Draconis does…… Droids! Back to Star Wars Legion again.

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Starting on the B1’s

February 14, 2024

14th February 2024

For the B1’s I knew that I wanted to try using contrast, in the hope that it would give an acceptable finish in reasonable time. However, I felt that using pure Skeleton Horde would be a bit too dark.

So, I planned to use a 50:50 mix of Skeleton Horde and Contrast Medium. Quick visit to an online retailer and some 5ml plastic syringes came in the post…

This allowed me to accurately measure out a mix of the paints, so that it would be repeatable for the future (in case I didn’t make enough to start with, or needed to paint more droids at a later date).

Started out on a test model, and it looked ok.

Rolled out to three more.

After they were dry I tried a quick drybrush with ivory, and I think it made an improvement.

Drybrushed one on the left

For the next four I decided to try wiping some of the contrast mix off from the droid’s high points before it dried – as a rough highlight stage.

'Wiped' one on the left

I feel that works quite well, so will go with that technique for the rest of the B1 droids, with some light drybrushing afterwards where needed. Interestingly they still take quite a while to do each one at this stage – I will try out some different brushes to see if any ‘load up’ better.

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