[Q10 - Deysum - TT] Ugly consequences

[marvelBoy123]

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Farantros narrative:

Back to Deysum of all places. After my recent work on Rishi and helping to secure Castell, I have gained quite a reputation. I received a holo transmission from the Crimson Duchess herself along with a new set of crimson armour. I was sent back to Deysum to meet an important Triumvirate intelligence operator to discuss our future involvement in the system as well as the problem of Deysum being removed as Trax sector capital. I met him at an old mining facility out in the wastelands. Devaronians are luckily immune to toxins so I was fine to breathe in the toxic environment. The operator I met may strangely be the only other man in the Triumvirate who could survive in those conditions. If you could call him a man...

Gable Karius is a mysterious figure. He worked under Vader for a time on Mustafar but 'died' in a tragic accident with a force sensitive. They dragged his body from the wreck of his tie fighter and fixed him up with some more parts - a hook for a hand and a new full face mask. It was done on Vader's orders apparently, so that he could then be punished for his failure and that is where the metal leg comes from I hear. He really did learn from his saying 'do not anger Vader'. What happened to him from then is classified, but I know he joined the Triumvirate from it's beginning and has been working in Intelligence ever since. He is a useful man to know I am told and may be vital to me moving up the ranks at some point, but for now it was just Triumvirate business.

http://Do not Anger Vader: Deysum by marvelBoy123, on Flickr

http://Gable Karius by marvelBoy123, on Flickr

Our meeting complete, Karius left in his ship - an ugly, a mash of an AT-ST and a tie fighter

http://AT-ST ugly by marvelBoy123, on Flickr

Spoiler

An Overview shot:

http://IMG_20200223_134410464_HDR-01 by marvelBoy123, on Flickr

Some more details of the ugly, I looked at a lot of reference imaging of AT-ST s in order to capture the shape and details on all sides!

http://AT-ST ugly by marvelBoy123, on Flickr

http://AT-ST ugly by marvelBoy123, on Flickr

 

Karius is featured in Vader Immortal (which if you ever get the chance to try it is an awesome game).

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Gable_Karius

I've tried experimenting a lot more with snot landscaping here - it is featured on the sides and also helps make the nice transition around the walkway. I'm also pretty pleased with the equipment on the left and of course the Karius figure - you will be seeing more of him! As ever I would love your feedback!

 

Edited March 10, 2020 by goatman461

[Darth Bjorn]

This landscape is so weird in a super interesting way. I think you should have left the original colors, since the orange really pops against the white. It really looks like snow on a sulfuric surface. I am super hyped that you've introduced Karius as a commander in the Triumvirate. Looking forward to see what his story brings... Where is his head from?

Keep up the great work! 

[marvelBoy123]

Sure, I'll repost the pictures tomorrow in the original colours - I just didn't know if it was too much!

I believe the head is an old lucius malfoy figure's reverse death eater head.

 

Edited February 23, 2020 by marvelBoy123

[Ross Fisher]

On 2/23/2020 at 9:04 PM, marvelBoy123 said:

I believe the head is an old lucius malfoy figure's reverse death eater head.

Yep, this is correct. A great fig build, and a really nice MOC.

[MKJoshA]

Hmm. I really like your landscape. But your Ugly is not part of the rest of the build. Can you get a shot with the ship and the rest of your build together? Otherwise you will get XP/IP for this but may not get double since it seems you are just forcing the Ugly in to game the system.

[marvelBoy123]

Sorry, I'd been wanting to build the AT-ST TIE, then didn't think I had time to do a build for it so tried to fit it in to this as Karius seemed like a character who might pilot an ugly. Although it wasn't originally in the scene, you can see that it is in scale, and could be part of the scene. It isn't as well integrated as I wanted (it looks better at an angle but is too heavy to be free-standing.) but you can hopefully see that it does work with the scene.

http://IMG_20200303_183829295-01 by marvelBoy123, on Flickr

Glad you like the landscaping though, the success of my experimentation with techniques on Rishi prompted me to branch out a bit so expect to see som gradually more complex techniques in the future! :)

Sorry once again, I have no intention to cheat, just got caught out time wise with this one!

 

Edited March 3, 2020 by marvelBoy123