So this weekend, I just did some painting. Nothing fancy, no electronics or flashing lights or moving motors. Just straight up painting. This little fella was to go with a Jabba the Hutt I painted a few months ago, when I first discovered contrast paints.
I haven’t yet made the throne (though I do have the arm rail currently printing, and some gargoyle faces to go on the front, for when I have sculpted something out of foam) but already he looks at home on top of my wet palette.
So I got to thinking – wouldn’t it be cool to make a Jabba’s Palace diorama?
I don’t have any Star Wars legion minis – and I’m a bit far into this 3d printing lark to justify spending tens, if not hundreds of quids on plastic minis (my wife would kill me if she caught me buying minis after the amount of time and money I’ve spent resin printing!). But I did find some interesting characters; and all for free.
This mini is actually a 1:12 scale model, scaled down. I don’t think it’s anywhere near as nice as a “proper” 32mm version. But it’ll do for painting practice…
If you’ve going to have a Jabba’s Palace, you’ve got to have an Oola, dancing for him, right?
And Boba Fett watching on from a dark corner somewhere. (yes, I know, I dropped him and broke his gun off – it’ll get fixed, promise!)
And the gratuitous Lloyd Shot, of course. But wait…. what’s that in the background?
These bad boys are next in my painting queue! I can’t decide whether to base the characters, and place them into the diorama after it’s built, or glue them in as a permanent display piece. After all, even if I *did* play Star Wars Legion, I’m not sure there’d be much use having Sy Snootles on your team, would there?!
