Yakfinities #70 - DROIDS - WINNERS POSTED

[mousedroidhoojib]

Droid builder Kurt Zimmerman's spectacular Artoo Deco droid build transforms the familiar R2-D2 design into a simple and sleek art deco style robot. For a bit of fun, I've taken the basic idea of the 1950's blue refrigerator colour scheme with chrome highlights and simplified it a little further to fit into 3.75" scale.

Reference, recipe and turnaround animation can be found in my customs thread.

 

[darthvlad]

Wow! I like that art deco look. Nice job!

 

[johnmorog]

Okay, here's my first entry for this Yakfinities... Custom treadwell droid. The arms are on a pin so they and the head swivel. Designated 6++96533623fcgdtreer (my 1yo son and his slappy hands named him). The folks in the town call him "Tree-R." You can find him crawling about cantinas and other city structures in the remote town of Criton-ka on Tatooine.

More pictures in my personal thread

 

[darthvlad]

Tree-R looks pretty cool. Looks like something you'd find on Tatooine... all beat up and weathered.

 

[my kind of scum]

Nice entries so far. I love that nobot! Here are my first two customs in a very long time...
First up is a damaged communications droid in use by some outer rim pirates. His number is c0-m0, but his teammates call him "commo":


Next up, a protocol droid who was used as a spy droid by an early rebellion cell. CT-X3 served in various space stations and ports gathering information about imperial supply lines.




I hope you enjoy them!

 

[johnmorog]

CT-3X is wonderful! I was thinking of making a very similar one with FA-4's body. I love how that worked out!! What is the head from?

 

[my kind of scum]

Oh yeah, I forgot the parts lists. The head of CT is from a War of Order figure (they have them at bigbadtoystore.com) and I am not sure where the head of Commo came from. It has been in my fodder box for awhile. The side of the head said "Max" Everything other than the heads are build a droid parts.

 

[johnmorog]

Wow, that's quite the figure to fodderize! It looks great, though, so I'd say it was worth it.

 

[darthvlad]

CT-X3 looks fabulous! I love the design... I might have to look around to see if I can find different kinds of heads and bodies to make other droids.

Commo looks pretty cool too. The head on the RA body is an interesting pairing. Where's the head from? He just looks so grotesque it's cool.

 

[Jodo]

Oh yeah, I forgot the parts lists. The head of CT is from a War of Order figure (they have them at bigbadtoystore.com) and I am not sure where the head of Commo came from. It has been in my fodder box for awhile. The side of the head said "Max" Everything other than the heads are build a droid parts.

I love the look of those heads! They remind me of the one droid at the beginning of Rogue One. Very nicely done man!

 

[darthvlad]

KMD-RA-71
KMD-RA-71 was a silver-plated RA-7 protocol droid produced by Arakyd Industries. It was present in Jedha City on the moon of Jedha in the year 0 BBY. When the Galactic Empire evacuated its forces from Jedha, KMD-RA-71 looked up to see the Star Destroyer Dauntless departing. The Empire then destroyed Jedha City with the Death Star superweapon.

A simple use of the Disney BAD, adding the black over the bridge of the nose, covering the casing in silver metallic and dry brushing to give some weathering. It's not quite screen accurate (since the BAD doesn't have the power box on its back... it'd be nice to sculpt some and glue it on) but does the job for now.

 

[darthvlad]

LL-3PO aka Two-El
LL-3PO supervised an automated workforce of nerfherders on Alderaan who was a victim of prank and the ill-fortune of his owner. The history is such: Two-El’s owner, a Republic-credit pinching farmer named Sydé Choa, was cranky and growled at the local teenagers to “stay off his farm!” Tired of his relentless antagonizing, a few of the teenagers snuck onto the farm while Two-El was powered down for the evening and removed the unsuspecting protocol droids right arm. Infuriated by his discovery, Sydé went to the local parts market in the city to find Two-El a new arm. After spending most of the day going from vendor to vendor without finding the right match to Two-El’s arm, Sydé was ready to give up hope until he found the arm at the next vendor’s place. Ecstatic to find a matching arm, the farmer immediately bought it and returned to the farm to replace the protocol droid’s missing arm. Upon reactivation, Sydé realized to his horror that in his excitement at finding the right pattern at the vendor’s he had bought the a left-side arm. Due to his tight budget, the farmer was unable to rectify the mistake and Two-El was left with two left arms, which drew heckles from passing teenagers on their way to school. LL-3PO was embarrassed by his situation and often hid his arm from view.

 

[Starchaser]

Really fun submissions so far everyone.
my kind of scum - its great to see you back, its been a long time!

 

[darthapathy]

More great submissions.
mousedroidhoojib That art deco R2 is fantastic. I think it would look great next to other art deco style Star Wars figures (kind of like Star Wars meets Rocketeer). Maybe that can be a suggestion for an upcoming Yakfinities challenge.
johnmorog nice use of parts and great backstory for Tree R. I love how your son "helped" name him :wink:
my kind of scum very interesting to see non-traditional droid heads. Makes for some very unique figures.
darthvlad Another great pair of droids. Both are stellar but the real standout is LL-3PO.

I think this challenge is as much fun as (or more than) Criminals.

 

[darthapathy]

Rebel Alliance droids of Flare Base (group one) Flare Base is a Rebel Alliance starfighter base located on a remote world in the Outer Rim. Like many Rebel bases, Flare Base relies on droids for day to day life. These droids perform many tasks that allow the Rebels to focus on other matters. The following group is assigned to the flight deck of the base.

 

[Utinniii]

There are some really creative entries so far.
I especially like the unique droids and the inventive backstories.

I've gotten crazy busy with work (I'm happy to say) but now don't have time during the week to customize (or comment) anymore. In November I'll have most of my weekends free so hopefully I can do some then.

 

[JawaKing]

I'm in same boat (barge) as Utinniii... Way to much going on to participate right now! Looking forward to getting caught up on projects and submitting some new customs!

Great stuff here so far!

 

[huttman]

I love this Yakfinities and there have been some awesome entries. Here is one of mine...I have been wanting to do this to PZ since I saw him...er, her. I can't put into words why I felt the original character was too awkward looking but this fixes it for me. I hope the 'cinematic' feel of the picture doesn't distract from my custom, I just always have to create a scene with everything I do. Someone else told me that once, that I tell a little story with every shot...I hope you like it.

 

[darthvlad]

Great work on PZ. I thought it was a unique design when I first saw TFA and I'm curious as to why she's built the way she is... probably the model type would be the obvious guess, but the reasons why they elongated the neck. And why we've never seen other PZs about. Anyway, I like your update on PZ.

 

[johnmorog]

Great work on PZ. I thought it was a unique design when I first saw TFA and I'm curious as to why she's built the way she is... probably the model type would be the obvious guess, but the reasons why they elongated the neck. And why we've never seen other PZs about. Anyway, I like your update on PZ.

It is designed after the species of aliens who created it