Granite-M's Customs

[Granite-M]

Was feeling inspired by the Watchmen movie, so I decided to make a set:

Watchmen Customs:

Spoiler Alert!

Comedian v. 1.1:

Figure Used: Marvel HeroClix SHIELD AGENT

Dr. Manhattan:

Figure Used: Marvel HeroClix Dreadnought

Nite Owl II:

Figure Used: Marvel HeroClix Moon Knight

Ozymandias:

Figure Used: Indy HeroClix Bron

Rorschach:

Figure Used: DC HeroClix Question

Silk Spectre II:

Figure Used: Indy HeroClix Tomoe

Finally finished my paintjobs, too! W00t!



Linky to DA.

Of course all of these figures require cutting, grinding, and repainting, to various degrees. Shaving all the extra bits off of the Dreadnought with a Dremel, although time consuming, was actually somewhat fun. For Dr. Manhattan, Nite Owl, and Silk Spectre, I cribbed off of this guy's cool Heroclix customs.

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Just finished some Star Wars customs. With the characters that appeared in it, I tried to incorporate some of the SW: Epic Duels dynamic into what I designed.

Another of the dynamic I was trying to work in was a parallel generals system, something that was specific to Star Wars, but still synched up with the existing HS generals. Here's my setup:

Imperial = Utgar
Old Republic = Jandar
Rebellion = Ullar
Separatist = Einar
Fringe = Vydar
Outworlder = Aquila

As such, for any special powers, whenever a general is listed, you can have any powers from these cards also affect classic HS generals' characters, and vice versa. Isamu can be effective at assasinating Old Republic units, and the Emperor can improve the rolls of the Marro.

Not that it isn't obvious, but I just wanted to send thanks to GreyOwl for making such unbelievably awesome blanks to work with.

Old Republic / Jandar:

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AT-RT (Used the Titanium Series AT-RT toy for this one. Good toys if you can get'em)



Qui-Gon Jin v. 3.0



Link to previous Qui-Gon card.


Jar Jar Binks: This one's weird. Has a negative point value and properties that make you want to go get him killed. Just like the real guy!



General Kenobi



Master Yoda



Mace Windu

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Imperial / Utgar:

Spoiler Alert!

Emperor Palpatine



Older version of Emperor Palpatine.

Darth Vader v. 4.0



Link to previous Darth Vader card.

Royal Guards:



Grand Admiral Thrawn:

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Separatist / Einar:

Spoiler Alert!

Darth Maul



Count Dooku

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Rebellion / Ullar:

Spoiler Alert!

Han Solo v. 5.0



Link to previous Han Solo card.

Chewbacca v. 5.0



Link to previous Chewbacca card.

R2-D2



C-3PO



Luke Skywalker (Farm Boy) v. 4.0

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Link to a previous Farm Boy Luke card.

Luke Skywalker (Jedi Knight)



Old Ben Kenobi v. 4.0



Link to a previous Old Ben Kenobi card.

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Fringe / Vydar:

Spoiler Alert!

Boba Fett



Greedo v. 4.0



Link to previous Greedo card.

IG-88



Bossk



Gamorrean Guards

Edit on Dec. 22, 2008: Edited links, reorganized, and added Gamorrean and Royal guards.

Edit on Apr. 7, 2009: Added Watchmen customs.

Edit on Jun. 1, 2009: Updated The Comedian

Edit on Jun. 5, 2009: Added Grand Admiral Thrawn, updates to Qui-Gon, Old Ben Kenobi, Farm Boy Luke, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Greedo, and Darth Vader.

Edit on Jun. 30, 2009: Added newer version of Emperor Palpatine.

Edit on Dec. 11, 2009: Added Watchmen repaints image and spoiler tags to control images. Added links to original (unpainted) Watchmen Heroclix figures.

[Ormus]

I like them....Great job,

I love Star Wars Customs!!!!

[Karkadinn]

Jar Jar's a pretty amusing card. I'm intrigued enough by the concept of negative point cards that I might actually draft him, despite my loathing for the movie character. He would pay for Isamu all by hisself....

[Semian2]

I love the Jar-Jar card! that is really funny! Makes you wanna go: or: or:

I love the other ones too. Really great! How you sorta paralleled the Generals is cool too.

[Granite-M]

Originally Posted by Semian2

I love the Jar-Jar card! that is really funny! Makes you wanna go: or: or:

I love the other ones too. Really great! How you sorta paralleled the Generals is cool too.

Yeah... wanted to figure out a way you could have a character as awful as that around without... you know... wanting him around per se.

So now you just want him to die. Die and die and die...

[Granite-M]

Adding some more to the pile...

EDIT: Moved to first post.

[Teka555]

Nice Star Wars Customs

[Granite-M]

Added Bossk, Count Dooku, Jedi Luke Skywalker, and Mace Windu.

[Hogg]

The Jedi should all have counterstrike, since they are basicaly samurai. Cool cards though.

[Granite-M]

Originally Posted by Hogg

The Jedi should all have counterstrike, since they are basicaly samurai. Cool cards though.

A fair point, but it basically comes down to a simple decision-- should we have a particular power that all Jedi would have, like the samurai, or do we try to make each Jedi a more individualized character? I think both sides have merit, but I prefered to give each of them more unique powers. The d20 roll for Force powers, combined with the boosts from the Emperor and Yoda, was an attempt to give the Jedi and Sith some Su-Bak-Na style "overlord" cohesion.

[Mythic]

Nice cards.

You mention trying to incorporate a "SW: Epic Duels dynamic"... Have you seen NecroBlade's SW customs? He approached the Force Specials by giving jedi and sith "Force Points" that they could use for various force powers.

I like the idea of a Force indicator on the bottom of the card similar to Super Strength for the Marvel figs.

[Granite-M]

Edit: Changed links and added Gamorrean and Royal Guards.