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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Schweizer on December 03, 2013, 06:27:59 AM

Title: Star Wars: The Gorax
Post by: Schweizer on December 03, 2013, 06:27:59 AM

Though I've got very few of them finished (painted), I've made dozens of custom Star Wars figures over the past couple of years.  This evening I needed green stuff to repair something non-figure-related, overestimated how much I'd need, and figured that rather than let the big mixed ball of it go to waste I'd try to make a Gorax, which is a big monster that appears in the first made-for-TV Ewok movie.  The Ewok movies are a big mess - there's a witch that spins around and turns into a crow, the ewoks live on the ground and ride horses, there are dragons... but I was nuts for them as a kid, and there are some fun Star Warsy-elements in them, the Gorax being one of them. 

I took a chewbacca toy, pulled it apart (a mistake - without having the chance to do the green stuff in stages, having the limbs hold in place while I sculpted without sliding proved impossible), and went from there. 

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3752/11184940854_184ae18797_o.jpg)

Here's the movie version:

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5541/11184894515_b956d97f3f_o.jpg)

I scaled him down considerably.  The movie version is too big to make sense - to keep him in scale, he's have to be around a foot and a half tall (45cm).  I opted for a much more modest version, one which can fit into a cabinet.

Title: Re: Star Wars: The Gorax
Post by: tomrommel1 on December 03, 2013, 07:27:41 AM

nice start

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Post by: beefcake on December 03, 2013, 07:40:59 AM

Cool. I loved those ewok movies as a kid. I don't think I'll try to relive the nostalgia and watch them again though. The gorax was definitely a favourite. Great sculpting.

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Post by: anevilgiraffe on December 03, 2013, 11:32:28 AM

both movies are on Youtube, I watched them last week... the Gorax looks grand, love the speeder bike axe and the helmets...

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Post by: Rob_bresnen on December 03, 2013, 11:39:34 AM

that is a work of genius- I am not aware of the ewok films, but that looks great to me!

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Post by: Mason on December 03, 2013, 12:18:31 PM

Bloody brilliant!
You mad genius.
 8)

Love the little touches that bring it back into scale.
 :-*

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Post by: Mencey on December 03, 2013, 12:29:44 PM

Amazing, really good miniature, congratullations!!! :-* :-* :-*

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Post by: Giger on December 03, 2013, 12:34:41 PM

Brilliant, I have the Ewok movies on DVD and still love to watch them (guilty pleasure).