Gaming Miniature: Mon Calamari Jedi
Jun. 29th, 2008 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

I don't think I'm going to make a habit of this, but I forgot how much fun these things are to tinker with. :) Apparently one of the other people in the game is playing a Mon Calamari Jedi. I don't know if they already have an appropriate mini, but I wasn't able to find one with a casual google, so I'm going to guess no. At any rate, it seemed like a pretty easy conversion to do.
I started with another leftover Eureka pirate. This time I took a picture before I started tearing it apart. I don't think I'll ever have use for someone with a cutlass and a barrel. I cut off the arms and nose as before and also the tail of the bandanna. The hardes tpart was trying to figure out what to do for the arms. I ended up using a left arm from the Imperial Guards bit box. It already had a handle that was intended for the side of a flamethrower, so I didn't have to alter it much aside from cutting off the giant pauldron. The rest of the lightsaber is made from the antenna of a communications backpack from the same set. I experimented with making one out of the hand-with-shovel I cut off the last pirate, but it was very flimsy. The plastic antenna is much sturdier. It's pinned to the hand with a quilting pin, and the arm to the body with pewter.
The right arm was more difficult. Almost all of the right arms I have lying around are holding guns. I tried one that had a laser pistol, but seeing a Jedi with a gun just seemed wrong. I ended up using an Eldar arm that was holding some weird heavy weapon. I cut it down to just the arm and stuck it on with a plastic pin.
I used green stuff to get the arms to match up, and alter the clothes and head. I also attached a pouch to the back of the belt.
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on 2008-06-30 01:46 am (UTC)