Wednesday 22 January 2020

From TomM: Space Pikachu (7pts)

Inspiration can come from the strangest of places, and for this (unplanned) entry it came from... a meme.

While I like The Mandalorian (offering a lot of redemption to the franchise after the recent three movies), and Noshi is going constantly like "ooh", "aaaah" and "it's so adoooorable" when Baby Yoda comes into view, that wasn`t the reason for this entry.

It was this meme...

I laughed so hard at the nickname of Space Pikachu, I just needed to print one for a stander by in Star Wars Legion.  A game I`m not actually playing (yet), haven`t bought models for (yet), let alone painted up something for (yet).

Except then this little guy...



The model was printed on my Ender 3, but the ears where to wide and thin on the STL to come out decently without breaking during clean-up.  So to that end, I sculpted some new ones on him using greenstuff.

Now to explain to Noshi you can`t actually PLAY him in the game (again, yet, I guess FFG is going to jump on the hype wagon soon)...

And that adds a 5 points to the tally for a 28mm scale model... and the start of journey to a galaxy far, far away...

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By Paul:
Inspiration does flow from many weird and wonderful places - but few people then move to printing and building their own model from greenstuff.  Very impressive Tom!

Take your 5 points and add another 2 for your ingenuity!

7 comments:

  1. Oooh! Aaah! Sooo cute! ;)

    Nice work Tom :)

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  2. Great ear sculpts Tom! (Never thought I'd be writing that!)

    'The Mandalorian' rocks.

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  3. Excellent sculpt and a great idea.... :)

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  4. Fine sculpting (!) and painting. And the meme was worth it - thanks for sharing.

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