Updating Your Minifigs

[RogueTwo]

On 4/7/2019 at 11:00 AM, TWP said:

Yes, this is that amazing design! I don't know about more helmets on the way, the artist is lacking reference material currently. Many of the pilots have either a side view or a front view, and she needs both. If anyone knows of a magical place where these can be found, that would be great. I've watched Rogue One and the behind the scenes material on youtube countless times, but sadly there's no new clear images.

 I've also been wanting to order an extra Garven Dreis helmet, but it appears some US reseller bought them all.

How many Garven Dreis helmets were available, do you have any idea?  I haven't seen them for sale anywhere; they must have been scooped up to sell at a physical location, I guess...  

As far as the reference material, I assume you and/or the artist have seen the Rogue One Ultimate Visual Guide by DK books?  Here's a crappy picture I took of the relevant page, just in case:

Edit: I need help resizing this picture.  The photo I took was high definition, and this is barely viewable.  I will try to fix it.

I think that, with stills from the movie, it would provide enough information for some of the helmets (I'm particularly fond of Vangos Grek, whom we first saw crashing into the shield gate in the final trailer for Rogue One).  That said, I'm no graphic designer, so I'll gladly and thankfully take what I can get.

Edited April 9, 2019 by RogueTwo

[Robianco]

Vangos Grek is just wearing Porkins helmet from ANH. There’s a couple of glaring omissions from my Blue Squadron but it’s not looking too bad so I’ll probably take a photo of that and upload it.

For Thorius Chord you can use the older Wedge helmet with the flat grey panels.

[TWP]

On 4/7/2019 at 6:24 PM, Daddy_Stardust said:

Are custom requests only something that very important people can do then, or are they available to the public?

I think only Robianco can do them, haha!

On 4/9/2019 at 4:34 PM, RogueTwo said:

How many Garven Dreis helmets were available, do you have any idea?  I haven't seen them for sale anywhere; they must have been scooped up to sell at a physical location, I guess...  

As far as the reference material, I assume you and/or the artist have seen the Rogue One Ultimate Visual Guide by DK books?  Here's a crappy picture I took of the relevant page, just in case:
 

Edit: I need help resizing this picture.  The photo I took was high definition, and this is barely viewable.  I will try to fix it.

I think that, with stills from the movie, it would provide enough information for some of the helmets (I'm particularly fond of Vangos Grek, whom we first saw crashing into the shield gate in the final trailer for Rogue One).  That said, I'm no graphic designer, so I'll gladly and thankfully take what I can get.

 

There were 20 Garven Dreis helmets available. They are always printed in batches of 20 so far.

Thanks for the reference, but of course the artist already looked at those, you assumed correctly! Trying to find more images from obscure sources. ;)

[Robianco]

Everything TWP said is true

[Tidy]

11 hours ago, Robianco said:

Everything TWP said is true

well. not everything.  lol. ;-]

[RogueTwo]

Davish Krail helmet is out of stock again, but it lasted for a good few days.  I hope this is a sign that supply is finally catching up to demand, at least for pilots not call-signed "Red Leader."  I'm sure it's not easy to manufacture so many custom pieces within such a small company, but...

...I received my first ever Firestar package in the States yesterday; it arrived in just over a week, I couldn't believe it!  Everything was phenomenally packaged, shipping was cheap, and the prints look great!  

By the way, is this basically the designated "Firestar Toys" thread, or are there other places that their custom Star Wars prints are discussed?

[Robianco]

I think Firestar’s recent additions (and I mean the last 6 months to a year) have been a big part in updating figures and especially with official Lego parts rather than third party like Clone Army Custom / BrickArms etc. 

I also think the community outside of EB spurs each other on and shares ideas in updating figures to make them more accurate/complete. It helps that the main designer at Firestar is a part of that community. There are other people that print SW stuff but I have to say the quality just isn’t anywhere near FS.

[LegoCalrissian]

For anyone interested, the Garven Dreis and Zal Dinnes pilot helmets are back in stock over at Firestar.

[Sneakguest]

Somebody have any suggestion on which legs to use with the Resistance officers with the dark tan torso?

[Henry Bricklider]

Do any of you have suggestions for torsos to make a purist Shadows of the Empire Luke?

[Daddy_Stardust]

12 hours ago, Henry Bricklider said:

Do any of you have suggestions for torsos to make a purist Shadows of the Empire Luke?

Stick a life jacket on a ROTJ Luke?

[Henry Bricklider]

41 minutes ago, Daddy_Stardust said:

Stick a life jacket on a ROTJ Luke?

Huh, I didn’t think about that. I’ll have to give it a shot, thanks.

[Ebkas]

13 hours ago, Henry Bricklider said:

Do any of you have suggestions for torsos to make a purist Shadows of the Empire Luke?

Finn's torso is the closest at the moment I think.

[Henry Bricklider]

3 minutes ago, Ebkas said:

Finn's torso is the closest at the moment I think.

That’s another good idea. I’ll have to get a Finn minifigure but I would like to try it out. Thank you for the suggestion.

[Ebkas]

1 minute ago, Henry Bricklider said:

That’s another good idea. I’ll have to get a Finn minifigure but I would like to try it out. Thank you for the suggestion.

Here's a picture (not mine)

[Henry Bricklider]

2 minutes ago, Ebkas said:

Here's a picture (not mine)

That looks pretty good.

[mrblock]

On 2/21/2017 at 4:25 AM, legoSWfan said:

Nice figs, where did you get the white/black legs ? And someone know which figure have black/white legs (for scout troopers) ?

I know there are so many good Lego mini models/ 

Yeah, this model look so cool !! I want a black and white ninjago minifig too. 

 

Edited April 24, 2019 by mrblock

[ThousandMoon]

The leaked Stranger Things legs should work nicely on the Geonosian Warriors and Poggle the Lesser...

[Sneakguest]

On 5/1/2019 at 1:29 PM, ThousandMoon said:

The leaked Stranger Things legs should work nicely on the Geonosian Warriors and Poggle the Lesser...

It probably be too expensive to use in army building, I don't know the price for the set, but it sounded like it's a pretty big one, right?

[Robianco]

I know I've posted at least Red Squadron before but now I've set them all up I thought I'd post them together:

 

Edited May 3, 2019 by Robianco

[RogueTwo]

14 minutes ago, Robianco said:

I know I've posted at least Red Squadron before but now I've set them all up I thought I'd post them together:

[sheer beauty of the Rebel Alliance]

 

Way to make me jealous, man!    Honestly, those are wonderful upgrades/Firestar customs, and the photo editing makes them even better!  I may even use the Red Squadron one as my computer desktop, if you don't mind.  

Where did you get the official list of pilots for each squadron?  Is this all canon now, or did you have to extrapolate for some of the unseen pilots?

[Robianco]

4 minutes ago, RogueTwo said:

Way to make me jealous, man!    Honestly, those are wonderful upgrades/Firestar customs, and the photo editing makes them even better!  I may even use the Red Squadron one as my computer desktop, if you don't mind.  

Where did you get the official list of pilots for each squadron?  Is this all canon now, or did you have to extrapolate for some of the unseen pilots?

Please help yourself. If you like the image enough then please use it. :)

I've looked through all kinds of things for reference on pilot listings. Blue Squadron is a bit of a mess as there's clearly more ships than 12 when you go through all media and some aren't named directly but I've tried to piece them together where I can. Red Squadron actually had one of their pilots changed to Legends rather than Canon even though it was a name given to a pilot shown in ANH with the black visor in the X-Wing. He's Wenton Chan but he was bumped to Legends after RO and another pilot was given his canon spot. I've kept Chan as my Red 11 though as he appears in the original film.

Gold Squadron only have 8 named pilots currently from what I can find. Rogue Group can mix up too but there's a really good page on the Star Wars Wikia which named lots of the pilots and their gunners as well as Green Group who flew Speeders as well as escorts. The Garven Dreis helmet and the pilot next to him on my image are actually listed as Green Group but they get in the Speeder directly behind Luke in ESB as he's preparing to fly out to face the Walkers.

I have a photo of the other pilots in grey, red and green jumpsuits but so little of those are named I've basically mixed those up with various canon and legends sources as well as helmet options that Lego have given us.

There's also pilots such as Keir Santage, Grizz Frix and Dorovio Bold from ROTJ that I've got figures for but not sure where to photograph those. Maybe another Image for ROTJ with Lando and Wedge in it too.

[ThousandMoon]

On 5/2/2019 at 9:43 PM, Sneakguest said:

It probably be too expensive to use in army building, I don't know the price for the set, but it sounded like it's a pretty big one, right?

Not sure but you’re probably right. Might have to wait several months after release until they’re potentially  available in bulk on BL or something...

21 hours ago, Robianco said:

I know I've posted at least Red Squadron before but now I've set them all up I thought I'd post them together:

Amazing collection! Do you know if that Jaldine Gerams helmet will be sold on Firestar??

[Robianco]

5 hours ago, ThousandMoon said:

Not sure but you’re probably right. Might have to wait several months after release until they’re potentially  available in bulk on BL or something...

Amazing collection! Do you know if that Jaldine Gerams helmet will be sold on Firestar??

It should be. I'm not sure if it's been on there already and was just taken off temporarily. I know they sometimes get left on and have a quantity sold that actually aren't ready so Cat has to print them up. I think she was pretty done with printing helmets for a little while after the last load of stuff that was oversold.

[Daddy_Stardust]

1 hour ago, Robianco said:

It should be. I'm not sure if it's been on there already and was just taken off temporarily. I know they sometimes get left on and have a quantity sold that actually aren't ready so Cat has to print them up. I think she was pretty done with printing helmets for a little while after the last load of stuff that was oversold.

I've checked every single day, it's certainly never been on there yet. Where's the helmet from to the right of Pops in Gold Squadron?

Edited May 4, 2019 by Daddy_Stardust