two years...And as I said I am really looking forward to seeing the new products Hasbro has ready to launch to the fans...
To alll of you, enjoy yourselves and have another nice time of collecting and having fun with George Lucas' masterwork which I think is THE masterwork of Scinece-Fiction.
Special thanks to George and Hasbro!
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CloneCommander, you've also supported me so much on YouTube and I enjoyed watching the video of your massive large collection!! But unfortunately I cannot watch many of your videos anymore because the Sony company forbids to play many many videos here in Germany-it's very annoying...and I am also not allowed to watch the great vieos of FialaFernbrugg, CommanderBacara198 or lambospit...
Well, a honorary thank also to you CloneCommander! Thank you very much for your great support, your comments and for sharing your OVERHUGE collection with us!
May the troops be with You!
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And here are some further pictures of the diorama...
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Please, also visit my channel on YouTube!
http://www.youtube.com/user/legion078
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And as a little special for you, guys, I have asked Fabian to take some pictures of his buildings...
As I said he unfortunately has stopped working on them...now, he concentrates on his new hobby-Warhammer 40k-with his brother...so he stopped collecting Star Wars figures and probably will not finish his Tatooine model...
In the beginning of our work on this project, we wanted to build all building, better to say, the whole map of the Star Wars Batttlefront II map, but we soon found out that there are over 120 buildings installed on this map, so we focused our attention on our favorite buidlings of the Original Movies...
As you will see, he has a nice living-house, which has a nice door INCLUDED in the styrofoam wall!! For me it was too chancy to do like him. Therefore I found the door-frames suitable for the buildings. Unfortunately his Tatooine living-building hasn't got a roof, yet...
Beside that he built a very accurate and nice detailed heating-building for Tatooine's cold nights to heat the buildings around and he created a massive control tower of the Hutts...
But look on the pictures on your own-it's amazing! Particulary the color of his buildings is much darker than the one of mine. That's because the styrofoam-glue we used to paint them (obviously) had a different color from bucket to bucket...Well, Fabian had luck and took the glue with just the right color for Tatooine's buildings...
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Fabian also built a "rock" of Tatooine dunes out of rest pieces of styrofoam and sand...Inside this rock you can find an old grave of the times long long before the Phantom Menace...
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nice fabian nice
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really nice dio´s man ;D
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As Mandalore The Skepsis so eloquently put it a few replies back..."Holy Crap"
I'm loving these dioramas and playsets.
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sweetness! Looks like the hard part is already done one these buildings.
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And I want to thank Steve the world famous SithLord229 who gave me the inspiration of creating a Tatooine diorama the way it really is now. Steve is the reason why I joined YouTube in 2008...I saw his deadly awesome reviews and wanted to comment on them...
By now over 8.219 fans all over the world and I still enjoy his reviews every day and more and more fans find his channel on YouTube and AFT. I simply cannot stop watching them because they are so fantastic and his collection is as massive as his entertainment skills...
So Steve I am very glad to have found your channel on YouTube...otherwise I probably would not be on YouTube or on the Shipyards, now...
Keep on doing your great reviews as far as you have fun by doing them and as far you have some time!
Haha! I love this picture! Now I'll have all the Stormies that see that poster watching my vids too ;) Thanks Phillip!
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come on legion we need new progress reports
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Since I am in Michigan, now, there will be no updates of my Tatooine Diorama until February 2011. I already have some ideas for new dioramas (or new parts for Tatooine), but it will take some time. I am very busy all days long although I've been here for 10 days, but High School is making me crazy...
Anyway I was able to pick up some of Hasbro's new products!! I've been to several retailers here by now and here are the current prices from cheapest to cheap ;)
TVC 2010
1. Walmart - 7.63 $
2. Meijer - 7.99 $
Target - 7.99 $
3. Toys "R" Us - 9.99 $
TLC SL 2010
1. Walmart - 6.63 $
2. Toys "R" Us - 7.49 $
3. Target - 7.99 $
Meijer - 7.99 $
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TCW 2010 (although I don't care about Clone Wars...)
1. Walmart - 6.63 $
2. Toys "R" Us - 7.49 $
3. /
For further information, please visit the retailer's websites or local stores.
I will be back with some pictures of local finds and will also continue my report on another, more suitable topic.
Please, stay tuned for updates depending on Hasbro's new toy line for 2010 or e-mail me.
May the force be with you!
And happy hunting!
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This.
Is.
AMAZING!!!
My son and I also want to do the entire Mos Eisley field from BFII, but we know we have to settle for just a few of them. I'm also VERY interested in making "street scenes" that fit into "any-planet-ville" for my photography. Thank you very much for the time and effort you have put into your thread here on making buildings - this is going to be *invaluable* to my bunch in the future.
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Thank you very much for your nice comment! I really enjoy building diorama(s) and I still work on it. Although I am in the United States, now, I try to be as active as possible on the ISY...
Have fun by creating your diorama! I hoped you got some new ideas with my work. I also can give you some of my plans of the buildings and especially the doors.
A second part of the diorama is also in the plannings...Let's see what the futurw brings...
Philipp
legion078
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Since I am temporaly not able to continue working on my main project (Mos Eisley), I wanted to give you some ideas for already discussed, but not solved problems...
First of all I would like to show you how I fixed the landing-gear of the Imperial 74-Z Speederbike. Fortunately I received my very first 74-Z Speederbike with the TLC Hoth Assault Battle Pack.
I already talked to fans complaining about the action-feature on this vehicle, but this version is not able to fall apart by pushing the button on the back, but it has open hatches on the back of the landing-gear.
I fixed the two gears with clear rubber bands included in this pack...
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So the Speederbike stands perfectly even with the figure sitting on it. Even when you press the front down, it flipps back in its standing position.
I love this mold and I have enough rubber-bands to fix many more...
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You can hardly see the rubber bands which makes this little improvement even more effective...
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Really like the buildings, very nicely done indeed.
Ron
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I have been to LOWE's and Home Depot today and found some cool items, there, so I keep on looking for siutable items to use for further projects...
...I have a new idea for a VERY cool diorama. I am going to work out the draft over the next days...Can't wait to begin working on it as soon as I return on Germany, in February. I've already collected some material for it...the next project is coming in 2011...
And of course I'll repaint my building of Tatooine with the help of a good friend of mine...
Make sure to check out my other discussions on the Shipyards:
Local Finds - Michigan
Miniatures - Star Wars Wizards of the Coast Miniatures
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ahhh any light on the new plans?
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sounds very interesting Philipp
I can't wait to see the draft of your next dio project
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Merry Christmas everyone! There are less than six weeks left for me here in Michigan, and I enjoy every remaining minute already looking forward to realizing all the ideas I have collcted during my stay here...Wish you all the best!
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Where in Michigan are you? I'm also a Michigander :P
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Merry Christmas my friend.
I can't wait to see more WIP pics of your outstanding Tatooine dio.
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are youback in germany ? would love to see how the project is going
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Well, yes, I am back in Germany...all the stuff I bought in the United States stored in the basement, still trying to catch up at school and reorganizing my room and the collection.
The diorama is packed in plastic bags at the moment, but there is a lot to come up on the shipyards...I have two more days off, now and I am very glad with your request I just received in my message box.
Stay tuned! I will give my best to find some time for Star Wars as well these days...
legion078
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Hope your stay in the USA was enlightining, educational, and - above all - enjoyable! However... I sure am glad you are back in Germany! I want to see this project continue! ;D
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Almost 6 years have passed since the last comment was posted on this topic...
First of all, I am sorry for my long absence! I still need to complete this project. In the meantime I have worked on the walls of the buildings and modified the walls. Stay tuned for some updates, soon!
- Philipp
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As you might know I'm currently working on this thread and replace old images from 9 years ago with images of a new format. Imgur helps a lot (Again, thanks for the advice, Tamer!).
Since this is my thread for my large dio projects, I think it's suitable to share this here:
One day I hope I'll have the time and skill to build a Cantina, too.
A couple weeks ago, I found this channel on YouTube:
The artist Agatha Vincent already built a stunning model of Ben's hut:
Double-click on the video for full screen view and enjoy:
And he's currently working on the most iconic building of Mos Eisley: The Cantina
Make sure to check out his latest WIP update, which he posted today! Take a look for yourself and please make sure to subscribe to his channel and leave likes and comments!
What he says about George and how different Disney makes movies is very true...
His YouTube Channel: Agatha Vincent
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMygkiqwj8B9ukJDA7JHdUQ
Please, let Vincent know your thoughts!
You can follow him on YouTube, Facebook and Insagram:
Please follow/subscribe, like and comment. Your feedback is always appreciated!
Agatha Vincent
Photographer, artist, performer
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMygkiqwj8B9ukJDA7JHdUQ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vincentagatha/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agatha.vincent
https://www.facebook.com/AgathaVincentStudios/
Thank you very much!
Have a good weekend everyone!
I hope I'll have some time for the hobby in August, again...
- Philipp
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Time to share this video on the pages. Very nice.
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@Tamer: Thank you SO MUCH for sharing Vincent's video on the pages and Facebook! Isn't he awesome? I wish I could build models like that...
- Philipp
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Mate two words BLOODY OUTSTANDING.
Ron
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@hemble: Thank you very much, Ron! I think receiving such feedback from you is similar to be knighted. And I'm sure Vincent would love to read this!
You can follow him on YouTube, Facebook and Insagram:
Please follow/subscribe, like and comment. Your feedback is always appreciated!
Agatha Vincent
Photographer, artist, performer
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMygkiqwj8B9ukJDA7JHdUQ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vincentagatha/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agatha.vincent
https://www.facebook.com/AgathaVincentStudios/
Thank you very much!
- Philipp
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This picture is for Chuckles and everyone who likes to see other workbenches and places of inspiration.
I'm currently working on finishing projects I've started back in 2016! I just removed newspapers from back then from the table, which I got from IKEA for about 80€ (15€ for each leg, 20€ for the plate).
Make sure to check out Chuckles' latest projects through the hyperlink:
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=10656.90
(https://i.imgur.com/GISxPTG.jpg)
My problem since then was that I had to move twice. That's why there's no lamp on the table at the moment because the last one got broke on the recent move.
So I had three places to work on my projects. It would be best for me to have just one fully equipped workbench. That's what I'm installing now. The lamp I'd like to get is currently sold out. I'm also looking for an used carpet to put under and in front of the table. I might use a mat instead which is much easier to clean.
And this is what you can see in the pic:
On the left: one of the stands/steps I built for my figure shelf. Underneath is my drawer with all kinds of tools and materials. Missing here is my paint set from Citadel. Also missing on the table is my cutting mat.
In the middle: A tunnel which I started building in 2015. An awning is to be added. The walls need to be redone since I'm not happy with the texture and color, yet.
I'm also sanding those candy cans with 400 sand paper so that the primer has better retention on the plastic.
On the right: There's my Cantina Section project. It's meant to be a playset. That's why it's not movie accurate for better access. Also two walls of my Shelf Diorama are to be done, soon! Finally need to go cast some profiles for the door frames in resin. I don't cast them at home. I only make the molds here. That's why it takes so long for me to get done with the Purge Trooper and my first shelf diorama...it annoys me, too!
You can see my progress on my other projects so far here:
Shelf Diorama: Streets of Mos Eisley - A New Hope
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=10155.60
Purge Trooper - Jedi: Fallen Order
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=10186.105
Under the table on the right is the big box (also from IKEA) containing my Shadow Stormtrooper armor that I still need to adjust to my body size.
If you got any questions let me know!
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I like your work area, nice and organized.
I want to get this on the front pages.
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Thanks Tamer! Please, go ahead! I still need to re-install it and add more equipment. There's quite a bit still missing.
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Looks great. Very neat and organized!
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Showing your work space is a fun idea. I don't have a dedicated space. Most of my work is done on a craft mat at the dining room table:) Some day I m8gy have a dedicated table, but my wife's sewing table has to come first. So I will remain a nomad customizer.
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BTW what figure is there on your workbench on the right side? Looks like a clone trooper
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Thanks for your comments, gentlemen!
Chuckles: Haha thanks! I think it still looks too clean for a workbench! I'm gonna change that! I try to keep it organized though.
Starchaser: I agree! And thank you! Yeah, I work at my dining table in Dresden, too. And in the kitchen. I always use my cutting mat and newspaper to cover everything up though. You are quite a gentleman. I hope your wife appreciates that. I keep my fingers crossed that both of you will have your own work table in the future! But I think we all know space is always an issue to be considered.
jkno: Thanks for your question! Yes, it is the ArtFX Commander Cody from Kotobukiya in 1/7 scale.
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That is one of Kotobukiya's best statues
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jkno: Yes, indeed! Do you have this 1/7 scale Cody? I got a second Commander Cody recently and can sell it to you if you want!
I'm reworking the walls of my four buildings at the moment and recently foud out that Mod Podge is also available here in Germany. Can someone please tell me if this is a fair price? I don't know how much the 16 fl oz bottle costs in the U.S.
Thanks for your support!
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Anyhow I will see how much the stuff costs when I'm back in the States next year.
After I shared the last offer I found on this amazing building diorama, I eventually contacted the seller because I thought I knew him already:
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=10579.msg215270#msg215270
It turned out that he is indeed Legacy Arts - an artist I've been following on ebay ever since he put his first buils up for auction 3 years ago. It was on my bucket list to buy one diorama building from him. Didn't know he shares his work of art on Facebook, too. If you like what you see please leave him a like and follow him on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010653160937&__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARAIBSW-V601v1OkVPNDPa9cY2C6Vw78U_D2qxDCEpYykAObLFzJJSW9tl3_nxp_e2Sfj4_YcFci0mhd&hc_ref=ARQEtPObYepOASqcqTGXr2C9_vt2_YBLhKdAAhhU8hHH90b-e7vA6U5DKPcENh_MzwA&fref=nf
We had a great chat and with his permission, I can share some highlights of his recent projects on here, too! His current project is Obi-Wan's hut in 1/12 scale:
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He makes some nice dioramas. Off to the front pages.
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Hey Philipp, I missed this somehow. This is a great lead, thanks for sharing Legacy Arts' magnificent work.
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Tamer: Thanks for sharing this Tamer! I can't wait to getting back to cutting some styrofoam, too!
Starchaser: No Problem Starchaser! Much stuff going on in the Forums lately so chances to miss something are there. I'm glad you like it! Here's more...
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Legacy Arts was kind enough to even sell me one of his original (prototype) buildings! He told me he has special memories attached to them because he built them together with his father in law.
This makes it even more special to me to have it here with me right now and it is one of my most Special pieces in my collection now.
When I took a look at the pictures I posted above I found this building to be most appealing - don't know why since all of his buildings look so amazing.
I imagine it's like being in a dealership for high end luxury cars and you had to pick one. Not an easy choice Right?
If you've been to an art museum yet you'll know that you cannot get any closer to the objects than one foot. Well, I dared to dive in and zoomed in with my camera. So let's take a closer look at this 1/18 scale masterpiece designed and built by Jens from Legacy Arts here in Germany. Let's take a look around:
(https://i.imgur.com/qRLsTgU.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Bu82f5s.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/7XmrGC0.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/YQp9CBG.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/7nR1bjq.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/L1Xb8yb.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/PSAS3MI.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/6B9PYpu.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/8tIFYTG.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/G0Q7u6p.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/pKhwkac.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/TJ4Hp3g.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/NVG1rKy.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/StAY8Cc.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/ZaNUoJf.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/8BJPzQh.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Ymcy998.jpg)
Here's some data:
Dimensions:
Base: 43,5 cm x 33,2 cm (17.13 inches x 13.07 inches)
Height: 1 cm & 5,2 cm ( .39 Inches & 2.05 Inches)
Building: 38 cm x 21,2 cm (14.96 inches x 8.35 inches)
Height: 16 cm (6.3 inches) Building and 25,5 cm with dome (10.04 Inches)
Door: 10 cm x 6,6 cm (3.93 inches x 2.6 Inches)
Materials: Styrofoam, cardboard, screed/filler, acrylic paint,original moisture vaporator from Hasbro, printed control pad (door frame)
Working Hours:
Price: 150€ (~ $165)
Please, let Legacy Arts know what you think! If you haven't already, please check out his channels on social media! You can subscribe to his art on Facebook and Instagram:
https://www.facebook.com/people/Legacy-Arts/100010653160937
I'll add my thoughts later. I wait for your feedback first.
- Philipp
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Nice, very nice. Off to share.
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The dio looks phenomenal. Jens did a great job on the weathering.
What a great addition to your collection.
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That desert building looks really amazing! Its great to see the work of brilliant artisans.
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Appreciate you sharing this awesome display thank you.
Ron
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This is so amazing!
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Tamer, FialaFernbrugg, Starchaser, hemble, Mauldalorian: Than yu so much for your Feedback guys! And thanks for sharing it, Tamer! Jens' buildings are kinda legendary to me. Even AgathaVincent was inspired by his work to build his epic Cantina. I'll send this link to Jens. I'm sure he'll be pleased. So thank you for coming by guys!
- Philipp
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Great looking Tatooine building, they are so iconic! Reminds me of the buildings I've seen on the trip I took on the Star Wars movie sets in Tunisia years ago.
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jkno: Yes, Jens really figures it out how to make exact replicas of the movie sets. I'd love to go to Tunesia myself some day - before they all fall apart and become one with the sand. That's probably part of the reason why the chosen one didn't like sand...
If you're looking for 3D printed custom parts, LegacyArts got you covered!
Here's a prime example of what you can do and what the near future holds for us when Hasbro leaves us desperate:
(https://i.imgur.com/KdeBzGV.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/iB0XzkM.jpg)
Jens sent me these parts for 40€ a couple weeks ago. Didn't get share the pics earlier.
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If you're looking for 3D printed custom parts, LegacyArts got you covered!
Here's a prime example of what you can do and what the near future holds for us when Hasbro leaves us desperate:
Do you have a link to the site? Can't find it. Thanks!
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Philipp - great tip on the parts! Make sure to provide the link.
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Lanze Quazar & Starchaser: Thanks for your requests! Sure, you can find him in the outer web in a couple seconds:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010653160937
He hasn't told me which link to share on here, yet. He also has a webiste, but you can contact him best on Facebook. Follow the link above or look for "Legacy Arts" there.
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was looking at your dio's they look great. Awesome job
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Thank you so much for taking the time and for the feedback! It's always great to read that people like what I do. Still much to improve on this modular project. So many drafts of buildings I'm going to make. Got one w.i.p. which I'll finally tackle around Christmas.