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Project Entry by jeffersonpowers

Clone Wars Shark Guy

December 3, 2025

Tutoring 3

Skill 5

Idea 5

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(I got A LOT of hobby done during the Thanksgiving weekend.)

I love that “Clone Wars Shark Guy” is a Google search autofill. Search results will tell you that “Riff Tamson was a male Karkarodon who served as a commander and warlord in the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars” and direct you to Wookieepedia to learn more about him.

This model’s forward-pointing stance has made getting his photo in focus a little challenging, but I think these convey the constant motion of swimming that I’m sure the sculptor was going for.

I blew through this squad relatively quickly, but I still had a lot of fun with them. I started the Aqua Droids by drybrushing gunmetal and then silver over a black base coat, but then I noticed that their joints and hands are actually black so I tried going over them with Grim Black speedpaint. I like the results pretty well, enough that I’m going to try experimenting with using speedpaints over a metallic base coat more in the future.

Nossor Ri (that’s his name, I swear) was a good example of why you shouldn’t use the Shatterpoint artwork for reference when painting the models. In his appearance on the show, this Quarren has yellow skin with brown spots, but for the card artwork they did him in a fleshy tan color similar to the “squid head” that we see in Jabba’s Palace in Return of the Jedi. I think the yellow is much more striking so I went with that.