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Title: Star Wars (of a sort) - UD 28/5 More rebels WIP
Post by: Silent Invader on April 18, 2019, 06:02:22 PM
EDIT: This started as a Rogue project though I’m now (May 2020) inclined to move away from the Pacific island setting to somewhere more temperate, which will better suit my mass of terrain. As a like the lushness of Endor (but I can’t stand Ewoks) I might do some sort of mix-up between what are my two favourite movies: Rogue One and Return of the Jedi*

*as long as I bleach any scene involving Ewoks.

INDEX

P1. Wookiee
P.2 More Rebel minis (troopers, pilots, etc) WIP




I thought I’d started a thread on this before but I can’t find one so seemingly I didn’t.  ::)

Anyways a slow-burn WIP project thread for SW: Rogue One inspired forces to be played with FFOL:Galactic Heroes rules.

First completed unit of six is the Wookiee Hole Gang:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-180419185118-385942448.jpeg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-180419185118-38593446.jpeg)

These 6 WOTC bendies were prepped, based and painted in a day, which is a record for me. A few were also converted slightly, with the raised arm mini having its pistol added and others having bent weapon barrels replaced with styrene.

Here they are next to my only other completed minis, two human troopers made from Warlord Games WWII USMC and Project Z plastic parts.

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-180419185118-38591269.jpeg)
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: OSHIROmodels on April 18, 2019, 06:05:46 PM
Brill  8)
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Silent Invader on April 18, 2019, 06:10:34 PM
Brill  8)

Thanks coach  :D
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Dr DeAth on April 18, 2019, 07:13:14 PM
Jolly Nice
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Elk101 on April 18, 2019, 07:25:28 PM
I like those, nice Wookie work.
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Silent Invader on April 18, 2019, 07:41:48 PM
Thanks chaps, no doubt you’ll be able to kill them all at some point  :D
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: AKULA on April 18, 2019, 07:52:52 PM
Great work mate

 8)
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Silent Invader on April 18, 2019, 07:59:16 PM
Cheers Matt - I’d hazard a guess that you have a vast collection of bendies  :o lol
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: LeadAsbestos on April 18, 2019, 08:03:48 PM
Exactly what I'm trying to convince my group to start. Watching w interest!
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Silent Invader on April 18, 2019, 08:18:02 PM
Exactly what I'm trying to convince my group to start. Watching w interest!

Good luck and thanks  :D
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: AKULA on April 18, 2019, 08:22:21 PM
Cheers Matt - I’d hazard a guess that you have a vast collection of bendies  :o lol

 lol

Funnily enough no....but I have got a massive horde of WEG that I’ve not done anything with, plus four honking great AT-ATs that I was thinking of selling ....too many projects!
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Silent Invader on April 18, 2019, 08:25:58 PM
lol

Funnily enough no....but I have got a massive horde of WEG that I’ve not done anything with, plus four honking great AT-ATs that I was thinking of selling ....too many projects!

 lol

I didn’t intend to start any new projects this year. I’ve started 3 (or is it 4?)!  :D
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: AKULA on April 18, 2019, 08:31:04 PM
lol

I didn’t intend to start any new projects this year. I’ve started 3 (or is it 4?)!  :D

 :D

Normally I’d say that that sounds all too familiar, but this might be the first year in at least a decade that I haven’t started any new projects...in actual fact I’ve sold a couple off...trouble is my existing ones are spiralling out of control.

 ;D
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: LeadAsbestos on April 18, 2019, 11:33:29 PM
lol

You’ll succumb before the year is out  ;)

Maybe now is the time to suggest a shared storyline Star Wars project?
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Silent Invader on April 19, 2019, 06:13:40 AM
I’m afraid I don’t have enough Star Wars knowledge* to create a storyline, I just liked Rogue One  :D

*I rely on my Star Wars coach, OSHIROmodels, for Star Warsy opinion, guidance, recommendations and approval  ;)

I have, however, got a plan for a few small skirmish games involving a coastal outpost comprising bunker, gun battery and flight base.......

I’ve made a small board:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-190419065924-38595936.jpeg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-190419065925-385961710.jpeg)

The water is clear acrylic sheet that has been ‘glued’ to a ply backing board using white silicon sealant with streaks and blotches of blue paint mixed in.

I’ve also made an entrance to an underground bunker:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-190419065925-385971970.jpeg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-190419065925-38598425.jpeg)

Btw I’m not fully sold on these terrain items yet, as I think I will probably add more grass plus tufts to both, and more dust etc to the bunker.

And the gun battery is ready to paint (and has been for months!):

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-190419065925-385991738.jpeg)

The gun units are magnetised so will rotate on their low towers.
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: OSHIROmodels on April 19, 2019, 06:45:23 AM
*I rely on my Star Wars coach, OSHIROmodels, for Star Warsy opinion, guidance, recommendations and approval  ;)

Which you ignore quite frequently  lol
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Silent Invader on April 19, 2019, 06:57:32 AM
Which you ignore quite frequently  lol

I value your every utterance  ;) :D
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: AKULA on April 19, 2019, 07:57:06 AM
That terrain board looks the business - you are certainly churning out things right now.

 :)
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Ultravanillasmurf on April 19, 2019, 07:25:56 PM
I value your every utterance  ;) :D
You just do not say what value ^__^.
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Ultravanillasmurf on April 19, 2019, 07:27:34 PM
That board looks great, very Scarif/Maldives.
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Mason on April 19, 2019, 09:49:09 PM
Another new project!
 lol lol

That Bibbly is a terrible influence.....

That is a cracking start, sir.
Love them there Wookies and the scenery is the nuts.
 :-* :-*


Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Malamute on April 19, 2019, 09:54:03 PM
Turbo brill :D

I like the base board very much. We can use that when we restart the Pirate project  lol
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Silent Invader on April 21, 2019, 07:35:48 AM
Cheers folks.

Have to admit though that apart from the minis this has been done over many months and I’ve just got round to posting it  :D


I like the base board very much. We can use that when we restart the Pirate project  lol

My pirates are still raw lead.  Looking forward to getting them done though.  8)
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project)
Post by: Commander Roj on April 21, 2019, 09:36:30 PM
I’m afraid I don’t have enough Star Wars knowledge* to create a storyline, I just liked Rogue One  :D

*I rely on my Star Wars coach, OSHIROmodels, for Star Warsy opinion, guidance, recommendations and approval  ;)

I have, however, got a plan for a few small skirmish games involving a coastal outpost comprising bunker, gun battery and flight base.......

I’ve made a small board:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-190419065924-38595936.jpeg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-190419065925-385961710.jpeg)

Lovely looking board! I like the Perspex sea. Where did you source the Perspex and was it expensive? Also, what did you make the land from? Looks perfect for Pacific island hoping...

The water is clear acrylic sheet that has been ‘glued’ to a ply backing board using white silicon sealant with streaks and blotches of blue paint mixed in.

I’ve also made an entrance to an underground bunker:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-190419065925-385971970.jpeg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-190419065925-38598425.jpeg)

Btw I’m not fully sold on these terrain items yet, as I think I will probably add more grass plus tufts to both, and more dust etc to the bunker.

And the gun battery is ready to paint (and has been for months!):

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-190419065925-385991738.jpeg)

The gun units are magnetised so will rotate on their low towers.
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project) - UD 22/4 Island Building
Post by: Silent Invader on April 22, 2019, 04:31:01 AM
Quote
Lovely looking board! I like the Perspex sea. Where did you source the Perspex and was it expensive? Also, what did you make the land from? Looks perfect for Pacific island hoping...

Thanks very much!

It’s a bit convoluted as I made the island from the parts of three abandoned projects. I didn’t keep notes but I have some photos that give a pretty good idea of how it was done.

Being an island, quite clearly the land mass needed to be at least slightly higher than the water. But the water was going to have an acrylic sheet surface. I contemplated buying a sheet of acrylic glass from a DIY Shed but opted to use some ‘glossier’ pieces I’d already got (more of that in a mo).

As an experiment, I’d previously made a folding terrain board using an Artists portfolio case constructed from a thick card.

Portfolio case (folded):

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-220419050107-386851324.jpeg)

Case opened out and it’s inner card surface covered in silicone with paint and sand mixed in, then various other layers of PVA and sand, paint, static grass etc on top:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-220419050107-386841806.jpeg)

The recycled case was subsequently cut to fit onto a piece of Marine Ply:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-220419050107-386831341.jpeg)

The small area that would become sea was emulsioned with a colour match to Vallejo Dark Sand:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-220419050107-386821047.jpeg)

Without mixing, a small amount of Vallejo Pastel Blue was dropped into a small quantity of water:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-220419050107-38681279.jpeg)

To which was added a quantity of clear silicone sealant:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-220419045828-386742025.jpeg)

The sealant was very roughly mixed into the water and paint then roughly smeared over the dark sand areas of the board:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-220419045828-386772283.jpeg)

Many years ago OSHIROmodels had lasered me some acrylic sheet to use as part of a frozen lake. This was clamped onto the silicone sealant:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-220419045828-386781623.jpeg)

Milliput was then used to  shape the beach gradient down the ‘water’ ( I later added in the narrow central section (see photos in previous post) to enable me to add a second board that might include a spit leading to a smaller island):

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-220419045828-38679681.jpeg)

Sand was then glued over the Milliput , followed by paint and flock etc:

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/38/2031-220419045829-386801591.jpeg)

Hope that helps  :)
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project) - UD 22/4 Island Building
Post by: AKULA on April 22, 2019, 07:19:56 AM
Excellent - looks much less painful than the way I’d built my own island boards...might pinch that process for a future project.

 :)
Title: Re: SIs Star Wars on a Rogue Planet (WIP Project) - UD 22/4 Island Building
Post by: Silent Invader on April 22, 2019, 10:16:34 AM
Acrylic for ‘Pacific’ water does look lovely  :D

Not sure if I’ll ever make the spit and small island but that’ll definitely need a bigger sheet!

Title: Re: Star Wars (of a sort) - UD 28/5 More rebels WIP
Post by: Silent Invader on May 29, 2020, 09:55:12 AM
This started as a Rogue project though I’m now inclined to move away from the Pacific island setting to somewhere more temperate, which will better suit my mass of terrain. As I like the lushness of Endor (but I can’t stand Ewoks) I might do some sort of mix-up between what are my two favourite movies: Rogue One and Return of the Jedi*.

*as long as I can memory-bleach any scene involving Ewoks.

While I’m hypothesising, maybe the project could be set on the Wookiee home planet, with an Endor-like scenario but involving Wookies ( :-*) rather than Ewoks ( :'(). It’d be totes-original, no one has ever thought of it before .....

Quote
Kashyyyk, also known as Wookiee Planet C, is a fictional planet in the Star Wars universe. It is the tropical, forested home world of the Wookiees. According to interviews given by Star Wars creator George Lucas, the home of the Wookiees was originally intended to be the forest moon of Endor which plays a key role in the plot of the sixth film of the series, Return of the Jedi.
Wikipedia

Anyways, here’s my latest progress: some conversions of Bendies plus some mash-ups of Bolt Action, Project Z and other plastics to create human troopers. As much as I like the Bendies, the inconsistent scaling and some of the posing annoy me, thus the conversions.

A young female Jedi with a couple of robots:

(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/2031-290520090514-467371417.jpeg)

A group of Rebel flight crew (I have two single fighters and a double-crewed troop-landing craft to paint):

(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/2031-290520090514-4673682.jpeg)

And 10 Rebel troopers (two are finished):

(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/2031-290520090514-467351756.jpeg)

(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/2031-290520090514-467332234.jpeg)

And for completeness of the Rebel force, the Wookies from page 1:

(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/46/2031-290520094143.jpeg)
Title: Re: Star Wars (of a sort) - UD 28/5 More rebels WIP
Post by: OSHIROmodels on May 29, 2020, 10:05:12 AM
Star Wars!

 lol

The galaxy is on the large side so there's no reason why you couldn't have it on a generic temperate planet (without Ewoks or Wookies)  :)
Title: Re: Star Wars (of a sort) - UD 28/5 More rebels WIP
Post by: Silent Invader on May 29, 2020, 10:23:27 AM
The galaxy is on the large side so there's no reason why you couldn't have it on a generic temperate planet (without Ewoks or Wookies)  :)

  :D

Must have Wookies  :-*
Title: Re: Star Wars (of a sort) - UD 28/5 More rebels WIP
Post by: Mason on May 29, 2020, 02:48:10 PM
Some cracking additions since I last checked-in.
Love all of the Rebels, looking forward to seeing 'em coloured-in.
 8) 8)

Must have Wookies  :-*

Just buy Bibbles a big woolly jacket and you can have one of your very own.
 ;) ;D


Title: Re: Star Wars (of a sort) - UD 28/5 More rebels WIP
Post by: Silent Invader on May 30, 2020, 05:32:39 PM
 :D

I’m looking forward to painting them too - hopefully within the year!
Title: Re: Star Wars (of a sort) - UD 28/5 More rebels WIP
Post by: Galland on June 02, 2020, 02:13:27 PM
I am quite interested in hearing about your experince with the Galactic Heroes rules, as I am contemplating to buy them despite having Star Wars: Legions. The rules seems interesting and I have seen Tim show them on Facebook, but he is a bit biassed I suppose hehe :)
Title: Re: Star Wars (of a sort) - UD 28/5 More rebels WIP
Post by: Silent Invader on June 02, 2020, 02:29:23 PM
It’ll be a while I’m afraid, as I don’t play with unpainted minis and there’s a queue ahead of these.  :)