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flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles ~~ UPDATED 9/26/2011
« on: January 20, 2010, 11:59:10 AM »
Hello, I am new here, and love all of your great customs!   I recently started doing 1:18 Star Wars customs after years of doing 1:6 scale figures.  I'm really into vehicles and playsets and dioramas.  I am a big fan of Tatooine, the Cantina, and all things ANH.  

So I decided to start by doing a Landspeeder:

SCAVENGER LANDSPEEDER - FEB 2010

This scumbag roams the wastes with his broken-down speeder, and malfunctioning droid; scrounging the deserts for what parts he can, to buy drinks at the local cantina.



The land speeder:









The Droid and Pilot:




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FREECO SPEEDER REPAINT - OCT 2010

One of the cantina drunks works part time fixing speeder bikes and droids to sponsor his nightlife...







IMPERIAL SCANNING DROID - DEC 2010

An old, malfunctioning, full-body scanner droid, designed to prevent weapons and illegal cargo from entering the port.  Long ago shot and damaged by vagrants, all the locals know that you can sneak whatever you want past "Ol' Red" - his sensors haven't worked in almost fifteen cycles.











RED HOT ROD SPEEDER - JUNE 2010

A toast to his friend, for he just bought a old hot-rod vintage speeder...













Thanks for looking!
« Last Edit: September 26, 2011, 01:08:10 PM by flaccideagle »
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2010, 12:02:18 PM »
So I decided to start by doing a Landspeeder:

Here is a WIP from about two weeks ago, with no paint, mostly assembled:









It's going to be a desert scavenger's speeder.
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2010, 12:26:26 PM »
Nice! I like the reworked landspeeder luke would be very happy, LOL What did you use for the ( I think fuel tanks?).
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2010, 12:40:47 PM »
looks like an excellent start.  I like the back end reworking and I love the added pannels on the "hood" to fix the missing pannels from luke's clunker.  can't wait to see it finished and painted.  any idea what color scheme your going to go with?
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2010, 01:48:20 PM »
Wow, you have done alot of mod work to that speeder. Looks like you are on the right track to pull off an impressive looking custom.
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2010, 03:04:50 PM »
Sweet, our Sarge is gonna love this one as landspeeders are his favorite vehicle. Expect this one to hit our front page when you get her done. Nice work.
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2010, 03:38:05 PM »
dude that looks awesome, cant wait to see it painted
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2010, 03:51:06 PM »
That is coming along VERY nicely!  I love the additions to it!  Great job, can't wait to see more WIP shots!
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2010, 10:41:12 PM »
this speeder is looking great so far mate, looking forward to seeing how this turns out and to see what color you go for it...
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2010, 05:23:45 AM »
This is shaping up very nicely. I love the WIP shots and can't wait to see her finished.
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2010, 12:22:04 PM »
great looking speeder!!!
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2010, 08:15:08 PM »
Thanks for all the kind words guys.  It's the first 1:18 vehicle I've done since the 90's, thanks for your support!

I'll take some more WIP photos tomorrow, I've painted it up quite a bit since these shots.

I've also started a new Freeco bike that I'm trying to match to my R2-B1 droid.  I'll take some pics of that too.
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2010, 09:20:00 PM »
alot work ahead of yourself there ..i think the paint gives it alot of personality sometimes a more realistic look.
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles - Landspeeder #1
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2010, 12:43:39 PM »
Here's some more photos of what the speeder looks like today.   I have a few days off so I hope to finish it off pretty soon.




The idea I had for this custom was for a Star Wars wasteland wanderer, a la "Mad Max."  But much more George Lucas and less George Miller.  So I picked a color scheme of one of the cool 1970's police cars from the first Mad Max film.



Rather than just copy the red/yellow/blue scheme (which would be cool!) - I got creative and made more of a sand junker.




I wanted to make it really pop and be colorful, and then later on I will weather it down to make it look all beat up.



The cockpit was pretty easy, and really fun to do.  I really want to get my panel making better, it's really fun.  I still have to make two screens there and add a center console piece that I finished today.



The open panel engine was an issue.  At first I wanted to make both the side engines match, covered, but then after trying to first add a styrene cover, and then trying add a new one on, I gave up and painted it a bit.



The extra weight of the engines makes the back rub the ground, but oh well.




There's still a lot of work to do! 

Here's a WIP of the driver.



The droid I'll start after one or the other is done.
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Re: flaccideagle's Custom Vehicles - Freeco Speeder #1
« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2010, 12:46:54 PM »
Here's another one I started a couple weeks ago:  A Freeco Speeder:





It's going to have a driver and droid (R2-B1)
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