BrickArtist Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 (edited) I have to say the snowtrooper is my least favorite of the bunch, not sure about the white cape, and white epaulets. I'm really looking forward to the B1, though. Will you be doing a grievous? That would be awesome Edited January 9, 2011 by brickartist Quote
Tanotrooper Posted January 9, 2011 Author Posted January 9, 2011 (edited) Thanks for all the comments and I see I've received a title aswell! I use epaulettes in order to get the arms more colour accurate (e.g. Boba Fett's pauldrons) or to show a difference in texture on the arms. I don't use them on stormtroopers since the arms are already armoured but the snowtrooper has very few armoured parts on his arms. (The shoulder pads are quite large aswell.) I compared the fig with a Hasbro figure both with and without the epaulettes, and without them it doesn't look good enough on this scale. (It ruins the more stretched look of these figs) Here is an image to visualise it: I wasn't sure about the colour of the arms either. Some shots showed the clothing underneath as regular white and some showed it as a more gray or tan look like the image above. Still I think that light gray or tan would look too powerful compared to the white. On second thought, I might do a light gray and tan version aswell and let you decide what's best. TT EDIT: @ Brickartist: yes I'll be doing a Grievous in the future, probaply using the head of the CW Grievous. Edited January 9, 2011 by Tanotrooper Quote
Brickdoctor Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 I see what you mean. Not really any other LEGO piece that would go there. It just doesn't look right. Maybe not 'humped' enough. But that's not your fault. Quote
stark mark 5 Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 hey love the figs especially the snowtrooper i was wondering if anyone has tryed to make these style figs in ldd Quote
Brickdoctor Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 hey love the figs especially the snowtrooper i was wondering if anyone has tryed to make these style figs in ldd Illegal connections make it impossible. .ldr applications will take it, though. Quote
BrickArtist Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 I see what you mean. Not really any other LEGO piece that would go there. It just doesn't look right. Maybe not 'humped' enough. But that's not your fault. There's always brickforge pauldrons. I see what you mean TT, if you are willing to get some BF stuff, those might be a good solution Quote
Tanotrooper Posted January 17, 2011 Author Posted January 17, 2011 There's always brickforge pauldrons. I see what you mean TT, if you are willing to get some BF stuff, those might be a good solution The Brickforge pauldrons use a thickness around the neck that's thicker than the epaulettes as far as I remember from pictures I've seen. And I'm a purist aswell, so you won't be seeing anything from vendors on my MOCs. I think I'll make small instruction sheets using ldraw for events which I'll also post online later on. I won't be uploading anything for the next 16 days since my exams are starting tomorrow, but as soon as they're over, I'll post a new MOC in this thread Thanks again for the comments! TT Quote
Tanotrooper Posted February 22, 2011 Author Posted February 22, 2011 Greetings all, I'm sorry these get posted so late. They previewed on the BeLUG event at Tielt earlier this month, and thanks to the series 4 raffle I finally took pictures of them. B1 and OOM series battle droids From left to right: B1 battle droid (infantry), OOM series commander, OOM series security, OOM series pilot. The OOM series was programmed more intelligently and had a somewhat higher form of independence. The OOM series was used as the basis for the B1 series, which could be mass produced. The most famous battle droid was OOM-9, the battle droid commander who commanded the invasion force during the invasion of Naboo. One note here: the commander uses only one antenna here, while he uses two in the movies. If I wanted two antennae, I'd have to resort to the grill piece and this doesn't represent the slender look of the commander backpack well. My battle droid design compared to the original. While not superarticulated, they can strike better poses than the official one and I can replicate unique colour designs like those from Republic Commando. Comments and criticism are as always very appreciated! TT Quote
prateek Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Very nice! I can't really think of any criticism for these Quote
XimenaPaulina Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Oh wow, these TT-fied B1s look great! It's nice to see you were able to give each variant its own unique look with different colored pieces and accessories. Excellent work as always! Quote
BrickArtist Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Those look fantastic TT. I think you might want to flip the brick on their blasters so their scopes are on top of blasters though: How many are you gonna make? Quote
Tanotrooper Posted February 23, 2011 Author Posted February 23, 2011 Those look fantastic TT. I think you might want to flip the brick on their blasters so their scopes are on top of blasters though: How many are you gonna make? Thanks for the comments! I tried the same thing when making the blasters, but the bar just sticks out too much to look good. With that brick at the end of the blaster though, the battle droid can grip it with the left hand. I have enough clips to make about 40 of them in tan, and I'll make some in the RC sheme. I won't be able to make the Geonosis version at the moment though since the droid arms don't exist in dark red and the rest of the parts don't exist in sand red. TT Quote
Brickdoctor Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Great job, Tanotrooper. They look perfect. Quote
Professor Trelawney Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Awesome! I love the B1-00m series droids, they look rather cute also I like the guard from force Unleashed Quote
Lord Of The Fries Posted July 18, 2011 Posted July 18, 2011 Great figs Tanotrooper! I like the Battle Damaged Darth Vader and the Rebel Trooper. The Rebel Trooper's legs reminds me of Woody off Toy Story Quote
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