Swampy X Wing and a film crew

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 8:29 pm

Looking forward to this SIG
I plan on doing Luke's X Wing crashed in the swamp

I have a 1/72 Fine Moulds X wing in the stash, but have a Bandai coming as well....will decide which one to wreck

Second build are the droids kit from Bandai

and lastly a 'special' Stormtrooper...of sorts

Like this perhaps???

kiwigav · Post by **kiwigav** » Sun May 03, 2015 9:20 pm

Nice

look forward to seeing it come together

DBMiller · Post by **DBMiller** » Sun May 03, 2015 11:16 pm

Great idea! I saw one in an old Fine Scale Modeler magazine and it makes a neat diorama. Also, that storm trooper? Sweeeeeet!

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Mon May 04, 2015 10:17 pm

It is the fourth and I have no kits yet Ahhhhh....poor planning on my part.
Maybe better start on the swampy base

JonMW · Post by **JonMW** » Mon May 04, 2015 10:30 pm

This is going to be cool! I've been wanting to do a Dagobah diorama since I saw Michael Fichtenmayers buildup some years ago http://fichtenfoo.net/blog/tag/dagobah-diorama/

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Mon May 04, 2015 10:33 pm

JonMW wrote:This is going to be cool! I've been wanting to do a Dagobah diorama since I saw Michael Fichtenmayers buildup some years ago http://fichtenfoo.net/blog/tag/dagobah-diorama/

Awesome resource, thank you for posting that Jon

I am going to do them just crash landed and getting out onto land
The raised by Yoghurt has been overdone..but a cool scene

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Thu May 07, 2015 5:19 am

My Bandai kits have landed today

Not sure which one to start
The detail on the X Wing is superb, just as good as the Fine Molds

Need help with ENGLISH instructions for the X Wing.......anyone got a resource link, I can't find one for the Bandai, just FM???????????

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Fri May 08, 2015 6:04 am

Wow, I paid $65 CAD for the Fine Molds X Wing shipped
The Bandai was $29.70 shipped
I think I will do the Bandai kit this sig and hold onto the Fine Molds kit for now
Is it worth keeping as a collector??

EasyEight96 · Post by **EasyEight96** » Fri May 08, 2015 10:31 am

OOOOHH the X-wing my fav!! good luck

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Fri May 08, 2015 3:55 pm

EasyEight96 wrote:OOOOHH the X-wing my fav!! good luck

Thank you sir
I am at a stand still as which to start.
The Japanese instructions are holding me back a bit and I have a semi clean desk and no deadlines and no spare time

EasyEight96 · Post by **EasyEight96** » Fri May 08, 2015 4:37 pm

I feel you man I used to build gundams and the colour charts are just pita if I'm not mistaken the colour charts are based on gunze colors

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Sat May 09, 2015 7:38 pm

I found a source for the English instructions to the Bandai Star Wars kits
http://www.mech9.com/search/label/Star%20Wars

It has all the different recent kits
Just a bit too sunny of a Saturday to be working away at the model bench
Gonna do some outside work

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Sun May 10, 2015 1:36 am

Planning stages...see where we are going here???

The base was from the Vietnam group build last year. I bailed on this base as it was too busy, but should work for the X Wing after I shorten the length a bit.
The kit looks great, awesome instruction photos, just solid Japanese, no English at all
But will print off the translations I posted above
I need to find a little scale Yogurt guy for in the trees

Nige201980 · Post by **Nige201980** » Sun May 10, 2015 2:52 pm

This is going look great mate best of luck with it mate

mincemeat · Post by **mincemeat** » Sun May 10, 2015 3:29 pm

Oh man. So many Star Wars kits. Have fun! I think I will start looking for a Star Wars kit....or two. It's great you can re-use that base, I'm really looking forward to your build.

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Sun May 10, 2015 4:34 pm

Thanks to both you gents for stopping in and commenting
Much appreciated

I have had a hard time starting out on this sig, so yes it is great to find a base as a head start!

We have a house build that will start this summer,hopefully and take.... oh like forever
Just rented a house and look to move in July....so my spare time and modelling may suffer for a while.

EasyEight96 · Post by **EasyEight96** » Mon May 11, 2015 11:46 am

From that photo I guess is when Luke met Yoda for the first time which is episode 6 return of the jedi??

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Mon May 11, 2015 3:05 pm

EasyEight96 wrote:From that photo I guess is when Luke met Yoda for the first time which is episode 6 return of the jedi??

I am not as much a Star Wars aficionado, but I think so yes that is the movie, where he first meets yoghurt

I am going to have to re-watch them to be sure, but the scene is he has landed in the swamp and is just getting out and it is all mysterious and foggy

I got nothing done on the project this weekend, helping son build a mini windmill for school, looking for houses to rent and planning the destruction and construction of our new house. No model time at all

mincemeat · Post by **mincemeat** » Tue May 12, 2015 2:48 am

Twokidsnosleep wrote:
EasyEight96 wrote:From that photo I guess is when Luke met Yoda for the first time which is episode 6 return of the jedi??
I am not as much a Star Wars aficionado, but I think so yes that is the movie, where he first meets yoghurt
I am going to have to re-watch them to be sure, but the scene is he has landed in the swamp and is just getting out and it is all mysterious and foggy

I got nothing done on the project this weekend, helping son build a mini windmill for school, looking for houses to rent and planning the destruction and construction of our new house. No model time at all

What???? Sorry guys. It was Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Remember the ice planet Hoth? Luke was lost and delusional and saw the ghost of Obi Wan, telling him to go to Degobah. You'll find the scene after the battle on Hoth and Luke breaks off to go to Degobah and the rest of the crew end up in Cloud City. I've watched it a couple of times.

EasyEight96 · Post by **EasyEight96** » Tue May 12, 2015 3:50 am

mincemeat wrote:
Twokidsnosleep wrote:
EasyEight96 wrote:From that photo I guess is when Luke met Yoda for the first time which is episode 6 return of the jedi??
I am not as much a Star Wars aficionado, but I think so yes that is the movie, where he first meets yoghurt
I am going to have to re-watch them to be sure, but the scene is he has landed in the swamp and is just getting out and it is all mysterious and foggy

I got nothing done on the project this weekend, helping son build a mini windmill for school, looking for houses to rent and planning the destruction and construction of our new house. No model time at all

What???? Sorry guys. It was Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Remember the ice planet Hoth? Luke was lost and delusional and saw the ghost of Obi Wan, telling him to go to Degobah. You'll find the scene after the battle on Hoth and Luke breaks off to go to Degobah and the rest of the crew end up in Cloud City. I've watched it a couple of times.

Ok thanks for the correction

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Tue May 12, 2015 4:47 am

mincemeat wrote:
Twokidsnosleep wrote:
EasyEight96 wrote:From that photo I guess is when Luke met Yoda for the first time which is episode 6 return of the jedi??[/quote
What???? Sorry guys. It was Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Remember the ice planet Hoth? Luke was lost and delusional and saw the ghost of Obi Wan, telling him to go to Degobah. You'll find the scene after the battle on Hoth and Luke breaks off to go to Degobah and the rest of the crew end up in Cloud City. I've watched it a couple of times.

See, that is why we need you around!!!
I am more of a Mel Brooks guy

EasyEight96 · Post by **EasyEight96** » Tue May 12, 2015 6:16 am

hahahahahahaha

I remember laughing all the way shame there is no part 2

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Tue May 12, 2015 6:56 am

I have to watch Space Balls again too

mincemeat · Post by **mincemeat** » Tue May 12, 2015 12:54 pm

Well in that case, "May the Schwartz be with you"!

kiwigav · Post by **kiwigav** » Tue May 12, 2015 9:25 pm

great start ..going to look the business

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Tue May 12, 2015 11:34 pm

mincemeat wrote:Well in that case, "May the Schwartz be with you"!

"I am surrounded by ashholes"
I forgot how funny it was, have to see it again

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Tue May 12, 2015 11:38 pm

kiwigav wrote:great start ..going to look the business

Thanks Gav, have a pretty good feel for where I am going with this build and how to get there with the dio. It is just time I need!
Lots of guys seem to be joining into the sig build,some really cool builds and dio ideas. Congrats on such a successful concept to do this!!!

kiwigav · Post by **kiwigav** » Wed May 13, 2015 12:06 am

Twokidsnosleep wrote:
kiwigav wrote:great start ..going to look the business

Thanks Gav, have a pretty good feel for where I am going with this build and how to get there with the dio. It is just time I need!
Lots of guys seem to be joining into the sig build,some really cool builds and dio ideas. Congrats on such a successful concept to do this!!!

Cheers Scott, I had a hunch that there is a common interest in Star Wars in ISM.
Keen on seeing how you tackle the swamp water on your dio, I have never attempted anything like that.

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Wed May 13, 2015 12:16 am

Cheers Scott, I had a hunch that there is a common interest in Star Wars in ISM.
Keen on seeing how you tackle the swamp water on your dio, I have never attempted anything like that.[/quote]

Ha ha you and me both keen to see how I will do that!
There are a few water dio builds in ISM I can think of and one of my two LHS had water products. It will be pretty swampy so at least it will hide things....I would think always easier to make dark mucky colours than pristine blue sparkling water

corpsman23k2 · Post by **corpsman23k2** » Wed May 13, 2015 12:21 am

Xwing in the swamp cool idea can't wait to see it

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Wed May 13, 2015 12:27 am

While I babble along here, might as well show something I did.
R2 got finished last night and Luke primed grey

I am not happy with either the silver or the blue on R2 BUT he is going to be well weathered from space travel and a swampy landing so won't freak too much.
I think the blue Tamiya is old paint or something ; just won't lay properly, doesn't thin nicely and the flow sucks. Will get a new pot for the larger R2 kit when I do it and use Alclad or true metal on his head

DBMiller · Post by **DBMiller** » Wed May 13, 2015 1:39 am

R2 looks great! This scene is a neat idea. I've seen it done once before, in a Fine Scale Modeler special edition. I went looking in my collection and found it too! In the Great Scale Modeling 1998 is a build done by a guy named Dan Thompson of Alabama, USA. He used the MPC kit though since that was what was available at the time. Here is a scan from the magazine, maybe it will help inspire you! Although, I think his water is too clean looking, it should be much muddier to hide the monsters!

mincemeat · Post by **mincemeat** » Wed May 13, 2015 2:13 am

I think your R2 looks pretty nice!

RE: Dbmiller. I agree that the water looks too clean, needs to be murkier. Also, I think you should fabricate some sort of mini-dry ice machine for some bog fog. If you built up the sides of the dio base a little you, could contain the fog from just falling off.

Just a thought!

It's definitely brown.

I thought this was a neat idea too.

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Wed May 13, 2015 2:18 am

Wow both of you guys are awesome, those are exactly what I had pictured as well.
Swampy dirtier water for sure.....dry ice machine for fog?? Yikes

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Wed May 13, 2015 6:20 am

corpsman23k2 wrote:Xwing in the swamp cool idea can't wait to see it

Thank you kind sir, sorry I missed your comment earlier
Hope you are a Flyers fan...I am, not of those darn Penguins though

for looking

corpsman23k2 · Post by **corpsman23k2** » Wed May 13, 2015 6:47 am

Got got your post Flyers fan born and raised in south Philly moving back home asap

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Fri May 15, 2015 9:38 am

Luke finished and both dark washed. 1/72 figures are a bugger for me to paint!

A bit rough and I went a bit overboard on washing them, especially Luke. Looks like they have been crawling around in a swamp or something.
Hang on, isn't that what.......

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Fri May 15, 2015 10:15 am

Well I like'em

I think that colours look great too. Luke's flight suit looks well done.
Nice job.

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Fri May 15, 2015 2:46 pm

Coen wrote:Well I like'em
I think that colours look great too. Luke's flight suit looks well done.
Nice job.

Thank you M.G.Coen!
Would have been smart of me to take a before weathering picture of Luke when he was al spit and polish Bristol fashion, but it was 2 am not thinking
I can't wait to cover him in green swamp slime

mincemeat · Post by **mincemeat** » Sat May 16, 2015 1:24 am

Where would intergalactic rebels launder their clothes? Space is sort of big and I don't think the X-wings had appropriate facilities for human functions and hygiene. Maybe R2 doubles as a washing machine? Your figures look great!

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Sat May 16, 2015 4:42 am

mincemeat wrote:Where would intergalactic rebels launder their clothes? Space is sort of big and I don't think the X-wings had appropriate facilities for human functions and hygiene. Maybe R2 doubles as a washing machine? Your figures look great!

Oh yeah, I am sure R2 is a HF laundry machine too
I always wondered where they went to the bathroom....maybe he is an emergency outhouse as well

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Sat May 16, 2015 10:29 am

Ahahaha!!!

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Sat May 16, 2015 4:57 pm

Keep 'em laughing and maybe they won't notice the lacklustre modelling and photography

In that far away mess of fuzziness, R2 has copper tubes at his feet and hex nuts at his shoulders just to look more solid
Luke is sporting custom side helmet logos, a smoking cool chrome/ clear orange visor and decals, not stickers....the Bandai stickers peel away

For the cockpit, cut off some moulded tubing, added brass tubes and some hifi wire from a speaker. Painted the seat cushion leather, space cows don't you know, made seat belts with the rebel logo for the buckle. Then pin washes, oil stains that sort.
Perhaps a more detailed picture is in order

Gotta stop working until 2am....terrible pic and I stabbed my pointer finger with the Exacto cleaning dried paint off the jar neck....blood everywhere

peppie · Post by **peppie** » Sat May 16, 2015 9:50 pm

Twokidsnosleep wrote:Perhaps a more detailed picture is in order

You think........ ? I'm sure it looks nice, but...

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Sat May 16, 2015 11:24 pm

peppie wrote:
Twokidsnosleep wrote:Perhaps a more detailed picture is in order
You think........ ? I'm sure it looks nice, but...

Thanks for the support

mincemeat · Post by **mincemeat** » Sun May 17, 2015 12:10 am

Well, you have the blood covered now (pun intended). Did you happen to have any tears with it? Modelling doesn't quite invoke sweating, but you never know with some people. Modelling while tired is hazardous to you and the project. Stay safe out there!

You're modelling is great, don't beat yourself up.

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Sun May 17, 2015 12:17 am

Thanks Mincemeat, good to know someone cares
There was a fair bit of choice swearing....the dog moved away from her spot under the desk to get out of the way of my spaz, but I had my hands full of paint so I just soldiered on and finished the scraping and cleaned my blood up after...wasn't so bad
Here we go: Way too close for 1/72 scale

All fingers in tact and working

Gheese that blue looks chunky on R2....gonna chuck it and get a new bottle

ladip63 · Post by **ladip63** » Sun May 17, 2015 7:00 am

WOW!! Great work Scott. I'll be following this

Lynn

felisbarcinonensis · Post by **felisbarcinonensis** » Sun May 17, 2015 7:21 am

Great progress! So many details in such a small a scale. KUTGW

TheWeasel · Post by **TheWeasel** » Sun May 17, 2015 7:27 am

Excellent work! Really bringing this small thing to live.