HOTH
A cold and desolate world, it was fun to capture the feel of Hoth as terrain
for our Galactic Heroes games.
Aside from the mechanical components of the Rebel defenses, Hoth is
primarily a vast frozen expanse of ice and snow. The ice blocks seen here
are made of a special packing foam used for packaging computer monitors-
a squishy, translucent foam ideal for snow and ice. I cut out interesting
shapes and then melted the edges with a candle to get the rounded look.
The Rebel base's iconic Shield Generator was made from plastic flowerpot
bottom trays. I cut them in half, glued them together clamshell style,
and mounted them to a plastic base. The connecting pieces are made
from pop-up sprinkler parts. The turrets are made from marker pens
and lego parts (cannon), Parmesan Cheese lids (turret), Play-doh containers
(base), and strips of cardboard and model parts for detail. The supply
crates are made from AC adaptors with the cords and plugs cut off and detailed
with model parts. All of these parts were primed in grey primer,
sponge painted with off-white acrylics, and washed with light brown enamel
paint.
Here's the Empire-eye view of the Rebel base. Finally a place
for that AT-AT driver to hang out...
The foam pieces can be stacked on top of each other to form an ice cave...
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