I NEED MY GOOGLE SEARCH REVOKED !

 As you may have seen over the years with my Star Wars project, most of it is cannon, occasionally expanded universe, and occasionally bits I find that fit the aesthetics, like one of the land speeders I did over the summer, and small craft I did a few Christmas's ago. Today's piece comes from a Google search I did when looking for all the different speeders on Tatooine, there are a few I still need to find or make, this one actually comes from 

Tatooine Dune Speeder was a painting that appeared in the 2003 MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts. The image used for the painting came from the art book From Pencil to Pixel: The Art of Star Wars Galaxies. The painting was one of nine paintings given out randomly to players of the game for the game's first anniversary of release in the United States and Europe. The painting was later added to the "rare loot system" in Hotfix 17.10 on October 7, 2010. The system allowed players to loot rare items from any enemy in the game. The vehicle depicted in the painting bears similarities to the T-47 airspeeder. The player could use the painting in their house as decoration.

I started with a 1:52 T-47 airspeeder made by Revell, as the basis, then used plasticard, parts from other models, and some greenstuff to come up with this.

Now it's not 100% accurate to the sketch, but close enough for me. Painting wise I went for some desert colors, with a red stripe, then well weathered, there is an alien pilot which I made but you can only see glimpses of him.

While I did the Dune speeder I also painted up the new Legion T-47 I got for my birthday, I've gone with a color scheme matching the reference from the Empire Strikes Back, I'm going to add it to my slowly growing Hoth bits, as I already have a Revell 1:52 T-47 with a Tatooine colored base, now the Revell kit is actually not much smaller than the Legion one, a few millimetres narrower on the width, and about a centimeter shorter on length, so close enough. I've also managed to paint up Poggle the lesser, and Sun Fac the two Geonosian characters I also got for my Birthday.

Tried to match the reference as close as possible, without going overboard, used a lot of washes and glazes to get all the different colors in, plus base layers and highlights of paint. These were effectively a test for when I eventually get round to doing squads of Geonosians.

From Star Wars to Trekking now, I've had a play with some of the vinyl kits that Squirrel sent over, seeing how well I can do on larger scale models, if you've ever painted  large scale models you'll know it is very different to our normal wargaming painting. I'm pretty pleased with the test results, as my daughter accuses Odo of watching her round the room ! LOL

I think that's enough for today, as I need to get back on with some Ork's and a box of zombies are groaning my name ! LOL So until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

TOP TO BOTTOM

 Finally finished the first of my son's Ork's, so let's start with the boss of his commando's, now when he first got them, instead of showing him Blood Axe color schemes, I showed him all the different clans, and got him to choose a clan instead, I wasn't surprised when he chose Death Skulls, as his two favourite colors are green and blue. So to make this squad seem like commando's of the Death Skulls, he chose a uniform for them to give the sense of imitating Humies like Blood Axes do , so we have black trousers, blue shirt and leather pouches and webbing, added little bits of rust coloring to the metal work all over so it wasn't too clean.

Now to the other end of the squad, it's lowest members, first is a bomb Squig, my son liked the red color commonly seen with them.

Last up for the squad is the squads Grot, his skin is paler than any of the Ork's I'm currently painting, to show he's lower class to the rest.

I've also based up Leonardo de Grot that I painted a couple of years back for my son, who seems to be the culprit for the graffiti on the back of the building.

Only 9 more to finish, and thankfully I'm down to the leather work on all of them, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun.

Cheers Dave

ONE DISTRACTION DONE

 Come on no one thought I wouldn't get distracted with all the goodies I got recently, so first distraction has been finished, this is the Shatterpoint Outer Rim Outpost Terrain Pack, no I'm not starting Shatterpoint as well, this was originally part of a bigger terrain set for Legion, which has since been split into smaller packs, and spread between  Legion and Shatterpoint, you will see from the photo's that it fits perfectly well with Legion scale models. So first up is the actual Outpost, this is based on one that is seen in the series Andor, on the planet of Aldani. The one on the website is painted in sandstone color, looks great, but as I want all the Imperial section on Tatooine in grey to stand out from the local scenery.

Next up is a bunch of crates under a tarpaulin, a simple piece, but very effective, and totally Star Wars, with the style of the crates.

Last today is a Bogwing, on top of a old Power Droid, as it's half buried I went for a really rusty look, and took the colors from Wookiepedia for the Bogwing, they are not native to Tatooine, but could be it was brought to Tatooine and escaped ! LOL

These were great fun, and a shame they arrived after the challenge had finished, but then then there is no reason not to do scenery at any time ! LOL That's all for today, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

 

THE GENEROSITY OF STRANGERS

 Yesterday my daughter came up to see me with a rather large pile of goodies for me, nothing too unusual about that, as my children always get me great gifts, but in this instance my daughter was just the delivery person for this particular pile. Where my daughter currently works, a regular visitor nicknamed Squirrel, while chatting with him at one point, she showed him what I did with models, and also got onto my current health condition, and how all my children were worried last year. Over following weeks Squirrel would pop in, with models he had dug out of storage to send up to me, There are sealed in the box kits from many decades, part built kits, vinyl figures from Star Wars and Star Trek, basically a modellers paradise, all given and wanting nothing in return, just it would be nice to see them built and painted, here's a picture

Since this began, he followed the business facebook page, and I friend requested him, so I can thank him personally, I've also passed a message through my daughter, that if there is any or all the kits he wants back once I've built and paint them, as that's only fair as he purchased the kits in the first place. I will have fun building and painting them all that's for sure ! LOL

Also I've managed to level up again in the game of life, don't know how I manage it, personally I feel like I'm stuck on level 18, until I get it right ! LOL My family got me some great gifts, as always, and that should keep me busy also as you can see below

All these distractions aren't helping paint Orks, so I really need to knuckle down on that, as Wudu, has already painted almost as many as I aim to do in total ! LOL do check out the yearly competition between Wudu and IRO the true Orktober guys, that's all for today, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

I PREDICT A RIOT

 One of the really cool things  I found in the series Andor, was the use of lots of different types of Imperial troops, not just Stormtroopers, and wanting to replicate with my own armies, I found these great Riot Troopers on Ebay with a seller I've used before bertd70 , unfortunately all his listings have currently disappeared, hopefully he's just repopulating, but will keep an eye on it. Now the Riot Troops appeared in both season 1 and 2 of Andor, and were used as pawns on one occasion to start a riot, by being shot by an Imperial Marksmen. The models are resin 3D prints, that come as a single piece with separate  heads so you can customise quite a bit just with a head movement. The other cool part is the shields actually have gaps for the clear part of the shield to be put in with acetate.

For the painting, I highlighted the black cloth one way, and tried highlighting the armour with white contrast paint, then dulled back down with black wash, I quite like the effect, and will keep experimenting with this.

I've also found a couple of models from model kits, a Imperial Officer, and a R2 astromech, which came in a TIE fighter and X-Wing kits. Painting was straight forward. I'm going to use the astromech on the droid parts stall hence not being on a base.

Size wise they are pretty close to Legion models, and as humans come in all shapes and sizes, I'm happy with it, plus trying out the GW dark greens was a good experiment.

This month I'm hoping to paint my sons Orks for Orktober, so hopefully you may see them later in the month, and possibly some more star Wars stuff, or something else, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

THERE ARE THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT LIFE HERE BEGAN OUT THERE !

 This was the opening line of the original Battlestar Galactica, and a fitting way to open this post, as I start with the completed original Vyper, from the original series, a long time ago I showed the painting of half of this model as a quick guide, but never fully finished it as I lost parts of the landing gear hatches, well recently I found one of the two missing bits, and decided to make the last missing bit.

As you can see above there is one hatch made of greenstuff, I took a mould off the one I had, and swapped the side of the hinges with some plasticard. I also tied together all the painting and got this.

While on this role, I found the transfers for my MK II Vyper and finished off the weathering completing the last of my Vypers.

While in the mood to complete as many of these models as I could I've also painted up the new version of the Galactica itself, one bit I was never sure on was the weird ridges that cover 80 % of the model, I recently found out the designer based it off of a range of vases he liked, personally after painting them all, they are a pain ! LOL All the armour plating  needed a mottled look as well, which I achieved with three layers of paint and a glaze, happy with the end result.

In the series one of the pods is unused as it had been converted into a museum, now the kit comes with transfers for this, but ere a little too flimsy, so I added the transfers to some acetate, which I then glued into place.

Now I only have the original Galactica, and a Cylon fighter left to do to complete this set, but that may wait for another time, don't forget you still have three more days to finish any scenery projects you have going for the challenge, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave