Star Wars: The Gorax

[Schweizer]

Though I've got very few of them finished (painted), I've made dozens of custom Star Wars figures over the past couple of years.  This evening I needed green stuff to repair something non-figure-related, overestimated how much I'd need, and figured that rather than let the big mixed ball of it go to waste I'd try to make a Gorax, which is a big monster that appears in the first made-for-TV Ewok movie.  The Ewok movies are a big mess - there's a witch that spins around and turns into a crow, the ewoks live on the ground and ride horses, there are dragons... but I was nuts for them as a kid, and there are some fun Star Warsy-elements in them, the Gorax being one of them. 

I took a chewbacca toy, pulled it apart (a mistake - without having the chance to do the green stuff in stages, having the limbs hold in place while I sculpted without sliding proved impossible), and went from there. 



Here's the movie version:



I scaled him down considerably.  The movie version is too big to make sense - to keep him in scale, he's have to be around a foot and a half tall (45cm).  I opted for a much more modest version, one which can fit into a cabinet.

[tomrommel1]

nice start

[beefcake]

Cool. I loved those ewok movies as a kid. I don't think I'll try to relive the nostalgia and watch them again though. The gorax was definitely a favourite. Great sculpting.

[anevilgiraffe]

both movies are on Youtube, I watched them last week... the Gorax looks grand, love the speeder bike axe and the helmets...

[Rob_bresnen]

that is a work of genius- I am not aware of the ewok films, but that looks great to me!

[Mason]

Bloody brilliant!
You mad genius.
 

Love the little touches that bring it back into scale.
 

[Mencey]

Amazing, really good miniature, congratullations!!!

[Giger]

Brilliant, I have the Ewok movies on DVD and still love to watch them (guilty pleasure).