Topic: Scenes from around the Boryla Sector - Outlands dio's

[DocOutlands]

Ok, I figured I'd do *some*thing, even if it's wrong.      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.

[Clonehead]

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.

[DocOutlands]

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!)   

[Clonehead]

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!

[Tamer]

This would make a killer Echo Base medical scene!

[DocOutlands]

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.   

[DocOutlands]

http://fingerandtoe.com/octopad.html

This is a paper model by Finger & Toe Models, available via  RPGNow.com 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!!  

(I have an affiliateship with RPGNow, so if you click on the link and buy, I get store credit - which is really great!)

[wraithnine]

what a brilliant idea!

[DocOutlands]

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.   

[hangarbay94]

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!

[DocOutlands]

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...