Gorram's Great Star Wars Project

The model range I’m going to use comes from Wake’s Emporium over on Gumroad. They’ve got everything I will need and their prices are excellent. Originally scaled for 6mm, I found them too prone to breaking last year so I’ve decided that, as I can print them myself now, I’ll move up to 10mm.

Starting with B1 battle droids, I’ve managed to fit 40 on the bed. Each bed takes less than two hours to print though I am using a larger layer height than people usually aim for – the size of the minis and the volume that will on the table, I just don’t think it is worth the extra time and cost.

I know I’m going to use Full Spectrum Dominance for the game system and so each infantry unit is made of three bases. Bases don’t matter much in the game but there are recommendations (one third to one half of  a Distance Unit, which itself is variable depending on the scale of the minis/table size). Looking in my bases box I had some 40x20mm and some 60x30mm but neither looked quite right. Splitting the difference I ordered some 50x25mm from Warbases and I like the look of them. Which is just as well cos I ordered 144 of them to get me started.

Next up was figuring out how I want to paint them. Normally I stick small scale minis on tongue depressors but the puddles on these are pretty chunky so the bases will need a good couple of mm of filler to hide them and that just seems like less mess to base first. So a test base was required. Models then filler then a layer of a texture painted before priming.

Painting the B1s is pretty straightforward. Prime in a pale colour, Contrast Black Legion for the weapons and Skeleton Horde for the rest of the body. A touch of yellow on the head for the sergeant. The bases will be kept neutral even though I know what planet I’m setting the battle on.