From the back of the cabinet - Zeiram

Been having a sort out, looking for things to put up on the 'Bay.
I thought i'd sell this vinyl figure and figured i'd show you it before it goes.
Made it years and years ago and i'm still happy with the paintjob. At the same time, I scratchbuilt the final, very "John Carpenters The Thing" version of the baddie, but gawd knows where that's gone.

Ma.K Tank - getting ready for the barrel

Wee bit more progress here, mainly adding a skirt around the edge of the round red part, to invoke a kind of hovercraft vibe.
Onto the skirt i'll be putting on some of my trusty sticky jewels to make for nice bumpy, rivitty detail.
The blue part to the right is something I picked up from in the plumbing section of B&Q years back solely for its lovely shape, and have never got round to using until now.
It'll be the end of the whacking great barrel i'll be putting up on top there.

Bile Trolls & Colossal Squig all finished

That's a heck of Forge World resin and no mistake.
Had a blast doing them all, the Trolls especially.
Had a change of plan with the Squigs eyes - I was going to do them black, but when I did that and viewed the fella from a distance, he just looked like he had a row of extra nostrils each side. So, back to red then.

My first troop

Been away from here for a while as I went down to LEGOLAND for my first ever Troop in the Sandtrooper armour you may recall me building long time back?
Anyway, had a total blast. All the apprehension about overheating in that bodysuit/neck seal/rubber gloves, back ache from the backpack, and feet ache from those Elvis boots proved to be totally unfounded - yeah, I was pretty hot but not uncomfortably so and I didn't notice any other pains as I was having such a great time.
The public were fantastic, my fellow members of the 501st totally brilliant, and I loved every minute of it.
Once you've had your Induction and undertaken your first Troop, you're "branded" in a ceremony amongst much clapping and cheering and the branding involves having this logo put on your left shoulder bell.
What that means is I can now troop at any event now.
Roll on the next one.

Jabba's Palace - Gamorrean Guard & Elom

So we all know the Gamorrean Guards - frankly rubbish men in suits, with "comedy" facial movements:




The figure though for the set is just about the best so far, with nice sculpted detail aided by the bulk of the original:



Elom is a far better example of Jabba's court - still patently a man in a suit, but the face is much more alien:



The figure's not too bad. Pretty accurate actually:

Ma.K tank - starting the turret

Two pieces to start this section off - the dark green part is from a 1/24th helicopter kit, whose hole fitted just right over the bolt that's sat on the Plasticard. To that I've glued a cutdown top section of a 1/35th tank. That'll be the rear end of the turret and I've used it 'cause of all that lovely detail.

Colossal Squig - built

So, here's what he's supposed to look like:



But I don't like the silly running pose and the head so low down that you can't see his face or all that lovely teeth detail.
First of all, I was going to repose the legs so that he'd be in a more standing position. Found that that would work with little effort on the left leg, but the right would need hacksawing quite a bit, the leg cut into two at the knee and rebuilt, plus the toes reposed.
Didn't fancy all that, so instead what I've done is build him as he's supposed to be, but stuck him to the base at an angle:






And I did that by pinning him to the base with Araldite and used tons of it, wedging some rocks in there too, to help take the weight. After leaving a day for the stuff to set properly I then filled the gaps between the rocks with P38 and stuck small rocks onto that:



Very happy with this new, leaping over a rocky hurdle pose, which allows his lovely face to be seen a LOT better: