hey Eurobricks

I want to make a kashyyyk moc, about 12-16 base plates. But i dont have any idea where i should start. I have a budget around 400 €, for minifigs, vehicles and parts. I have most of the vehicles by my self, but i will need to go out and buy a lot of the new battlepacks, and i have all droids i need. As said before i dont know where i should start i hope you can help me.

SpeederCommander

Edited January 5, 201411 yr by Brickdoctor
Title change from 'MOC' to 'WIP'

Start with a blueprint. I suggest looking at Solid Bricks Studios on YouTube, David has a whole series going on now. But I think you should start with the beach first, then go into the jungle so to speak.

First, watch Episode III. This will give you some ideas for action scenes, which you can build.

Few ideas from my side:

Lots of trees, big and small, bunkers, some hiding places for Wookiees, some battle scenes (including homing droids, droid tanks, lots of droids, extr.)And also a lot of minifigs. If diorama will be really big, you could also include turbo tank ...

Edited January 4, 201411 yr by Manx

Obviously, now is a great time as they are releasing a lot of kashyyyk minifigures this wave! Look around online to get ideas for how to do forests/greenery as well as the water. Try to make your own design for the droids, and especially see if you can have a layered beach to allow semi submerged droids.

As this isn't a completed build, I've changed the title from 'MOC' to 'WIP'.

As this isn't a completed build, I've changed the title from 'MOC' to 'WIP'.

My bad

your timing is perfect as the sets go i would suggest :

one or two at-ap seeing as it comes with specific characters

if you have the clone turbo tank that is featured a lot

the Kashyyyk battle pack stock up on those

a few droid gunships it comes with one specific characters and chewie looks like most wookies so it wont matter

if you have a wookie catamaran

and a corporate alliance tank or two

Edited January 5, 201411 yr by Steph 104th

Personally, I would start off with a vehicle. Such as the Wookiee Catamaran. Try and design it yourself. Then design the scenery around it of what ground surface this vehicle could be going across, then expand from there. The problem (I personally am not a fan of) is MoCs that rely on TLG sets plonked in some manner in some nicely made scenery. That is all it essentially becomes, a MoC of scenery as the vehicles weren't your own creation. With starting off with a vehicle, when you get that right, and then create scenery to go with it, a great sense of satisfaction is felt as not only does the scenery accentuate the models that are in it, but the models are highlighted by the great scenery to which draws peoples attention further as they aren't typical lego sets. Then it becomes a 'wow' factor kind of thing... if you understand?

But that's just my humble opinion

Buy a cheapy juggernaut set on eBay !!! Those things are awesome and will bring your kashyyyk model to life!

Hi

you will needa lot of greens/plant parts.

You should go for a Lego store, many german stors (plus the one in Vienna) have actually plant parts in their PAB wall.

Dino

Are you basing it directly off of Episode 3 or are you just making it your own battle? Either way I'd definitely do a beach that leads into a forest. Get a few of the new Kashyyyk battle packs for sure and a Droid Gunship and an AT-AP. For generic wookiees, I'd suggest using the old Chewbacca minifigure (he should be pretty cheap on Bricklink considering he comes in tons of sets) and then use the new Chewbacca figure as the real Chewie.

I had to think about my answer a while before getting to posting something , but here it goes :

I guess that the problem most builders have is two-fold , Or they can't build nice SW-vehickles, OR they suck at building a landscape. For a fact , I suck at building landscape. So I try to get a lot of foliage on my landscape, so you cant see much ground. I've done 2 ( local ) shows now, and have gone from 6 baseplates to 12 with landscape, and plannng a bit more for the next show in November

You have to think a lot of things through , and think them over , and when push comes to shove, have to improvise a lot on site when displaying your stuff.

If you're going to display on shows, you take a whole other look towards building your landscape, if you do it souly at home, you can take more effort in building a larger thing.

Let us take a moment to reflect on the scene with the Kassyyyk battle, take some more info from wikipedia, and get some more info from the shady third party , like books where Kassyyyk played a part . They all have 1 thing incommen : Holy crap ! those are BIG trees ! The Clone Turbo Tanks are BIG ! The whole of the scene's are very impressive and very overwhelming . There is no real way to get anything to scale, and that is the problem right there.

If you don't do the vehickles to scale like LEGO , you don't have to do a lot of ground, but concidering the amount of vehickles , you should try to realise a baseplate 42x42 per larger vehickle, and just use 1 baseplate 32x32 for 1 tree. ( or something along those lines ) You should concider a lot of things :

* weight of the landscape

* number of trees

* number of vehickles

* number of minifigs

* the size of the landscape

And I guess I'm overlooking a lot of things, even with little experience I've got, I tend to forget about a lot of things, but I get better everytime !

Fact remains, you have to stock up on a lot of things : Plant leaves, browns and greens, tan and dark tan, bricks and plates alike, and those will not come cheap !! Bricklinking a lot of plant leaves will set you back a lot of money, I will not go into specific's for the rest You should try entering a bunch into Bricklink yourself, and take your own desisions .

For a fact , your lucky brake is the kassyyk battlepack , 4 glorius clones and some extra's !! Getting them as cheap as possible is best, having a lot of the vehickles is also a plus , so you can really get into the landscape building.

I cannot make your desicions, you should trust your own imagination and get building.

Here a little example for you and others to enjoy : http://www.flickr.co...r5R9D���������� ( let's hope it works ) and happy building !!

( If someone get me a proper link to the picture, I'm a happy camper )

Grtz Saint

I just started building my kashyyyk moc. I have almost done the beach, but my problems are the trees. They are really big in the star wars movie, my lego trees looks to familiary to a square. Do any of you have a guide or something to help me here.

Here's the photo that Saint refers to in his post:

Lego bonsai tree by Makoto Azuma .

Enter this in Google images, and you get a few very interesting foto's . When I look at the Kashyyyk trees, I get a feeling of a supersized Bonsai tree, so I entered Bonsai and lego, and it came up with this.

grtz Saint

You could try to use the round tower techinque and use brown bricks. With enough SNOT it could turn out pretty cool.

Here is a thing about making trees, not round but well, they look cool anyway. Just scoll to vegetation.

I did a small Kashyyk (I hope I spelled that right) MOC back when this set came out: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?S=7671-1

...just 4 baseplates, nothing like the scale you're working with. IMHO most important thing to nail is the beach. If you get that right, the rest of the diorama just kind of falls (or clicks) into place. I found that layering the beach with different shades of tan was important.

As you can see in this image, the water is a subtly greenish color and the beach isn't super tan, almost a grayish. I mixed in green and clear 1X1 round studs to make the water, and it looked awful until I got the ratio of clear to greens right. After that I think it looked pretty good.I don't know if it's very clear here, but foliage is pretty thick around the trees and sparse everywhere else until you move in deeper. Foliage it also important to get right, if it looks natural than your MOC will look great. Trees can be hard to do, It's very important to utilize SNOT in their construction and have lots of variety in their shapes. The new Ewok village is pretty close to what I did in terms of shape, but I quickly found that large trees look weird if you use too many shades of brown. I stuck to using only 2 colors per tree and found that brown/dark brown looks really nice, as well as reddish brown/dark orange. I also built a Wookiee platform into one of the trees. I never could get it to look quite right, but it's certainly been done. Minifigs are important, but I realize now that my diorama was too crowded. A few well placed figs is better than tons of randomly scattered troops. It's also important to load it with detail, I endeavored to design my MOC so that wherever there was action realistic details could be seen, i.e. medkits, injured troopers, trampled foliage, churning water, etc. I wish I had some pics, but didn't take any due to laziness/bad photography skills. Can't wait to see your MOC!

Not sure if that image showed up in my comment, here's a link:

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20050624151621/starwars/images/thumb/f/f4/Kashyyyk_trees.jpg/500px-Kashyyyk_trees.jpg