Hi guys

Some of you may have seen my thread over on SWMGamers, but i thought i'd show what i've made here as well along with all you other great customizers out there. If you recognize some of your own ideas here, i hope you'll take it as a compliment of your work. If i see a great idea, i won't hesitate doing the same myself.

I started making customs last summer (2011), when i got tired of using stormtroopers as stand-ins in my mandalorian squad and such. So i got some tools and some paint and started cutting up some minis. As i realized that i didn't plain suck at it, i continued to make various characters from the v-sets.
After taking a long break from customizing, and working on some terrain instead, i think i'm about ready to get going again soon. I'll be adding pictures along the way when i get something finished.

I hope you enjoy my work as much as i enjoy yours!

REBELS

Luke Skywalker in Stormtrooper Armor + Green Squadron Rookie

Lieutenant Page + Rebel Commando Munitions Expert

Luke and Leia on Speeder Bike

IMPERIALS

General Weir + Storm Commando on Speeder Bike

Scout Trooper Officer + AT-PT

Admiral Gilad Pellaeon + General Rom Mohc

Alpha Squadron Pilot + 181st Imperial Pilot

Emperor Palpatine

NEW REPUBLIC

Tycho Celchu + Winter

Ben Skywalker + Jedi Demolitionist

Grandmaster Luke Skywalker version 1 + 2

YUUZHAN VONG

Tsik-Vai

FRINGE

Max Rebo + Droopy McCool

Sy Snootles + Sullustan Pilot

Watto + Pit Droid

Tusken Raider Chieftain + Jawa Chief

LIN-Series Demolition Droid + Septoid Droid

Niles Ferrier + Jodo Kast

Salacious Crumb + Nikto Pirate

YVH-1 + Chadra-Fan Pilot

Nautolan Black Sun Vigo + URoRRuR'R'R on Bantha

Zam Wesell, Bounty Hunter

WOW. All of the figures look amazing and Mos Eisley is beyond incredible. It almost looks unreal it is soo good! Haha and as I was looking through I thought "Hey! I had that X-wing toy as a kid!"

Some seriously killer stuff. I really like the Mandos just because I find it difficult to paint their armor well so I'm always impressed when someone can do it especially that well.

Can you explain your painting technique I don't think that WOTC did as good of a job as some of these minis

Whew-wee! Now that is an understatement. I must correct you though, instead of "as some" you meant to say "on any".

Thanks, that means a lot coming from you. I'm still amazed at how great your Leviathan turned out

I just recently finished the terrain, and have only played on it once. We used the minis rules with minor tweaks:
1 square = 1 inch on the map
Range for shooters (penalty to attack the further away the target is, and max 24 inches)
Double movement for climbing buildings (except characters with flight, wall climber etc)
..that sort of things. It went rather well i think. We will probably try to come up with some more special rules to make it more fun and balanced, but it's a start.


Thanks man, i'm glad you like it. And yeah, that's an Action Fleet X-wing stowed away in the docking bay

The mandos were actually some of the most fun to make. i don't know why, because i'm not that huge a mando fan. They're very cool and all, but i hardly know anything about them. It must be the armor!


It's simply Citadel paint and a steady hand. And wash, lots of wash. I've been more than a little disappointed at many of the WotC models, and might do some touching up on some of them.


Fortunately my girlfriend is very understanding. I lost count of how many hours of work i spent making the Mos Eisley board, but she still loves me . It's been under developement for more than a year and a half, but recently i put all other projects aside to get this baby finished.
Actually, i started out wanting to do a squared map as well. I made it as far as making a two story building (sort of a trading post) only from Hirst Arts tiles, with removable upper floor and roof for indoor access. But the project tanked, as casting the tiles were very time consuming and the finished building was quite heavy and not very stable. Some time later, i started on this. Now i only have to figure out what to start making next

Being compared to the old timers on WotC is quite an honor. People like Roque Saber, arctrooper-a79 and Iron Lightsaber among others were so good at customizing it's not even funny.


Thank you! The wash pretty much does the work itself though. I just splash it on and soak up the worst puddles with the brush

I don't know squat about customizing, but I know quality when I see it. Freakin' amazing work!

Mos Eisley is cool beyond words. But I have to mention the signs on a couple of the buildings. Love it.

I have so many things i'd like to make, but a forest seting with an old temple ruin or a smuggler's base sounds very interesting. I might work on that next.

How do i store it? I have a small room in the basement for all things SWM, with some shelves for things like these. But with bucketloads of minis, even more buckets of scavenged scraps and bits for making terrain, and now this finished terrain stuff, i'm running out of space fast

I'd also like to get my hands on some more spacecraft, but they're either very expensive, hard to get, not painted, or a combination of those. Revell and Action Fleet are the only things i've invested in so far. As for the size of the X-wing, i don't have the Revell one so i really can't say. But take a look over at WotC, there is a post called 'vehicles for SWM' or something with pics of all the models i had at that point. All shown with a miniature beside it for scale. I might revive that thread here, if i'll get around to taking some new pictures.


Thank you! The propaganda and recruitment posters are a little corny, but i really couldn't help myself


That's a great idea, so i just beat you to it

They're pending approval right now.

Whoa! Nice work biggsy!
That table is awesome!! How long did it take to make?
The customs have top notch paintwork and very nice joins;
you'll have to share some recipes (jedi and droids)