Deep Desert Martians (woot!) (little update 1-12-13)

[verd]

Great inspiration here!

[the fallen scholar]

Outstanding!!!  I have about 100 tusken myself.  I love the idea of the cannons on the Banthas!!!  I may steal that one.  Again great job!!

Bill

[Sinewgrab]

If you are going to have a bunch of desert dwellers, you gotta have somewhere for them to live.  I tracked down my copy of the old 'Kroot Encampment" tent pattern from the White Dwarf ages ago, and made a few of them.

Being as I don't care for cardstock, I use .030 plasticard, and score it to fold, and then I put white glue and tissue on it to texture it some.



And why do just one, when you can go totally overboard while watching shows on the prehistoric disasters that changed the direction of evolution and nature shows narrated by David Attenborough?  As an aside, I love that man's voice - I grew up watching those shows on OPB, and listening to him is like an aural cuddly blanket, that educates you in spite of yourself.



And I can almost hear the Raider saying "This is MY house."

[Chairface]

They look great!

[Hildred Castaigne]

Those tents look fantastic!
They look quite ominous all together like that.

I did a bit of searching online and found the templates.
That makes me a happy Hildred! 

[Mason]

Those tents look fantastic!
They look quite ominous all together like that.

^What he said^

That sum it all up very nicely.

[aggro84]

Very cool. Great idea.

[Sinewgrab]

And one more Bantha - this one used the Micromachine version, but I cut all of the hair off and added lots of little bits, and then built a wagon.  I am not over happy with the wagon, but I built it only out of stuff I already had, so I can't complain much.

[Hat Guy]

Great army. I thought I was over wanting to make a Martian VSF force, but you tempted me in again damn you! 

[Froggy the Great]

If you and this force are ever in Charleston, we may have to go to war over certain Martian steppes....

[mikeygees]

Out of control cool.....

[Ramshackle_Curtis]

Just great. Shame some of the models are a bit "unfinished" (I can see unpainted bits on those tents!) but the bulk is amazing. \An awesome force and Id love to game against it!

[Sinewgrab]

If you don't notice it on the table, it isn't unfinished.  That's my motto.  I didn't even see the open spots until long after I had posted the picture, so it can't be too bad. 

[Ramshackle_Curtis]

 

[Froggy the Great]

Is the tent pattern available online anywhere?