oota goota
Sr Member
Hey all I've been looking forward to posting some progress on this project for awhile now. I've always really liked the phase 0 dark trooper from the Battlefront 1 and 2 and decided it needed to go on my projects list as something to make. I had to get through my version 2 tk armour, my fem trooper armour and an mg34 to get here but I've managed to make a bit of headway.
For anyone (everyone) wondering what the hell a dark trooper is have a look here:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Phase_Zero_dark_trooper
So I really like the sculpt (stormtroooper yet not stormtrooper), the back story (what do we do with all those injured clone troopers?) and they way it moved in the games (jetpack!)
I want to say cheers to Tubachris (you still out there?) for his build thread and reference material gathering. I found his thread inspirational and I learnt a lot watching his build
There's a bit of reference material and screen shots on the net that I was able to get hold. The best stuff came from the rpf. I've made the following design decisions when approaching this build;
* the armour is low polygon count so curvature will need to be added
* the armour is bulkier than regular stormtrooper armour but not taller
* scaling will be needed to make the suit work in the real world
* I'll refer as much as possible to a couple of colour palette/ armour shapes files I found on the net
I was able to get a front, back, partial side and jet pack images which I got blown up to make a 1.8m figure. I mucked around with some of the dimensions to get it working better and got some starter profiles.
So the armour is kind of the same size as a stormtrooper just a bit wider and bulkier.
Here's it next to my mg34 and bucket
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Construction for this guy is pretty straight forward but a bit labourious. I recast a few of my stormtrooper armour pieces to try and make things easier but in the end that was more hassle that it was worth and I just made most of the forms from scratch.
I've finished most of the forms at this stage. Quite a few need some final finishing and shaping but the bulk of the armour is done. I'll post a bunch of progress pics in this post just to give you an idea. the coolest part of the build was the jetpack! I had a lot of fun with that. The suckiest part of the build was the stupid legs. Lots of intersecting curves slowly squeezing my brain.
The chest plate is frickin' HUGE!
apologies to any ford drivers. that sticker on my toolbox was from a different time in my life I am not prejudice against fords
still a little bit to do on the jetpack. It's going to be roughly 8 pieces plus some backs for the inside of the main body
I've left the helmet till last as it's the trickest part and the piece I want to spend the most time getting as close to the look of the game as I can (keeping in mind it will have more curvature than the game graphic)
- - - Updated - - -
And finally I've started to pull some pieces on the vac former as I get them finished up. I started using black 2mm ABS sheet but it's a total PITA to get black ABS in New Zealand so I'm switching to white. It's all going to get painted anyway
Ok that's it for now. I'm going to be updating this thread hopefully regularly. As always comments and critique are always welcome
Cheers
oota
For anyone (everyone) wondering what the hell a dark trooper is have a look here:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Phase_Zero_dark_trooper
So I really like the sculpt (stormtroooper yet not stormtrooper), the back story (what do we do with all those injured clone troopers?) and they way it moved in the games (jetpack!)
I want to say cheers to Tubachris (you still out there?) for his build thread and reference material gathering. I found his thread inspirational and I learnt a lot watching his build
There's a bit of reference material and screen shots on the net that I was able to get hold. The best stuff came from the rpf. I've made the following design decisions when approaching this build;
* the armour is low polygon count so curvature will need to be added
* the armour is bulkier than regular stormtrooper armour but not taller
* scaling will be needed to make the suit work in the real world
* I'll refer as much as possible to a couple of colour palette/ armour shapes files I found on the net
I was able to get a front, back, partial side and jet pack images which I got blown up to make a 1.8m figure. I mucked around with some of the dimensions to get it working better and got some starter profiles.
So the armour is kind of the same size as a stormtrooper just a bit wider and bulkier.
Here's it next to my mg34 and bucket
- - - Updated - - -
Construction for this guy is pretty straight forward but a bit labourious. I recast a few of my stormtrooper armour pieces to try and make things easier but in the end that was more hassle that it was worth and I just made most of the forms from scratch.
I've finished most of the forms at this stage. Quite a few need some final finishing and shaping but the bulk of the armour is done. I'll post a bunch of progress pics in this post just to give you an idea. the coolest part of the build was the jetpack! I had a lot of fun with that. The suckiest part of the build was the stupid legs. Lots of intersecting curves slowly squeezing my brain.
The chest plate is frickin' HUGE!
apologies to any ford drivers. that sticker on my toolbox was from a different time in my life I am not prejudice against fords
still a little bit to do on the jetpack. It's going to be roughly 8 pieces plus some backs for the inside of the main body
I've left the helmet till last as it's the trickest part and the piece I want to spend the most time getting as close to the look of the game as I can (keeping in mind it will have more curvature than the game graphic)
- - - Updated - - -
And finally I've started to pull some pieces on the vac former as I get them finished up. I started using black 2mm ABS sheet but it's a total PITA to get black ABS in New Zealand so I'm switching to white. It's all going to get painted anyway
Ok that's it for now. I'm going to be updating this thread hopefully regularly. As always comments and critique are always welcome
Cheers
oota
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