Getting my Star Wars on

I thought I had better make some progress on one of my hobby pledges for this year. The Droidekas had been done for a while just needed their bases tidied up and the rim painted (and in two cases glued back together).

I had 4 squads of droids and 2 unit upgrades which had been assembled and primed ages ago but never got any further. The are painted with contrast following Sorastro’s excellent video
https://youtu.be/Out0dFIF9do

I’ve given them shoulder colours so I identify the units.

I have been working on these for a while, I tried to make them a dirtier rough looking than the pristine white of the stormtroopers. My plan is to have a much cleaner Phase 2 clone squad at some point. The colours on the arms denote the squads just so they aren’t a completely black and white army.

The basing on these is bit more than I normally do and reading the Terrain tutors book recently inspired a me to put a bit more effort in. To make these stand above the basing material I put 1mm plasticard strips on the bases of the red squad and then based, without the miniatures stuck down, them and painted them only to find I couldn’t tell were the strips were once they were finished. The green, blue and yellow squads are stuck straight onto the basing material and that didn’t really work out too well.

The orange squad are stuck onto the plasticard strips and then stuck to the base before basing them. This seemed to work much better.

Here is the Y wing also from dark fire designs. Almost to big for my photo box. Painted using the same techniques as the X wing however wiping off the shade on the piped section behind the cockpit proved harder than I thought.

After taking a bit of a break from Star War I am back with a bang. Just before Christmas I managed to get a Elegoo Saturn and using some files from Dark Fire Designs I printed this X-Wing.

The weathering was done mainly with Nuln Oil and then wipe it off with a cloth moving it only towards the back. The ware on the grey sections is where I managed to rub off the paint but it I happy with it. The foils do open and it will sit on a GW flying stand if you wanted to house rule it for use in game but I did it for a scenery piece or maybe an objective.

I have a Y wing nearly done and some mando’s also from dark fire and 5 squads of clones also on the table at the moment.

I thought I would try something new with him and I drybrushed the skin yellow before putting contrast over the top, it didn’t really work as well I as would have liked, should have thinned the contrast down a bit