Impressions from Tatooine

Well, after years of resistance the dark side won. I bought into Star Wars. Old love but til now I thought I could do without Star wars AF    But here we are. 

Lately I nought a Mando and some other chars and will now (hopefully) be starting a nice Star Wars collection.


First of, let me present you my newest addition, Din Djarin and Grogu on Mos Eisley.
This isn't a photo story for now, so you will see some things appear and disappear in these pics from the background. Maybe it was Grogu doing mind tricks though 


I have some more pics for later...




















hope you enjoy

Oh this is fantastic! You’ve captured that dusty, weathered aesthetic in the architecture perfectly and it’s great evidence to show that you don’t need a million accessories to make a diorama feel real!

I agree with Christine. This is a fantastic set you’ve created. Well done.

I'm glad the dark side won, if this is the result. It's a nice figure, and one of the very few I have picked up from the show (though not as a set -- I reconstituted it from parted-out parts), but what truly impresses once again are your amazing diorama- and accessory-making skills. Beautifully done and presented, and thanks for sharing, as always.

Superb , it loos like a film set . Really impressive .

OMG I LOVE IT!!!

Love the little pots, and the critter, that unnervingly disappeared in one of the shots ,...
Oooooh now I want a Mando. I've resisted so far, but he's so shiny!

Gorgeous dio.

It's quite a lovely dio. Loving all the tiny details.

The setting is superb, and the lighting in the photos conveys a "screen accurate" sense of the Star Wars films.

Lynkhart wrote:Oh this is fantastic! You’ve captured that dusty, weathered aesthetic in the architecture perfectly and it’s great evidence to show that you don’t need a million accessories to make a diorama feel real!

Yeah I'm not as good when it comes to many little details so this one suited me rather well    I'm more of a 95% guy - and then I want it to be finished so that I can use it for some pics. There needs to be more sand to cover some gaps or I need another material for the red fabrics, they don't flow super well.
Anyway, thank you for the kind words! 

Stryker2011 wrote:I agree with Christine. This is a fantastic set you’ve created. Well done.

Thanks a lot Stryker! 

GubernatorFan wrote:I'm glad the dark side won, if this is the result. It's a nice figure, and one of the very few I have picked up from the show (though not as a set -- I reconstituted it from parted-out parts), but what truly impresses once again are your amazing diorama- and accessory-making skills. Beautifully done and presented, and thanks for sharing, as always.

I'm more of a dark side type anyway, so I'm not surprised haha. Thank you Gub! You don't watch any modern Star Wars stuff, do you?

Chip wrote:Superb , it loos like a film set . Really impressive .

 thank you!

Diana wrote:OMG I LOVE IT!!!

Love the little pots, and the critter, that unnervingly disappeared in one of the shots ,...
Oooooh now I want a Mando. I've resisted so far, but he's so shiny!

Gorgeous dio.

Glad you love it Diana!    and I didn't think about the critter disappearing - it is like with big spiders in a house haha.
Yeah it is a very well made figure and was one of my first Hot toys figures I bought. Truth be told, at first I was a bit irritated about how lightwise he is! I was used to my diecast knights and getting this plastic mando was different...but it is much easier to pose (except he can'T raise his arms very high because of the armor) and the armor still looks quiet good.  

valentin wrote:It's quite a lovely dio. Loving all the tiny details.

Thank you  

davidd wrote:The setting is superb, and the lighting in the photos conveys a "screen accurate" sense of the Star Wars films.

I hope to get it a bit into the screen accuracy direction. That was what first drew me into the hobby - having all these little "model" persons to shoot with.

Like I said, here are some more random shots with this setting. I think I need to make a story someday, as they are often more fun to watch than just simple posing pics 






looks like Grogu uses his jedi force to have an own space ship


Color him surprsied





And one pic of the whole thing:

Valiarde wrote:I'm more of a dark side type anyway, so I'm not surprised haha. Thank you Gub! You don't watch any modern Star Wars stuff, do you?

Well, if rebel propaganda were true, that would make us pretty bad people... but it is too ridiculous to be true. No, I don't watch modern Star Wars. In the case of the Mandalorian, it is a combination of things -- the unwillingness to sign up for yet another channel just for one show, the disenchantment with recent Star Wars offshoots (although I am fully aware this one is supposed to be better), and also I'm tired of the usual simplistic dichotomy and hippie preachiness. But I do appreciate the visual continuity from true (Original Trilogy) Star Wars canon and the next best thing to that (Rogue One). Apart from reconstituting Mando, the three sets I have bought have been a Shoretrooper, a Death Trooper, and a Scout Trooper, and I reconstituted a Tusken raider and another Scout Trooper. The last three are basically iterations of Original Trilogy types, and the first two are additions to my existing Rogue One figures. So Mando is the only genuinely new guy; but yes, he looks too cool to resist. And you've done a great thing with him. Looking forward to see what else you shot.

Ha, you posted the extra photos while I was typing my response. Thanks for sharing, they too are excellent. Nice to see the two droids join the party. It was already feeling like Star Wars, but now even more so. Nicely posed and shot. And thanks for the informative shot of the whole thing. I was already wondering just how big this diorama is. I realized it is essentially modular (two backdrop walls and floor) but it is still very impressive even in the sheer size of it. In fact, can't resist to add, ... "very impressive."

Excellent additional photos. I like the final photo to see just how big this thing is.

Indeed great looking set and figures!

GubernatorFan wrote:

Valiarde wrote:I'm more of a dark side type anyway, so I'm not surprised haha. Thank you Gub! You don't watch any modern Star Wars stuff, do you?

Well, if rebel propaganda were true, that would make us pretty bad people... but it is too ridiculous to be true.  

 

yeah who is gonna believe these propaganda? They always go over the top 

I can understand you don't wanna buy into another channel or simply don't think the newer stuff will ever be as enjoyable as the older stuff...
I will just watch anything new from the SW universe canon or not. I can always go back and watch the old stuff if I want, but I understand not everyone can take that approach.   


Thank you all. Here are my last shots from this setting for now.













I guess I could do a shadow for every famous Star Wars character as a series. I also forgot to include Grogu in the shadow. Sometimes I have an idea, try it out and afterwards I think: why haven't I done this or that too? 

It is only natural to discover extra things that one should have included. Happens to me all the time. Sometimes I even scrap a photoshoot to do it again, as I don't want to be nearly redundant in my presentation. The shadow photos (with or without the character casting it) are very striking and beautiful. Which is again an aspect of your art in every respect.

Nice diorama, Valiarde! You really capture the Tatooine atmosphere with the lighting. I also like the last pictures with the spotlight. Great work.

These shots are great, too!!

And I love both the Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. Though the latter is trying to be too modern and some things were just too familiar.

Spoiler:

It takes away the sense of being in a galaxy far far away. And somehow Fennec Shand and The Cavalry were one and the same... But they both rock, so whatever.

I celebrated every episode. One of those things where interruptions are absolutely forbidden.

Great set up! the diorama work is superb!

Loving the spotlight!

Indeed those photos do look great!

Very cool shadows and lighting effects.

Absolutely perfect, Tatooine is one of my favorite star wars planets and I've enjoyed every second of it. That said... I hope we get to see more of other places, I still wish Luca's got to produce his Star War's Underworld series.

Totally nailed the atmosphere of Tatooine. The texturing and layout is flawless. Who could honestly still hate sand when it's captured this beautifully? The Mando figure is so damn cool, the droids, that little cage monster and of course lil' Grogu fit in perfectly. The shadow shots remind me of some of the first promotional posters of Episode I, with young Anakin standing in front of a wall with Darth Vader's shadow cast behind him.

Dio Build masterclass ! If You made the pictures without the mando, i still see it´s tatoine. The shadow pictures are sooo cool !