Switching Gears: Star Wars

Yes, I know--I usually dedicate my posts to creating custom Star Trek Minifigures.  To be honest, I have made all the characters I could think of and have drawn a blank for inspiration of late.  I have moved away from the trek nation for now.  Instead, I have been busying myself with other concerns, but recently returned to the workshop with an idea.  As a Christmas present, my husband procured for me several of the Star Wars books created for the "new cannon" and a bobble head figure of my favorite character--Grand Moff Tarkin.

On my own, I procured a few of the other figures and use them as bookends.  While watching Return of the Jedi, I was inspired to make the fastidious, toadying technocrat Moff Tian Jerjerrod--referred to only as "commander" in the film.  Unlike Tarkin, Jerjerrod was a newly minted sector Governor tasked with creating a second ultimate weapon that would spell certain doom for the Rebel Alliance.  Of coarse, we know it was the Galactic Empire that would go on to face its doom.  The new cannon makes it clear that the Galactic Empire would cease to exist one year and one month after the Battle of Endor.  The surviving members of the Imperial Fleet would rally around the last Grand Admiral (Rae Sloane) and jump into the Unknown Regions to form the First Order.  There is reference to a few small remnants but that seems to be lip service to the fans who loved the idea of characters like Thrawn and Daala...and the like.    

Moff Jerjerrod represents the Empire at its end.  Devoid of brilliant figures like Tarkin and left with the sycophants possessing a sense of invincibility.  
     

To make this figure, I took the Pop Vynil head of General Hux and placed it on the body of Grand Moff Tarkin.

I used flat Grey paint to make the uniform and the cap to appear more screen accurate.

I painted over the Grand Moff rank insignia and used a cardboard representation of a simple Imperial rank plague for screen accuracy.  It should be noted that due to a costuming mistake, all the Imperials wore the same rank insignia--three red squares over three blue squares.  Since Jerjerrod was a Moff, his rank insignia would be five blue squares over three red squares and two gold squares.

I repainted the book to shine and also painted the hands to look like the black gloves Jerjerrod wore.  I thought of adding a small firing control button, since the last time Jerjerrod is mentioned in the novelization of Return of the Jedi he was the only one left in the command center and was about to push the button. I might add this later.

At present, I don't have any plans for other custom star wars figures but I might come up with some ideas in future.  

"I tell you, this station will be operational as planned"