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

[AKULA]

Those pods look the business 

[jhonpog]

I just need to make 2 more Akula before I run out of motivation ha ha

[BeardGoblin]

Oooh, the ship is looking very tidy indeed with paint on (not that it didn't before - you know what I mean!  ).

The cargo pods are shaping up nicely, really like the idea of having a couple of 'clusters' to bulk everything out, then adding some individual pieces to finish the look (and also save a ton of work!).

[jhonpog]

Yeah thanks Beardgoblin that's what I was trying for; like background cargo pods that you can't see with some fancy ones to hide them

I'm pretty happy with it all so far though I think I might weather the ship down a bit more?

[OSHIROmodels]

They work well 

[jhonpog]

Thanks again Oshiro it's great having you and the other high-level painters and modellers feedback

[jhonpog]

Hi all no cargo lighter update today sorry....ok well other than one of my damned chickens jumped on it (it survived) and then I accidentally dropped a sheet of mdf on the back end (it broke).  Some superglue has basically repaired it but a few bits went flying no idea where they went ha ha.

Anyway a slight shift in focus for me as I prep my next project.  I have wanted to create a force of local militia/ armed citizenry types to augment rebel forces.  I like the endor commando/ rogue pathfinder troops but they are ..well... trained soldiers.  I'm interested in making some figures to represent regular people who have armed themselves against an occupying imperial force.

I've had alook around and there are 3d print options like twileks, mimbanese and others but they are very particular to one setting and I want figures that could work anywhere.

So my solution was to find figures that don't look alike but if I arm them with the same types of weapons and gear they will look like a unit of some kind. Or like irregulars or something.

Fortunately there is a source of 1/43rd scale figures to be found in the newer heroclix lines.  These figures are 40mm or more tall, have a nice heft and are easy to convert.  I have used a few for civilians but I had some left over in my figures scrap pile (pictured below).  I recently bought some GW soldier heads and pouches and I've ordered some 3d printed clone rifles and droid blasters.
Those GW heads are near perfect for 1/43rd scale. I also had a both head casting lying around so threw that in

My thinking is that most worlds affected by the clone wars would have piles of old clone rifles and droid blasters and perhaps a few enterprising folk have stashed and maintained these weapons incase of another invasion. SW preppers?

I have enough figures to make 7 or so of these armed citizens and here's my conversions so far.


 

[has.been]

I like your thinking on this.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

They are looking very impressive.

[jhonpog]

Thanks has.been and mad lord! It took me a while to settle on civilian figures with matching weapons as an irregular force or resistance group. Maybe like the a french resistance group in WW2?

There are loads of heroclix figures that will work for this unit so I may order some more when I've finished these ones. I see them as low skill level but very high morale fighters which I think would be interesting to play with

[Malamute]

Inspired idea!

[Freddy]

Cool idea, a head and a weapon swap can easily improve a low quality sculpt/cast. I made a lot of bandits for my 1/35 postapo project this way.

[jhonpog]

Thanks Malamute and Freddy!  Yeah I reckon once the clone rifles arrive it will make them a bit more star warsy with instantly recognisable weaponry.

Paint-wise I'm planning to use a bit more colour than usual. I'll probably use reds blues yellows and stay away from browns, greens and grays we'lll see

[jhonpog]

Hey all small update from me while I wait for my 3d printed rifles to arrive.

I've finished up the 'background' cargo pods on the lighter. Still haven't made the last 2 I need gah!

Here's what it looks like with cargo pods in place.  Not too bad? Very star warsy I guess.  Imperial trooper figure for scale.

[jhonpog]

And why have 6 or 7 projects on the go at once when you could have 8 or 9?

I have a out-of-scale At rt toy from the Star Wars mission fleet line that I have no use for but after a bit of mucking around i think I can turn it into a droid load-lifter for a cargo dock or whatever.  possibly it could unload cargo from my ship, something like that.

All I've done so far is pull the front off plus a few guns etc then turned the body upside down. To me the  back of the at rt looks quite a lot like a droid head,  The plan will be to add some arms or forklift forks or something