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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?
Related Game: Star Wars: Legion
Related Company: Fantasy Flight Games
Related Genre: Science Fiction
This Project is On Hold
Converting Heavy Troopers, Part 1
So, a bit of a tease, rather than complete the bases tutorial I have been butterflying around Star Wars Legion. I’ve been priming, repairing and converting all day but not actually painting the miniatures. I also did some converting yesterday (none of which have been pictured yet).
I started with these as the idea:
… and yes I am aware some of these dudes are Clone Troopers. This is also an idea that is part of what I am doing here on this post:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_trooper
Particularly, the Phase 2 Dark Trooper (which is technically a Droid):
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Phase_II_dark_trooper/Legends
With an Eisenkern kit and some old bendy Wizards of the Coast Star Wars Models I began converting. Green stuff was involved. I assembled the Eisenkern with no heads or loin cloths:
https://dreamforge-games.com/products/eisenkern-stormtrooper-rifle-squad
The conversions and primed models will be included in part 2!
Painting Volcanic Waste Bases, part 1: rocks
These are the bases for the Scout Treater speeder bikes. They are bigger than the bases that the infantry models come on but the same technique can be used.
(1) Prime them Chaos Black
(2) Get a granite coloured paint. In my case I used the oop Chardon Granite, but there are plenty of paints out there like it. Stormvermin fur from GW is close but dries kind of oddly. Failing that, use a similar dark grey instead. Paint the rocky part of the base liberally. It is important to have a good basecoat to work from.
(3) Next get a lighter paint. Again I am using oop Dheneb stone, but rakarth flesh or something lighter will work just as well. Blend it on the edge of the rockface and as the paint mixed on the brush add more Dheneb stone and wet blend as you move toward the centre of each outcrop of rock. It is important to do this quickly while the paint from step 2 is still wet. Dont worry about it being too neat or even as rocks in nature arent. It should look weathered and kind of inconsistent.
(4) Leave it to dry for a while
(5) Liberally apply army painter Strong Tone from a dropper bottle with a large brush. Rule of thumb with this: if you think you’ve used just a little too much and possibly ruined it, then your doing it right. This is moreso for terrain than minis.
Next time, tune in for the Lava effect I will do.
Sleep Time and Reflection
Ive had to do a bit of editing and made a few mistakes, glitches notwithstanding. Ive decided to retire for the night. I assembled the entire set today in spite of getting a lot of glue and cork on my fingers as well as losing/finding important parts. Tomorrow is a day for gap filling and priming.
I did finish assembling the set, yes, but did not photograph everything. That is another thing I will do and post up tomorrow. I did a few little conversions here and there to add variety to my force and hope you enjoy them when they get unveiled. I also have some ideas for this I hope you will like.
I want to make my Star Wars Legion set very different to anything else you may see out there and I hope my ideas do that. I dont want to spill the beans too early or ruin it, Im eager to jealously guard my idea until I can show it off and hopefully impress everyone, haha.
Stay tuned!
More to follow tomorrow…
(or you could peruse my imgur account)
Minor Conversion Tutorial and Motivation
I really fired myself up by putting on Solo: A Star Wars movie. I love this film, despite what some say or think. Its good when hobbying to have background noise on to both help fire us up (there is only so much coffee can do sadly) and have background noise (this can be a very lonely hobby at times).
Conversion Tutorial:
I simply carefully cut a natural separation point on my Stormtrooper Squad Leader and glued it back but twisted it. The result shows a different pose. Since each squad has duplicate poses I wanted to modify my leaders at the very least to differentiate them.
A more complicated head swap that damaged detail (sometimes this just happens). I smoothed the neck hole and filled the gap with green stuff. More repiar work will be needed for the side of the helmet though, but thats fine.
Conversions and Editing
This blog has not been as easy since the one beforehand. Im finding I have to go back and fix pictures or change links, as well as seeing duplicates that are appearing for no reason.
Bare with me, and check back in as I will try my best to fix these.
Without further adieu, here is my slight modified Darth Vader. It was a simple sliicing of the army above the glove with a stanley knife and changing it to an ‘I am your Father’ type pose. This was easy to do and could easily be done with the light sabre hand, head, or even the hand I did in another angle so it could look like he is projecting force lightning.
I was happy with the slight modification though. As much as I love the fact that SW:L exists it would have been nice if they did the kits simliar to GW plastics. That said though, the quality and size is decent.
Ill go into more detail about conversions later for those not initiated into hobbying.
Its all about that base.
I decided I wanted to use the normal round GW bases I am used to after checking out the material @agis produced on his site for his own Star Wars hobbying. I agreed with how he said the bases were a little high, and I wanted to do my own thing with them to both not make them higher and tie them into another project I have. Since I cant seem to acquire additional seperately sold SW Legion bases then it was a natural conclusion.
Last year and earlier this year I did a Dark Elf plog. While I guess its in a state of ‘Rest Mode’ while I do other things, with this one I wanted to do something different: tutorials. Tools in hand I followed these steps:
I ordered the bases I needed (for now) from Games Workshop and bought a place mat resembling cork at a supermarktet to carve up.
(1) Carefully with a Stanley knife I gouged and shaved off what I needed.
(2) I then glued the pieces onto the bases. Nice and simple.
(3) I etched a hash or crossed marking on the boots and feet of my models with a Stanley knife (remember to cut away) to make sure they would glue easier to the bases.
(4) As you can see the results speak for themselves.
Incoming!
So, it arrived today! I swiftly tore it open this evening once I got my hands on the set. Im assembling at the moment so not much to show. Stay tuned.
