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Nice start on the Verpine, your sculpting skills have definately improved sinde the Anoo Dat Prime.  Don't forget the Antennas.  Are you going to give him kit(gear)? I ask because Verpins are known for their afinity for mechanical devices and their engineering skills which are natrual to them, even if he is a Jedi raised in the temple from childhood.

Nice ARCs t,. but the holsters on the Captain are too big,  try making form fitting holsters for the DC-15s.  I take a small piece of black binder vinyl and wrap it around the weapon then I glue it.  After that I make some cuts to get the final shape for it i.e. belt strap, trigger gap.....

For dual Holsters use the above method but don't glue.  Make your cuts and then you have a template for the next one.

Doing it this ways is not as clean cut as Outrider's but you get custom fitted holsters for each gun, and they don't look bulky or outta scale.

Anyways, Great customs and your thread shows how far you have progressed from when you started which is considerable.  Keep up the great work and happy customizing.

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I know you guys are probably sick of clones but please take a look and comment.  The pictures are slightly blurry so please just give me your thoughts on the basic design of each, i.e. gear, paint scheme, and overall.  BTW the clones are weathered like they were in muddy terrain, hence the mud on the boots, plus they were my first try at weathering,  the Red Clone is my most recent one.






Below are two WIP pics of my Galactic Marine with a removable chest plate.




Comments, Gripes -LMK what you think.

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As for the focus, the camera I used sucks.  The lens is outta sync with the eyepiece so what I look at with it is not what the pic turns out to be. :(  The camera is on of those slim mini ones that requires very specific conditions for a good shot and I have yet to find the said conditions.

Thanks for some of the tips Smarty I'll try them next time I take pics. BTW the elbos are hinge with a rotating joint father up the arm.   

Like this:  Forearm-Battle Droid Elbow-Upper Arm-EP1Battledroid arm for the rotation joint-Shoulder.
                3----o--=0  <---Grievous' arm.

I'll post pics of my ARC troopers later, again they are on the blurry side, but just take a look and LMK what you think of the overall look of them.

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Took new pic of the Grievous.


LMK what you guys think.


Also have a pic of a scratch built Mando.


Comments and critiques are welcome.

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Can't contribute much right now but I did design a security/police member.

It uses the OTC Jedi luke torso and arms and the legs, head, helmet, holster and gun of the OTC cloud car pilot.  Paint it to macth the palnetary color scheme and you have a security/police guard.  LMK what u think.

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Kinda earthy if you ask me.

Try using the Veers chest plate with added pouches and a snowtrooper style helmet to give it a star wars feel, by snowtrooper  I mean with the face cloth- to keep the sand out of his mouth and nose like arabs (beudouines) use.

Also the hand radoi should be replaced with a comlink or a helmet mounted headset.

other then the earthly nitpick it is quite impressive and would make either a good rebel or guerilla fighter here on earth or in something like Aliens or Doom.

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PM sent Roron, also I am really only interested in the arms and weapons.

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Quote


I think we need a "secretary" to go through and chronical all these ideas that are being thrown in.


I went through and came up with this,
Era between ROTS and ANH
Wilderness on the edge of the city
A wall that divides the wilderness from the city
A town with an imperial outpost/garrision
A local "police force" allied with the empire
An imperial patrol in the wilderness
A guerillia force in the town, sort of a precursor to the full rebellion
A guerilla base in the wilderness
A possible imperial outpost done by Owen
Tatooine style(concerning inhabitants)
Lots of crime
Possible buildings: Catianas, rebel strongholds, crime lord palaces, shops, hangars, spaceport
That's all I saw so far.

EDIT: Dressel Rebel, C4 is in LA.





In stead of going fanfic there is a city that fits all of these requirements but you can go your own way on alot of it as it is from the novels.

Coronet City on Corellia.

Has an Imperial Endorsed government- Diktat Governor-General/Sector Moff
Has a local police allied with Imps- Corellian Security Force/One CorSec Plaza HQ
Part of the birth of the Rebellion- Corellian Treaty/Garm Bel Iblis
Criminals- Com'n everyone knows about Corellian Smugglers and Moff Firly Vorru's Golden Age
Wilderness- Seaside city and has woods areas around it- Corellian Sand Panther as a possible
creature for someone to design.
Coronet Space Port for the hangars and Space port area.
As for structures you can go pretty much your own way.  But we should make the Treasure Ship Row market place and all of its interesting Characters that would fit a Tatooine feel.
And you can easily make it in the ROTS-ANH era
As for a jedi purge CorSec was used to hunt down fugitive Jedi

The only images of Coronet are in comics but we all know how inaccurate and contradictory they can be i.e. ARC trooper.  So we have a lot of free reign in this one plus it is a recognizable place- Han Solo's home town, (young 9-12 year old Han Solo Figure anyone?).

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Count me in on this,  I can submit figures and Ideas.

How about Alderran or Utapau, post rise of the empire?
Both have nature+cities and wild life in close proximity to each other
Plus Alderran was a main palnet in the rebellion leader ship until its demise.

Or we could do Coronet City from Corellia. With Treasure Ship Row.

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Finally was able to take a couple pics using a friend's Camera.

However, the lighting was bad so I only have a pic that shows an SA Grievous,  its a crapy pic but it shows off the added points of articulation.



I will update with better pics probably within the next three weeks.

And yeah, he is holding a lightsaber with his foot.

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Power of the Force 2 / Orange Card with Holo sticker?
« on: June 14, 2006, 06:29 AM »
I found a POTF2 Stormie on an orange card and with a holo sticker for $4.

Every thing looked genuine and was numbered .0000 for production. Card was in near mint condition.

Is this a rare variant?  The sticker was not a re- app and the dealer didn't know Star Wars products at all.

LMK what you guys think of this.

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Did something really neat. Yup.  Really Really neat.
 I made a Mandalorian out of a TSC Carbonite Han. Looks really cool.

The drawback.  Alot of dremeling, and I mean loads of it.  As much as a armored microman custom.

The Bonuses:  The TSC Han makes the best fodder ever.  With a little dremeling or cutting on the joints, the body can accept any peg, and I mean any peg.  The legs are more picky though.

BBI, Star Wars, etc.....  Peg size is no longer an issue.

Plus the clothes can be blended to look like a tunic or a jumpsuit, short sleve, long sleve, sleveless...

Ball joint arms, swivel arms, even ball joint thighs (takes extra work though) anything is possible.

Anyways.  I dremeled out the Geonosis Flamethrower Jango and layered the armor (each piece was cut out separately) on top of the Han torso.  Looks Really cool. ;D

PS: The knee ball joints of Pilot Obi's Crappy legs make good elbows for figs with large arms, bulky clothing, or billowing shirts.  Think BBI Elite force arms. ::)

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One win is fine by me. Cause I won't have to buy all of the VTSC anymore. ;D  So Go Biker Scouts Hurah, and Go MOMC!!!

I am making a version of this right now myself but I lack the Shadow trooper. So I Painted a #41 with Gloss black but I left off the light grey strips (too much work ::)).

No camera = no pics though :-[

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The ADST Captain kicks @$$!!!
For the pilots though I would consider repainting some if not most of the areas white.
For the General. He looks pretty good except for the arms.  They seem to hang down to much.  The way you describe him made him out to be a proud, straight backed, chest out, shoulders up sort of soldier. (Arrogant and Overconfident  ;D).  Other than that little bit of nitpicking all of the customs look good.

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