Some awesome stuff. Nice actually seeing colonial battle groups seeing how we've never seen more than two battlestars on screen at one time.

Thanks Darth Anton. The whole battlegroup question is something that comes up over at Starship Combat News a good bit. There MUST have been various ships and larger groups, but we never get to see them. If you want to see some other great ship customs, go over there and check them out.

Spyke

Hi,

I recently finished up some resin ships to add to my fleet and thought I’d share them with y’all. This fleet is my reimagined Eastern Alliance fleet as inspired from the Battlestar Prometheus fan fic  Battlestar Prometheus .

You'll notice the guns on the Alliance ships are bigger and maybe there aren't as many as on a Colonial ship. I heard and liked the theory that this is due to the lower tech of the Alliance and that they make up for it with bigger guns. Their carrier also supports more fighters than a typical battlestar since their fighters are also of lower quality. Once again, it's the "quantity vs. quality" argument.

Here's a couple group shots:



And here's one with this group facing off against a Colonial group:


Here's a few shots of the other ships. The rest of the pictures can be seen here: http://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h20/Jedispyke/Alliance%20ships/

Carrier:



Heavy Dreadnaught



Cruisers (Missle and standard) Note: The 4 guns on top of the standard cruiser are Ravenstar guns I added. The ship had rounded domes there before. The missle pods are some of Novastar's, but wern't originally on there)
 

Fast attack ship (middle) and escort destroyers:


So what do you think?

Spyke

The AT-FK Strike Mechs of the 5th Mech Battalion often detach squads of Mechs and Exo-suits to support troops on a variety of missions. Once the mech pilots know the mission specifics, they can arm their mechs with the best payload to meet the goals. This Mech, part of Beta Squad, has been loaded for an urban assault against a Separatist stronghold. High Command wants prisoners to question so an ion cannon has been added to the side port of the main gun. Additionally, a twin blaster has been added to the roll bar to aid the pilot in knocking out structures without causing total destruction. Intel shows Hailfire droids and Trade Federation tanks are defending some major points so the pilot has opted to add an MML pod as an offset to the main twin laser cannons. The addition of a portable shield generator was a must as this will be close in fighting with a high potential for ambush.






Exo-suit troops also support the Strike Mechs. To increase survivability, these suits are equiped with an internal shield generator similar to Destroyer Droids. Not strong enough to protect it from a major hit, but plenty strong enough against small arms fire. The primary mission of the exo-troops is to clear out those areas too tight for Mechs but too dangerous to send in troops first.


As you can see in this shot, the Mech can still be dropped by the DragonHawk


The ion cannon & twin blasters can be swapped out for other small weapon packs


And since I've probably already put too many pics up as it is, click here for more pics including close-ups of the shield generator and MML pod.

So what do y'all think?

Thanks!

Spyke

This may not be exactly fodder, but have y'all seen the $5 sized Ben-10 figures? The four armed guy & little grey guy would fit right into any SW scene. There are other figures that may work also, depending on your taste.  There's also a dog type of creature that would make a good beast.

Spyke

Quote from: Glassman6 on July 17, 2006, 07:17 PM

Very cool, i like the silver plating, what did you use?  Ayya Vida and what else?

Thanks Glassman...

You're correct on the Ayya Vida body.  Though I cut down her hip joint, to make her not be quite so wide-stanced.  Because of this, the back, or rather her backend looked a a little wierd, so I "installed" an Aayla Secura backend.   

For the silver plating I used aluminum tape, cut in very small and specific pieces to fit over the contour of the body, and to look like panels.  I finally used silver paint to give it a bit of a wash, and to fill in at the joints.

Thanks again!

Wow, that is a very interesting take on a Betty Bot! I never would have thought to take an actual female figure(s) and then silver plate them. It gives it the smooth (and purposly sexy) curves the Betty Bots had. The idea of cutting small pieces of aluminum tape is very ingenious also. The panel look was VERY good.

Could we get some clear pictures of JUST the droid?

Oh, and Lando looks very spiffy himself. I do agree about the cape though...

Spyke

Back in the day when Hasbro was producing 7 foot Aircraft Carriers and Space Shuttles with launch facilities, you mean?

Those were the days. Now we can't even get a Sith Infiltrator out of them...

-DD

I've got one of those shuttles (don't know which one) and plan on making a cargo ship out of it. It's got all the parts except the two outside wings, so it's pretty cool. One thing I would like to do is replace the wheels with skid plates like most SW vehicles use. Anybody tried that?

Spyke

Now that these are showing up in the stores and some people are getting them, I've got a question: How are they sized? It looks like some parts are about 'normal' size, but most of them are oversized like the electronic sabers.

I was really wanting this but now that I've seen it, I don't know.

Spyke