Well, I'm for either Straight Up Stormtroopers, or Clones with Stormie helmets.. Remember, we can always get cast helmets from people.. ahem.. stores...ahem... so that wouldn't be a big deal on the "two figures" part.  The main reason I threw out the Clone idea, was A. it's be cool to see some sort of transition from PT to OT.. and B. THere'll be tons of clones around and a lot easier to get and I really doubt many people are gonna want to give up that many PotJ or Saga2 Stormies/Sandies...

As for the race(s) on the planet.. I like hte idea of a color to their skin, but I'm against green... I dont want it to look Star Trek-ish.... and going with that.. I'd rather if we do go with a different skin color.. we also do something different with the actual body.. cause then again.. I think just a diffrent colored human, would look like lame..
I personally like the 4 arms idea.. remember, it's not for everyone on here.. but the planets species.. look at Tatooine.. how many different creatures did you see in the different settlements/towns?

Here's an idea I was thinking of while sketching out some stuff... What if we had a humanoid species that had their settlement outside of the town, they had two arms.. kinda like the ones in Glass's pic:

Then there's another smaller settlement out by the mountains... same kind of species, but these have 4 arms:


Now, they's all be the same color... but maybe a darker shade, or so.. and kinda like they evolved a little different cause of the mountains they live in or something?? OOOH.. another idea.. adobe like settlement carved into the mountain??? And maybe that's why there's a rift on the planet.. maybe the 4 armed species wants to be part of the Rebellion, cause they're not liked(we all know the Empire looks down on aliens).. and maybe the more "human-like" species, sides with the Empire??? So the species in the mountains secretly help the hidden rebels in the mountain out??? Just some Ideas there...
We could even give the different species different "clan" names or something??  THat could be cool, clan colors or something... markings on their clothings/buildings or flags or something?

What else was thrown out in the Chat? I had family up from TX, so I couldn't make it...

Anyone know where I can find a 1:18th boombox?
i wanna make this guy:


I've been to all the Celebrations, and I think he has too(I know he was at C1 and C3 for sure).. anyone know who he is... I know people might complain about the "fett" helmet, but it's really just a nod to the fan and I promise to find an out of the way spot to put him in the dio

same here, just getting the grey screen

Fritz.. you need a GI Joe RHINO
http://www.generalsjoes.com/reviews/2005/vehicles/rhino.html

I think before people start rushing out customs, we should wait till we have a set design on what certain factions will look like, I.E. Imperial Troops, unless I missed where it has been decided on what the storm/clone trooeprs will look like

I got it, and I have to say, it was well put together and nice to "get to know" the team leaders

Hey glass, you can count me in.. here's som ideas I posted in another thread...

WEll, I'm not good at stories or names or any of all that, so I'll just throw out a couple of ideas I had.  I also like the look of both Chewies and Glassmans drawings, though I'd like to see a little less forset and more rock/mountain land and grasslands on eachside of it, maybe right at the edge of the city, there's a couple fields and hills, then a forest, then rocks and the mountain.
Even thoguh I think a forest would look real cool.. I'm afraid it will tale away from a lot of stuff that can be put in and around it...

I like the big Imperial tower in there.. I'd like to see some sort of "Medieval Castle" take on it.. back then, the way a castle was constructed, was the main living area was in the center, then there was a smaller wall, and then the "town" where the peasants lived... In a way, I think this would look cool.. Yet I dont mean making an actual Medieval looking castle/tower, but just using the layout/look of one for the Imperial Tower and the town surrounding it.

Another thing I was thinking was maybe making the setting in a cooler, almost winter climate... Hear me out.. thinking about the construction process, I think this would work in out favor... we could have a setting where, it's like the beginning of a winter cycle, that way, when we start to piece together the thing, if there's any inconsistencies in the terrain, we could easilt get some fake snow and cover up small areas, so it jus tlook like snow drifts or what not...  I think it'd also help in the trees area, I mean, making forests and treas can be a huge undertaking, not to mention, how well will the "leaves" look?? If we go with a cooler climate, we could ditch the leaves, and have bear trees, and I think this would actually help in the forest.. at least you could  set up a number of mini dios going on in the forest.. and not worry about people straining to see throught the foiliage..

Someone mentioned using stone tiles.. and I like this idea.. but that can add a lot of weight to the project.. what about buying some cheap linoleum floor tiles.. buying some of that stone/rock spray paint and going over them with that? And to make it even more effective, there can be a different number of sprays used for streets, clear areas in the town/outpost...

I'm for being set between EP3 and 4.. I dont know if this has been set in stone or not, but I really think this will be good cause, that's what Lucas is gonna be working on and most likely what we'll be seeing at C4, stuff for the animated and live action show...

If we pick that time frame(like I said, I dont know if it has been or not), I'd like to see a good clone/stormtrooper hybrid... I think one easy simple solution would be to use a stormtrooper helmet on a clone body.. I think clones are a lit easier to find than "good looking" stormtroopers... and I think we could also use snowtrooper/Galactic marines here as well...

I like the idea of a Hutt "crimeloard" of some sorts.. maybe we could build his "palace" in the mountains.. and that'd be perfect for a slew of seedy characters as we saw in RotJ in Jabba's Palace.

I mentioned in the main thread, but I'd like to see something like a race track of some sort, at first I mentioned a swoop track, but with thinking about the cooler climate, maybe a different kinda speeder race track of some sorts. the main reason I wanna do something like this, was I think this could be our one way of each contributing something that would represent who we are in the real world.. we could each customize a speeder/swoop/hovercycle whatever it is.. and put it in there, maybe even do how nascar and Rally racers do and put our name on the "car"...  This way, even if someone did help in the planning, construction, figures, vehicles, or whatever.. you wouldn't really know who did what(I'm talking about the passerbys at the con).. but if we say put a little stand up near the "race track" and had a list of the vehicles(maybe by number) and the vehicles, we could explain how each "race car" represented a customizer that worked on the project...

Anyway.. that's all I can think of right now.. let me know what you guys think... I'm off to go watch Macguyver lol..
-Joe

I'm wondering, should we set up another time, maybe durring the weeek for a chat, that way we could all get together, chat about the progress... then we could then later tlak to everyone else in the sat. chat? or we could just post here...lol..
Anyway, if you need another body, let me know... and you can throw my name on the list.
-Joe