Topic: Imperial Shipyards Custom Build-Off contest

[spudafett]

I asked my oldest to look through the entries and he likes sten-hunter's the best.  I think he likes it most because it is so different... lol  he's already seen mine and dawns over and over again... AND doc's bike is similar to one i've already done... and ribit's is still very much like a regular speeder.  OF course that doesn't mean he didn't like the others too, there was alot of ooing and aweing coming from him on everyone's entry!

[Clonehead]

I am working on a thread right now where we can look at all of the contestants pics in one page.

[StenHunter]

Sten Hunter:
DANG man.... my only question is if you planned from the beggining for the rider not to be a "clone" or if you had to make up that story to go along with what figure you had on hand (I find myself doing the latter all the time!).

Good question, it was a little bit of both. Early on I had thought about doing the head swap, but got side tracked with building the speeder. After I started getting deeper into working the figure I realized that I liked the idea of keeping the original head on there. Perhaps in the end it was a bit of me not wanting to do the extra work... However, I think the back story makes more sense. At some point the GAR would have needed non clones in combat roles more and more towards the end of the war.

I had just finished reading one of the SW clone wars comics that had the battle of Kamino and thought that had the Republic lost an entire generation of clones than the war would have been over. Seeing that, the Emperor put plans in to start using normal humans in combat roles, slowing replacing the Clone army with non clones.

I could go on all day thought

[Clonehead]

I have made a thread where you can view all of the entries on one page, here. At the top of this thread, I have placed a poll where all registered members may vote for one of the entries. The poll lasts for 7 days. Good luck to all of the contestants.

[narceron]

is swoop racing a predominantly female sport?

[DocOutlands]

No - it's just that women are far sexier to most of us.   

Wow - a members' choice contest?!?

[spudafett]

YAY! GO VOTE!

awesome work everyone... simon... where is yours?!!?  lol did you give up..?

[Clonehead]

Yeah, the last time the admin voted on something, it came down to a tiebreaker and since there are only 5-6 of us and there were 6 entries, it was felt that it would be more fair for everyone to vote. Also, the decision was a toughie as there were some great entries.

That being said, get your votes in, folks...........it's up to you.

[narceron]

Great turn out, they all look mean and nasty. . .

I got my driver done, but never got over some major hiccups on the bike,

LOL< thems the breaks.

[spudafett]

simon we still want to see it!  well I do at least...
that's a shame... I was realy hoping for a bigger turnout for this contest.    
but those who did get entered are great!

[DocOutlands]

Pete, I meant to ask earlier - how did you make the seat on your bike?  I have a two-rider idea for a swoop and I wanted a seat-back like yours but was at a loss on how to pull it off.