I’ve been working on a sort of “2017 Gali”, using Jyn Erso’s new feminine chestplate. So far, I have an arm, the torso, and head. Apologies for the horrific image qualitu; I’ll be getting a new camera soon.
I love the use of that SW female torso piece.
The rest looks okay, The trans light blue circles with the spikes look kinda awkward.
I can’t wait to see it finished!
Hmm… I’m thinking that the upper arms need to be a bit more uniform looking. Any other areas?
As a note, I’m considering adding orange accents to the torso piece, although I feel like it looks pretty good right now. I’ve been busy with family over the holidays, and I don’t have my MOCing supplies with me; however, I should have another update ready in about a week.
Really cool and great build. I am really bad at building so can you give me a few tips on how you guys make such great torsos and arms. I have as much time as you needs. Plz help
To be honest, all I did to create the torso shell shown was paint this piece with a pale summer sky blue color; the inner workings of the torso are relatively similar to the structure of the parent set, sans the addition of the 4M axles to anchor in the chain and the system component to attach the Noble Huna piece.
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If I were you, I would keep that to a minimum; it’s only the second time that I’ve ever painted a piece, and I’ve been doing this for three years.
In my opinion, painting pieces should be done very sparingly, in order to keep a MOCist creatively versatile with TLG’s pieces, without beginning to rely on modifying pieces as a shortcut. In this case, the piece in question has only been released in one set with complex printing, and possesses a huge amount of MOCing potential as a result of its design.
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The black print design is comprised of a series of unpainted sections of the Jyn Erso torso piece. As a note, I tried out the look of 0.5M bushings on the “belt buckles”, assuming that those were what you were referring to when you mentioned the exposed axles. IMO they broke up the color scheme a little too much.
I still need to get a few pieces from my old house, such as the other piece of orange stars armor, but otherwise the torso feels pretty final to me. What are you guys thinking?
I like the orange color, but overall, the look doesn’t flow too well with those parts, IMO. Especially with the headdress and upper arms. They’re just too clunky and awkward looking for my liking.
The torso looks great, though. Especially with the Jyn Erso piece.
It’s kinda all over the place tbh, it looks as if you’re going through something that happens to me all the time where you see something of a colour that matches and try slapping it on wherever theres room. Heres my advice to fix this - peel back the layers a bit and put all the parts you took off in front of you, then sort the ones that fit the aesthetic from the ones that look all janky and try to coordinate not only colours but also shapes when rebuilding. Hope this helps