Star wars Legion (ish) Shatterpoint (ish) scale thread

[jhonpog]

Hey all I've been enjoying all the star wars threads on this board for sometime so thought I should make a contribution.

I've been mucking around with 40mm (1/43rd scale) figures, vehicles etc mainly I as enjoy customising and scratch building but with a view to running a game or two eventually.

For some reason about a year ago I got really interested in this scale.  The figure size just works for me; not too big to inhibit terrain making, not too small that I can't see the fiddly bits

Rather than letting my crappy pics get in the way of starting a thread here's my first offering for criticism and critique

I am unfortunately an indifferent painter but I will gladly take advice to improve.

So I made this shuttle like it could be a Star wars version of a helicopter. I was inspired by the recent Andor series; a fast, small vehicle that could transport troops, supplies, pick up wounded, jump in an out of hot zones, be a forward command base etc.

I had an old kenner mini-rig which was pretty knackered so my goal was to try and use as much as possible in this build.  The wings move, you can remove the roof and it doesn't take up alot of table space.  Ideally the whole thing would be enclosed but I ran out of gas getting this far so stuff it, it's ray shielded or something

Oh yeah the rebel figure is a repurposed cheap 40mm airfix soldier rip off with a legion trooper head and a 3d printed rifle.

[tomrommel1]

nice indeed, especially the converted soldier

[jhonpog]

thanks Tomrommel1 I hope to add better pics at somestage which might encourage me to do a bit more painting

[OSHIROmodels]

I like that 

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Nice work.

[jhonpog]

thanks you fullas!

Oshiro I follow your work on this board it's very inspiring cheers!

[AKULA]

nice work 

[Elk101]

Great job on the shuttle!

[nozza_uk]

Looks like I've some competition in the mini-rig conversion stakes! 

Fantastic job on that shuttle, it really looks the business.

[jhonpog]

Wow thanks guys I appreciate all the feedback.  Akula yours is another very inspirational thread I follow (lurk in)

Nozza have I seen your mini-rig conversion on your thread? I'd love to see what you've done. I've had my eye on that At-st-head-minirig thing wondering what could be done with that

Seeing your imperial army prints prompted me to get some done too. I had some skull forge army trooper files on a drive; just got the prints back today. I scaled them up to 105% which was a guess but they look really good suitable for 1/43rd.

[nozza_uk]

Nozza have I seen your mini-rig conversion on your thread? I'd love to see what you've done. I've had my eye on that At-st-head-minirig thing wondering what could be done with that

Here you go https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=138889.msg1814080#msg1814080.

[jhonpog]

Here you go https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=138889.msg1814080#msg1814080.

That's a good conversion Nozza I really like what you did with the tank. Those edges in the rear that helped locate the action figure look like seats for smaller figures and it looks like there's a driver/gunner compartment in the front armoured bit with a gun either side of them nice!

Perhaps between us we could try getting through all the vintage mini-rigs? 

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Very good shuttle.

[aliensurfer]

That shuttle is brilliant.

[jhonpog]

thanks very much to both of you. I will try and take better pics soon ha ha. 

I've always liked the nose the mini-rig and then I found this pic on-line. So I used the mini-rig as a base, extended the wings and reversed them.  The top of the shuttle is a mouse trap that had stopped working and had a nice look to it and I think the bottom ended up being an old light switch surround that was roughly the size I was after

I really like making stuff from found objects you never know how things will turn out.