I had a big term paper due Monday so Sunday I wasn't around much, I actually never went to bed Sunday night. I was going to pop in here and comment on all of this yesterday but I only made it until about 5:15PM until I had myself a nice 13 hour coma. Anyways things are really looking great so far guys, I'm impressed more and more everyday.
Something maybe to consider on a building or two...
One, perhaps a painted-on mural/propoganda painting... A picture of Palpatine, maybe with it fading some from weather... Something akin to what is seen in countries from Hitler's Germany to Iraq's Sadam Hussein... Having imagery of the dictator is a popular way the dictator keeps his presence in the minds of his people, but usually it's done with a tone of "Hey look at me, I'm a cool guy" to it, so nothing sinister/evil looking.
Also... A little graffitti might look cool on a building or two. Nothing overdone, but it's a subtle kind of thing people might notice when looking over a scene. Especially if there's a "lower class" portion of the city you guys are doing?
That's a really cool idea there Jesse... I love it.
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I think it is definitely something we should use on a few buildings. I think I'll try and add some graffiti to my building. Not necessarily an emperor painting cause I don't know that I could pull that off. Clone Wars Era posters could be really cool as well... If anyone else wants to try some let me know. We have to keep track of this so we don't have too much around town.
Heeby Jeebies! Those buildings rock!
Well, three 30 foot trees went down around my house this past weekend and ate up a lot of my time. Roron and I are working behind the scenes to get the globe / fountain complete. I should have final pics of the base posted this time tomorrow night. I think you guys are gonna love the overall look. It is kicking ass!
And now for a Sarge update. I finished the base of the Palp statue and will start the 'rock texture' on Wednesday. Here's a little teaser for ya.
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I can't wait to see the finished globe guys it sounds great. Sarge that statue looks awesome. I think you pretty much nailed the based height right on. I'm really looking forward to finished prodect.
Sarge - FANTASTIC. I love the base for it.
I'll try and get working back on this thing soon -
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Here's an early WIP of the Junk Yard -
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After that, including the stuff I already sent Phruby, I think I'm done on contributions?
The layout looks good so far there Justin. That dealer shop looks nifty, I like all the curves. I think the grey heavily weathered look should be fine for that. Personally I'd cover all the foam with either thin mat board or even regualr typing paper, as I think that looks better, and it will seal the foam too. Brent suggested to Kevin using a thin layer of Elmer's glue to seam it, I personally have never tried that, but if it works that'd be fine too since this isn't supposed to be a pristine looking building by any stretch. Do you still plan on sending that box of crap you had to help fill out the junkyard or should we have someone pick up a few old model kits we can throw in there? Either way is fine with me. And if you can, would you mind throwing together some of the accesories you suggested? If you need time with the Mrs, and the future mini-Chewie this isn't required.
Sarge - that Emperor Statue looks great. You'd really made it look like its coming out of the stone. However, to be completely honest, I think it may be too big (tall). Based ont the figure scale, it looks like it must be almost 16-18" tall. That is 2.5 - 3x taller than the base of the buildings that we've already seen made. The outer wall is the 8" tall so it is at least twice as tall as that. I'm all for including it, as long as it doesn't look too out of place. Anyone else have any thoughts?
I think it should be ok. As long as it goes more towards the center and we have some other decent sized buildings it should be alright. Personally I think it would make a good center piece. Maybe if it is too tall we could tak 3" or so off the base on site.
Now something for the group - As this is starting to come together. I think there are a few things that will need to be addressed.
1 - City-wide Greebles. We really need to think about addiing more city type greebles. Things like benches, trash cans, planters, etc. Daigo-bah has made a few and Glassman has the great holo-projectors but we'll really need more things to give the city some life.
2 - Taller buildings. I'm curious, does anyone else thing we need a couple taller, more "regal" looking buildings? Glassman's original concept buildings showed several very tall elegant buildings. We've got a great number of smaller, industrial type buildings. I think those are perfectly fine but it sort of goes back to my point on the Emperor statue. If this was a mostly industrial type city. Do we think the emperor would spend the "money" to erect and HUGE statue in a very "low class" area? Thoughts?
I totally agree with you here Brent, and I like Justin's breakdown. I'm not going to be able to afford shipping more than my building and the terrain. I was thinking I might have time to whip up a bigger building or on site if I can prefab most of it before hand, aside from gluing the walls together, and then ship it flat with the terrain. I'll make some accessories as well.
Here is a list of the people that are going to
need to make some more accessories:
Daigo-Bah
Famine
jedistyle
Glassman (keep up with the holoscreens, and you can work on the other types too if you want)
Phruby
CHEWIE (If you have time)
myself
Let know in the next day here if you have any specific requests as to what type you'd like to make, if you don't have a preference I'll assign something in the next few days.
Keep in mind we want to shoot for something like this:
For additional stuff, I really think we need to have someone look into the following:
- creating benches (probably anywhere from 5-10 of them)
- small potted planets or something (anywhere from 10-20 of them)
- public drinking fountains
And if anyone thinks of anything else that might be a good thing to have be sure to chime in.