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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: YIU on January 16, 2011, 07:24:48 PM
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One more Star Wars thread. I just bought a lot of Star Wars Wotc miniatures to play large games. As some miniatures are very rare, very expensive or don't exist at all I decided to create them with common ones.
Let's start with the Clone Wars series and Cad Bane band of bounty hunters.
The Commando droids and Helios droids are repaints. All the others are converted miniatures. Todo is scratchbuilt.
Cad Bane
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/CadBane.jpg)
Aurra Sing
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/AurraSing.jpg)
Robonino and Todo
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/RoboninoTodo.jpg)
Helios
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Helios.jpg)
Commando Droids
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/CommandoDroids.jpg)
Shahan Alama
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/ShahanAlama.jpg)
Cad Bane bouty hunters band
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Bane.jpg)
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Now those are nice - fine conversion work and vibrant paintjobs. May I ask what parts you used for "Cad Bane"? That looks tremendously suitable to make a "Happy Shrapnel" for my ABC Warriors.
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Very nice mate, repaints and the customs excellent.
The Commander
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Thanks.
Cad Bane body is a Rodian black sun vigo. The head comes from a Duros Scoundrel. I sculpted the mask and the hat with green stuff.
(http://www.kandccollectibles.com/images/tu3228.jpg)
(http://www.coolstuffinc.com/images/Products/Misc%20Art/Star%20Wars%20Miniatures/LOF43.jpg)
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These are fantastic figures! The thread is going to be great.
I feel the Professor should slowly start thinking about a StarWars section...
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Lovely work. Bane and Sing are particularly nice.
What did you use to convert her?
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What did you use to convert her?
Sing is based on a dark side enforcer for the body, with Heroclix Indy miniature arms and a GW Daemonette head. The rifle is a spare part.
(http://www.legendgames.co.uk/acatalog/Dark_Side_Enforcer.jpg)
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Eric, all converted from WotC SW minis, apart form the odds and ends?
All looking very damn kool as i know you are capable of. When i look at said pics i think how the WotC minis are a resource. Then i see them close up and wonder how peeps get em to look so good.
But you know there is one scratch item i see missing? Can you guess what i am thinking? I know you can. :-)
Grimm
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she had goggles didn't she?
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thats inspiring!
what ruleset are you going to use?
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Those look really awesome!
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Grimm : Sorry Grimm but I don't see what is missing...did I forget a bouty hunter in this group ? and if you are refering to Bane's vehicle I won't do it.
Yes all converted from Wotc miniatures. In fact they are really easy to convert as it is softplastic. It cuts easilly and can be glued with superglue.
Widgren : I will use FUBAR rules with Cone Wars and Star Wars supplements for large games and may be No Limits for small games.
Anevilgiraffe : I never saw Aurra Sing with Goggles...in a Clone Wars episode may be ?
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well I only ever saw her in the Phantom Menace, and pretty sure she had goggles on the top of her head as she watched the podrace from the cliff... but I'm wrong
(http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/c/c3/Aurra_sing_ep1.jpg)
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We only see her a few seconds in the movie ;)
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Sing is based on a dark side enforcer for the body, with Heroclix Indy miniature arms and a GW Daemonette head. The rifle is a spare part.
(http://www.legendgames.co.uk/acatalog/Dark_Side_Enforcer.jpg)
I believe the Indy Heroclix arms he used are froma Tiger Lilly figure. She is firing two Mac10s in front of her.
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Yes it's Tiger Lily.
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Here is a new bounty hunter from Clone Wars series : Sugi.
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Sugi.jpg)
And Padme Amidala as she appears in the movie and the series.
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Padme1.jpg)
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Padme2.jpg)
It should be easy to identify the original miniatures I used for these customs. ;)
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It should be easy to identify the original miniatures I used for these customs. ;)
only if you pay attention to the WOTC range... series Padme is very nice...
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only if you pay attention to the WOTC range... series Padme is very nice...
Many thanks Anevilgiraffe...and you are right, if you don't pay attention to the WOTC range it's har to find who is who and hard to find miniatures for conversions.
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Grimm : Sorry Grimm but I don't see what is missing...did I forget a bouty hunter in this group ? and if you are refering to Bane's vehicle I won't do it.
Well now then eric. I figure it was an easy answer. The one scratch i didnt see there. Wasnt a bounty hunter. Wasnt Bane's vehicle though now i am intrigued. It was Speeder Bikes of course. :-)
I am liking the use of the current WotC lines indeed. Keep it up and churn more out when you can.
Grimm
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Yes Grimm but be patient, it's for another time. ;)
I am working on miniatures for now...vehicles and sceneries should be done later on. I will cheat a bit for the speeder bikes as I bought some Titanium ones but I will scratchbuild another version....surprise.
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Yes Grimm but be patient, it's for another time. ;)
I am working on miniatures for now...vehicles and sceneries should be done later on. I will cheat a bit for the speeder bikes as I bought some Titanium ones but I will scratchbuild another version....surprise.
Swoop?
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Swoop?
Cool! Han Solo used to do swoop races in his early days...
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I'm gonna try my hand at making a similar Cad Bane (the forty, fifty bucks the WOTC one is fetching is beyond what I can justify spending). Great conversions here! Really stellar work.
Did you make the head of the fish guy from green stuff?
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Swoop?
Yes swoop. I bought a few swoops and I wanted to convert them as speeder bikes but as I bought speeder bikes I'll convert them into something different.
A swoops race such as the landspeeders race (the other Star Wars thread) could be a good idea and I already have rules for this : Crushing ruleset would be perfect.
Yes the head and the arms of the fish guy were made with green stuff. The original miniature is the Polis Massa medic. You are right paying up to $50 for Cad bane is not worth it as you can convert it for $2 ;)
(http://www.gamesempire.com.au/images/uploads/StarWarsROTSPolisMassaMedic.JPG)
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I finished my second group of bounty hunters : Aurra Sing band as seen in Clone Wars season 2 episodes 21-22.
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Sing.jpg)
Young Bobba Fett (a simple repaint) :
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Bobba.jpg)
Castas (totally converted with 3 miniatures) :
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Castas.jpg)
Bossk (a simple repaint) :
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Bossk.jpg)
Hondo Ohnaka the pirate leader and ex-boyfriend of Aurra (total conversion) :
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/HondoOhnaka.jpg)
I am still converting and painting characters from the Clone Wars series and there are more to come. It's a bit a speed painting as I have tons of miniatures to paint so I never spend more than 45 minutes to one hour on such miniatures (that's tabletop, no more).
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These are really great - I'm always amazed how well these paint up,
You mentioned the Crushing ruleset? Anymore details?
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Crushing is a cars game I wrote with other gamers. It's designed to play a gang (cars only but you could play motorcycles or trucks too). It's a fast, easy and funny game and you can get the free english rules here :
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CRUSHING_Gamers/
There is an experience system and it could be very easy to use the rules to play swoops or landspeeders races.
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As far as I remember are rules for Pedestrians also included?
Yes, Crushing would be great.
Reminds me to play it again, was a long time ago now.
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Yes rules for pedestrians and a lot of scenarios are also available.
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Reminds me on plenty hours I have spent infront of my computer to translate the French charts into german, because there was no english version of them available at that time lol
And my french is not existing
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I translated the rules from french into english ans they were revised by an english french, so it's perfect now and you should download them.
BTW original french author vanished in the nature and sold the french rules on his site without telling me... :-X but I kept the english Yahoo group running.
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Have downloaded them allready, a while ago ;)
Also signed in into the Yahoo group, but was a little lazy about that, but have to change this.
Will get in contact with you soon about that, also about Okko ;)
If I remember right you showed a mini of the Bunraku in your blog, a while ago.
Was that a conversion or will he be released?
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The Bunraku was a conversion...not painted yet :(
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Would you mind to share what you used for the conversion.
want to make my own.
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Would you mind to share what you used for the conversion.
No problem. Here are the miniatures I used as a base for the conversions. I sculpted some parts with green stuff.
Sugi is based on a Zabrak fringer.
(http://www.legendgames.co.uk/acatalog/55_ZabrakFringer.jpg)
The movie Padme is a human engineer with a battle droid blaster.
(http://www.gamehollow.com/catalog/images/sw/dt29.jpg)
The other Padme is an old republic scout and I merely sculpted the gun and the hair.
(http://www.tritex-games.co.uk/image.php?url=products_minatures_starwars/old_republic_scout.jpg&height=150)
Hondo is based on a human bodyguard with a youngling helmet and lot of green stuff.
(http://www.coolstuffinc.com/images/Products/Misc%20Art/Star%20Wars%20Miniatures/LOF46.jpg)
For Castas have a look at this tutorial (I did the same) : http://community.wizards.com/arctrooper-a79/blog/2010/09/20/castas
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Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I was talking about the Bunraku lol
What did you used for him?
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A Urban war miniature and a ton of green stuff : 13407-Oni Class Shogun Battlesuit with Naginata
http://www.urbanmammoth.co.uk/acatalog/info_13407.html
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After Clone Wars series, miniatures from Episode 1 : Obi-wan padawan, Anakin and Qui Gon Jinn.
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Episode1.jpg)
As I used the Youngling helmet and lightsaber for other conversion I decided to custom a young Anakin. Obi-Wan is just a repaint and Qui-Gon has been converted.
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Nice as allways :-*
A Urban war miniature and a ton of green stuff : 13407-Oni Class Shogun Battlesuit with Naginata
http://www.urbanmammoth.co.uk/acatalog/info_13407.html
Will get one and try my best on him ;)
Looking forward to your Steam Wars Project.
Do you know Sillofs page for custom action figures?
http://www.sillof.com/
He makes some nice inspirational minis, now with a new West Wars version
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Yes that's what inspired me. I would like to do the same but with 28mm miniatures.
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Some miniatures I converted and painted this week-end.
Chancellor Palpatine
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Chancellor.jpg)
Poddle the Lesser
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Poddle.jpg)
Ahsoka Tano
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Ahsoka.jpg)
Now I should start my clone army.
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Some miniatures I converted and painted this week-end.
Chancellor Palpatine
Poddle the Lesser
Ahsoka Tano
Now I should start my clone army.
Excellent as always Eric. So when will you be making a Savage Opress then? Make sure he has interchangable weapons for his double lightsabre and enchanted blade. :-)
Grimm
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Thanks Grimm. Savage is on the to do list ;)
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Thanks Grimm. Savage is on the to do list ;)
Oh yeah and once he is revealed again Darth Maul from the Clone Wars cartoon. Should be easy enough. Just get a Darth Maul fig and slice it in half. :-)
Grimm
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Absolutley gorgeous, reminds me to dust off and finish my own Jedi / Clone force one day
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Thanks Grimm. Savage is on the to do list ;)
I watched the quickening of Savage episode at the weekend on Sky, he's a bit special isn't he, definately needs to be customized and have a face off with Maul.
So send in the clones? ;)
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Yes, send in the clones.
Let's start with Commander Cody receiving Order 66.
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/Cody.jpg)
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These are great.
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Cody is nice!
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Cool idea for Cody and an excellent mod and paint job.
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Thanks guys.
I'll try to take a better picture later on as we can't see details on this one.
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Yes, send in the clones.
Let's start with Commander Cody receiving Order 66.
Eric, is that the standard fig? No conversion?
And is it a repaint and rebase or just a rebase?
looking sweet as always.
Sending in those clones walking and not riding in style. ::wink wink:: :-)
Grimm
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Hi Grimm,
It's a total conversion and a resculpted helmet.
The hologram was sculpted, molded and then casted in clear bue resin (but you don't really see it on the photo).
Here is the original clone miniature.
(http://www.vesivus.com/swminis/pics/CLS_Clone_Trooper_Sergeant_10.jpg)
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Hi Grimm,
It's a total conversion and a resculpted helmet.
The hologram was sculpted, molded and then casted in clear bue resin (but you don't really see it on the photo).
Here is the original clone miniature.
(http://www.vesivus.com/swminis/pics/CLS_Clone_Trooper_Sergeant_10.jpg)
Amazing :o
Simply amazing
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Yeah Eric i didnt think that was a stock fig and was a conversion.
You always do good work. Just need to stop sleeping and get more work out. :-)
Grimm
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WOW!!! I only now discovered this wonderful thread. These conversions and paint work are amazing. The best repaints I have seen so far… :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Eric, how did you develop the awesome skills it takes to do these conversions?
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Many thanks Frank.
Eric, how did you develop the awesome skills it takes to do these conversions?
To be honest some conversions were inspired by existing conversions I found on Internet : I just copied the idea.... BTW converting plastic miniatures is a piece of cake compared to pewter ones. I am used to convert miniatures : Warhammer, Mordheim,....
Here is the last conversion (may be the heaviest) : Aayla Secura
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm165/moavoa/Clone%20Wars/AaylaSecura.jpg)
As I didn't like the Wotc one (and it was pricey) I converted the Twi'lek bodyguard. This miniature is not really well sculpted (not much details on the face) but it will do for a few cents :)
(http://khryssun.free.fr/starwars-miniatures/fiches/rs/58_TwilekBodyguard_mini_WOTC.jpg)
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Great conversion :o
Though personally, I didn`t think the wotc to bad. The fact she was released before Clone Wars became a hit pushed down her price a tat of course back then when I snatched off the `Bay