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Darth More's Modular Dioramas: Mos Eisley
« on: March 14, 2010, 12:53:14 PM »
Hey guys,

I have been working on a bigger model of  Mos Eisley for a long time...and I would like to show you some pictures of the buildings and the figures on it although it isn't really finished, yet. But before losing more and more time I prefer giving you a short overview of it. I am still woking on it as far as school is allowing that.
The pictures will come, soon...



List of Contents:



Pages 1-9: Mos Eisley modular diorama - Work in Progress from 2009-2011

- shared project: Artist Agatha Vincent and his Cantina Project for Chicago Comic Con 2019 - Page 9, Reply #131 + #135

- Cantina Section - Page 10, Reply #136




Upcoming Projects and Updates for 2019:

The Story of a Toy Maker

Updates:
- Update of all buildings: Repaint, Modification
- Furniture & Accessories for Tatooine


New Projects:

- Tower Building (Star Wars Battlefront II)
- Window-sill diorama (modular)



Future modular projects:

- Geonosis
- Mygeeto
- Felucia
- Mos Eisley Part II

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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2010, 12:10:52 PM »
So here are the tools and materials I used to build the diorama of Mos Eisley:


List of Materials:

- hobby knifes - saved my life
- ruler - for general measurements, it's actually always good to have two of them
- metal/aluminium ruler - perfect for cutting along with a hobby knife
- set square - regular and big size to measure and draw all angles needed
- pencils
- sandpaper
- calculator - to estimate size and scale (1 meter are 5,5 cm in 1/18 scale)
- styrofoam - cheap and good to work with
- spatula/depressor

- styrofoam glue
- wood glue
- filler/screed

- sand

- plywood / medium-density fiberboard = MDF plate














 
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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2010, 12:13:43 PM »
And here are some pics of the result...



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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2010, 12:18:42 PM »
I used chipboard/plywood for the base plate. The plate measures 160x110x3 cm (~63x43x1.2 inches). The base plate (~$28), the wooden strips (~$12) and the two pillars (~$60) are from a building supplies store and cost about $100.









After all strips were fixed I painted the plate in mat black:





It was a rainy weekend - the best weather for some model building!!






With a stencil the STAR WARS emblem was applied with silver paint:








The two pillars and the base plate were expensive, but I can use them for many purposes. I'm also planning on doing different dioramas on this plate like Endor, Hoth, Geonosis or Felucia.

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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2010, 12:37:28 PM »
dude this is incredible! i wanna see it all filled up with some figures!
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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2010, 12:38:39 PM »
Legion my friend your dio is the best. I'm so happy that you now here on the Shipyards.
All the detailing and the sand, it's just perfect. Can't wait to see the finished dio.

great job so far
10/10
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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2010, 01:35:18 PM »
holty ............ that is great there are loads of mos eisleys round here they should change trhe nasme to mos eisly yards lol great wrk man
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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2010, 03:16:46 PM »
Oh Man.............Looks like we got another dio master around here.
  Very nice work, Legion! Show us more,, please :o
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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2010, 12:15:00 PM »
Wow! Awesome work! Kind of puts mine to shame scale wise.
Hope to see it full of figures soon dude!
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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2010, 02:25:07 PM »
Hello guys,

To be honesrtI am very ashamed that you are so excited about  the three pictures of my Diorama which I only could upload and post with FialaFernbrugg's help.
But thank you all so much for your kind words!

I have to say that I am disapointed of myself because the project takes too many time that I haven't got as a student of the 10th grade at a German school...so I wanted to finish this diorama of Mos Eisley as perfect as possible, but I still have to work so hard for school of course.
The first impressions I got for this project were playing the Battlefront II game of Pandemic( and I also hope that there'll be a third part of this fantastic game!!)
So after making thousands of screenshots of the Mos Eisley map I started to create a first draft of the buildings I wanted to build for the plate.
After the first buildings were done I wanted to upload the first tutorial on how to make the palte-system I invented with a good friend of mine Fabian.
Fabian and I were working on this project of Mos Eisley and we wanted to build the whole map of BFII, first!! But when we had counted the buildings of the map we decided to focus on our favorite buildings.
You see this is a very long story and I recognized that I was only talking about finishing it, soon, but I hardly found time for continueing the project...by now Fabian lost the interest to finish his part of our intended two plates...and I think his buildings are awesome, too. What I was sad about is that the color of my buildings is not similar with the color of the first styropoor glue we used so the color of three of  my four buildings is a bit too light.

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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2010, 02:35:32 PM »
So I want to say to you my friends is that I am very happy to read your reactions and comments about my work after the uploading on YouTube has failed some time ago...then fortunately I joined the incredible ShipYards and could upload the first pics of it (be sure that the state of the project has changed again by now;))
So on this point I want to thank:

FialaFernbrugg

-for all the pacience and interest you showed and for your GREAT support for the final publishment on the internet
-for your great ideas and all the appeals to continue working (and I am always missing words when I see your absolutely unique customs)...but I had to convince myself to go on working on the project although I got confused with it somehow sometime....and I also had to buy some suitable figures and accessories for it.
So thank you so much! I am proud to know you!


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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2010, 02:42:58 PM »
SithLord229

-for making me happy every time I watch your fantastic reviews on YouTube and for giving me the idea of making the doors out of  1-2mm thick wood (...)
-for being there whenever I wanted to speak to you although you are still busy with all your great  fans and with studying for college without disregarding your friends, your family and your hobby wich is connecting all of us.

I cannot express how happy I am to know You ALL!! Thanks to all of you to share your pictures, reviews, opinions and comments with me and all the other great members!

DarthOrvan

-I enjoyed working with you on this project and I hope that you'll also finish your part of your diorama
-Glad to know you and to collect with you! Please, keep on your interest in Star Wars!

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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #12 on: March 22, 2010, 02:45:55 PM »
Great job so far.  Can't wait to see how this turned out.  I was thinking about making a Tatooine, but decided an Endor would be easier.
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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #13 on: March 22, 2010, 02:50:00 PM »
You can be sure that you will see further photos an pictures describing the whole story of this large project. I will finsih this dioram in the next two or three weeks when I'll have Eastern holidays for two weeks.

I am glad to welcome Fiala here to modify my dio for the last steps and to visit the JediCon2010 for the first time with him...
It will take some further time, indeed, to downsize all the pictures I took of every single step of doing this work.
You can count on me. I will show you all of them in the near future! Stay tuned for  them and may the force be with you, ever!

Yours faithfully

Philipp

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Re: Legion078's Dioramas and Models
« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2010, 03:05:20 PM »
Fabian and I were really inspired by LucasArts/Pandemic's STAR WARS Battlefront II video game:

We actually planned on building the entire map of Mos Eisley in 1/18 scale!




I spent hours of playing this game and exploring every square-inch of this map:








Before I actually started building the diorama I made several drafts  and crafted a paper model of the four buildings:





Figures and vehicles were used as reference to make the buildings accurate and in scale:





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