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Discussion: The Star Wars model building showing-off thread! - Post your pictures or kits, figures, dioramas that you've done (Or are working on)

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I used to build SW kits all the time. AMT/ERTL ships and 1:6 scale vinyl figures. Wish I had some photos of them. I’ll have to take some next time I visit my parents and can dig them out.

I (Like the rest of you) was pretty excited to see the recent photos of what Adywan is up to with his Hoth hanger model. So I thought, I bet some of you must have pictures of projects you’ve done that look equally impressive.

Don’t be shy. This is the place to post them and then brag about your amazing scratchbuilt blaster, modified 1:4 scale Boba Fett or Jabba’s Palace diorama!

PLEASE POST PICTURES (Not just links)

Here is a few random ones from around the interweb…

^ I started something like this but never finished

^ Who hasn’t built this badboy

^ Almost exactly like a 1:6 BattleDroid I modified with custom blaster

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Had painted one of these at one point:

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none said:

Had painted one of these at one point:

Are those plaster-mould figures still popular?

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Ryan McAvoy wrote: Are those plaster-mould figures still popular?

Replace 'Are' with 'Were' and 'still' with 'ever'...

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Ryan McAvoy wrote: Are those plaster-mould figures still popular?

Replace 'Are' with 'Were' and 'still' with 'ever'...

Come on! These things were the Shiznit back in the day... ;-)

...and no those aren't novelty Condoms and that's not a bag of Smack you sick b*stards! We thought nothing of giving these to kids for Xmas back in the '80s!

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Here's one that I'm working on at the minute for a competition.....less than a week left, I posted before on another thread,....I'm making The Millennium Falcon but as Ralph McQuarrie designed her:

You can see my thread here:

J

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Jaitea said:

You can see my thread here:

J

Yes I was looking at that the other day. Awesome build and so many other McQuarrie concepts to try ;-)

Have you considered recreating this shot with your model when it is done...

... either by building the hanger or compositing a photo in?

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That's what a PT version of the ship should have looked like.

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Bingowings said:

That's what a PT version of the ship should have looked like.

^ Nice idea. 20 years of modding and fixing later.

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Yes I'd love to recreate the hanger shot Ryan, & maybe a Ps image of it from above with the stormies around it......hmmm

I have a bit of a thing about the Millennium Falcon.....I've got a few Falcon projects going on at the minute......the main one is the MPC/Ertl kit....I took a break from that kit in March to work on the Revell RMQ Falcon (Scale Model Addict Big Spring Contest, which ran for 3 months...was supposed to finish on Friday night but has been extended by a week)

I have been working on the MPC/Ertl kit since Feb 2012, it is based on the 5 foot filming model from Star Wars (ANH)

Heres roughly where I was when I took a break:

The thread here:

A couple of videos of it:

Vid 1

Vid 2 Engine Lights

I've also got the FineMolds 1/72 which I've hacked off the Mandibles to correct a flaw in FineMolds measurements....

The mandibles now have a slight toe-in

 

Another wee project is with another Revel easy kit

Sort of mashing the Falcon design with Star Destroyer/AOTC Jedi Starfighter:

.......enough of this Falcon fetish

J

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^ I spy a kit bashed ERTL Stap in that last pic. I've got two of those sets lying around somewhere. TPM had some nice kits.

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Jaitea said:

Yes I'd love to recreate the hanger shot Ryan, & maybe a Ps image of it from above with the stormies around it......hmmm

I have a bit of a thing about the Millennium Falcon.....I've got a few Falcon projects going on at the minute......the main one is the MPC/Ertl kit....I took a break from that kit in March to work on the Revell RMQ Falcon (Scale Model Addict Big Spring Contest, which ran for 3 months...was supposed to finish on Friday night but has been extended by a week)

I have been working on the MPC/Ertl kit since Feb 2012, it is based on the 5 foot filming model from Star Wars (ANH)

Heres roughly where I was when I took a break:

The thread here:

A couple of videos of it:

Vid 1

Vid 2 Engine Lights

I've also got the FineMolds 1/72 which I've hacked off the Mandibles to correct a flaw in FineMolds measurements....

The mandibles now have a slight toe-in

 

Another wee project is with another Revel easy kit

Sort of mashing the Falcon design with Star Destroyer/AOTC Jedi Starfighter:

.......enough of this Falcon fetish

J

Just a personal preference, but that Falcon/destroyer hybrid thing is a big no no. Other than that, hats off.

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I'm working on a Snowclone Costume from The Clone Wars right now.

http://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/p480x480/578196_512122658846591_1490144051_n.jpg
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For more pictures click the link in my signature. And feel free to hit the "Like" button. ;)

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Thanks guys,

Ryan....yep thats the Stap, I got that model cheap in a sale, had no intention to build the kit with the Droid on it, perhaps scratching a rifle like you said you'd done, but its still in a box somewhere......the Stap on the other hand was the part that I thought I'd throw out, but I've managed to salvage the majority of it for other projects, it has been more useful.

Hey, it's me....The Star Destroyer/Falcon has been shelved for a while, my tastes & experience have changed. I do have other ideas for this ship.....but it still will be pointy, maybe with a central cockpit, like the Star Destroyer......hmmm

 

Nice work so far TK-949, and I hit the 'like' button

J

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Jaitea said:

Thanks guys,

Ryan....yep thats the Stap, I got that model cheap in a sale, had no intention to build the kit with the Droid on it, perhaps scratching a rifle like you said you'd done, but its still in a box somewhere......the Stap on the other hand was the part that I thought I'd throw out, but I've managed to salvage the majority of it for other projects, it has been more useful.

Hey, it's me....The Star Destroyer/Falcon has been shelved for a while, my tastes & experience have changed. I do have other ideas for this ship.....but it still will be pointy, maybe with a central cockpit, like the Star Destroyer......hmmm

J

I will admit its an interesting idea, and the central cockpit would be cool. Love the idea of the four port propulsion. 

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heres my at-at in a diorama setting that i won a prize at scalemodel world 2009 for................

 

 

allright, no i didn't i just posed it in my back garden last time it snowed!

 

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^ Nice idea

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^ I bet your poor cat is cowering before the might of the Imperium.

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Actually it was quite interested in getting under that helmet.

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I said:

Here's one that I'm working on at the minute for a competition.....less than a week left, I posted before on another thread,....I'm making The Millennium Falcon but as Ralph McQuarrie designed her:

You can see my thread here:

J

Well the contest is over & results are in, I got 3rd place in the Sci-fi section & 3rd place in the best in show (out of 99 entrants)

The winners announcement here:

J

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^ Say whaaaaat!

Congrats on third but what were 2nd and 1st like?!?

'Cause your McQuarian Falcon is badass.

Is there some final pics, didn't see any on you other threa.

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Congrats Jaitea.  Awesome model work, as always :)