Thank you for the support, @Panther and @FianlaFernbrugg! All of your work is detailed and spectacular, and I appreciate both of you taking the time to look at my dioramas.
Now, I have some pictures of my final diorama: Jedha! I actually made this one before Tatooine, but I wanted to post that one first because the steps in building it were largely similar. I then filled it with figures and I think it looks pretty good! Check it out below.
As before, I built the building out of half a cardboard box. The facade and archway are both high-density pink styrofoam, and the little hut on top was a chunk of more open-cell packing foam I found in a box.
The big old greeblie on the side of the hut is a launcher from the TFA Unkar's Thug + Teedo pack. I gave it a black wash and drybrushed it with Citadel Boltgun Metal to highlight it a little. You can also see here some of the facade. I went a little wild with my hot-wire cutter and added lots of impact craters and pockmarks throughout.
I used some thick straws for rusted pipes along the front of the building; I gave them a basecoat of Chaos Black over which I painted Scorched Brown and a Tin Bitz wash. The door is yet another Frank Diorio decal, this time borrowed from the Trash Compactor! At this point I hadn't considered following Darth More's spaceport door tutorial. I know it doesn't really belong, but I don't think it looks too bad. Finally, the wires are made from an old pair of headphones and attached to some greeblies from my bitz box.
Here is the arch, which I drew out a pattern for and cut out of foam. The little market stall was made from two skewers painted brown and glued onto the plastic tarp/covering from a 1/72 model truck which I bent into shape and painted red. As for the rather obvious cardboard, I made this dio before knowing to conceal the edges and corners of cardboard with tape before plastering over. I may put some tape and new paint over it one day, but we'll see.
The Aurebesh above the door here actually reads "Converter Station". I found this template on RebelScum courtesy of KypDuron, and he's got a lot of great decals and papercraft free to download. In addition to the power coupling/transmitter piece on the right, I made a little antenna assembly on top. It's a rusty nail (which I didn't even have to repaint, haha!), a marker cap, and a pen cap set between two halves of a cork I cut and painted Boltgun Metal. The panel on the front is a decal belonging to the BMF that I found a template for online.
I painted the whole thing with a combination of cheap Walmart paints. I used Khaki as a base coat and drybrushed Vanilla Ice Cream over top.
I reused the same paints for the sand which I applied with PVA glue. Only difference was that I added some shades of brown to distinguish it from the building. Now, I think that does it for the explanation and creation of the dio! Onto the figures!!
This is a general overview of the scene. I've got some troopers on patrol, partisans lying in ambush, monks on pilgrimage, vendors and hagglers in the market, and Jyn and Cassian caught in the middle of it all.
The monks are a few Sarco Plank's I picked up on HTS this summer for cheap. I looked through the Rogue One Visual Guide and repainted their hands and faces to resemble more closely some of the monks from the movie.
Here you can see another homemade Vaporator, again made out of a pill bottle. I attached some greeblies, cut-up straws, and even a miniature Hoth turret from an old model.
I think these TFA aliens fit in quite well in Jedha! They are quarreling no doubt over Quiggold's outrageous price for the meiloorun (another KypDuron print-out).
Jyn and Cassian duck into cover as an imperial patrol approaches...I did a simple head-switch between the U-Wing Cassian and the Eadu Cassian. It's a little loose on the ball joint, so at some point I'll have to fill in the head just a little.
I love the RO Stormtrooper sculpt! I hope they reuse the bucket in TVC soon. The canisters next to the troopers were made from pill bottles, bottle caps, and greeblies. The smaller one is actually some kind of large toy soda can I found and repurposed.
These troopers may be in trouble...
Definitely in trouble!
I think Unkar's Thug makes for a great partisan, very easy to incorporate him into this dio.
At last, the leaders of the Partisans. Edrio and Saw! If you look closely (and my apologies that the picture isn't totally in focus) you'll notice that I painted some details onto Saw's breathing apparatus.
Whew! Sorry for the long post, but I hope you enjoy this excursion into the embattled streets of Jedha! It was one of my absolute favorite sets of RO, and I'm happy I could bring it to life in my collection.
