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Offline Sir Dryden

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My X-Wing Stuff
« on: February 25, 2016, 09:52:13 PM »
Hi to all,

It's been a while since I posted here. To make a long story short, I quit the hobby a couple of years ago. I got rid of all of my stuff. At the time, it was a good decision. A few months ago, I picked up a copy of the X-Wing Miniature Game just to check it out... I was hooked after my first game, and I now own close to 50 official ships, and I still haven't assembled my "dream fleets"...

Soon after I had a few games played, I started to think about replacing the cardboard counters that came with the game with something more...hobbyish. I started with the asteroids, but I couldn't stop there. I'll use this thread to show off what I created to customize and enhance my games.

I won't start with the asteroids (because even though I like how they turned out they are boring as hell). Here's my Mobquet Medium Cargo Hauler.



I'm not the greatest builder around here, but I really like how it turned out. The colors are off on the picture, it's not that green and that bright in real life. I'm no photographer and it shows. As far as accuracy is concerned, I'd say it's an interpretation more than an imitation. My Google-Fu turned out about 10 different versions of the ship, so I wasn't overly concerned with accuracy. The only thing that bugs me is the absence of the slanted front side of the middle section. I didn't think I'd be able to pull it off, but after the cylindrical front section was done, I cursed my lack of self-confidence. Oh well, I'm still happy with it. Here are a few more pics.



Here's a few shots with other "official" models to give you an idea of the size of it. Since it is a Huge Ship, I've used the same scale as Fantasy Flight (1/500).







In case you're wondering, it's mostly made out of sheet styrene of different thicknesses. The support rods and the base are temporary. They'll be replaced by machine-cut acrylic sheet and rod soon.

Anyway, that's it for the moment. More to come later.

(It's fun to be back!)
 

Offline Elk101

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2016, 09:57:03 PM »
That's a beast!  Despite it being playable out of the box I found I really wanted to build stuff too. What else do you have planned?

Offline Sir Dryden

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2016, 10:03:02 PM »
It's big, that's for sure. As far as future stuff, I still need to replace the cardboard counters with minis, so containers, mines, sattelites, etc. I also want to make a few more ships, mostly neutral/Scum & Villany stuff. I have some more pics to post later.

Offline Mason

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2016, 10:42:09 PM »
That is a great start, a lovely ship that works for me.
 :-* :-*

That's a beast!  Despite it being playable out of the box I found I really wanted to build stuff too. What else do you have planned?

Me too, and the more I play, the harder it is to resist making 'stuff'.
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Offline Sir Dryden

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2016, 01:39:04 AM »
Some more stuff. First, what started it all, the boring asteroids...



The recipe is quite simple. Some volcanic rock, a generous amount of drybrushing, a painted bamboo skewer, a bit of dowel and a piece of thin polycarbonate and voila. Here's a slightly less boring picture. It could use a Space Slug, but that's not on my list (for the moment at least...)



More stuff later.

Offline Sir Dryden

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2016, 02:13:13 AM »
...And a last one for today.



Cloakshape Fighters.

I always liked the look of these, so I decided to build some. They're again mostly styrene with some Green Stuff for the cockpit and some aluminium rod. Again, the colors are off compared to reality. I gave 2 of them a color scheme reminescent of the Mobquet. I figure they serve the same crime lord or something.





The other two are more "professionnal" looking. The tan-and-green one looks wookiee to me while the grey and blue one definitely has a Mandalorian vibe to it.





Finally, a family portrait.



That's it for now, I'll post more pics when I have stuff to photograph.

Offline Elk101

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2016, 07:18:10 AM »
I like those ship builds. Have you made cards for them?

Offline pocoloco

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2016, 07:32:28 AM »
Great work on the ships and even the "boring" asteroids look good too.  8)

Offline Silent Invader

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2016, 07:40:20 AM »
Lovely builds (and I admire your patience to make multiples!)  8)
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Offline dijit

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2016, 08:41:33 AM »
Lovely builds (and I admire your patience to make multiples!)  8)

Yeah, and some seriously impressive work there!

Offline Mason

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2016, 08:44:04 AM »
Yeah, and some seriously impressive work there!

And another voice to the choir.
Most impressive!
 8) 8)


Offline Sir Dryden

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2016, 12:17:12 AM »
Thanks to all for the kind words.

Elk101, I don't have cards for them yet, but I'm planning on using Mel's Miniatures homemade stats as a starting point for the Cloakshapes. I already started thinking about the Mobquet. It'll probably end up being very similar to the Rebel Transport.

Silent Invader, making multiples wasn't that tough. The Cloakshapes aren't very large (5.6cm front to back), so making 4 copies of every bit of styrene that makes them wasn't really time-consuming. Building the 4 of them took two days (about 8 hours total).

Up next: tokens and markers...

Offline Silent Invader

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2016, 10:43:18 AM »
Much quicker than us have thought. Well done  8)

Offline huesped

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #13 on: March 14, 2016, 09:57:01 PM »
Jesusfreakingchrist!!!! :o :o :o that Mobquet is awesome!!!!!!  i'd give you one of kidneys in exchange of a resin copy of that!! :P
 and i'm not even an X-wing gamer!!!!

CONGRATS!!!!!!!

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Re: My X-Wing Stuff
« Reply #14 on: March 14, 2016, 10:28:34 PM »
Missed this thread before (thanks Rafa  :D)

Rather bloody good work on all of those  8) 8)

Love the cloakshape, gonna do one of those in 28mm eventually and the Mobquet is sublime  :D

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James
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