My entry for the Yakfinities - Feral Droids

SKV-Y33

The SKV series salvager droid has been in service for decades. It was on the way to being phased out until the Clone Wars hit. Suddenly the galaxy had a huge demand for a specialized salvage droid and the SKV series continued production.
This unfortunate droid saw a long line of owners who either abused or neglected maintaining it.
Fortune would shine upon this droid when its owners became victims of feral droids in an abandoned industrial section or Corescant. SKV-Y33 had expected to be scrapped by the droids. It was suprised when they offered to purge it of its limitating programs and join them in vengence upon their cruel former masters.
SKV now assists in sabotaging speeders of explorers (and of course getting new parts to repair his friends)
Sometimes SKV also attempts to salvage useful chemicals from otherwise useless "meat bags"...








Size Comparison with R2


Parts:
Head-
-safety-pull cap from milk carton
-cut up peices of articulation
-part of a sandtrooper canister
-sculpting
Body-
-plastic insert from medicine bottle cap
-various flawed cast peices
-sculpting
Sensor Pod- (under body)
-part of inner workings of a saga commander bacara figure
Legs-
-broken zoid parts
-cast microman ball sockets
-EZ hinges from radio control vehicle kits

This is my entry for the Yakfinities Star Wars Unleashed contest.
Sorry about the crappy pics. I still am without a decent digital camera and must rely upon my webcam...
(Though will update pics if I can borrow a digital camera.)
Shaak Ti Unleashed!

Not exactly the same as these images but close...

Recipe:
G.I.Joe 25th Anv Lady Jay
FIXIT sculpt
cut up old sock for the loin cloth.

Had some questions about working with Styrene.

1) What thickness would be suggested for vehicle frame.

2) Best glue for bonding styrene to styrene.

3) Site with affordable sytrene sheets in decent sizes.

EDIT - I have changed the title to reflect a modification in the theme of this discussion. Continued in the next post by me in this thread... Jesse, your input inspired me to changed the direction of this thread...I hope its ok with the way I am doing it...

(Old information from previous version of the thread).
I have been searching for a medical or medic symbol for star wars but never found one. Since I do have a Clone Medic in the planning stages, I figured I would need to develope one. I wanted something that would look similar to a real world Medic symbol but also look Star Wars-ish...
Here is what I came up with:

I wanted you guys to let me know what you think. Suggestions on how it should or shouldnt look, or is it ok as is?
Real world medic symbol:

I was curious if anyone out there has made any decent molds of action figure hands with extended fingers that turned out any decent casts...
I have some ideas of how to revise my molds for this but figured I would try to get some input before I waste any more mold making material.(like the Commander Cody figure with the hand that the trigger finger also could be pointing for example...)

The problem I run into the most is air bubbles trapped in the curved fingers (often preventing them from forming at all).
I have an idea using clay and thin copper wire for air holes but figure I will see if anyone out here has some tested and proven advice first.

Here are a few things I am looking for.
I wont have money to spare for anything (including postage) until september 15th but figured I would get the list up to see if anyone has any of the items listed below until that time.

- x1 Death Star Trooper Helmet (POTF2) - origional or cast, may be interested in complete action figure as well.
- x1 Republic Commando Scorch - loose, doesnt have to have accessories, just an intact figure, scratched paint is fine as long as figures plastic itself does not have broken peices.

Ok its a short list at the moment but when I think of more I will edit it.
EDIT-
At the moment this is a "looking to buy" list, until I can locate and determine what I have suitable for trade.

I normally post primarily over at The Jawa, but I need to branch out a bit more. I started customizing arround the end of may this year and just started sculpting about a month ago.

Well today I wanted to give a fourth attempt at this helmet...
I used a cast AT-RT driver helmet with some dremel sanding down on some areas as a base to sculpt on. Partly cause I wanted the front "mouth" area to have some detail in it, and the AT-RT driver helmet had the middle/back detail I wanted included on the helmet (that I did not feel I was ready to sculpt with appropriate detail yet.)
Well here we go with the pics (sorry about all the fingers in pics, needed to hold sculpt support in place.)





next to the one that ended up too big, as comparison...


After I mold and cast this, I am going to modify a cast one so that I can have a Commander Keller helmet as well. (Sadly I have never read the comic he was in, much less know the name of it, but I see pics from it all over the place.)

I will post a few other things I have done so far in near future...