Klorophil’s Star Wars Legion Imperial Army

Hi there,

Just a couple of photos of the finished comission. Sorry for R2. The shiny metal played havoc with my phone’s camera. This the best I could do.

There may be more coming and I’ll be sure to post it here.

Cheers!

Hello there!

With the guys having a new faster internet I thought I would try my hand again at the project system. I basically left it alone because it was really slow on my end. Most of the times simply not letting me upload anything. Now it seems to be a little bit faster and at least my uploads seem to be working fine.

So here are a couple of things I am working on now. Not getting back into SWLegion thank you but I do have a comission for a couple of things. So here you go.

Cheers!

Sorry to say that I’m retiring from Star Wars Legion. I don’t like the rules and the way the game plays and there’s not enough variety for the Imperial faction. I don’t intend on buying snow/sand/scout/green/black/forest/cooking troopers to make my army more competitive or fun to play. FFG decided that it was going to be a pay-to-win game and I don’t like those kind of schemes. So the rebel scums have won as they should…

So I’ve finished one AT-ST. I should start the other one soon. I’m pretty happy with the result. My only problem is that the varnish I used cracked because I sprayed it in too cold an environment. I used my non-heated workshop for spraying it and it’s already winter here so… Lessons learned.

Otherwise I used a pretty basic technique. Once I was happy with my undercoat as described below, I used Citadel’s Agrax Earthsade to wash the entire model. I mixed in about 50% water and flow improver to thin it down. Once that was dry I did a pin wash, of 25% Nuln Oil to 75% Agrax Earthshade. I used that only in the deepest recesses. I also used that for the grills and added some streaks and drips where I thought they would appear on a machine.

Once that was thoroughly dry I drybrushed a mix of 50% AP Matt White and P3 Ironhull Grey all over. And that’s it for the painting part.

I based everything with flock etc. It was then up for the varnish with first a good coat of gloss spray-on varnish and then 2 coats of matt varnish to bring it back from down from the shininess.

And that’s it one AT-ST done.

So with my 2 squads of Stormies done I started one AT-ST. I primed everything black and then made a zenith highlight first with grey primer and then a lighter pass of white primer. I use rattle cans because I don’t have an airbrush yet.

Once that was done I applied successive coats of ever lighter Iron Hull Grey from Formula P3. Trying to lighten up only the parts that are closest to the eye or in other words those which would receive the most light.

I simply add white to get a lighter tone of Iron Hull Grey. I still have not finished this step, but I like the results enough that I decided to share them with you all. Enjoy!

Here is the final result with the weapons painted using the method below. I then based all of them.

So I had a bit of a difficult time with the method below. The problem was that I primed black and then added white. So I decided to try another method. This time I primed everything white and added a wash of Nuln Oil directly on the white primer. I then proceeded on drybrushing successive coats of ever whiter grey as below. And then finished with a very light coat of pure white.  This is the result, which I think is much more convincing. It also took me maybe 1 hour to do 2 squads. And so I have a fast method of painting tabletop quality Stormtroopers. Enjoy!

Once my color layer for the bases was dry enough I added the flocking. I simply used PVA glue thinned with water. I would say maybe 25% water to 75% glue, but I pretty much guessed it by eye. Then it’s just a question of dunking the mini into the flocking and tapping off the excess. Here what it looks like. I might add different flocking later on.