eAT-ME

AT-ME facing off against the Sith Lord Darth Maraud (supported by Trade Federation droid troops)

The All Terrain Medium Enforcer (AT-ME) was a Clone Wars-era armoured walker of the Galactic Republic, sometimes called the “Clone Battlecrab”. Bearing some surface visual similarity to the heavy artillery AT-AP pod walker, the AT-ME was designed for close-range combat, where its heavy armour, high-power lasers and medium antipersonnel blasters could be utilised effectively without the need to stop, position a supporting leg and fire the heavy mass driver of the AT-AP.

With four short legs rather than the three longer ones of the AT-AP, the AT-ME was slower than the artillery walker but had better endurance and did not need to keep stopping.

The All Terrain Medium Enforcer

Two of the primary laser cannon armament were emplaced in movable pods forward of the four legs, giving the walker a crablike appearance and earning it its “Battlecrab” nickname. The third, slightly smaller primary beam was located in a scorpion tail-like appendage attached dorsally, while two forward-firing secondary beams and a pair of antipersonnel blasters pintle mounted to the roof completed the AT-ME’s armament.

Despite surface appearances, the hulls of the AT-AP and AT-ME walkers were not identical and the two vehicles could not use one another’s hull plating in their construction.

Seen here in operation on Tatooine against a group of Separatist battle droids led by the fallen Jedi calling himself Darth Maraud, the AT-ME is more than a match for over twenty times this number of battle droids, but against a full-blown Dark Jedi with Sith training, the battle is more evenly matched.

Dark Jedi-turned-Sith Lord Darth Maraud

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I’m not a great Star Wars builder, and even less so a builder of Clone Wars-era hardware. We have precisely two Trade Federation battle droids in our household inventory, and the same number of first-generation clone troopers, and while I like the look of some of the Clone hardware of that era, (AT-TE, Jedi interceptor, Count Dooku’s ship), other hardware is weird and ungainly-looking (Republic gunships, AT-TE transporters, Hailfire droid tanks).

Rear aspect of the AT-ME

So this build started out being crewed by a couple of Classic astronauts.

It works as a Classic Space battlemech, but I kept looking at it and thinking: “You know, this would be much better with clone troopers”.

I was right; it does. And then, of course, I had to reassemble our battle droids as an opponent, and build a couple of droidekas, and then I couldn’t resist adding my Sith mini-me Darth Maraud.

Droidekas are awesome, and I’ve never really felt comfortable with the scale discrepancies involved in the standard LEGO version, so I decided to build my own. The legs are a little bulky for droidekas (maybe they’re an experimental sand version?) but they seem much more like they’re at a proper scale. They took several tries over two or three days to get right, but I think they’re as good as they’re going to get.

“They are no match for droidekas!”

Darth Maraud is my own Sith character. Technically, he ought to be a Dark Jedi and not use the Darth title, because of the strange Rule of Two that the Sith operate under in this time period. But I like the Darth title, so I’m twisting the canon into the usual pretzel shape invoked to clear any weirdnesses that contradict its diktats. In this particular case, I’m saying that he was originally a Jedi who became disgusted with the injustices and bureaucracy of the Republic and the perception of political manipulation by the Jedi Council and secretly turned his back on the Jedi Order. Discovering ancient Sith manuscripts in the Archives (placed there to prevent them seeding Sith sentiment in the wider populace), he renounced the Order, swore allegiance to the Sith and took the name Darth Maraud. Fleeing to the Confederacy, he was most probably killed in one of the many battles of the Clone Wars.

Following the Sith tradition of having interesting lightsaber designs, Darth Maraud’s lightsaber is based on a glaive-like polearm design which is probably a little unwieldy in a real fight against someone who’d fought against one before, but would have the advantage that its moves and techniques would be unfamiliar to your average standard saber-wielding Jedi. Also, it’s got a reach that dramatically outranges a standard lightsaber, which is always a plus.

And since I’m calling the Clone walker the “All Terrain Medium Enforcer”, “eAT-ME” seemed like the perfect post title.

Twin Iron Engine fighting machine

The Twin Iron Engine fighting machine

An older design of steam-driven Imperial mech, the Twin Iron Engine fighting machine has been largely relegated to colonial use in Her Imperial Majesty’s interplanetary possessions since the introduction of the Turreted Assault Neutralisation Cruiser (“TANC Walker”).

In its heyday, it was one of the primary fighting machines of the Empire, holding its own against older walkers of the Sultan, the Kaiser and the Tsar. Since the advent of gun-turreted walkers like the Imperial TANC and the Sultanate’s Qızılbüyü, however, the forward-firing fixed armament of the Twin Iron Engine walker has been shown to be a severe disadvantage in an armour-versus-armour battle.

In the interplanetary colonial situation, however, mechs and walkers are more often employed against restless natives or raid-level incursions of foreign sepoy troops than in the set-piece battles of the Imperial heartland, and the twin medium-calibre thermophoric cannon of the TIE fighting machine are quite sufficient to most threats; the one serious exception being the War Tripods of the Ul-Gzan.

Ul-Gzan tripods are powered by ancient Martian crystal technology; the rechargeable energy crystals of the lost Martian super-civilisation which none can now duplicate but which many Martian native races still use. Crystal technology is in some ways more versatile than human steam power, but it can be unreliable, and if the crystals’ energy gets depleted beyond a certain limit the crystal can become resistant to recharging rendering it effectively useless. Steam, on the other hand, is easily generated with water and a heat source, and far more reliable, so while the Imperial Society of Engineers has done some experimentation with crystal power, steam is still the primary servant of the both the Imperial military and human civil agencies.

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Part Martian fighting machine, part TIE fighter.  Because LEGO is awesome.

There have been numerous variations on the Star Wars TIE fighter theme. Box-standard TIE fighter. TIE bomber. TIE Advanced, which was probably the prototype of the TIE Interceptor. TIE Striker. And moving into the Extended Universe, TIE/D droid fighters, TIE Crawlers (of at least two varieties, both of which suck) and probably TIE Submersibles and TIE Rock-Borers as well. Then there are the very cool steampunk TIE fighters many other people have built.

I decided to merge the two ideas and build a steampunk TIE walker.

“Twin Ion Engine” makes no sense for steampunkery, though, so I played around with the name just enough to be vaguely sensible for steam power. And voila.

Abugida Spaceport

Abugida Spaceport

From a relatively simple build of a Classic Space Y-Wing, this has grown considerably. The Y-Wing was the initial inspiration, though.

I have to say that the Y-Wing is one of my favourite Star Wars ships. Never mind the fact that it seems to exist only to get shot down by TIE fighters and you’d have to have a death wish to fly one, the heavy fighter component of the Rebel Alphabet Fleet is just as iconic in its way as the sexier and more famous X-Wing. It may have taken until Rogue One for the movies to show one actually shooting anything or doing some damage, but presumably they were doing that damage all along without getting any credit for it. And I’m a sucker for the underappreciated.

LL433 Ypsilon starfighter; ie NCS Y-Wing

This is the LL433 Ypsilon starfighter.

Initially I just did what’s conventional for me and built an angled display stand for it so I could show it in flight. It looks cool that way, but after a day or so of looking at it and anticipating the upcoming DFWLUG meet on the 14^th, I thought to myself: “You know, this would be much more impressive with a whole spaceport around it.”

The upright fuel tank and floor grilles were the first things to be built, along with some actual undercarriage for the Y-Wing, then I progressed to a much simpler and smaller version of the back wall and the radar dish.

Placing minifigures around the scene (and I’m so glad I finally have enough of an astronaut corps to build more complex scenes like this) I realized that the pilot would have quite an awkward time of it trying to get into his cockpit.

Mobile staircase? Mobile staircase. This is actually one of my favourite parts of the whole scene, and marks the first time I’ve used those clips to hold a bar at an angle. Somehow I thought it would be a more finicky operation than it turned out to be – one of those AFOL techniques where you merely have to look heavily at it to send elements pinging off into the nether recesses of behind the bookcase. Not so; those clips actually seem to be designed with that usage in mind, and I have to say it looks awesome.

Both Star Wars and the NCS universe (whichever variant you’re in) employ droids for a lot of roles, so I decided my spaceport needed at least one. The tall, pseudo-wheeled robot I ended up with looks rather like the Kaminos had a hand in its design, but it’s more distinctive than the endless procession of armed turtles you sometimes get. No offence to Peter Reid; the turtle droid is a wonderful piece of hardware. But there are so many copies.

Yellow-suited astronaut and K-M1N0 class droid

From there, I decided I needed a refueling/resupply truck, so I built one of those, too, using the languishing trolley wheels element as its rear wheels. I tell you, every last wheel element I’ve used on this build is one I rarely or never (til now) employ on a MOC. For the record, the cylinders with the black stripes around the middle are either antimatter or fusion power cylinders (I can’t make up my mind what level of future tech I’m working with) that go into the rear of the LL433 behind that rear dish. Unfortunately making the dish into an opening door isn’t going to happen, so you’ll have to use that languishing faculty known as your imagination.

Lastly, the overhead crane, because it adds a more three-dimensional, less flat element to my rear wall. And it’s a vital part of any spaceport, even if the LL433 Ypsilon Y-Wing doesn’t have anything in the way of cargo space that would need loading or unloading.

I think one of the most satisfying features of this build for me is the amount of ethnic and gender diversity I’ve managed to incorporate. I need to get hold of some Black Panther sets so I can get some ethnically black female minifig heads, but I’ve got a pleasing array of skintones (including El Mustachio driving the mobile staircase) and more than one female, so I’m happy. The future is not ethnically monochrome.

Mynock

As a trained biologist, few of the various Star Wars creatures give me as much pause as the space creature in which the Millennium Falcon hides from the Imperial fleet.

While I suppose a vacuum-dwelling organic creature is theoretically possible, it raises all sorts of questions, particularly given what we see of the thing. Obviously it doesn’t need to breathe, but what does it eat? How does it attract its prey? How does it travel through space? Find a mate? Reproduce? Poop?

I could totally see a solar-powered space-dwelling creature, but this one lives in an asteroid belt at what looks like a considerable distance from its star. How does it get its energy? Organic fusion reactors?

By comparison, the mynocks that inhabit its innards are positively practical. Some sort of parasitic winged lamprey equivalent, drinking power from the space creature and any passing spaceships.

There’s evidently enough atmosphere within the space creature to sustain Han, Chewie and Leia with only a breather unit, so wings actually make sense as a form of locomotion. And maybe they’re not exclusively native to space creature gullets.

I could see them as being some kind of planetary creature that drinks electrical power, probably parasitic on some kind of large lifeform that makes use of bioelectricity. Even on Earth there are several creatures that make use of electricity: the electric eel, the platypus…

All well and good so far, but we also need the proto-mynock to be able to survive for some time in a vacuum. It’s not a vacuum-dweller by design: it has wings. But if it can at least survive vacuum on the outside of a starship for a few days then they could have spread all over the place, “chewing on the power cables”, as Han says. The mynocks inside the space creature would have been presumably brought on a previous spacecraft meal, and now subsist as parasites on the creature itself.

That’s my theory, anyway. Wookiepedia probably has a different one, but Wookiepedia’s xenobiological descriptions offend every scientific plausibility bone in my body, so I’m reluctant to give them much weight.

Anyway, apparently continuing with my reimaginings of Star Wars creatures, I built a large mynock model.

This one’s mostly black, rather than the pinkish shade of the ones from The Empire Strikes Back, so it’s either a related species (like there’s not only a single species of deer or a single species of vulture) or just a reimagining.

Black would make it harder to see in the cavelike environment within the space creature, but if you live in a completely dark cave who cares about vision? Most Terrestrial cave creatures are pure white. Mynocks do have eyes, though, which is an indication that they live in environments other than the dark inside of a space beast. Maybe they’re naturally black, and the ones in the belly of the beast have lost pigmentation in the darkness.

I got the idea to build a mynock from that Bionicle/CCBS tail element. I acquired it at the beginning of the year thinking I might use it on a Blacktron variant of my Classic Space Elemental Dragon or something. Apparently it’s “or something”. Here’s my black mynock, and a few musings about its potential xenobiology.

Rogue Squadron

So, I went to the DFWLUG meetup.

For my first ever in-person meeting with other AFOLs I was understandably a little nervous, but it turns out I needn’t have been. Everyone was perfectly friendly, of course, and it was delightfully informal, even to the point of a bit anarchic if you want the truth. The DFW LEGO Users Group doesn’t really seem to have much in the way of a formal leadership or structure, so I fit right in.

This month’s meeting took place in a new “building lounge” in south Fort Worth called Rogue Brick, and it was the first time I’d been in one of those that wasn’t at the local LEGO Discovery Centre. The proprietor seems like a great guy, and to my surprise (and earning him my abiding respect) I got to see one of his builds in person that I know I’ve pinned on Pinterest and I think I’ve seen on Flickr as well – part of a large modular Jedha City display model.

I don’t know how typical Rogue Brick is – it’s my first time seeing one of these “building lounges” – but it’s a really cool place, and their “pick-n-mix” boxes may have just become my favourite ways to buy bricks. Just $10 got me the chance to pick through the 3’x30′ LEGO building table and fill a housebrick-sized box – a steal if ever there was one in terms of value for money.

The DFWLUG group said on their website that “participants are encouraged to bring something they are working on, or have built”, and I faffed around for most of last week trying to decide what to bring. As it happened I needn’t have worried as I was the only one who brought anything, but that gave me another worry as I had no-one else’s models there to compare myself with. No-one’s saying very much; are they impressed or just being polite?

Much of the meeting time was taken up with a building contest organised by Rogue Brick’s proprietor. Given an assembled LEGO Star Wars set, our task was to build a display background for it.

From an AT-ST, a Clone Turbo Tank, a Landspeeder, a Yoda’s Jedi Starfighter, a Y-Wing (one of the regulars is a big fan of Y-Wings and got to this before I could), the Ghost, a Wookiee Gunship microfighter and some sort of diminutive Stormtroopers’ walker (maybe one of the Imperial battlepacks?) I picked the Landspeeder, because it’s not that big, and proceeded to build some of my best ever rockwork to make a snippet of the Jundland Wastes on Tatooine.

Y-Wing attack run. I like the guy that did this’ taste in space fighters!

Clone Turbo Tank on desert terrain.

Kashyyyk beach scene. This guy’s a relatively new builder and he can already do trees at least as well as I can.

Desert terrain; presumably Tatooine or Jedha. I love the Stormtrooper falling off the edge into the sinkhole.

AT-ST attacking a village. Yoda defending. I don’t think the woman who built this is much of a Star Wars fan, so this is pretty good.

Indiana Jones tank chase. One guy didn’t arrive until we were all building, and I guess there weren’t any more built Star Wars sets to do a backdrop for.

The Ghost refuelling/service station. Apologies for the blurred image; I was on my phone and didn’t realise it was blurry until later.

Jakku. I love the nearly-dead foliage and the way it looks like dust being kicked up at the back.

And it turns out I might be one of the better builders there, at least when it comes to timed contests, and I won!

My winning entry. Really quite proud of that rockwork.

I totally wasn’t expecting this when I decided to go; I thought I’d be dealing with all and only elite builders of the sort who exhibit at conventions and I’d be some sort of near-noob who’s only just tumbled to SNOTwork baseplates.

The Clayface Splat Attack set that I won is now built, and makes a highly MOCworthy addition to the household brick inventory. We didn’t have more than a handful of bricks in the dark flesh that’s the set’s primary visible colour, and now we have a load of interesting elements in that colour and several in brown. Plus all the fun stuff I picked up in my goodie box.

There was perhaps not quite as much getting-to-know-you talk as I might have liked, but it was a really fun time building together. And winning is always nice.

I look forward to the next meetup, and to Rogue Brick’s Grand Opening next Saturday, with another AFOL contest after the time I get off work, which I shall try to win again, though the flyer says it’s architecture-themed which isn’t my usual thing. Maybe I’ll build a stone circle on Mars or something…

All Terrain Elf Transport

Forward the AT-ET!

In a rather different vein from my previous Christmas build with the candle and the angel, this one is pure fun and silliness.

As a Santa minifigure is still on my list of “stuff to get at some point”, my options are almost as limited for the other kind of Christmas build as they are for building some any sort of Biblical scene.

We’ve got some elves, though.

Okay, they’re the Emily Jones variety, not the Santa’s Workshop variety, but up to a point an elf is an elf is an elf. It’d be rather amusing to have Santa Claus leading a whole clan of Legolas’ kin into battle on dragons, but that’s another build. And I don’t have a Santa yet to do it with.

The words “Christmas elf mech” bounced through my mind like a rogue superball…

I’ve built an elf mech once before, but not a Christmas one (though it was posted on the old LEGO.com Galleries not here), and I thought about several options for making it Christmassy. I initially contemplated a steampunk Father Christmas mech (somehow a steampunk Santa has to go by his British name), but if I was going to use an elf for a pilot that didn’t seem quite right.

“Maybe I could make it shaped like a reindeer or something”, I thought, and the idea of a sort of chibi AT-AT popped into my head.

Of course, the All Terrain Elf Transport has antlers and a red nose, and somehow Santa Claus red seemed the only possible choice for a main colour. It’s not really in keeping with the colours of the various LEGO Elves, but that’s okay. They’re not necessarily in that world right now, and Santa’s colours overrule here anyway.

Farran’s green outfit made him the best choice to actually drive the AT-ET, but Azari wanted in as well. As hers was the only cold-weather mantle fabric element I could find I let her.

Anyway, have a rather reindeeroid AT-AT derivative, and enjoy!

Stand By Ion Control…

The giant Rebel ion cannon of planet Hoth was iconic enough that it got a Ralph McQuarrie painting all to itself. Not bad for less than two minutes of screen time in The Empire Strikes Back.

It occurred to me that the cup-and-ball cannon mounts might make a pretty good microscale version of the Star Destroyer-disabling planetary defence cannon. All that was needed was to enclose it somehow in an ice-carved turret.

I think 2×3 wing elements might have worked better for the enclosing turret, but I don’t have enough of those in white, and any other colour would look silly.

Even with all the white in use on my Ice Planet battle fleet, I still had enough left over to build a small baseplate and surround. And I put some transparent bricks together to simulate its firing, too.

This isn’t a huge or complex model, and I’m too impatient to wait for a Bricklink order of 2×3 left wings to make it look better. The toothed elements aren’t too bad; at least they add to the icy look.

Anyway, here it is. Enjoy.

Green X

Fellow LEGO blogger Vaderfan2187 has been recently posting pics of Star Wars hardware recoloured for the Ninjago ninja (the three posts covering the six main ninja can be seen here, here and here).

Excited about this awesomely original crossover concept, I decided to crash the party by building my own.

Lloyd’s X-Wing

Kai’s my favourite of the Ninja, and I was mostly expecting to build a vehicle for him, but then that stickered green curve element caught my eye.

So pretty-boy Lloyd is the one who gets the X-Wing, despite him being my least favourite.

Where Vaderfan2187’s creations were mostly simple recolours hewing much more closely to their far-far-away galactic originals, I’ve taken a slightly different route and more thoroughly Ninjified (Ninjagified? Ninjated?) the Original Trilogy X-Wing I selected as the base vehicle.

This is a full-on custom build, obviously, rather than a rebuild or modification of a set. The height of the rear section relative to the cockpit is slightly off compared to the movie X-Wing, but it was the only way I could get those gold Ninjago-set Technic wheel hubs to work as the engine intakes.

For extra Ninja coolness, I replaced the X-Wing’s wingtip cannons with gold blade elements, and added the hooked Bionicle sword blades alongside the forward section.

All too many of my interesting black elements are still in use on the Blacktron Thunderbolt, which remains standing after nearly two weeks, which is closing in on a record where my MOCmaking is concerned. Be that as it may, it meant I had to use some dark grey as well as black for a base structural colour palette, and eke out the scheme with a little dark red, recalling the saddle on the Green NRG Dragon. The yellow cockpit was the only realistic choice, and I think it works well. I think trans yellow would work with Kai or Jay too, though probably not Cole, Zane or Nya.

It seemed especially appropriate to use one of the Green NRG Dragon’s massive feet as a stand. It’s a little delicate, but I’ll put up with delicate for a stand so in keeping with the nature of the model.

Anyway, here’s Lloyd’s Green Ninja X-Wing. I’m not sure how (or if) it fires, given that I removed the turbolasers and put blades in their place. Maybe it meshes with Lloyd’s green ninja energy somehow and can shoot out bolts of power from the hull itself the way Lloyd himself can from his body.

Where the AT-ATs Roam

Sooner or later, every LEGO builder who’s any sort of Star Wars fan is going to attempt an AT-AT at something more substantial than palmtop scale.

This is my first try.

Star Wars vehicles, scenes, characters and battles have been modeled again and again to such a high standard of accuracy and modelling that really, you need massive chutzpah to attempt anything from the Star Wars universe. Especially something from the films; especially from the Original Trilogy.

This obviously isn’t going to be winning any prizes on Eurobricks’ Star Wars forum or anything, what with its general studdiness and too-long back end, but as a first attempt, “you-too-can-build-the-AT-AT” model, it’s reasonable.

I actually wasn’t really considering building an AT-AT at all; this whole build started out with the microscale snowspeeder (with which I’m actually more pleased than the big Imperial walker).

But having built this little speeder, it occurred to me that it might be possible, with my household’s relatively-limited-for-an-AFOL brick inventory, to build an Imperial walker to proper scale with the speeder.

Official LEGO’s never done this. I’d actually love to see someone build an AT-AT to full minifig scale based on the size of one of the snowspeeder sets, but the sheer size of it probably prevents all but the most dedicated builder, and with all the expanses of plate armour the hull’s actually fairly uninteresting at that scale.

Still, what I can only dream about at minifig scale I can finally actually build at microscale.

If I was building it again I’d correct that too-long rear end, but I don’t possess enough tiles to successfully destud it having used this construction method, and I don’t possess enough grey 1xwhatever bricks to build it using the other main technique family for producing a smooth finish.

Ah well. Steps on the path, my friends. Steps on the path. This build was mostly about getting past the intimidation factor of all the really huge $120+ official AT-AT sets and the even huger and more detailed Imperial walker MOCs; a figuring-out that really, building an AT-AT doesn’t have to be that hard.

I think a lot of my mental hangups come from my childhood attempts to build one back when The Empire Strikes Back was a new film and we were still waiting with bated breath for Revenge of the Jedi, as rumour had it the next film would be called.

Trying to make an articulated All Terrain Armoured Transport that would actually stand up back when the black Technic friction pins were a nonexistent brick was way beyond my youthful skill level. I wasn’t about to build a statue; if I was building it, it was going to move. But I couldn’t find a way to keep it from sprawling on the ice like a giant robot Bambi, so I eventually gave up on the idea as an impossibility with the bricks of the era.

And I’ve carried that sense that building AT-ATs is one of the hardest challenges facing any builder with me through all those years.

So here’s an AT-AT. Not a very good one, perhaps, but here it is.

And it really wasn’t hard at all.

Now, a Mon Calamari battlecruiser, with all those lovely stylish curves? That would be truly difficult!

Sanctuary Moon

A break from the Classic Space and Blacktron modes, but not from sci-fi, this Star Wars Original Trilogy build is unusual for me on several counts.

Number one, it’s vegetation. I’m not a great builder of vegetation; my trees are pretty simplistic and I don’t have a huge amount of the various leafy green elements that make good cround cover. This build used about 90% of my inventory.

I always feel like to get good at vegetation I need more plant parts and elements that would be good treetrunk and so on, but because I so seldom build very much with vegetation I never actually purchase any more. It’s a bit of a vicious cycle.

Anyway, Endor is a forested moon, and needs lots of vegetation even at microscale. I’m satisfied, at least, with how it’s turned out.

Number two, it’s microscale with actual human figures, a first for me.

I’ve never really liked the “stack of 1×1 round bricks = human” approach; it’s about the best possible approach at that scale but part of my mind always rebels at it.

This time, though, I’ve used it myself for Luke and Leia in the foreground.

Number three, it uses a technically “illegal” technique, also a rarity for me. The scout troopers’ heads are not properly attached, just jammed onto the ends of the black barbs forming the necks. It’s not that I don’t approve of “illegal” (ie “you’ll never see this done in an official set”) techniques, but I just seldom think of them in building context. A lot of the techniques seriously stress or deform the element, and I don’t have the inventory to sacrifice to the resultant breakages. I’ll need those bricks later.

This creation began as something else entirely. I was haphazardly putting bricks together to build a microscale space fighter when my visiting nephew said “that looks like an X-Wing”. A flurry of “Build a TIE Fighter!”, “Build a Star Destroyer!” followed, and I found myself putting bricks together for a microscale speeder bike.

The white clip elements from the “Mighty Dinosaurs” Creator set seemed like perfect Scout Trooper bodies, but I had to try several different things before I came up with this design for the heads.

And then an Endor scene just naturally followed, with a second speeder bike and a massive tree and underbrush. Putting in Luke and Leia just completed the Return of the Jedi scene.  The giant mushroom in the back isn’t official canon, but I wouldn’t be surprised.