Topic: PadawanPainter's Custom Pieces & Chessboard Project

[PadawanPainter]

So, I just did a screen clip of the error message.  And, as you can see, it let me upload it.  But I can't upload these two pictures of my WIP walker assault diorama.  So weird!  I'm going to screen capture the diorama photo and see about uploading that.

[PadawanPainter]

Here is a diorama, in the beginning idea/concept phase.  It's inspired by a scene in Enemy At The Gates, and a historical statue in Volograd/Stalingrad.

It shows an Imperial officer and his unit, invading a city during winter, and he's looking up at an old statue of a clonetrooper.

[PadawanPainter]

Here is my walker assault diorama WIP.  It depicts an early-Empire walker assault group moving past an old CIS AAT they just knocked out.  I'll probably add smoke plumes from the two main hatches on the AAT.

[Tamer]

I am sure glad to see you posting images again. Crazy. Looks great though on both projects.

Off to the front pages.

[Starchaser]

I like that Walker mini-dio - really cool with the spires. I think smoke plumes would be an excellent addition. The idea for the trooper diorama (a la Stalingrad) is really cool. I think that's going to be an excellent finished product.

[hemble]

I'm really looking forward to seeing the 3-3/4" dio mate and the small Walker dio is awesome, I love everything about it.

Ron

[PadawanPainter]

So, with this year, I've forgotten to update this.  I am going to try my hardest to post pictures of all these projects I've finished, but just haven't found the time to take the pictures or upload.

[PadawanPainter]

ARC trooper inspired by the Rohirrim from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.  Rohan's colors, at least in the movie, were green and gold.  Combined with their ancestral lands, roving hills with golden grass and rocky outcroppings.

[PadawanPainter]

Went back to my Instagram post where I first uploaded and found the backstory I created for him:

ARF Clone Commander Theo, 19th Light Mechanized Battalion, 54th Mustang Corps, planet Nahor, system Mearas. Commander Theo dismounted his AT-RT to scout the high ground overlooking the rolling hills ahead. Nahor was a planet strategically located on a hyperlane route running from the neighboring Corellia system to the Deep Core. Rumors of a secret Separatist stay-behind army brought Commander Theo's unit to the lightly inhabited planet. Republic intelligence was receiving increased chatter about similar caches of weapons and supplies being hidden on other planets outside the Core, possibly for use in future Separatist campaigns targeting Core worlds.

[Tamer]

I like the idea of an ARC Trooper Brigade like this. Very nice.

Off to the front pages.

[Clonehead]

I’m liking it, this reminds me so much of the little dioramas I used to create but with more aggressive landscape. Good stuff

[FialaFernbrugg]

Your Rohirrim ARC Trooper vignette looks phenomenal.
The combination of LOTR and Star Wars works great.
Are you still working on the Star Wars Stalingrad dio?

[Tamer]

Couldn't you just see this guy as Eomer leading a squd of AT-RTs onto the plains to slay some evil orks (insert appropriate evil enemy here).

LOTR has to be my second favorite after Star Wars.

[Starchaser]

That is an amazing figure - I love the Rohirrim concept (and allusions). I really like this one.

[PadawanPainter]

Your Rohirrim ARC Trooper vignette looks phenomenal.
The combination of LOTR and Star Wars works great.
Are you still working on the Star Wars Stalingrad dio?

Yes, I am!  Hahah! I honestly haven't made much progress on it.  I haven't been at the bench nearly as much as other people seem to have been this year.  And so, when I did paint and construct, I decided to focus on those single figure pieces I started back in late March.

Honestly, it's really a discipline and motivation question.  This year was rough; a combination of escaping/transitioning from miserable Army servitude to the wonderful free life of a regular citizen with a nice regular job, AND the sci-fi dystopia the entire world is in.  And so, much of my nightly escapism veered towards PC games instead of painting.  It was really fun playing 'Star Wars: Empire At War - Awakening of the Rebellion mod', and machine-gun action in WWII-era FPS 'Hell Let Loose'.