Natedog's figure bashes and customs - Deathstar Diorama=Complete

[Pixelpiper]

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The new Bandai kits are 1:72 if that's what you're interested in. $22 at Amazon for the TIE.

 

[Weezer]

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Beautiful work! Your Falcon looks amazing. I should send you mine to finish.

Please post some closer shots of your displayed figures.

 

[Natedog]

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Still a WIP but he's almost there.

 

[Spudtrooper]

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Nice dude!

 

[Chakaman]

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Fozec!! He looks great, nice job. I hope to get to making him one day.

 

[enaud]

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Very cool. He's coming along nicely.

 

[hansolofake]

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I have GOT to stop watching you guys-I am already about two years behind in my projects, and you lot keep giving me MORE ideas!

 

[Natedog]

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I have GOT to stop watching you guys-I am already about two years behind in my projects, and you lot keep giving me MORE ideas!

Well if it makes you feel better Fozec, Klaatu and Taym Dren-garen are the last 3 figures I'll be making for the foreseeable future. I'll be concetrating on fixing up some of the figures I already have and building some more models and maybe some more dioramas. Maybe figure out some item or service I can offer to my fellow freaks.

 

[The_Darkness_Predator]

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Everything is looking great.

 

[Weezer]

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Hi Natedog. Could I ask what you used for your falcon's engine lighting? LED, LED strip, lighting tape, blue gel?
The build looks great!

 

[Natedog]

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I built a pie shaped lightbox and lined the inside with reflective material. then placed 12 white 5mm leds in the "pointy" end. For the grill a used the clear plastic that came with the kit and glued a piece of velum to it which has a blue to white to blue gradient printed on it. The grill itself is made from balsa and styrene. I built the grill flat and then soaked it in water and taped it to a regular old plastic bucked for a few days so it would develop a curve. Painted it, then glued it in place. Not too difficult.

 

[Weezer]

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Awesome! Makes sense, thanks for sharing.

 

[Natedog]

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Fozec, Tayem and Klaatu are still in the works. I'm having a hard time getting back to them as I'm I'm going hardcore on models lately.

I know its not the proper place for this but might as well put everything in one thread. More crappy pics incoming!

Finished this 2 weeks ago. Its the old AMT kit. Not entirely acurate, but pretty nice. I was going to put my 3-3/4" Luke standing next to it, but he's a little bit too big. The base is my baking soda receipe



This is what I've been tackling for the last 2 weeks. First time doing fiber optics. Very tedious, but hopefully worth it in the end. I counted them and there are 398. All the ones I found online are all blue lights. I went with RGB LEDs to get a proper nice aqua hue. Of course this meant twice the resistors and twice the soldering. Waiting on some 1mm optics so I can finish the 2 tiny thrusters and I can start putting it all together and start painting.







I also have on order 2 more tie fighters, Vaders tie and another x-wing. I'll be putting together a "I have you know" diorama! Stay runed!

 

[Spudtrooper]

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Dude that is freaking incedible. Can't wait to see the Star destroyer all finished.

 

[Hewer]

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Nice work very cool

 

[commanderwolf]

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totally impressive cant wait to see more

 

[Natedog]

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Started working on these guys again. Klaatu is finished



Working on Fozec's staff still and his headwrap. Headwraps are hard to make look realistic!


Same deal with Taym

 

[Chakaman]

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Nice work Nate, looking good.

 

[Pixelpiper]

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All of them look very good, that Klaatu is sublime.

 

[Spudtrooper]

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Awesome work dude.