Imperial Arid Specialist

Hello!

Some background info on them.






That's all for now folks, I might post some more Star Wars inspired and random sci-fi ones in the upcoming weeks since I think I posted enough real world soldiers . Since monday is tomorrow (or maybe it is already monday!) Have a good week, stay safe and try to have fun whenever you can.

Hey, stop trying to rush through Sunday! It's my one day off... But, seriously, very cool work on the old Kenner/Hasbro 1/6 figure. The weathering and selection of items is very suitable and inventive (part stormtrooper, part snowtrooper, all arid specialist), and even the underlying sculpt's details and proportions are improved by your treatment to the point where they look more realistic and carry a more Original Trilogy vibe. And all that is very good in my book.

GubernatorFan wrote:Hey, stop trying to rush through Sunday! It's my one day off... But, seriously, very cool work on the old Kenner/Hasbro 1/6 figure. The weathering and selection of items is very suitable and inventive (part stormtrooper, part snowtrooper, all arid specialist), and even the underlying sculpt's details and proportions are improved by your treatment to the point where they look more realistic and carry a more Original Trilogy vibe. And all that is very good in my book.

Thanks, I'm actually surprised he looks so nice in the photos, up close and personal he doesn't look like much and the oversized helmet becomes more noticeable. I forgot to mention that the shoulder armor is not kenner/hasbro, but Lego (its the same on another figure but I forgot whom) it comes from two lego kylo rens that I bought out of curiosity to see what I could re-use and to my surprise the shoulders worked well.

Ah... cool idea. Lego did make an awesome stormtrooper helmet for their 10 inch (?) stormtrooper, so I'm not surprised there are other usable pieces from such sets. Unfortunately that helmet would be palpably too small for a bash like yours.

GubernatorFan wrote:Ah... cool idea. Lego did make an awesome stormtrooper helmet for their 10 inch (?) stormtrooper, so I'm not surprised there are other usable pieces from such sets. Unfortunately that helmet would be palpably too small for a bash like yours.

You are correct, the helmets/heads are smaller than the height of the figures(?) which are about 11 inches tall.

Nice one, I like how the armor is neither white nor brown nor red, but also all of those colours combined somehow. While the helmet does look very different from the regular ones, I think the look of it can be easily sold as intentional, some kind of special arid extra ventilated filter fine dust breathing device helmet (SAEVFFDBDH...?)..or whatever those guys who illustrate those Star Wars Tech books come up with.

That LEGO idea is quite clever. If they ever made 1/6 scale figures they might earn some extra money....but maybe they are not allowed to, who knows.

Turned out pretty nice. Love all the weathering details. Very cool.

Ovy wrote:Nice one, I like how the armor is neither white nor brown nor red, but also all of those colours combined somehow. While the helmet does look very different from the regular ones, I think the look of it can be easily sold as intentional, some kind of special arid extra ventilated filter fine dust breathing device helmet (SAEVFFDBDH...?)..or whatever those guys who illustrate those Star Wars Tech books come up with.

That LEGO idea is quite clever. If they ever made 1/6 scale figures they might earn some extra money....but maybe they are not allowed to, who knows.

Thanks, you know those helmets can fit a whole TIE fighter in them if its needed, I jest but I liked your idea and how you explained the helmet. For the armor's color I used a sand paint that I thinned out a bit and applied a few coats of it, for the weathering I just used a mixture of dry brushing and very watered down acrylic paints of different dirt/sand colors, I also used an old toothbrush for the splatter and also learned that there's no such thing as concentrated splatter.

I've used lego pieces in the past, for a few 1/6 bashes, I need to post a battle droid that I used lego ball joints to give it shoulder movements, sadly I don't know what the full name of them are as I've looked up those ball joints and come across the older ones, these ones I used where a bit smaller.

Stryker2011 wrote:Turned out pretty nice. Love all the weathering details.  Very cool.

Thanks, I had feared that I went a bit overboard with the weathering.