Here are those customs I promised, a bit late, I'm sorry; I've been helping a friend out all week, and this is the first time I could free up some time to take the pics. These guys are repaints, except for Eiffe. I added weathering to all of them, and straightened out the paint jobs immensely; I also fixed the "color problem", where some of the men had a dull blue on, and the others had a HIGHLY reflective blue on. Now, they all bear the same color... Finally, I cleaned off their joints (some had paint all over them from my carelessness when I first made them, but, I was sure to be very careful, this time around. After all, I really wanted these customs to be ones I could display with pride, and not have sit in a box of shame. Overall, I think I did quite well on these guys... What are your opinions?
Here's a little back story on how these clones all fit into my fan-novel...
On the planet Ralvine, the Grand Army of the Republic's newly formed 500th Reinforcement Ops Corps was sent to rendezvous with a "classified" legion, for "classified" orders; rumor had it that they were to be aiding a local rebellion, a planet's people crying out against the CIS' crushing heel. Flare, the Legion Commander, appointed just the week before, was killed when a "terrorist missile strike by the local militia" downed his LAAT/i. That's what intel said, anyhow. The Jedi that precided over the legion, General Erinos, was blamed, even though the orders came from the Supreme Chancellor's office. Sparky, the Captain serving under Flare, was bumped up to Acting-Legion Commander, pending further investigation by the Republic. A skilled Private, Blimey, was fast-tracked to Captain. General Erinos, facing trial, was found not-guilty, but, the courts decided to suspend his Legion General status. Another Jedi, Mensaura Gowards, would take over half the legion. With Sparky at the helm of Gowards' legion, and Blimey with Erinos, things started to get normal again.
On the training planet of Reevus IV, the Separtist's began a counter-offensive to kill a great portion of the Republic's trained troops stationed there. The 419th Black Ops Battalion was the primary force on the ground, led by Commander Jay. This legion was directed solely by General Erinos. As they began the Defense of Reevus IV, General Erinos directed the 500th to the planet, to remove the Separatist threat. When arriving on site, Blimey noticed a new trooper, a Lieutenant, behaving as if he was in control. Blimey set him straight, in a well-mannered way, and when asking his name, the man replied, "CT-4137; Clank". The Captain recognized the trooper as being Sparky's third in command. It was odd that he would've been transferred to General Erinos' squad.
Anyhow, the Separtist invasion is repelled, and General Erinos is sent to a space station in the middle of nowhere, to re-supply for their next mission, to a planet named Zabrash to take down a dictator, High Lord and Baron Sethon... He's almost killed by assassins, but, with the help of a trooper named Eiffe, he lives. The trooper was apart of the Republic Navy, and First Mate aboard the space station. While evacuating, Erinos runs into a female Jedi his age, that turns out to be Mensaura Gowards. She, and the remnants of her troops on the station not killed by the assasins (Acting-Commander Sparky and his SECOND in command, Major Stripe) decide to accompany Erinos on his mission. Besides, it's obivous someone is trying to kill them, but for what reasons are not obvious. The team goes to Mandalore, for help with some armor (they can't infiltrate Sethon's palace as Republic soldiers, Erinos' former friend Brihtric Ralet points out, the General's contact on Mandalore...)
To wrap this up quickly, the team gets side-tracked to Ralvine, and while "on some strange jungle planet", unkown to be Ralvine, they come across Flare, who lives. Flare is re-instated as Commander of the 500th, on the spot, by General Erinos. They go to their mission on Zabrash, and with the help of Vurk and Verpine rebels living on the planet, capture Zethon. Mensaura is killed by Zethon, when he breaks out of captivity, and Zethon is killed by Erinos and the clones in return. However, Erinos, falling in love with Mensaura along the way to Zabrash, greaves over her dead body. Whilst trying to hide his emotions, and turn away from the sight of her corpse, the men of her squad throw the body off the bridge she is killed on, into a valley below (the men, except for Sparky). Shocked, Erinos, Blimey, Eiffe, Flare, and Jay have little time to reach their weapons. They find out from Stripe's confessions that the men were behind the bombing that was supposed to kill Flare. They're the ones that let Sethon go. He also reveals that he has a bombing squad ready to fire at "enemy troops engaging Republic personnel." He'll make their deaths look like an accident, and be handed full command of the 500th and 419th; before he can give the signal, though, a Verpine General, O'Hare, and master sniper, picks off the two clones, saving the lives of the other men. Sparky, hiding his involvement in it by framing Stripe and Clank, goes on to live, (for now at least...
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(I'll stop there, for if I continue, this will go on forever, and I'll probably start to run into my sequel, lol... Here you guys go; hope you enjoy...
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