[Factions Ep. 8 - Cat B] [ P11- Ruusan - CE] Probing the battered plains of Ryloth

[n1majneb]

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Clan Eldar’s rank had become somewhat thinned as the war against Pyerce took its toll but we couldn’t ignore the call for help from those that shared our common enemy.
As rumours abound of hidden Imperial activity across the Galaxy, Ryloth fell silent. Unable to investigate as our forces were needed elsewhere a probe was sent ahead to survey the situation on Ryloth...

The scars of war circle Ryloth like an unwanted and unwelcome guest. With each night, more debris falls from the sky to create a new light show above Ryloth.
Hidden amongst this, Clan Eldar’s small probe passes across the sky unseen and unnoticed as it makes landfall…

Slowly and with a sharp hiss the capsule slowly cracks and opens, revealing it’s cargo. The sky and surrounding terrain it’s only audience. Gently, the chaos of wires, pistons and gadgetry unfurls and slowly raises above the capsule to reveal an aging probe droid. Almost immediately the soulless eyes begin observing the planet, each gaze studied, evaluated and categorised as the Eldar probes collects information on Ryloth.
Over the crest of rocky terrain an opencast mine lays before it. Opportunistic corporations seemingly take advantage of Ryloth’s limited resources to the benefit of no one native.

As the Probe studies the mine a shuttle raises skyward revealing its Imperial colours, lost amongst the terrain of Ryloth the Probe moves across the landscape to further probe this imperial incursion and report it’s findings to the Clan via its monitoring post near to Ruusan…

Spoiler

The Probe,

An Aging probe, I was aiming to show in its colour a classical droid that was well travelled.

Much like Huyang from the Clone Wars

I tried to display that the 'legs' would unfurl as the Probe expands, similarly I wanted to display that it folds up on itself and I think that comes across.

An alternate shot with a focus shift to show the warehouse and shuttle:

The terrain:

 

 

Edited May 7, 2021 by goatman461
Added missing image

[marvelBoy123]

Love the legs on that probe droid!

[MKJoshA]

That's a great custom droid! I will say it's hard to tell what's meant to be micro and what's meant to be minifig scale. Might have been good to have a clearer reference point in the foreground.

[dvogon]

Nice creative droid and forced perspective!

[n1majneb]

On 5/1/2021 at 6:38 PM, marvelBoy123 said:

Love the legs on that probe droid!

 

12 hours ago, dvogon said:

Nice creative droid and forced perspective!

Thanks, the probe came together really quickly. One of those occasions where I knew instinctively what to build for that.

 

18 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

That's a great custom droid! I will say it's hard to tell what's meant to be micro and what's meant to be minifig scale. Might have been good to have a clearer reference point in the foreground.

Thanks, I understand the scale question. The base went through a last minute complete rebuild where trees would have helped there. However, I should with hindsight have added debris from the wars there such as bits od battle droid etc to suggest minifig scale