[BH - Wookie] Watching from the treetops

[Jannik]

The forest moon of Endor.

Imperial Scout Troopers raced noisily on speeder bikes between the trees. My information sources hadn't been able to say why the Empire was interested in such a place, although I had seen signs of construction as I approached from orbit. I only knew that they had been foolish enough to use wookie slaves in the middle of a forest, and had been careless enough to let one escape.

One of the Scout Troopers looped around and came to a stop before dismounting from his speeder bike.

The officer in charge of over seeing the construction had despatched several squads of these troopers in a futile search for the escaped wookie. Not all of them returned from their patrols. Desperate to prevent his superiors from discovering his lack of judgement, he had quietly offered a bounty for the capture or elimination of his wookie problem. This didn't mean that the searches had been stopped, and the troopers accompanying the officer had dismissed the idea that a lone bounty hunter could achieve where they had failed. I watched from high in a tree.

The natural clearing provided one of several regular stopping points for the scouts taking a break. I'm sure they knew deep down that they had no chance of capturing the wookie buzzing around making so much noise, but it wouldn't do their careers much good if they returned from their patrols too soon. As well as stealth I had one other advantage over these troopers to help me to catch their prey, it would never occur to them to use one of their own brothers as bait.

The trooper panicked and turned to flee as the wookie emerged from the undergrowth. Unfortunately for him the rampaging wookie was faster and he lost an arm before leading the wookie into one of my traps.

I didn't particularly like the idea of recapturing escaped slaves. Had I thought that the poor wookie would go off to make its own way in the forest I might have even felt guilt. Instead I figured eventually his attacks on his previous masters would grow bolder and he would wind up getting shot, so capturing him alive was really in his best interests. Plus desperate Imperial officers always paid well...

Overview:

The speeder bikes:

Thanks for looking

Jannik

Edited June 24, 2016 by Jannik

[ChiefPie]

Very nice!

[LucasLaughing]

Cool build - I like your bounty hunter character, and your curved pathway looks great. You did a really nice job on the tree trunks, but I don't know if I'm totally sold on the pink/red foliage. That part doesn't look like Endor (IMO), but I think the other foliage and the trees themselves look really good.

[Jannik]

I agree about the pink, was a bit unsure about it myself. I have updated the pictures, also a couple of minor tweaks to the speeders and the scout troopers. Originals are still on my flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/126795439@N08/

[Puvel]

Great looking speeders!

The landscape itself is nice, but I love the combination with that base

[Manx]

Those trees are great, so are the speeders.

[Jannik]

Thanks!

[Shadows of Nar Eurbrikka]

You have Passed. The comments are below:

1) pass: Gorgeous speeder bikes! The trees look a little hodge-podge with the regular and dark brown mix, but overall a very nice scene.

2) pass: great environment and speeders

3) pass: I really dig the story and the speeder bikes that still manage to amaze me, even after seeing so many renditions of them. The posing of the bikes looks exactly right like in the movies. the undergrowth looks proper, but the trees look a bit strange. I see what you were trying to do, but maybe a more simple and uniform texture will work better. Anyways, great build.

[Jannik]

Awesome! thank you

[strider117]

Ok I'm in love with that speeder design. Looks a lot better than the TLC version. Also I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who uses that TMNT torso and head for stuff like this :D great moc

[Aland1916]

Those trees are great!

[Forresto]

Those speeder bikes are absolutely awesome! They're very compact and still remain all of the crucial details of Imperial speeder bikes!