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Star Wars Legion by Mage

Star Wars Legion by Mage

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About the Project

After holding out for months and helping a friend on his own core set, I have started Star Wars Legion! I know next to nothing about the game system but love Star Wars and have an idea in my head for armies. So won't you join me on this journey as we see my ideas crystallize into miniature/blog form?

This Project is On Hold

What to do next?

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What to do what to do… Well, maybe I should actually finish something. This weekend I will try and make serious headway with the Magma Troopers and finsih Fett. Stay tuned! Seriously, I haven’t finished anything yet and badly need to. Bare with me, you wont be disappointed.

Boba Fett, Part 3

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Does one of Star Wars most iconic and recognizable characters deserve numerous, quickfire succesion and back to back blog entries? Yes, yes he does.

 

This one will be shorter though. As you might tell I love the mini and might pic up a few dups to convert Jango and possible paint one in the colours of the holiday special  Boba Fett.

 

https://geektyrant.com/news/hot-toys-reveals-their-version-of-boba-fett-from-the-animated-star-wars-holiday-special

 

Then again, painting a converted army of Mandalorians might be fun too…

Boba Fett, Part 2

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I had some amount of fun painting Boba Fett. I used the below pictures as research and reference for painting him, taken from Google images.

As you can see, the references help. Boba Fett is coming on nicely, but he isn’t quite done yet.

Boba Fett, Part 1

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Its been a little while since I updated this. I’ve been putting the last touches on a seperate AoS project which I will be putting up later. Also I have been working on Ork/Orc stuff with it being Orktober.

 

I ordered Boba Fett. He arrived, and it was glorious.

I cut his leg and used a paper clip and green stuff to re-position him. There is no tutorial for this as it took a while for me to get it right and wasn’t quick. Also an element of trial and error was involved.

 

I went on to prime him, and you can see him in a new position which I prefer:

Especially since dozens, if not hundreds of people will assemble him as-is out of the box. This is the ‘default’ pose. I’d love to hear people’s thoughts in the comment section. Part 2 will show progress shots of the paint job.

Inspiration for my Stormtroopers

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When Legion was preview and later released, I, like many others was excited to do an Imperial Army. However I wanted to fight the painful, boring, poor results of the task of painting an army of White Stormtroopers. So for a while I have been looking at other options.

 

I had considered Death Troopers after Rogue One. I even saw Grey Stormtroopers on a Lego Kit and googled them. Not to mention expanded universe stuff from computer games and comic books.

 

Eventually I decided on something along these lines

 

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Magma_stormtrooper

 

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Crimson_Stormtrooper

 

These guys would be led by Darth Vader, and since they operate on certain environments (volcanic) and Mustafar (Darth Vader’s base planet) is one of them, I figured he’d have some of his own house guard accompanying him.

EDIT: They dont look as orange in person.

Assembled and primed Rebel Infantry

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The title does what it says. Im loving Zandri Dust spraypaint. Also, keep an eye out for some conversions I haven’t shown yet 😉

Converting Heavy Troopers, Part 3

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Here are the assembled and primed. The first are Clone Trooper Commando types.

 

EDIT: Added two more pics in at the end of individual Clone Troopers 🙂

Finally onto the Dark Trooper 2 / Heavy Stormtroopers, I still have not decided what they will be…

 

Squad 1 has long blasters and grenade launchers while Squad 2 has shorter range blasters and flamethrowers.

Converting Heavy Troopers,Part 2

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With the head in hand, I mixed some Green Stuff together.

So, cut some green stuff and add a little water (to stop it from rubbing off on your hands) and mixed it together

I smooshed the green stuff down in the gap and flattened it, applying glue first. This was to let the smaller heads of the WotC minis not sink down too much and look out of scale.

Okay, that is it for part two, Part 3 will have all the assembled models and primed. There will be Clone Troopers and Im not sure if the Rebellion Era models will be Dark Troopers or just Heavy Stormtroopers. Thanks for reading. Also, please leave a comment if you feel like it.

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