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

[nozza_uk]

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

I've got a bit of a head start though. 

[jhonpog]

ha ha you do indeed   I like the grimy look you've given them it gets them away from looking like toys

[hubbabubba]

Nice shuttles all.

Do you have any scale phtos of the Shatterpoint figs?

[jhonpog]

Hey Hubba I don't have any shatterpoint figures yet (I am waiting for the OT ones) but you can google shatterpoint miniatures scale comparison and you'll find some good images. 

My impression is that they are about the same heft as legion figures just longer arms and legs and a bit more dramatic in the poses.  I have converted a few legion figures to 40mm so hope they will be compatible (enough)

Wonder when these guys will be released?

[jhonpog]

Hey all my next offering: crashed Xwing.  I guess this would make a good objective marker or terrain piece. 

I have a limited budget for this hobby so I like to use what I've got or what I can get cheaply to fill out my collection leaving money to spend on figures etc.

So rather than spend heaps of money on a legion piece of terrain I repurposed a cheap (and knackered) hasbro xwing and took some casting off an old MPC xwing kit which is 1/43rd scale and a perfect fit

With a fair bit of cutting, a few cock ups, and plenty of glue you can get a 1/43rd scale xwing out of this toy.  I ended up using the xwing model engine fronts and guns, scratch building a canopy from an old cd case, casting the top detail on the main body and a few bits and pieces.

Not perfect but not bad I reckon.  I could have done a better job on the base i think. I'm planning to add a wounded pilot at some stage.  Sigh it's hard to actually finish these projects.

The figures in the pics are some 3d printed probe droids with a WOTC one. I'm my opinion the WOTC probe droid is ideal for 1/43rd.

The rebels are converted army men again with sculpted heads and 3d printed guns. These were my first attempts at making some rebels before I found that legion figures are basically 1/43rd figures with short legs ha ha

Fortunately my camera was particularly blurry on the rebels which obscures my painting a bit.

Ok comments and criticisms please. Help me make my stuff better cheers!

[tomrommel1]

nice additions

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

 Excellent work.   

[AKULA]

Ok comments and criticisms please. Help me make my stuff better cheers!

Firstly great job on the x-wing.

re: comments/suggestions - personal choice, but I prefer a bit more of a base on my terrain...it is a tradeoff between gaming & the look, but a bigger base allows you to have a bit of fun with the terrain...you could for example plough up the ground to show the force with which the x-wing impacted.

 

[jhonpog]

Firstly great job on the x-wing.

re: comments/suggestions - personal choice, but I prefer a bit more of a base on my terrain...it is a tradeoff between gaming & the look, but a bigger base allows you to have a bit of fun with the terrain...you could for example plough up the ground to show the force with which the x-wing impacted.

 

Thanks everyone for comments.  Hey Akula yeah I don't think i got the base right it does need more ploughed up earth around it maybe more of a trail behind it to make it more believeable. So thanks I will try and build it out a bit more

I was really surprised how much of the hasbro toy fit 1/43 scale.  The rear engine parts are untouched, some of the paneling didn't need much changing and the nose cut down really easily.

For weathering I did the usual paint stuff but I've left the X-wing out in the workshop so it's covered in dust, birds have landed on it at some stage, there's some dead spiders in beween the wings ha ha.  Natural weathering I call it.....

[jhonpog]

Hey all turns out I am doing a weekly update

Welcome back to my slightly washout/ blurry photo thread of 40mm near-as-damn to legion or shatterpoint SW figs and terrain

Here's my imperial watch tower. I made this after watching this excellent video:



I made it out of mdf, card and plastic stock plus whatever bits and pieces i could find. I am very short of decent SW looking greebles and  must put some time into accumulating decent dressing for my terrain.  LMK if you have any questions good folk.

I decided to make the tower in separate pieces so they could act as platforms.  Eventually I will get round to 3d printing or scratch building a turbo laser for the top to replace the lookout to be another objective/ terrain option.

The little guy in the top of the tower and the bloke next to the 3d printed e-web are from ummm skull forge. With a 5% bump in size they scale nicely to 1/43rd

 

[jhonpog]

having trouble uploading images .......

gah! it keeps saying

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any ideas what I'm doing wrong........ok it works now

[Cypher226]

having trouble uploading images .......

gah! it keeps saying

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any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

I've seen a post on another thread there's an issue at the moment with the site, the mods are looking into it.

[jhonpog]

ok thanks cypher i'll have another go

[tomrommel1]

nice tower!

[AKULA]

Good work on the tower - looks just the part