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Topic: Scratching my Star Wars itch. (Read 9204 times)
Cubs
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Scratching my Star Wars itch.
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June 27, 2019, 09:03:26 PM »
I've always loved Star Wars, I've always loved miniatures. Until now they have never combined. I blame Grant for flogging off a bunch of his Star Wars Legion mins cheap.
So here he is then, my first Star Wars miniature in what will no doubt be a very, very slow project - Darth Vader. Go big or go home, eh? The base is homemade from some scraps of things in the bits box - I wanted something that looked a bit like the Bespin interiors, with those orange floor lights and metal gratings.
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Re: Scratching my Star Wars itch.
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Wow...gees that is amazing
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armchairgeneral
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June 27, 2019, 09:50:04 PM »
Really great start
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AWu
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June 27, 2019, 10:15:31 PM »
That had to be the power of the dark side..
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Supercollider
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Re: Scratching my Star Wars itch.
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June 28, 2019, 01:03:03 AM »
Terrific! You've made the shiny armor and other black textures look very different
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Absolutely stunning
I hope you do more soon.
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June 28, 2019, 05:52:01 AM »
What a cracker
Those reflections are spot on
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Cubs
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Re: Scratching my Star Wars itch.
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June 28, 2019, 08:06:49 AM »
Thanks dudes, very kind.
Obviously getting the different textures right was key to this guy, so trying to mess about with highlights and get them right was what I concentrated on. The armour was a be-atch and I repainted the helmet slightly because the first time I did it, I made it too symmetrical and it was just a bunch of evenly spaced white streaks. I realised my mistake and stuck some random blobs in here and there and gave it more patches of black to stop it looking too zebra-like. The armour needed blobs of pure black going to white highlights to show it was shiny - the cloak needed more of a gradual blend through greys (without an extreme highlight) to show it was dull, and the arms & legs were somewhere in the middle.
Like I say, this is only going to be added to very slowly, because the paying work comes first, but hopefully it will get a new addition every few months or so.
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hubbabubba
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June 28, 2019, 08:38:38 AM »
Excellent painting, you've nailed those different textures with the different highlights.
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Vanth
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June 28, 2019, 09:12:30 AM »
Fantastic paintjob, really amazing!
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Mason
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June 28, 2019, 09:28:58 AM »
The paint on the fella is cracking and you have really nailed that base too.
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Malamute
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Superb
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Muzfish4
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June 28, 2019, 11:46:28 AM »
Magnificent work!
A real inspiration.
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Andym
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Great start! Keep ‘em coming!
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Cubs
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"I simply cannot survive without beauty ..."
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July 23, 2019, 08:18:14 AM »
I do like these models you know. They're big buggers at 32mm to the eye (more for the tall ones), which gives me a little more scope for the detail.
Luke Skywalker now, ready for a Bespin show-down with Dad. I tried to keep the base the same as Vader's but with the glowing lights at the front of the base and no cloak to work around, I was able to keep things a little neater. I love the bland colour scheme of his outfit contrasting with the glowing light saber. By choosing three likely angles for photos, I was able to paint streaks in the right place to look like a glowing effect.
And of course, now both of them are painted up on their lovely Bespin bases, I can do funky stuff like this -
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