Hey Everybody!

Since its May the fourth, I'm finally starting a blog about my 40k episode II star wars miniatures..

Started this project about 1.5 years ago but never really pulled it trough. I just couldnt find the right codex to count-as my models.
But then the Grey Knight codex got released, and it was absolutely perfect for it!

I got inspired by this french guy from the Frenchwaaaghday:

(not my models)


Instead of Eldar Guardians I used the now old Dark Eldar warrior bodies with Eldar guardian heads and intensive converting.

Here are the results:



ARC troopers:



On to the painting part.
I used an off-white for the base coat so that I could still add an highlight to the models.
And I couldn't sculpt the T-visor in the helmet, so I chose to freehand it on every model instead.

Painted troopers: (They will count as Warrior Acolytes obviously)



These models were photographed in a photo tent i bought this afternoon including the lights.
I must say it turned out pretty well if you ask me


Another big inspiration for this project is the Star Wars animated series from Genndy Tartakovski's Clone Wars:



So let me know what you guys think, C&C welcome as always and have a happy May the fourth!

-Develain

Wow, those are sweet!

Ahh, It's good to see someone drawing inspiration from the GOOD Clone Wars series...*Nostalgia*

Great models BTW

Sweet Army.

Kudos.

You've gone for more conversions than I did (mine consisted of making up batch of T-visor helmets for my marines, kama for the sternguard (Arc Troopers) and some other little bits for vet sgts.

Cool. Im a huge star wars geek so i just gotta say those look like 501 troopers who wernt in attack of the clones. They were later on but still sweet hope you make more

risewiththefallen wrote:Cool. Im a huge star wars geek so i just gotta say those look like 501 troopers who wernt in attack of the clones. They were later on but still sweet hope you make more

Thanks. I know there weren't blue marked troopers in AotC, but still I really needed to break up the white with something.

They're all gonna have blue markings, except for Fordo! Yeah he's going to be included.

Jedi tease:

I love you.

Very nicely done. Subbed.

High five for the gteat army! I love the way you sculpt, very neat.

Subbed to this. I can't wait to see more.

D

Wow these guys look fantastic! This is awesome

Kitt Fistoooooo!

Unpainted I thought they looked a bit meh... with the paint they are so close to the source material its unreal, kudos to you good sir

Very impressive!

Wow, some really impressive stuff, both on the conversion and painting front.

Thank you all for the reactions.

Im currently working on a transport for the Clones, it will be converted from a valkyrie..

wow these are increadibly cool, any kind of conversion tutorial would be awsome!

Rogue Wolves wrote:wow these are increadibly cool, any kind of conversion tutorial would be awsome!

Thats gonna be hard, I almost finished all the Clones, but maybe I need a couple of more to do, so then I will try to make some kind of Tut.

These are really awesome figures, you've really caught the flavor of the SW universe.

I second the request for a little tutorial if you end up making more Clone Troopers, I for one am really intrigued to see how you've done it.

D

Alright that's 2 requests :p

If I get more then 5 requests then I will definitely make a tutorial for you all!

Make that three requests. Those Clones are spot on. I enjoy the source you picked too. I preferred that Clone Wars version, as far as artwork goes.

I feel a Tutorial coming up soon! Let the requests come in.

Only problem is, I am lacking Eldar Guardian heads at the moment.. The bits order site I use are undergoing server changes or something, so they can't re-supply them (I bought all the ones that were left last time )

Instead I will use Clone pilot helmets. They are slightly different but most of the conversion is the same for the normal Clone helmets.

So if anyone has a good source where I can get around 8 Eldar guardian helmets, that would be very helpfull for getting this project finished before the end of October !

Start of the tutorial:

Tutorial isn't finished yet, but I will share what I used for the Clone troopers

Materials:

Milliput Standard yellow grey
Plasticcard and plastic rod
Revell Plasto
Plastic glue ofcourse

Tools:

Several modeling knives
Several files
Your fingers

The Bits:


alright 2 more requests and the tutorial will be made!

can i request... again?

Rogue Wolves wrote:can i request... again?

Of course you can, but I won't count it though :p

Request, tutorial PLZ!!!

Aye, I'd like to see it as well.

Oh and excellent work so far, I want to see that Kit with some paint on him asap... hehe, my fave Jedi from Clone Wars.

Oh my! Very cool stuff here.

I have just been plugging through the clone wars episodes two at a time and was really wanting to make an army of them myself! Of course, I probably would never have got round to it and after seeing yours I bet I could not do as good of a job anyway...

Interested to see how you get along with making the walkers and such I suppose there are models already out there, hopefully there are some of the right scale!.

Now finish that tutorial, I want to see it to the end.!

Well done!

Looking forward to more.

~Eric

That is super sweet, exaulted!

can you upload the pics here so people can find them in the gallery?

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

can you upload the pics here so people can find them in the gallery?

I already uploaded 1 picture of the finished squad. I am going to upload the finished pics of all finished products from this Log

The Tutorial is passed!

small bonus for that then:

Kit Fisto Librarian count as!

lol he's really cool! what did you use to build him?

Looks great, great conversion's

Rogue Wolves wrote:lol he's really cool! what did you use to build him?

Guard legs, guard hands, filed down guard torso, Dark eldar bare head and the rest is all made out of putty.

Kitt Fisto is the epitome of awesome, his death however was completely lackluster...
His episode from the original Clone Wars was one of the best.

Squidmanlolz wrote:Kitt Fisto is the epitome of awesome, his death however was completely lackluster...
His episode from the original Clone Wars was one of the best.

Indeed, the episode was pretty cool just as the rest of the series. But the best got to be the first one of volume 2 where the Jedi are evacuated by Fordo and his troops.

Edit: spelling

I just decided to download the original series just for nostalgia's sake, loved this show so much

More! More!!!!!!

Minigunner from Clone Wars:



Had to be part of my army!

So this one will count as a Jokaero weaponsmith. There is going to be a squad of 6 of these:

Ahhh this blog is genius! Never stop! I love it!!!!

Loving this.

Can't wait for more progress.

Oki Doki Loki.

That mini gunner looks brilliant. Can't wait to see what you have planned for the vehicles.

Other 5 W.I.P:

Cool stuff!

^ thas really cool!

Rogue Wolves wrote:^ thas really cool!

You know what it's gonna be right?

i assume the gunship?

Awesome dude subbed! Nice work free-handing the helmets. Your painting really does wonders, I was unsure how they would look when i saw the greens, but they are pretty darn fantastic finished.

So psyched your using Genndy's clone wars as reference. I love his work, samurai jack and clone wars have the best action sequences I've seen in a animation IMO =)

Subscribed. This is freaking awesome. Waiting for a tutorial on how to build the basic troopers.

I must say this is really impressive . Keep up the great work !

AMAZING WORK! - How have I missed this?

The quality of the converting/sculpting is top notch. You've really captured the whole look of the clone troopers perfectly.

Laney

I realy love this idea! I've seen one done before with SM but was not as good! Love this, subbed hey why don't you check out my thred too? (link in signiture).

Subbed,

HAZZER

What a beautiful journey we all have a head of us. Awsome stuff!

Wow thats really sweet!

Amazing work as usual! Mini gunners look great, can't wait to see more clone variants.

May I suggest a new blade for kit's lightsaber? The one he has atm is rather fat, perhaps a Necron weapon rod would work well as they should be the right thickness.

Looking forward to more of the gunship!

Commander Cain wrote:Amazing work as usual! Mini gunners look great, can't wait to see more clone variants.

May I suggest a new blade for kit's lightsaber? The one he has atm is rather fat, perhaps a Necron weapon rod would work well as they should be the right thickness.

Looking forward to more of the gunship!

Hm. A Necron rod is actually thicker than what I made.
You got to trust me it will look good when painted

But thanks for the feedback!

A republic gunship Storm Raven!?

SUBSCRIBED!

Shadowbrand wrote:A republic gunship Storm Raven!?

SUBSCRIBED!

*pssst* Tomorrow a full W.I.P shoot of the Republic storm raven gunship

I now know what my Star Wars loving friend is getting for his Birthday coming up!

May the forth be with you to. Revenge of the fifth and the Dark Lord of the sixth. The 3 days of star wars.


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Oh by the way, the models are BEYoNDED awesome! big fan of Star Wars. Looking forward to seeing new stuff as they come!

Man, its about time someone did a really nice looking Star Wars army. Love the Clone Troopers, and I can't wait to see what you do with the Jedi! Great work so far, keep it up!

Granesh

I'm a big fan of Tartakovsky's style and it's great, you're making an awesome army, based on the awesome TV series
Nicely done. Keep it up, man!

By the way, did you sculpt the legs and hands of these Clones?

Really nice work. Following your career with great interest.

ishkatar wrote:

By the way, did you sculpt the legs and hands of these Clones?

Nope. They are Dark eldar warrior legs and arms. They came in really handy because they lack real detail so its easy to convert them.


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Alright here we go. This is probably one of the reasons I started all of this...

The Republic Gunship is I guess 1 of the most awesome Sci-fi vehicles ever. This idea has been in my head for quite some time now, and now I finally got the experience and skill to make of it what I wanted it to be.

W.I.P:







Close up of the Rocket compartment:



There are still some things left to do, but the biggest part is done.

I hope you enjoy, C&C welcome as always!

DUDE.... AWWWWSOME!!!!!!!!! are you going to be adding those bubblt turrets?

Rogue Wolves wrote:DUDE.... AWWWWSOME!!!!!!!!! are you going to be adding those bubblt turrets?

Nope. Not only have I guns to count-as them, plus I Don't really really like them.

Forgot to mention this though. The inner floor is magnetized and since my models are weighted with nickels they can stand firm in the Gunship:

......wow.

Great blog dude! I'm looking forward to seeing more from you.

Fantastic work!! Thank you for taking the time to post the WIP shots and for letting us know how you did the various models.

Wanted too see this for a long time

I’ve missed quite a bit of this obviously, and just when you thinking it can't get any cooler you pull out a bad-ass gunship!

Totally awesome!

I especially love the mini gunner clone troopers!

D

I thought that your clone troopers were great but dang that gunship is totally wicked. Great job.

Thanks guys.

Now I am dealing with a problem. The canopy in particular..
The canopy that is from the Valkyrie kit is just to square and boxy..
I want the canopy to look more round and sleak. Converting it is then. So I went looking online for materials, an came across this website:

http://www.clearplastictube.co.uk/

They cary a large variety of plastic tubes and rods, even the ones I am looking for. Everything is going as planned, I make an account select my stuff add to basket you know the drill, go to checkout...

Error: No Shipping options are available. Wtf?!
Sent them an E-mail asking what could be the problem. Haven't heard anything from them yet. My guess is they don't ship to the beautiful Netherlands where I am from.

So what now? Couldn't find a store here that has a variety of plastics like The Clear Plastic Shop.
So yeah.. that's kinda a bummer.

If anyone can help me find a good alternative for it.

I am looking for a clear plastic tube size: 20 mm diameter 2 mm thick length at least 50 cm. And a clear plastic rod: 6 mm diameter, 50 cm long.

Any help would be appreciated!

Amazing! I was not expecting it to look that...perfect, wow! Great idea to magnetize the floor, very cunning.

Any plans to make the dropships that carried the walkers?

Oh, finish the tutorial pleeease, I must know your secrets!

wow magnitized! that is the definition of bad ass, and also ^ tutorial!

Stunning work and vision, and the best use of the old DE warriors I have ever seen.

You rock!

Azmo

Thanks again guys.

Well, update on the canopy problem.
Seems that the Plastic web shop doesn't deliver outside the UK. shame.

Gotta find another way then to make the canopy's *sigh*

Hey could you pls show your whole army, the 501st Clones look so fething awsome!

baxter123 wrote:Hey could you pls show your whole army, the 501st Clones look so fething awsome!

whole army? what you see in this blog is the whole army ! haha

I think he means a shot of everything-so-far in one image.

there will be an army shot when more things are finished, before that it's not worth it IMO

This thread is awesome! A great idea and very well executed. Can't wait to see more

More! lol looks great!

This is the BEST Star Wars Clone army ever. I love your gunship and the troops!

Holy I love this!

Srry dude got no idea where to look for tubes, I googled clear acrylic tube craft and got a few sites that might be of use but don't know if those are what you are looking for.

Lol edit, site i was looking at was for bulk purchases for companies.
Maybe ask your local arts and craft or look around budget stores, I'm sure there will be stuff you can alter for your needs.

Minigunners (jokaero) ready for undercoat:



Arc troopers with flamers aswell:

Loving every bit of this. Great work on the troopers! Gotta steal me the idea. Keep it up!

Very nice effort and results so far! I took the easy way out and bought a bunch of clone wars figs from the prepainted game and used them in my old RPG campaign as well as assembling 1500pt IG/clone and Necron/Droid armies.

Loving the minigunners man! Keep it up!

Incredible. Your work is just blowing me away time and again.

Awesome stuff! Can't wait to see more! More More!!!!!

Nice!
Don't know whether you mentioned it, but what rules are you using, if any

Matt.Kingsley wrote:
Don't know whether you mentioned it, but what rules are you using, if any

Grey Knights

This makes me miss my Starwars days. *nostalgia tears*

Wow, this is awesome.

Subscribed.

I like the color scheme for the troopers you have.

And the last of the ARC troopers:

Count as warrior acolytes with power armour and hot shot lasguns:

I love the simple conversion on the flamers. It makes them look so much better.

These look so great! how about one of those six-legged walkers next?

Ooh, nice!

Grey Knight clones, that's something I didn't see coming

Nice update man!

More More More More!

Aaaaaaand we're back!

First ARC trooper painted up. Pretty satisfied with the results.

Can't wait to see 'ball sponson mount' on gunship thing.

Will you use 'SW: Galactic Battlegrounds' (a Starwars made of AoE2 engine) as yoru referrence?

Lone Cat wrote:Can't wait to see 'ball sponson mount' on gunship thing.

Will you use 'SW: Galactic Battlegrounds' (a Starwars made of AoE2 engine) as yoru referrence?

Unfortunately there will be no ball sponsons mounts. I don't like them very much

Also Galactic Battleground will probably not be used as referrence. Clone wars has given me plenty of inspiration already.

I hope you still like the blog though haha.

Nice painting bro, highlights are very smooth, and I love the visor shine =)

Dude, these are amazing.

Impressive! I would like to see master yoda! Also how do you subscribe?

He looks amazing! The off white and the bright highlights really make him stand out.

Mr Kal, hit the exalt button at the bottom of the page, that way when you go into "my exalted threads" it will let you know if you have missed any updates!

Super cool! Keep the updates coming!

damn thats a clean paintjob!

Rogue Wolves wrote:damn thats a clean paintjob!

Thanks! Thats the kind of result I am going for with these models.

Looks pretty damn cool. Nicer than the WTC Figures.

Very nicely done.

Clone Vindicare Assassin:

All so good but that vindicare is just :O

Great work, and you managed to capture the style of the cartoon quite nicely. Very inspiring.

Lovely.

Thank you all!

I am currently waiting for the last Eldar guardian heads to arrive. When they are in, a tuturial will be on the way!

Also the minigunner are being painted at this moment. When they're finished they will be in the next post.

Awesome keep it up =D

Absolutely fantastic...

My 2 little lads will love this, I have a feeling I'm going to be asked to make some when they see it ha...

You have some fantastic looking mini's here chap.

Now subbed so keep those updates coming.

TSD

Update Time!

Finished Minigunners:



Tried to get a energycore effect on the guns like this pistol has, only using a different colour:

Very nice, Develain! Very clean painting. I think you've captured the look of the cartoon very well.

By the way, how is the clone trooper conversion tutorial coming?

^

Not really making progress on the tutorial lol.

All the clones are almost finished. But I do need a couple more helmets to make, those are the things that need most conversion work anyway.

So a helmet tut. is on the way. Sorry about the rest of the trooper. I will see what I can do for you all.

Yeah these really are wonderful.

What's next, any more vehicles/tanks on the way?

D

evildrcheese wrote:
What's next, any more vehicles/tanks on the way?

D

Republic gunship is next on line. I am waiting for some clear plastic to arrive so I can make the canopy I want for it.

I must say, your models capture the look and feel of the animated clones. Well done so far.
Just a few questions: 1) How did you decide upon using Grey Knights for the codex count-as? 2) What did you use for the gatling gun barrels? They look like parts from a revolver or something.

Dr. Temujin wrote:
Just a few questions: 1) How did you decide upon using Grey Knights for the codex count-as? 2) What did you use for the gatling gun barrels? They look like parts from a revolver or something.

1) Grey kinght codex has a Henchmen section. I am using Warrior acolytes (somekind of inquisitorial guardsmen)
2) Gatling guns are mostly scratchbuilt out of plasticcard/tube.

Another fantastic update... I think a tutorial is deffo needed. your painting skill is amazing. I love how you have captured the look of the CGI Clones...

Keep up the good work, This is one of the best blogs on Dakka at present...

TSD

I agree. They look fantastic.

ONG!!!! Looking really good man, keep it up!

Just found this thread!!!! :O AMAZING!!! Very very impressed, keep up the good work, looking out for this tutorial now Congrats on the work, and dont stop it

Thanks guys.

Alright tutorial time! sort of.. haha

Never done a tut. before. Unfortunately I can't do a complete trooper, simply because I don't have enough parts left!

But I am going to try and do my best anyway!

The helmet:



Made it in 8 steps:

1) I took an Eldar Guardian head, removed all the gems and other shenanigans that were on the helmet. Filed it down so it looks smooth. ( I use a very fine file, always gets a smooth surface afterwards)

2) Cut of the tip of the (cone) head with a scalpel or other sharp hobby knife.

3) File the head round, so that you get the basic helmet shape (used the same file as above)

4) I filled in the recess (face) with Revell Plasto (some sort of filler, very fine but dries in 15 mins hard) I make sure that the whole face is filled and no holes will appear when filed down.

5) Use a heavier file to remove most of the plasto once it dried out ofcourse. Afterwards use the finer file to get a smooth finish.

6) I cut 4,5 mm strips out of a 2 mm wide strip. File the end of each strip in a round shape. Add a rivet cut from a 1 mm plastic rod to the strip, add to the side of the helmet.

7) Here comes the hardest part. Putty. (For the record I don't use clay shapers or any other sculping tools, I only use my fingers and a hobby knife for the troopers.)
So just slap some milliput on there. I use my index finger with a little saliva (I know it's gross but it works the best, because it dries pretty fast and it's never too wet and messes up your sculpting) cut it in shape you want. I know this sounds pretty easy but this is something you teach yourself and practice makes perfect ofcourse. After it's dried you can file it to make up for your mistakes.

8) Do the same as above, slap putty in a sort of line as the basic shape is. Take your hobby knife and cut it into a strip. I used my fingers to make sure it is straight in the middle. Afterwards you can file ofcourse to make it look even smoother.

So thats about the Helmet.

I did find a set of unused DE warrior legs:



Going to break it down in 2 steps here:

1) Take the set of legs and remove all spiky bits with a hobby knife like I did with the helmet, and file it down.

2) The knee pads are quite simple. Little bit of putty on there and shape with fingers.

About the Arms and Torso. I don't have a single arm of torso left! So sorry about that. I could try and tell you how I did it but without pictures it's quite useless..
And now I wont get any copycats or clones! haha!

Anyway this was my first sort of Tutorial. Hope you liked it.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask me anything.

Develain

Nice, Develain. Thanks!

Very interesting and informative, thanks for posting, good read. Hows that Republic Gunship coming along ....... Thanks again!

nice tutorial so far, once the chest comes in i'll make sure to try it out

Five pages of eye candy. Keep those updates rolling!

Great tutorial dude. Running low on bits though... Then check us out?

Will deffo try this out as showed my 2 children and now that they have seen it they want a gunship!! Hmmmmmm.

More work...

TSD

But.. you don't have any Dark Eldar (new OR classic) or Eldar bits listed on your site...

Nice work,

I like how everything came together. I am more early Star Wars but this Cartoon match up looks great.

Can I offer some suggestions?

You can convert IG Sentintals into Walkers, Jedis can be your Terminators (larger base means better poses and landscape).
and make special Characters count as HQ, Like Bo Bo Fet, Jaba the hut, the Neneral, or the empirer.

Thanks Guys!

I am getting the parts to make the canopy for the gunship next saturday. That means I can start finishing the gunship soon.

@ Rogue Wolf: I don't have a chast piece left.. I can try to explain how I did it.. if you want to know so bad let me know

@ Supplydrop: Thanks, but I don't require more models or parts for this army

@ Adrian: Thanks for the input. Walkers are not an option for me in this army. The army list is finished.
I already have a Jedi modeled up as my HQ (Libby).
Boba Fett is still an infant in the Clone wars, Jaba would make a good nurgle daemon, so doesn't really fit in with the theme of this army lol.
Don't know what the neneral is and the emperor(?) is the chancelor of the republic in the Clone Wars ofcourse.

Lovely work so far. The gunship is special.

I approve of this. Most excellent.


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Will you have some Commandos. They would by the stuff from star wars background have heavier armor then the normal trooper.

No Commandos. I think ARC troopers are more awesome, and are also the elite of the force.

Ovion: We are working on it, Slow process of clipping from sprue, taking photo's, uploading photo's, and listing items... We will get there... I promise!

Develain: I can't wait to see the Gunship finished and coloured in

TSD

thesupplydrop wrote:Ovion: We are working on it, Slow process of clipping from sprue, taking photo's, uploading photo's, and listing items... We will get there... I promise!

Develain: I can't wait to see the Gunship finished and coloured in

TSD

Sorry to semi-hijack this thread (kind of on topic though), but do you actually have much iin the way of Classic Dark Eldar stuff? (I'm interested in the classic models)

No sweat Ovion :p Would like to see classic DE stuff too.
If I ever make a DE force, it will include the classic warriors.

Back on the Clones. Currently waiting for putty to dry on the last couple of helmets.
After that Pics of the last 4 clones that had to be modeled, lets say in 3 hours.

Develain.


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Last Troopers finished:

Very nicely done as always sir! A worthy addition to the troops. And may i thank you also for the regular updates, keep us folks happy Remind me again do you have any pistol wielding ARC troopers (like the clone commanders)? Thanks again for the post!

I love every aspect of your army!
It's simply amazing

warmat wrote:Very nicely done as always sir! A worthy addition to the troops. And may i thank you also for the regular updates, keep us folks happy Remind me again do you have any pistol wielding ARC troopers (like the clone commanders)? Thanks again for the post!

There will be a Clone Commander wielding a pistol. He will be leading the ARC troopers.
Only problem is.. He is a count- as Coteaz. So I have to make him as a believable Badass with somekind of CC weapon. hmmmm.

The logical clone commander w/ CCW would be a Jedi with armour.
They did use pistols on the Clone Wars aswell didn't they?

That or do something like the Clone Assassins blade(s):
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Clone_assassin

Ovion wrote:The logical clone commander w/ CCW would be a Jedi with armour.

This is what I was thinking.
What ever happened to that Kitt Fisto mini?

@ Ovion: That clone assassin looks Phase 2 to me. trying to keep it Phase 1. But thanks for the input

@ Squidman: Kitt fisto is slowly being painted, I'm trying to save him as last to be painted

For the record, Fisto will be a GK Librarian. And I need Coteaz to make the clone Troopers Troops lol

I really love your idea!
It's extremely well executed too.
The paint jobs are just so clean...
Great work mate! :Thumbs up!

Looking good man! Keep up the good work! how about a army shot too?

Not much of an update, but I got my Clear plastics!

Canopy W.i.p. + flight standard base:

The clone troopers look sweet! Can't wait to see the speeder/jet bikes!

Develain: Another great update, I have to show my sons this thread everytime they come to stay now.

Ovion: Unfortunately the only bits we trade at moment are indeed what come out of the new boxsets. We will be offering up a service soon to allow folk to trade unused, unpainted, undamaged bits in for a discount for other bits. So we will see what we bring in.

Now keep OT and just head over to our thread and ask us questions there HA! Will be a faster response back to you then instead of a once every few day check on blogs that I do now...

Dev: Think I will have to make a start on one clone to keep my 9yr old son happy tonight. :S

TSD

Thanks for the post Develian, whetting our appetite for this gunship of yours!!! Well you have the mats now and we know that looking forward to seeing it and some more shots of what you've done so far! Keep up the momentum

Surely have Jango as Coteaz. Fluff wise it would fit also...

Been watching this thread for awhile and all I have to say is, great work! ... And as for a Coteaz stand in, try looking up Alpha-17. He was one of the original ARCs and well short story short was a tough fething clone.

Looking good man!

Thanks again everybody,

Meanwhile on Rothana Heavy Engineering:

2 more LAAT/i's on the way:



First Rep. Gunship has been primed.
Still working on the canopy though, got to paint the interiour first before applying the glass..

About Coteaz, I have already made up my mind who it's going to be. Don't know if I already mentioned who, but if youv've seen the Clone wars you know who lol.

More gunships, yes!! Please keep us updated with progress pics, I am curious to see how you built the last one!

Cain

And i was happy with one gunship, now we get to see three!!! Looking forward to seeing even the primed first ship and do i detect a hint of a tutorial on the gunships?? Good work Dev keeping the viewers happy with the regular updates, thanks again!

ooooh! another tutorial... I wait in anticipation

TSD

Cannot wait to see the finished army.

Slowly making progress on the gunships:



Used several small plasticcard strips to close the round edges. Not really smooth finish yet, but will use plasto putty over it and then file it smooth once applied.

And just closed the bottom with a fitting piece of square plasticcard.

Tomorrow I'll add plasticcard to the sides and close the whole 'skeleton'.

Your army just looks fantastic. Both the sculpting and paint jobs are very clean and cartoony. Well done.

Thanks for the update Develain, cool to see those gunship moving along at a good pace at this rate you'll have us all in such suspense with everything your making that you'll have to start a Venator-class Star Destroyer but really though good work and keep it up!! Thanks.

Please tell me that one of the drop-ships will have an ARC style shark-face like the one from season 2 of the original cartoon!

Squidmanlolz wrote:Please tell me that one of the drop-ships will have an ARC style shark-face like the one from season 2 of the original cartoon!

Sure.
There will be a ship with a shark-face freehand like the one in season 2.

Looking good man! I'l loving the scrach builds!

''Around the survivors.....''

Slowly making progress.

Damn, has it really been a decade since I was full-on obsessed with Star Wars?

I don't even care; this is too awesome. The gunship is too cool, and the basic troopers are expertly converted. The paint job is great, but the conversions really make this army unforgettable.

Keep up the good work and I will continue to follow this conversion log.

i cant take the antisipation any more!!!

I know these update are a delightful torment, we just want to see more now!!! no but always great to see the updates Develain! That gunship is coming along nicely, cant wait to see more, well done as always!

Got a little more work done on the gunships.

Closed the entire scratchbuilt part, smoothed and filed.
Ready for the putty to construct the nose of the vehicles.

They are starting to take shape now!

Hehe, thought you had some kind of improvised explosive in the corner of the picture for a second!

The gunship is looking super-wicked-cool.

D

Commander Cain wrote:
Hehe, thought you had some kind of improvised explosive in the corner of the picture for a second!

Lol. No that's the marine I'm going to send to Yellowbeard.

I have to admit I rolled my eyes when I saw the thread title, but actually the minis are awesome. Nifty idea and amazing execution

Develain wrote:
Lol. No that's the marine I'm going to send to Yellowbeard.

Sweet! Thanks, Develain!

Not sure I can do up one of your clones... What would you like in return?

Yellowbeard wrote:
Not sure I can do up one of your clones... What would you like in return?

First I will send it to TiB. And he will send both our rines to ya.
Tell me when you have received it, and then you can think of something to send me :p


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Engines being built: Shortened them all, added missile pod segments to the back to close them off and give it a thruster look:



More later.

Flight-base painted up:

urgh these little updates are killing me! (in a good way) im so excited to see it done!

Nice basing! You said you were going for a Geonosis look right? If so I would say it is spot on!

That definatly looks like Geonosis.

would be awsome to see some necrons done to look like battle droids to go up against this lot

Teaglowmo wrote:

would be awsome to see some necrons done to look like battle droids to go up against this lot

Lol, I was actually planning on doing that on the other 2 flight bases! Good guess!

And I think the geonosis look came off pretty well too

So excited for the fast movers! Keep it up

First Gunship has been undercoated, and I started painting the cockpit interior.
After that I can finally start working on the canopy!



More later.

dude i cannot tell you how awsome this thing is ! its AMAZZINGLYAWSOMEFANTASTIC!

What rouge wolves said! Now it is all primed it looks doubly amazing!

I thought the wing laser turret things were ball shaped and not just on the top half of the wing?

Will you be painting the snarling faces onto these ships when they are done or be keeping them plain?

Very nice!

Wow! This is looking really good man!

Just popped in and must say was not expecting to see the undercoat on a gunship. This has brightened up my morning.

As always can't wait for more.

TSD

Getting the new canopies in place.
After they are glued on it, I will make plasticcard strips around it to finish the canopy section:



Also made some hanging handle bars for the interior:

That is so cool, Develain! Nicely done.

Love this army and the thread. You are a true artist, can't wait to see the finished gunship.

this is looking amazing! do you plan on having some clones.. and maybie a special green fellow in the cargo end of that beauty?

Rogue Wolves wrote:this is looking amazing! do you plan on having some clones.. and maybie a special green fellow in the cargo end of that beauty?

Yes. The floor is magnetised, and the models in it are weighted with copper coins.
So they can stand magnetised in the cargo without falling out, as you can see in this picture:



Only problem is: I have 3 of these fliers, each with 1 squad in them + 2 characters joining 2 of those squads. That makes 8 units!
Got a Vindicare assassin, and some jokaero standing on the battlefield...

The new 6th edition states that I have to start with at least half of my units on the table at the start of turn 1. No problems whatsoever.
BUT.. Fliers have to start in reserve, and they start rolling in turn 2 for reserve.
So bummer. I can only start with 1 gunship filled with clones and a character, and the other gunship have to start without clones, because those clones have to start on the table

I have been thinking of adding and splitting more squads. But that is not going to happen!

Anyway, that was kind of a downer, but I don't really care about that. The army will be cool enough for me to finish it and play with it.
There is plenty of new stuff I have to show you guys!

So keep and eye out for more updates!

Build one of them big walker things and start that on the table.

this is looking really good! interested to see how the jedi/vehicle turn out when finished!

could you not add a footslogging unit of clones operating some sort of themed aegis defense line/emplaced gun? (to help you get more units in flyers in reserve)

Thanks for the input guys.

But the problem is: I have 10 units now. So 5 have to start on the table.

My plan was to put 3 squads in 3 fliers, with 2 characters joining 2 of those squads. So that makes 8 units in reserve, and 2 on the table.

In order to make that happen, I would need 16 units in total!
6 extra units is not an option for me, pointwise.

But I figured that the 2 empty fliers can still always pick up the squads that were supposed to be in it!
So no worries guys

A unit + its dedicated transport is classed a single unit for the reserves count.

So you can feasibly only require 1 unit on the field ( or 1 unit w/ character.)

If that helps? (Or I read it wrong... I don't know xD)

Duuuu-uuude! Awesome models and builds! The look and feel is great, man....wow

Ovion wrote:A unit + its dedicated transport is classed a single unit for the reserves count.

So you can feasibly only require 1 unit on the field ( or 1 unit w/ character.)

If that helps? (Or I read it wrong... I don't know xD)

Okay, let me try to plan this out using the above rule. A, B, and C are clones. 1, 2, and 3 are the gunships. Jokaero are X, the Vindy is Y, and your characters are 9 and 0.

One way would be to assign A, B, and C dedicated transports (1, 2, and 3, respectively). This brings your unit count to seven. Assume half is greater, and you have X, Y, 9, and 0 beginning the game on the table. Possible.

Another way is to assign 1 to squad A, and give them either 9 or 0 to start the game. You have 2 and 3 empty in reserve, along with 1 and its occupants (for a total of four units). That leaves you B and C starting, along with X, Y and whoever you didn't put in the ship with A (five units). This still follows the half-or-more rule.

Third is a variant on the last one. In addition to A and 1, B or C could be assigned to 2 or 3. That gives you a total unit count of eight. Half would be A and B/C in reserve in their dedicated transports, along with 3 and 9 or 0 with one of the squads. You now have your third clone squad, plus X and Y, plus either 9 or 0 on the field.

Hopefully you find this helpful! Good luck on getting things sorted out.

Nice progress on the gunship so far!

You could give your clone commander some kind of cannon weapon and say its a very short range weapon that gives one hell of a hit.

Hmmm, Interesting.

But if a Gunship with troops in it plus a character is 1 unit?
then my problem is solved.

My plan was this:

Gunship + Clones + Jedi(Libby) = 1 unit for reserves
Gunship + Arc troopers + clone commander(Coteaz) = 1 unit also
Gunship + Clones = 1 unit
Jokaero = 1 unit
Vindi = 1 unit

Total of 5 units when counting reserves.

So I can start with the Jokaero and the vindi = 2 units on the table, leaving 3 units in reserve.

Did I do this right?

Develain wrote:Hmmm, Interesting.

But if a Gunship with troops in it plus a character is 1 unit?
then my problem is solved.

My plan was this:

Gunship + Clones + Jedi(Libby) = 1 unit for reserves
Gunship + Arc troopers + clone commander(Coteaz) = 1 unit also
Gunship + Clones = 1 unit
Jokaero = 1 unit
Vindi = 1 unit

Total of 5 units when counting reserves.

So I can start with the Jokaero and the vindi = 2 units on the table, leaving 3 units in reserve.

Did I do this right?

Close. Characters are their own units (hence Independent Character), so your Jedi and Coteaz would make it 5 units in reserve with two on the table.

You don't count fliers at all.

So 10 total units (3 flyers, 3 Clones, 2 IC, 1 Jokaero, 1 Vindi)

If the 3 Flyers are Dedicated Trasnports, then the 3 units that take and start in them are counted as a single unit with them.

Making it 3 Flyers + 4 other.
The 3 Flyers don't count towards the reserves count though, meaning you have 4 units that do, meaning you have to start the game by deploying 2 units.

One assumes the Vindi and Jokaero

Ok.

But that still means 1 character has to begin on the table.
Making that: Deploying 3 units: jok. vindi and Jedi
reserves 3 clone squads + 1 character in 3 fliers?

The Canopy has been built! Only needs undercoating before paints!



Pretty psyched about it though. It's all coming together now

oh man its looking great, im so excited to see it done!

Republic gunship had final undercoat applied, completely ready for paint now!

+ these Clones are basecoated:



Hm, which to paint first?

Sweet! Work on them both at the same time if a wash is drying or something work on something else! Painting efficiency man! Love this bloooog!

LDP

That's a really awesome troop carrier you have there. Great work, overall!

This is some damn fine work. Congrats

Milliput time!

I think the central frame of the canopy could possibly be restricting the pilots view??

Had to say it, as it is the only thing that can be criticised on a FANTASTICALLY AWESOME project. Yes I feel like criticising today, which reminds me - where's my wife?....



TSD

thats just the engineer and he doesnt have to be able to watch outside...

i really love the project... i was amazed by the troopers but the vehicles are beyond expectation!

Genuinely amazing! I registered on DakkaDakka simply to complement as I was blown away by your blog!

How did you achieve such a clean and smooth finish on your painting?

rtb01 wrote:Genuinely amazing! I registered on DakkaDakka simply to complement as I was blown away by your blog!

How did you achieve such a clean and smooth finish on your painting?

The trick is generally thinning your paints down a bit with water and doing multiple, thin layers.

That or using an air gun.

rtb01 wrote:

How did you achieve such a clean and smooth finish on your painting?

Foundation paint was the trick for the white armour here.
As 1 layer already gives you a good base layer, then to finish it off with a thin layer over it to get a nice even coverage.

But what Ovion says is also a must. But using too much water doesn't work though.

This is fantastic...Love theme armies!

Perfect execution on the gunships.

You've earned an Exalt

D

what paints did you use?

rtb01 wrote:what paints did you use?

GW and Vallejo

A fantastic project. Everytime I visit it I'm even more impressed. For SW 40K fans, can I direct you to a video my Chaos of the Warp pod-cast co-host, Liam, made of his game against another SW based 40K project?

Jody and his Imperial Army are pretty cool themselves. I'd love to see a game between this clone wars project and his Empire Strikes back army.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZO9vhtj0Fc&feature=channel&list=UL

@ lead legion: Thats a pretty cool army he has there.

The At - at is the best

Making some real progress on the 2 gunships now:

AAaawsome!

They're really starting to come together. They're obviously going to put that AT-AT to shame!

Got the 2nd Clone Trooper squad done:

Amazing, as ever! Imagine a diorama of these guys! Gotta do a Necron counts as with driods

Image is uploaded in my gallery as well, feel free to rate the images.

I saw each picture needs at least 5 votes, and I'm quite curious what the votes are though

Possibly the best conversion army on Dakka I have ever seen, well done sir!

Great work as ever Develain, when can we expect more pics?

D

evildrcheese wrote:Great work as ever Develain, when can we expect more pics?

D

Now.

Got the doors fixed on one of the 2 gunships to be made:

Wow Dev!! I've been on holiday for a while so havent seen the post, but it was almost worth not seeing it all that time just to be able to see so many new pics in one go as always tip top work, loving the gunships!! Keep us informed, as you always do. Thanks again!

lipsdapips wrote:Amazing, as ever! Imagine a diorama of these guys! Gotta do a Necron counts as with driods

I saw one a while ago where soemone did a Trade Federation conversion army as count-as Tau. It was really well done.

Not as good as this one though.

this is probably the most awesome thing i have ever seen!

LOVE IT!

Looking good! I'm loving the gunships too!!!

SO so soooo incredible! i must ask, how are you planning on doing the lightsaber?

Got back from a short holiday.

Progress that I made before I went away. Gunships both have doors now, details are added, right one isn't quite finished yet.



Going to start on the wings soon.

Stellar work! I've been watching with glee, from the shadows.

Whaaat?!?! How did you get A* in your awesome exams?

Getting there:

Ooh, i likey, I likey alot!

Whoa, big leap in getting them finished since I last looked! Do the doors actually open and close?

 Commander Cain wrote:
Whoa, big leap in getting them finished since I last looked! Do the doors actually open and close?

Unfortunately no. There is a maximum time I want to spend on these vehicles Making Doors with hinges is just too much, and I don't even know if I could pull it off though hehe.

It wouldn't be that hard to do.

A hinge would only need to be 1 cylinder slotted into another cylinder, attached to each surface with an arm connecting the 2 hinges, then probably magnets to hold it open / closed.

Just magnetising the doors might do it though.

Thanks for the advice Ovion.(knew I was getting it. haha)

It is fine like this. I mean the whole is a succes already. But there is a point for me to just stop with a conversion.
I mean Icould have added hinged doors, LED's and a small jukebox inside for soundeffects (seen that once fo real )

But that's maybe for future projects.. maybe. ( the jukebox thinghy will never happen though )

Develain

Ooo groovy. Use the force!

Your clones are incredible! Wow, wow, and wow! I love your style, your painting is ace!

But please, drill the barrels of the minigunners!

Subscribed and exalted!!

wow this is an awesome thread, I am amazed I found it so late. Those clone troops are beautfiul!


UGH just saw the gunships, now that is sickkkk!! haha, going to catch up on this thread!
any jetbikes

Good progress on the transports!

Covered in awesome sauce.

D

Wings are almost done..
Lascannons added. Almost time for undercoat, so that the cockpit and crew can be painted and then it's time for the canopy!

those look really cool! and I was just thinking of stuff to enter into my GW's GD like competiton this october.. I think I will use your tutorial to make a nice diarama!

Great job! Very precise and convincing. Kudos!

I aquired some Inferno pistols from the blood angel range.
I chopped of the barrels and replaced them with my current melta gun barrels.

Here is the result. On the left old, right is the new barrel. Way better if you ask me:

new ones look WAY better!

Agreed! Much more clone-like, gunships are looking great too!

Yeah the slimmed down version is much better.

Nice work

D

wow new gun looks amazing!

Yes, definately much better! I use inferno pistol fronts for my combi melta conversions, its so much more convinient

why do I look at threads like these? They make my armies look so bad I cant look at them for weeks because of how ashamed of them I am...

Interesting conversion for the melta-gun. Looks much better with the Star Wars aesthetic.

 Develain wrote:
I aquired some Inferno pistols from the blood angel range.
I chopped of the barrels and replaced them with my current melta gun barrels.

Here is the result. On the left old, right is the new barrel. Way better if you ask me:

Wow, these models are so cleverly produced. And yes, the gun on the right looks better

W.i.p of the Clone Sniper:

Nice looking sniper there. What gun are you going to give for the actual rifle.

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
Nice looking sniper there. What gun are you going to give for the actual rifle.

D

This one:

Re: reserve rules, as all the posts on that topic have been wrong in some way:
You don't count units that have to start in reserve. This means that your three fliers don't count for reserve, but they are not dedicated, so whatever you put inside them still counts. You have 7 other units, which means 4 have to start on the table.

Very impressive modelling and painting

 Illumini wrote:
Re: reserve rules, as all the posts on that topic have been wrong in some way:
You don't count units that have to start in reserve. This means that your three fliers don't count for reserve, but they are not dedicated, so whatever you put inside them still counts. You have 7 other units, which means 4 have to start on the table.

Very impressive modelling and painting

Ok I got that I have 7 units for the matter of counting reserves.

But I thought 3 was enough to start with, as it's rounded up right?

wow I love that sniper!

Finished Sniper:

I don't have the feeling I gave this model all that I got IMO. Can't put my finger on it, what it's missing, but it's good enough though.

Here you go:



Arc troopers are reaching completion too. And Commander Fordo aswell!

More on that later!

That looks absolutely amazing!
You could paint some kill markings on the rifle though...

 sluggaslugga wrote:
That looks absolutely amazing!
You could paint some kill markings on the rifle though...

Good one! I might consider that!

Excellent work! Maybe you should make an AT-TE? I've always loved those walkers, and might help you with your reserves woes!

 Kepora wrote:
Excellent work! Maybe you should make an AT-TE? I've always loved those walkers, and might help you with your reserves woes!

Hehe, no AT TE for this army.
As I said, the army is already built, so there is no room for more units lol.

Anyway, here are the Arc troopers sans Fordo ( I can't get a good picture of him, the reds aren't coming out right :s, tomorrow I will try again with daylight )



Got a little distracted though by this dude:



Didn't really like the Sword-arm. So I took another arm from a diff. Sm kit and after some cutting and filing, I got this new arm pose.
Much better IMHO.



OH! All the Clone troopers are finished now! Fordo was the last one, you will see him tomorrow.
And after him I will make a total clone trooper shot.

Develain.

Army built or not, I still say you should make an AT-TE because they're epic!

Also, nice work on the librarian; glad to finally see some Dark Vengeance stuff on Dakka!

Love the sniper! and its good/bad that you have all of your troopers built.. i would have liked to see you do an at-te!

Captain Fordo:

Reeking of Awesomeness!!

I still cant express how much I love this blog with words. The captain's fantastic! I'd love to see some driods haha, a huge Star wars diorama like this would be SICK!! I'm so envious also of the arc troopers, can we get a close up on the sergeant hollogramming yoda pleeease?

 lipsdapips wrote:
I still cant express how much I love this blog with words. The captain's fantastic! I'd love to see some driods haha, a huge Star wars diorama like this would be SICK!! I'm so envious also of the arc troopers, can we get a close up on the sergeant hollogramming yoda pleeease?

Thanks!

Here is a close up of the hologrammer:



About the droids. I got some necron warriors from a friend. Chopped them up and they are going to be wrecked super battle droids on the Gunship bases:




And here is the Army shot so far: CLONE TROOPERS!




Next update will pobably take a while as all that is left is the Gunships, and highlighting that is a son of a

Enjoy! And I'll see you guys in a couple of weeks probably!

Only this Orkmoticon can adequately convey my thoughts on this project...

This is very nice work mate, i'm a big fan of star wars and now a big fan of yours. 10/10

Really really great stuff. Love the new models.

D

Fantastic group shot! Love every one of them.

Know what?

*Exalted!
These models are THAT well done!


The PROBLEM with these models is precisely what's so cool about them.
If you try to use these models at a GW store or event, they're going to try to kick you out (unless one of the judges has seen this blog). There's no way they'll believe these things started life as GW models. They're THAT good.
Maybe you should print out and take some of your WIP shots with you, if you ever go to something "official" GW. LOL

Eric

that captain is amazing! and I love the little hologram!

You just keep delivering perfection! Those captains are GREAT, such good representations of the show. Keep it up man =D

As MagickalMemories stated earlier, it'll be hard to go to any offical event with these guys! The gunships are prob only thing that looks like they could be GW parts, though they are all great models!


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We do need jetbikes though!