A while back Dad took me to the DK Star Wars Attack of the Authors East Coast Tour at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Manhattan. It was cool because while I was there I got to meet Ashley Eckstein, the voice of Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Star Wars artist Chris Trevas was there and while I was there I picked up an awesome book that he illustrated called Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Alien Species. It was in this book that I discovered an alien species called the Ssi-Ruuk.
Ever since I saw the illustration below, I knew I wanted at least one of the these aliens in my collection. One day I saw a dinosaur at a local toy store that I knew would be perfect for my custom.
I also took my first crack at sculpting. I sculpted the headset and the shoulder armor with Apoxie Sculpt and then used assorted fodder to create the harness. I used some casted Jango Fett leg armor that I got from SithHappens. I also used Green Stuff for the first time to create the forked tongues that come out of the Ssi-Ruu's nostrils.
I made the one of a kind gun myself too. I pieced it together from about 6 different guns.
Ssi-Ruuk
The Ssi-ruuk (pronounced /'si ruk/)[3], Ssi-ruu in singular form, were a saurian species that invaded from the Unknown Regions of the galaxy and initiated the Battle of Bakura in 4 ABY, shortly after the Battle of Endor. This race relied on a technology called entechment
that involved extracting the life-energies of sentient beings and using
them as power sources for their mechanical technology. They had a
sizable war fleet and ruled an empire called the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium in the Ssi-ruuk Star Cluster near the galaxy's rim.
Ssi-ruuvi society was deeply compartmentalized—being dominated by a rigid caste system based on skin color which signified one's socio-economic standing. As a species, most Ssi-ruuk were xenophobic towards members of other species due to their stringent religious beliefs and the compartmentalized state of their society. Due to the remote position of their home territory in the Ssi-ruuk Star Cluster and their religious fear of dying on an unconsecrated world, few Ssi-ruuk traveled outside their Star Cluster. Thus, they remained largely unknown to the rest of the galaxy, and contact with outsiders was limited even in the days of the New Republic and the Galactic Alliance.
Ssi-ruuvi society was deeply compartmentalized—being dominated by a rigid caste system based on skin color which signified one's socio-economic standing. As a species, most Ssi-ruuk were xenophobic towards members of other species due to their stringent religious beliefs and the compartmentalized state of their society. Due to the remote position of their home territory in the Ssi-ruuk Star Cluster and their religious fear of dying on an unconsecrated world, few Ssi-ruuk traveled outside their Star Cluster. Thus, they remained largely unknown to the rest of the galaxy, and contact with outsiders was limited even in the days of the New Republic and the Galactic Alliance.
"Ssi-Ruu Bounty Hunter"
created by Elias
Me with Ashley Eckstein, the voice of Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Ashley was sooo cool!
Ashley Eckstein, Chris Trevas, and Chris Reiff
My Ssi-Ruu was featured on the front page of Imperial Shipyards.
