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Battle of Hoth Midnette

Started by DarthPineapple , Jun 15 2008 01:37 PM

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#1 DarthPineapple

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Posted 15 June 2008 - 01:37 PM

Made for an contest at the Clone Army Builders Guild. I tried to make it as accurate as possible, including the guns and the positioning of the figs. I only own 1 Hoth Rebel, so I made a second one with, for example, the Hoth Leia torso.
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Posted 15 June 2008 - 01:47 PM

The folders arn't public yet please change them so I can see your midnette :thumbup:

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Posted 15 June 2008 - 02:54 PM

My bad, it's fixed now. I used the gallery link as a deeplink, sorry.

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Posted 15 June 2008 - 03:59 PM

Nice job on your midnette DP! Good use of SNOT especially. :thumbup:

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Posted 15 June 2008 - 04:10 PM

Sorry couldn't wait for the gallery to become public, so I've deeplinked all pics.
This way You'll get comments on details as well.
I like it :thumbup:

The use of SNOT really adds a great smothness to it.
Also great use of minifig heads and nice design of weapons.
You might consider replacing the 1x6 tiles with 2x2 and 1x2 tiles instead.
The long ones have a tendency to make it look a little like a white painted wooden floor. Using different tiles will "ruff" it up a bit IMO.

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Posted 15 June 2008 - 04:52 PM

I can just imagine those with the 'Hoth Base' set. :thumbup:

x6 of those, 2 AT-ATs, a few snowtroopers and the Hoth Base set would make a good basic battle of Hoth.
My favourite part of your midnette are the technic connectors used for the electrical pipes! :sweet:

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Posted 16 June 2008 - 11:38 AM

I really like the great gatling gun/cannon.
Connecting the technic pins together works well too!
I echo kimt in that the 1x 6 do look a little too ordered for a snow battlefield, smaller tiles ,some raised up or down would look much rougher.
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Posted 16 June 2008 - 03:35 PM

Thank you for all the comments! I agree with the 1x2 tiles, though I don't have many of those. I used a very big part of my white tiles to just make this.

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Posted 16 June 2008 - 03:48 PM

DarthPineapple, on Jun 16 2008, 03:35 PM, said:

Thank you for all the comments! I agree with the 1x2 tiles, though I don't have many of those. I used a very big part of my white tiles to just make this.

Maybe adding a few of these might give it a little more textural feeling:

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Just an idea.

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Posted 16 June 2008 - 06:30 PM

kimt, on Jun 16 2008, 05:48 PM, said:

Maybe adding a few of these might give it a little more textural feeling:

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Same answer... :tongue:

I really need to get some more white SNOT Pieces. :tongue:

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Posted 16 June 2008 - 07:15 PM

Very good work, but too small. :thumbup:

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Posted 16 June 2008 - 08:15 PM

Very well done!!! :thumbup:

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Posted 16 June 2008 - 10:37 PM

Awesome midnette DarthPineapple. I really like the SNOT look of it but you could add some rocks (small ones) and it will looks more realistic :classic:

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Posted 17 June 2008 - 05:27 PM

Legan, on Jun 16 2008, 09:15 PM, said:

Very good work, but too small. :thumbup:

Why that? The rule was to make a midnette on a 16x16 base.

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Posted 18 June 2008 - 12:32 PM

Hey DarthPineapple!

Your midnette is really cool :thumbup:

It looks really accurate to the movie scene and the design of your gun-tower is really well done, too.
As said, the idea of using Technic connectors for power cables is great and smaller tiles would make the scene look somewhat more natural indeed, but I like your scene anyways :classic:

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Posted 18 June 2008 - 01:14 PM

Very nice, I like the use of the flame pieces. :thumbup:

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