With April showers comes...a new customizing event here at the Shipyards! We have had some great contest the last several months and we want to continue to challenge your creative processes this month. We bring you the April Trash to treasure contest. Basically you take items that would be thrown away and make something for your Star Wars Universe. From pudding cups to broken toys anything is game to make a droid, background fodder, a computer console, a vehicle or whatever your mind can dream up. The idea is to get you think outside the box on this one and use parts you never would have thought of...or maybe you have. We need to see atleast 1 pic when you decide what parts/trash you will be working with. Then as you assemble everything we would love to see WIP pictures and talk about the creation and share ideas. When you are done with all mods and painting you can submit 5 pictures of your creation along with any 3 3/4 inch Star Wars figure for scale.When you post your entry pics, you must start that post with the words "THIS IS MY ENTRY" All competitors need to be registered members of the Shipyards. One entry only but if you have time to make something else for the fun of it go right ahead. Your entry has to be new and not seen on any forum before. This contest starts April 14, 2011 and runs through May 8, 2011. At that time a new thread will be started for everyone to vote for the winner and in the event of a tie we will re vote for the top 2. Below are several examples of what would be acceptable.
Ghostskull18 made a cool speeder from the bottom of a computer mouse.
Hansfartknocker made this remote drone for his bounty hunter from an old Backyugon launcher. ( I am sure I murdered the spelling of this thing)
Hangarbay94 made this great display base for the Dark Child figures from a sushi tray.
I made this from a broken Blackout Transformer
The background walls for this diorama are made for styrofoam packaging all carved up other than the smooth areas. The the white troop sled is made from an old cassette drawer plus styrene and a razor case with a few bits. The green storage bin is an old computer hard disk storage case. The blue containers in the back are made from pudding cups and the green small bin is made from ear muffs.
This simple diorama was all made from leftovers and trash. The back wall and floor are foam board scraps, the tubes up the wall are made from napkin tubes covered in the protective cardboard you find with light bulb packaging. The flat part is covered with flourescent light bulb protective cardboard. In the foreground you can see all types of stuff that I don't throw away. The second photo is a little diorama I set up with a few customs.
So the winner can have his or her choice of either the above diorama with some background fodder but will not be exactly what you see in those pictures. Or you may choose my Diorama from the Cadets episode of the Clone Wars. Figures not included.
