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Post by Vermin King on Jul 31, 2016 18:23:18 GMT -9
Work has been a bear lately. Creative juices pretty well dried up. So I did the M11 from Chris Roe a week ago and then again with the upgrade kit. This weekend was a weekend to be at home so I decided to do the X-34 from Dave Winfield, davesdesigns.ca/cutandfold/html/starcarz.htmlOnly, I enlarged by 20% to be RPG scale. Moving things around a bit in Gimp, after enlarging, I had a little extra room, so I added Luke, R2D2 and C3PO from mrentertainment, cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/thread/7068/star-wars-2d-figures, in the remaining space. Yeah, those engines are a bit tedious, but they look great. Hardly a good display, so I looked at the Xbox Kinect Mos Eisley, Ghost of Man Arid Village, and MomirFarooq's site. Decided that for now, I'd do the Kinect paper buildings, cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/thread/5781/kinect-star-wars-eisley-buildingsThis gives me a head start on a diorama for Papercuts. The creative juices are at least oozing, if not flowing. After I had printed the buildings and accessories, I realized how silly I was. I went back and converted to png files with transparent background, so I can do buildings without all that cutting and pasting. While I was at it, I took the Tatooine Desert Tiles from Momir Farooq, and made a blank template. I like the locking tabs. www.momirfarooq.com/swstarfighter/maps.htmlThen I grabbed the Sand Overlay from the One Monk Downloads, www.onemonk.com/bases.html, reduced and lightened the pattern to put in the tiles, and decided to do a road and plaza tile with the high traffic areas lighter still. In the movie, the buildings should be more of an 'eggshell', instead of 'ecru', but I can live with that. I'm going to retexture some of the Ghost of Man buildings to add variety, web.archive.org/web/20080828022846/http://www.ghostofman.com/Wish me luck. Not a big project, and since I'm just recombining other folks' stuff, I can't really make the files available, but maybe this will inspire someone to take it to the next level
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Post by cowboyleland on Aug 1, 2016 5:50:58 GMT -9
I think this has started with a bang and is going to look great. I am headed to the cottage with my younger son for a week. I hope to make a start on my papercuts entry while I am there.
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 2, 2016 15:13:40 GMT -9
Are there any Dewback's out there? I can't seem to find any that will work. MomirFarooq site has one mounted by a stormtrooper ...
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Post by chiefasaur on Aug 2, 2016 15:28:30 GMT -9
Are there any Dewback's out there? I can't seem to find any that will work. MomirFarooq site has one mounted by a stormtrooper ... I've got a riding-lizard coming out soon, but it's probably a biiiit too far off model.
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 2, 2016 17:11:10 GMT -9
How Lucas always has what appears to be populated fictional areas is one of those subtle things he does well. Mos Eisley has the appearance of being a functional desert town, including varmints.
I might have to do the Bill the Bog Pony approach to a screenshot of a dewback.
I'm already deciding that I made an error in using the Kinect textures instead of the textures I found on a Greek island's buildings. Even the Ghost of Man textures could have been lightened and would work better, but the decision was made. Now I'll have to live with it
And going back, I didn't realize just how many 'moisture vaporators' there were. I think I'll make a bunch of standees
Also need to find a couple Jerba's
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 3, 2016 17:27:56 GMT -9
Here's a beautiful promo shot of Sideshow's 1/6 scale model dewback: I'm sure it could serve as an excellent inspiration for a dewback fig. GM64
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 3, 2016 17:54:47 GMT -9
Bless you and yours!
You didn't find any Jerba's, did you?
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 3, 2016 21:48:02 GMT -9
I vaguely remember a middle eastern village set someone on the original forum here made years ago. The guy had a username with "vampire" in it I think. I seem to remember it had some domed buildings with it... Ah...here it is: www.drivethrurpg.com/product/20392/Desert-Village?hot60=0&src=hottest_filtered&it=1Anything like you had in mind? Although there are tons of dome templates out there that you could side and texture and put on top of what you have... GM64 Edit: or do you mean the furry thing? The only pic I could find online was from Wookiepedia. Nice drawing, but I don't know who the artist is or how protective Wookiepedia is about their content. You could always get creative and put a gerbil's head on a yak....
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 4, 2016 3:54:44 GMT -9
Actually, from the script notes and the commission for the models, it is supposed to be a Manatee's head on a Yak. I did find front-views of the studio models. I think I'm just going to have to work it out myself
Eastern Vampire had some interesting stuff
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 4, 2016 10:05:39 GMT -9
An hour of goofing off produced this (all from copyright free images): jerba by grendels_mother64, on Flickr If you can use it, then I leave the fig formatting up to you. GM64
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 4, 2016 13:08:24 GMT -9
Heck yeah! In the original Star Wars movie, there were two of these beasties in front of the cantina, per the script notes (not sure about the re-edit), but I doubt they would be the only two Jerba's in existence. I can definitely use this. Thank you
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 4, 2016 19:35:47 GMT -9
A little more messing around. The saddle's kinda big...but who knows, maybe the rider is really big...? jerba2 by grendels_mother64, on Flickr GM64
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 5, 2016 9:27:40 GMT -9
I didn't work on this last night. Did up a couple 'interesting' buildings. I will have to turn the horns into floppy ears, though and widen the feet, and give him bangs. I suppose I could list it as a group project on the Star Tales Hoard, if you wouldn't mind. I'm also looking at the mish-mash of other items that Lucas used to clutter up the place and make it look lived in. I imagine I'll have some vaporators and miscellaneous clutter that I can throw in the Hoard. I particularly like the black dome thing and the white dome thing with the round windows. I think that should be workable. And I think that is a massive tether ring in front of the cantina EDIT-- I guess I didn't post that photo still
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Aug 5, 2016 9:54:50 GMT -9
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Post by squirmydad on Aug 7, 2016 12:15:27 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 7, 2016 16:59:57 GMT -9
I think I've posted a couple of his models in the gallery before. Unfortunately, the models that I'd like to do in character scale are in fighter scale, or they weren't on Tatooine
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Post by lightning on Aug 8, 2016 4:20:35 GMT -9
Are you interested in one of those domed Tatooine houses?
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 8, 2016 6:23:20 GMT -9
I haven't done photos, but I have a building that has a dome on the top of a rectangular building and I'm working on a dome already. I'd like to see other folks' ideas on that
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Post by lightning on Aug 8, 2016 23:18:37 GMT -9
What about this? I could prepare an unfold PDF if you are interested ...
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Post by lightning on Aug 8, 2016 23:26:09 GMT -9
I vaguely remember a middle eastern village set someone on the original forum here made years ago. The guy had a username with "vampire" in it I think. LOL ... Vampire?!? That was me (papermodels.at)
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 9, 2016 4:54:18 GMT -9
That building is wonderful! I'd definitely use it. As I would want to texture it similar to what I've already got, a white copy would work
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Post by cowboyleland on Aug 9, 2016 5:40:03 GMT -9
I vaguely remember a middle eastern village set someone on the original forum here made years ago. The guy had a username with "vampire" in it I think. LOL ... Vampire?!? That was me (papermodels.at) I remember an "EasternVampyre" from somewhere.
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Post by lightning on Aug 9, 2016 8:41:27 GMT -9
That building is wonderful! I'd definitely use it. As I would want to texture it similar to what I've already got, a white copy would work It's just a rendering but I will make an unfold ... prob by tomorrow.
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 9, 2016 9:28:56 GMT -9
I won't really have a chance to do anything until this weekend, so no rush.
I would think this could be a popular model, should you decide to release it. Can you ever really have enough Desert Village buildings?
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Post by lightning on Aug 9, 2016 9:46:20 GMT -9
It being the unmistakable Lars homestead from Star Wars I will release it as a free model. Have to see how fast I can do some texturing. I might also add a moisture vaporizer ...
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 9, 2016 15:30:23 GMT -9
I had mentioned earlier the tiles. They should be lighter still, but will be fine for just a little diorama. These are Momir Farooq's tiles, erased and then overlayed with One Monk sand. Lightened and somewhat blurred. The cats messed with these for days before they started to separate much. I saw on OBS that someone was doing tile tuckboxes. It would make sense for me to start doing that. I also mentioned a couple interesting buildings. At this point, the Kinect buildings are going to be going away, replaced by better buildings, but I'm going to keep their windows, doors, art, vents and textures. Not true to the actual locale for filming, but they do seem to give the 'feel' of Mos Eisley. In this shot you will see the domed building (dome isn't glued at this point) and the tall structure based off the Ghost of Man Turbine Building I've picked up enough screen shots at this point that I hope to have a building reminiscent of the cantina. Still working it out, but it seems very do-able.
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Post by lightning on Aug 9, 2016 20:50:56 GMT -9
Looks really good!
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Post by lightning on Aug 10, 2016 6:10:06 GMT -9
Come so far with testbuilding the homestead today ... It's a very quick build as I am leaving for a meet but you get the picture.
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 10, 2016 8:08:10 GMT -9
Very handsome building. I'm anxious to get to texturing it.
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Post by lightning on Aug 10, 2016 22:11:24 GMT -9
Almost done. Texturing can commence very soon. I finished the test build. Founds some problems with the tabs which I'll optimize. Also I will make a little evolution so that you can take off the dome and have interior if required. I manually "underglued" (is that a word in English?) the dome parts so that the edges fit nice. But to make it easier I will make some better glue parts for the inside. So give me another day or two and then it's all yours Vermin King !
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