I’m by no means an expert collector, customizer or diorama builder but I hope you’ll find some inspiration as you follow along with the progress of my Star Wars passion.
Stretching That Star Wars Collecting Budget in 2023
When prices really started climbing for Star Wars figures I knew something had to give. I couldn’t continue to buy like I used to with a clear conscience; after all it’s a hobby. One of the first things that I stopped doing was army building. Not that I would go out and buy 10 of…
Keep readingDIORAMA WORKSHOP: ECHO BASE BACTA TANK DIORAMA FEATURE
Big thanks to Diorama Workshop for featuring my Echo Base-Bacta Tank diorama! Diorama Workshop is an indispensable resource for Star Wars diorama builders. I’ve been using Frank’s FREE templates and print outs for years and it’s a thrill to be featured! CLICK the image below to visit the gallery:
Keep readingLoose Star Wars Figure Organizing
I need a better way of organizing my loose action figures and the classic action figure cases just aren’t practical. Here’s an easy and inexpensive way to fix that!
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Custom Clone Wars Turbo Tank
In the past few years I have been able to pick up, on separate occasions, two massive Clone Wars Turbo Tank vehicles. Both of them are incomplete and I only paid maybe $20 for each of them. I couldn’t resist the price and it is a truly impresive vehicle. But I had never come up…
Keep readingStar Wars Rebel Base Expansion: 10 Years In 25 Seconds
The centrepiece of my Star Wars room is my rebel base. It’s amazing to think that every time I think that it’s finished or that “I can’t find anymore room” I end up coming up with another way to add more X-wing fighters. The base started as a single tabletop display featuring the original Kenner…
Keep readingA SHORT HISTORY OF MY STAR WARS ROOM
“From small things mama, big things one day come… -Bruce Springsteen I’m an original trilogy era kid who saw Star Wars for the first time with my brother and aunt in the summer of 1977. I was nine and a half at the time and like so many other kids I was all in when…
Keep readingSnapshot: The Star Wars Room Spring 2022
I’ve been taking photos of the changes I make to the Star Wars room since roughly 2012, even though the room has been full of Star Wars stuff since 2001. (I wonder what it looked like then?). It’s fun to go back and see the progress over the years. This is what the collection currently…
Keep readingLED Lights/Eyes Mod – Power of the Force Jawa Action Figure
The Power of the Force Jawa action figure from the 1995 Star Wars line has a cool feature where there is a “window” on top of the figures head. When light is shone into the window the Jawa’s eyes light up just like their onscreen versions. In this video we show you how to add…
Keep readingMillennium Falcon & Razorcrest Table Display
A short video of finding a better home for the Millennium Falcon. Return to main Star Wars room article
Keep readingChanging As A Collector
I feel like I should insert a Simpson’s Troy McClure joke here: “Hi, I’m Mike MacDonald (Mike Tarkin, Mac….). You may know me from such podcasts as The Sandcrawler.” Why is that important for you to know? Well, from 2016 to around September 2021 the Sandcrawler podcast and website was a very big part of…
Keep readingHoth Echo Base Diorama
February 2021 Way back in August 2019 I had decided it was time to add an Echo Base diorama to my Star Wars room. I tried adding a separate section to my larger rebel base display but it bugged me that it was obviously set in a different climate. Those white, snowy walls just didn’t…
Keep readingStar Wars Room Update: Adding Lighting
January 2021 That’s a quote from Poe Dameron as he speaks for Star Wars room curators across the galaxy. I placed an order with IKEA for a bunch of small cabinet lights to light up the book cases I bought in 2018. I also bought 5 or 6 sets of colour changing LED strip lights…
Keep readingRebel Base: Adding Runway Lights & More
May 2020 This part of my Rebel base sits on the floor of the Star Wars Room, and I had originally built it for the Millennium Falcon. It’s a smaller space than some of the other sections so it was a good candidate for parking the smaller-scaled Power of the Force X-wing Fighter. I had…
Keep readingA Garage For A Y-wing PART 1: Expanding the Rebel Base Diorama
May 2020 The main focus in my Star Wars room is my rebel base display. This started out with an X-wing, a beat-up vintage Millennium Falcon and a snow speeder years ago and slowly has grown again and again. I’m pretty sure I’ve run out of space to add even one more vehicle (What will…
Keep readingReturn of the Jedi Droid Torture Room Diorama
May 2020 I mentioned in my Jabba’s Throne room article that in order to have the droid torture room (managed by the evil EVE-99) I had to settle for cramming Eve, 8D8, a droid brander and a few bits of greeblies into a corner of the Throne Room cardboard diorama. Not ideal. When I decided to…
Keep readingFacebook Live Star Wars room Tour – April 2020
Forgive the hyperbole in the YouTube title but ya gotta get those hits! This was fun to do and I hope to do another in the future as the room continues to grow and change. Return to Star Wars Room Start Page
Keep reading2020 – 3 Big Additions To The Rebel Base
February & March 2020 Taking advantage of the worldwide lockdown due to COVID and all of the downtime it brought me, I expanded my Rebel base in a big way. I had a section of the base earmarked for an Echo Base-inspired diorama but I could never seem to get that going beyond the planning…
Keep readingImproving On The Jabba’s Palace 3D Display Diorama
April 2019 For years I have had a Jabba’s palace diorama on one of my shelves. Using the always fun, and let’s face it, awesome Power of the Force-era Hasbro Jabba’s Palace 3-D Display Diorama I’ve done what so many Star Wars collectors have done and crammed as many “Jabba-related” figures as possible into the…
Keep readingCustom R2-BBQ Action Figure From Solo: A Star Wars Story
February 2019 Ever since Ron Howard posted a short video of one of the sets on Solo: A Star Wars Story, people were enamoured with that one astromech droid that had been repurposed as a fire barrel. When I saw it I just wanted to know when the action figure would come out. Well, it’s…
Keep readingRancor Pit Diorama Experiment
April 2019 The rancor action figure is just…big. And when you consider that the scene it’s involved in from Return of the Jedi involves only 2-3 characters at the most, it’s not an ideal figure or scene to recreate in a Star Wars room that’s always lacking in free space. You want to be able…
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