Well, I've got what I currently have for Legion painted...kept on planning on starting a thread here for it but kept getting distracted. All I have is a starter set and a stormtrooper expansion.

For the last stormtroopers, I spent a lot of time working on the bases for them, I'd gotten the base to work for the reflective death star flooring style, then I used the wrong glue to attack them to those bases and the glue created odd texture and other issues. Tried to fix it with some more gloss...which didn't quite fix the problem and kind of makes it look like there's a layer of glass over it that isn't quite flat around the feet.

Still looks good!

Loving all those creative bases!

WTF happened to that At-Rt? It looks a bit drunk.

On 4/15/2018 at 9:07 PM, migs6000 said:

WTF happened to that At-Rt? It looks a bit drunk.

When I started putting it together, during the dry fit I accidentally swapped the pistons between the legs and one of the pegs snapped off and I couldn't get it out. The pose isn't that bad, and since my end plan ends up with three AT-RT's, having the pose works well for differentiating them.

It was a pain in the rear to get it to attach to the base though and ended up using vines and other things positioned to increase the connection surfaces

12 hours ago, Shadows of the Future said:

When I started putting it together, during the dry fit I accidentally swapped the pistons between the legs and one of the pegs snapped off and I couldn't get it out. The pose isn't that bad, and since my end plan ends up with three AT-RT's, having the pose works well for differentiating them.

It was a pain in the rear to get it to attach to the base though and ended up using vines and other things positioned to increase the connection surfaces

My first guess on the AT RT pose was swapped pistons. But you are right, it actually looks pretty dynamic. At some point you will be playin a game and the AT RT will walk up to a barrier to shoot that flamethrower over the top and your opponent will look down and realize you are a genius.

I dig the bases, and I think your glossy ones still look very cool.

13 hours ago, BigBadAndy said:

My first guess on the AT RT pose was swapped pistons. But you are right, it actually looks pretty dynamic. At some point you will be playin a game and the AT RT will walk up to a barrier to shoot that flamethrower over the top and your opponent will look down and realize you are a genius.

I dig the bases, and I think your glossy ones still look very cool.

I still like them, it was more of the situation of when it went wrong on me and it has a different look with the glossy base compared to the initial ones.

Well, I broke out an old project of mine from other things. One of the pieces needed to be based due to the underside warping (I'd used a paper piece to show the interior of the tunnel so that I could just pick up the tree and show the interior so that it could be used as well). I ended up adding a base to fix it and did some work there.

While a lot of endor type trees I've seen recently go for adding the visually impressive height, these were intended to remain easily playable while being easy to transport and store away. Unfortunately, the pics of the initial construction are trapped on photobucket from before their stupidity.

I basically started by taking cereal box cardboard and marking where I could attach toilet paper rolls to it, so that I could add washers for weight. Then hot glued the tp rolls to that and stuffed them with TP to maintain their shape before gluing another piece of cardboard to the top.

I took paper towel and stretched it over the tops to make them different looking than the sides would be in the next step with white glue and water. Then I used more TP along with thinned down white glue to shape it into the trunks with the roots and some of the major bark shapes. Once that dried, I used hot glue to get the outer texture of the sides. Then I attached it to a base for most of them and painted them up.

The one with the tunnel used a lot more tubes cut to interlink along with other cereal box cardboard for the tunnel and internal bracing before creating the underside and stuffing it then the top and the rest done the same as the rest, just with a larger resulting tree.

The last of these pics includes several of the smaller ones.

Your tunnel reminded me of Yoda's hut, which using the method you used seems easily achievable.

40 minutes ago, Force Majeure said:

Your tunnel reminded me of Yoda's hut, which using the method you used seems easily achievable.

It might be an interesting future project, I just don't really want to work on more Swamp terrain, I've done a lot of that helping a friend get things together.

Though if you want some simple to make swamp terrain, look for the self adhesive sheets of moss at the craft store. You can use foam to make the majority of the terrain shapes, even just the cheap dollar store foam core (it peels easily). Cut it to have the wet areas cut into it then work the moss sheets into it to cover everything. Rocks being worked through it to poke out, same with other things rising above it.

Then take resin and pour it into the lower areas...it works great and is rather fast to get together and just a bit more time to cure where you just leave it out.

Started on a few more trees for my board, just got the 1st and 2nd stages of work on them done. I'm eventually going to do some more fallen logs that match so that the stumps I'm working on can be extended to still look far larger.

And the next steps are done for this.

These look amazing! Great work, and what a fun return to paper machete.

If you don't mind me asking, how did you decide on the scale of the trees? Was it just the cardboard tubes you happened to have or did you figure out a scale to match the figures?

Thanks!

Great use of cardboard tubes that's left over. I'm gonna give this a shot. Seems to visually scale nicely.

27 minutes ago, rasmussen81 said:

These look amazing! Great work, and what a fun return to paper machete.

If you don't mind me asking, how did you decide on the scale of the trees? Was it just the cardboard tubes you happened to have or did you figure out a scale to match the figures?

Thanks!

For the stumps, I went to about the underside of the chest piece of the stormtrooper captain to determine how tall it is.

For the older ones, which I'm replicating with these is that it would work for a D&D campaign where I wanted the defining feature of the area for the campaign to be the massive redwood forest and used a few different minis for it.

The tubes were basically just the toilet paper roll ones because they're easier to handle with height. A long time ago, I'd built a full ewok village back with the WotC minis game being modified to run with inches rather than squares and simply wanted an interesting place to play, however there is the massive issue with the giant trees in that they get knocked around by players, you need to deal with moving around them and the pain to figure out sight lines, and then there's the storage issue. I have a storage bin that these fit in nicely with a bit of cheap, packing foam on the top of it to protect it a bit more.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

I've been posting a more detailed tutorial on how I made them on the LAF ...

And, now, the trees are painted...waiting overnight for the varnish to dry before adding flock...

And now I've got the first part of the flocking done.

And now I've done that last few actual steps, just waiting for the watered down glue to dry and making sure it isn't stuck from some drips over the sides.

While it finished drying, I painted up Veers, and got a few older terrain pieces out to do some pics tonight. Not sure if I'll post those here because they aren't really Star Wars other than the trees and similar fitting with them as well, but I got a pic of the AT-RT with a good chunk of them...