orthofox
Well-Known Member
Spectators
After realizing that I would need to turn this little speeder into a larger diorama, I began to think, as some of you have as well, that this would make a really cool racing scene with two speeders racing one another in some kind of match race. Races need spectators. But being that I really wanted this scene to be unconventional (hence them racing across a grassy field) I wanted my spectators to be unconventional as well.
So I bought a pack of these from Industria Mechanika in 1/35 scale:
I absolutely love this small company and their models: Amazing customer service, incredibly detailed models - and they throw in a free decal sheet with every purchase - something I will be taking advantage of in the construction of the next speeder. At any rate, after the sheep and goat arrived, I assembled them all - matching their legs to the correct sheep and gluing them on - which ended up being quite a bit more tedious than what I anticipated. After that, I painted on the base colors for Suffolks: black faces and white bodies.
Then I worked on weathering and staining them a bit to make them look a bit more realistic as well as giving each a solitary stiletto of epic proportions. But gluing a portion of a needle to the back of a single hoof, I could stick each through the grass and foam wherever I wanted and re-position them easily should I wish to change their position as the diorama evolves.
And then into the field they went:
Next up: Making the speeder fly!
After realizing that I would need to turn this little speeder into a larger diorama, I began to think, as some of you have as well, that this would make a really cool racing scene with two speeders racing one another in some kind of match race. Races need spectators. But being that I really wanted this scene to be unconventional (hence them racing across a grassy field) I wanted my spectators to be unconventional as well.
So I bought a pack of these from Industria Mechanika in 1/35 scale:
I absolutely love this small company and their models: Amazing customer service, incredibly detailed models - and they throw in a free decal sheet with every purchase - something I will be taking advantage of in the construction of the next speeder. At any rate, after the sheep and goat arrived, I assembled them all - matching their legs to the correct sheep and gluing them on - which ended up being quite a bit more tedious than what I anticipated. After that, I painted on the base colors for Suffolks: black faces and white bodies.
Then I worked on weathering and staining them a bit to make them look a bit more realistic as well as giving each a solitary stiletto of epic proportions. But gluing a portion of a needle to the back of a single hoof, I could stick each through the grass and foam wherever I wanted and re-position them easily should I wish to change their position as the diorama evolves.
And then into the field they went:
Next up: Making the speeder fly!