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Materials Needed: Plo Koon - head, hands Eeth Koth - body Naboo Obi-Wan - arms Ric Olie (version 1); Kit Fisto (version 2) - skirt Coruscant Chase Obi-Wan - legs bits including Maul's saber and Dexter Jettster's electric effect - Sa-Ni ("light-'chuks") Paints - tan, orange, brown, forrest green, gold, white, gray, pink |
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When the "Fires of Vengeance" contest was announced, I dove right into this guy. I just think he looked so cool (he was in an issue of "Gamer"). First I trimmed down the shirt on Eeth Koth and painted the cloak dark green, the robe a mottled brown over its original color, and the gold stripes down the front of the cloak with a gold paint-pen. I took the Obi-Wan arms and removed the hands. I also put a joint in the left arms with a drill and a bit of dow rod. I made a cast of Coruscanr Obi-Wan's legs since I didn't have an extra. They turned out okay but not perfect, thought the paint hides most of the bad bits. The pants are white (with a random pelvis to hold them together) with a tan drybrush and the boots are brown with a gray wash. I also used a cast on the first version of Plo Koons head and hands, which was a total pain. I pretty much had to reconstruct his sense organs and breather from wire and Sculpey. The hands had lots of air bubbles, which I tried to fix with Sculpey, though later when I put his weapon in his hands, they fell apart. In the newer version, I just used the head and hands from an extra Plo I got. The neck needed to be trimmed down to fit the body, and I added dow rod joints for the hands. The original skirt was Ric Olie's with a scrap piece from Qui-Gon superglued to the front. I blended it in (though not very well, imo) and painted it mottled brown to match the upper robe. In the new version, I just used a Kit Fisto skirt that I painted tan, then drybrushed the mottled brown on, and gave it a brown wash to finish. The weapon was made from bits I had left over in my accessory bag, though the 2 big pieces are trimmed from a pair of Maul sabers. The power couplings are cut from Dexter Jettster's electric charge on his cleaver and painted lightly with pink. I cut a couple of little nubs from the charge and glued them to the ends of the Maul hilts for the tazer-like ends (the Sa-Ni is a staff that extends into a triple-nunchuk type deal, held together by power couplings and having a stun baton zapper at either end; someday i might make the staff version). I might make the zap effects bigger in the future, since you can't really see them. To finish, I glued the weapon bits end-to-end and put them in his hands. The articulation and flexibility of the couplings make it fairly easy to move the weapon into position. I really love the way this one looks. :) |
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