[P9 - Kashyyyk - CE] Among the wroshyrr

[Ross Fisher]

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If Clan Eldar wanted to secure its heartland, it was clear that it would have to do so quickly. 

After a little bit of negotiation, the Wookies were only too happy to let us set up a listening station; monitor traffic in that quadrant. 

Lu'vel decided to stay and man the outpost herself. Be the official liaison between the Wookies and Clan Eldar. 

I must admit, I was sorry to say goodbye. We'd been through a lot together. But, I guess it made sense to her. Slavery had left its mark on her, and she was keen to protect this world from a similar fate. 

And maybe she found healing up there among the wroshyrr. I guess I'll never know. Lost contact with her after that. But I like to think that somewhere, in some corner of the galaxy, there's a deadly little Twi'lek guarding her scrap of planet against anyone who would dare cross it. It's a thought that makes me smile on a lonely evening. 

 

Extra angles

I wanted to build something suitably massive for the wroshyrr trunk, but the only brown pieces I had that were big enough were boat hulls. 

In order to use the curvature the correct way round I had to find some creative ways to invert the studs 180° within a very shallow depth. 

All in all, there was a lot of kludging to get this to work properly. That whole trunk+platform is held on by nothing more than jumper plate studs sitting in Technic brick axle holes .

Hopefully the full effect comes across nicely. 

[n1majneb]

Nice build, I like the green on the Tree - adds a mossy texture to the tree too.

Farewell Lu-vel!

[marvelBoy123]

Love the use of the boat for that tree, you have managed to keep a very realistic texture but also give a sense of the size too.

[RocketBoy]

The angles you've pulled off here are great. And the branch on top is really good, it shouldnt be overlooked. Great detail.

[Ross Fisher]

17 hours ago, n1majneb said:

I like the green on the Tree - adds a mossy texture

Thanks, that's what I was going for. Definitely not because I ran out of brown slopes. No sir.

15 hours ago, marvelBoy123 said:

Love the use of the boat for that tree, you have managed to keep a very realistic texture but also give a sense of the size too.

Wroshyrr are so iconic for Kashyyyk that I had to build one. Unfortunately, they're also huge. The boat hull was the only thing I had that was even close to the right size.

6 hours ago, RocketBoy said:

The angles you've pulled off here are great. And the branch on top is really good

Thanks. I'm really happy with the angles. That top branch, though. The more I look at it, the more I think it should be coming out of that keel line in the bow. Oh well.

[Darth Bjorn]

Creative use of the ship part. The shape, however, I find a little unnatural for a tree. It looks a lot like a tree that was shaped to be the entrance to a bigger trunk. A doorway behind Fnab would really give that feel of an entry to something... Almost feel there should be an entry, when theres a balcony!

Nice entry overall! ;)

 

[Ross Fisher]

@Darth Bjorn I know what you mean. The curved bows don't look like they're leading to a canopy. If I had more leaves, I would really build this up. Alas, I don't. 

6 hours ago, Darth Bjorn said:

Almost feel there should be an entry, when theres a balcony!

That was the idea with the walkway leading off to the right. I wanted to make this a rope bridge, but it's really hard to suspend a rope bridge from only one end...