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Joined: 3/12/2009 Posts: 302 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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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!
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Rank: Advanced Bloo Milk Member Groups: Member
Joined: 3/12/2009 Posts: 302 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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Rank: Advanced Bloo Milk Member Groups: Member
Joined: 3/12/2009 Posts: 302 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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Rank: Advanced Bloo Milk Member Groups: Member
Joined: 3/12/2009 Posts: 302 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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Rank: Advanced Bloo Milk Member Groups: Member
Joined: 3/12/2009 Posts: 302 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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Excellent work Biggsy! Very neat, very tidy quality workmanship! Your Mos Eisley is freaking amazing!! Notice you dont have squares on it, how do you play on it? Do you use it for RPG?
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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.
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The world needs to see this. Show everyone. Everyone.
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Joined: 11/4/2008 Posts: 279
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Can you explain your painting technique I don't think that WOTC did as good of a job as some of these minis
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Joined: 9/19/2008 Posts: 1,740 Location: Orange County, CA
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My ... You developed the technique and accomplished this in a year? Sidestepping your considerable ability, you must have enormous amounts of time, money, and an understanding family to let you create this.
Your lines are very clean and you're excellant at applying the perfect amount for a wash, you're very good with putty/green stuff (I see No seems and pictures Always expose poor workmanship) and while I recognize some of the picees sacrificed to the X-Acto gods, some I don't; good use of the Action Fleet figures.
Your Mos Eisley seems more of a scenario/RPG piece as opposed to gaameboard. The amount spent on the board alone speaks volumes on the time you put into it. kobayashimaru & I've spent a fair amount of time doing and discussing 3D and developing 3D ideas but my flaws have been trying to use a squared map. You bypassed that hinderance. An Excellant board.
95% of the people on the boards didn't start customizing until the V-Sets started a 1-2 years ago. Some are fair to quite good; you seem to be the best I've seen and I spent much of my time on the old WOTC site in the customs section; most of the old timers weren't as good.
Bravo.
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pastorbudwine@mac.com wrote: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".
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Joined: 12/8/2008 Posts: 28 Location: Lansing, OH
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Very impressive stuff Biggsy! You certainly have washes down to a science.
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CerousMutor wrote:Excellent work Biggsy! Very neat, very tidy quality workmanship! Your Mos Eisley is freaking amazing!! Notice you dont have squares on it, how do you play on it? Do you use it for RPG? 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. AndyHatton wrote: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. 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! pastorbudwine@mac.com wrote:Can you explain your painting technique I don't think that WOTC did as good of a job as some of these minis 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. surf_rider56 wrote:My ... You developed the technique and accomplished this in a year? Sidestepping your considerable ability, you must have enormous amounts of time, money, and an understanding family to let you create this.
Your lines are very clean and you're excellant at applying the perfect amount for a wash, you're very good with putty/green stuff (I see No seems and pictures Always expose poor workmanship) and while I recognize some of the picees sacrificed to the X-Acto gods, some I don't; good use of the Action Fleet figures.
Your Mos Eisley seems more of a scenario/RPG piece as opposed to gaameboard. The amount spent on the board alone speaks volumes on the time you put into it. kobayashimaru & I've spent a fair amount of time doing and discussing 3D and developing 3D ideas but my flaws have been trying to use a squared map. You bypassed that hinderance. An Excellant board.
95% of the people on the boards didn't start customizing until the V-Sets started a 1-2 years ago. Some are fair to quite good; you seem to be the best I've seen and I spent much of my time on the old WOTC site in the customs section; most of the old timers weren't as good.
Bravo. 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. Scotty Speed wrote:Very impressive stuff Biggsy! You certainly have washes down to a science. 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
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Biggsy wrote: 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. The old WOTC crew didn't spend as much time on wash's but yes they were good and good people. You tried the Hurst methods? Expensive and time consuming as you said. I never went that route. Some ideas that some have tackled and food for thought including some things I've tried ... Old Temple's, Smuggler's bases, spaceports, city street scenes. The work I did was nowhere near as permanent as your Mos Eisley, how do you store it?? I made things that could be broken into components and played on the blank desert or gray WOTC maps. My much poorer efforts I think are in the front of my thread. I've tried Sith Temples and spaceports and Koba and I have been talking for years on suitable spacecraft to use. Is the Action Fleet X-Wing bigger than Revell's X-Wing? I've used an asssortment of models to represent Drop ships and smuggler's ships. Looking forward to see what you come up with.
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Joined: 1/30/2009 Posts: 6,457 Location: Southern Illinois
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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.
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Wow. Just wow. Mind if I post your images at boardgamegeek? As mentioned, everyone should get to see this.
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surf_rider56 wrote:The old WOTC crew didn't spend as much time on wash's but yes they were good and good people.
You tried the Hurst methods? Expensive and time consuming as you said. I never went that route. Some ideas that some have tackled and food for thought including some things I've tried ...
Old Temple's, Smuggler's bases, spaceports, city street scenes. The work I did was nowhere near as permanent as your Mos Eisley, how do you store it?? I made things that could be broken into components and played on the blank desert or gray WOTC maps. My much poorer efforts I think are in the front of my thread. I've tried Sith Temples and spaceports and Koba and I have been talking for years on suitable spacecraft to use. Is the Action Fleet X-Wing bigger than Revell's X-Wing? I've used an asssortment of models to represent Drop ships and smuggler's ships.
Looking forward to see what you come up with. 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. swinefeld wrote: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. Thank you! The propaganda and recruitment posters are a little corny, but i really couldn't help myself FlyingArrow wrote:Wow. Just wow. Mind if I post your images at boardgamegeek? As mentioned, everyone should get to see this. That's a great idea, so i just beat you to it They're pending approval right now.
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Biggsy wrote:FlyingArrow wrote:Wow. Just wow. Mind if I post your images at boardgamegeek? As mentioned, everyone should get to see this. That's a great idea, so i just beat you to it They're pending approval right now. Sounds great - I didn't know you had an account over there.
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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)
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Ha ha! I see how you did that LIN series demolition droid. I don't know anything about customs either, but you did a great job.
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