Jodain’s SW:L Hobby Weekend

I’ve had this on the backburner for a while now. The main body was printed on an FDM printer and I just couldn’t get down through the layer lines on it.  The guns were resin printed by a friend of mine.  A fairly quick paintjob but I think it works.

Well it was Star Wars day on Tuesday and I had spent time last weekend starting on my Clan Wren.  Decided on two things quite quickly:

1. I don’t want to paint grey and yellow (I have a cygnar army in those colours).
2. I don’t like the clear flight stands.

The solution to the first was fairly easy, rather than paint Clan Wren, I took inspiration from the Mandalorian Season 2 and painted Bo-Katan and the Nite Owls.  I have tried my best to include the helmets of all three Nite Owls that were shown in the series, I leave you to decide if I managed it.

For the flight stands I went to Deadly Print Studios and picked up their Wren backpack smoke resin prints.  I could have gone with the stl files but my resin printer is not working so as I only needed three I ordered them printed.  The print quality was excellent.

To paint these I started with Contrast Black Templar and a little Contrast medium to get the undersuite.  The Blue is Vallejo Air Ultramarines Blue with GW Drakenhof Nightshade wash and then a highlight from P3 Exile Blue.  The leather is a Horse Tone I think, but the name has long disappeared from the bottle.  I tried to show some plates in the highly metallic Beskar as well and used Vallejo Silver and Steel for those, with a wash of AP Soft Tone.

The smoke stands are painted with Cassandoran Yellow over Wraith bone, then dry brushes of white at the top, orange in the middle and red lower down.  The bottom was painted in AP Necormancer Cloak with dry brushes of Uniform Grey and Sky Grey to finish off.  I dry brushed the grey further up over the colours to suggest some smoke further up the plume.

I spent sometime over the last week painting up three more trees that I had 3D printed.  Two of them I had cut in two and printed length ways so that the layers lines run vertically rather than horizontally through the tree, not sure the result is better.

I printed this out during this third lockdown and got round to painting it recently.  My Eta-2 and a couple of trees are there to put it in context, it is rather large and there is obviously space for the other Eta-2 that I need to put together.

Reinforcements arrived for my rebel troopers this week in the shape of 4 new troopers.  The mix of more non-human miniatures into the mix is good.  The green skinned miniature was an interesting attempt.  I base coated it in GW Wraithbone, then used a pale green from miniature paints followed by an old green glaze I had (I think it was Waywatcher Green), that didn’t quite give me then effect I was after so GW Athonian Camoshade was used to finish it off.

The purple skin tone was a base of a mauve colour, again Miniature Paints I think, with AP Purple Tone over the top.

The other two are straight contrast colours.  I really like how the different skin colours have come out on this batch and have enjoyed mixing them up (I did the two on the landspeeder around the same time.

I’ll be taking a break again from this project until I get Clan Wren and Lando.

Well with the price tag for this unit I certainly didn’t have a demand for it, but then this year I decided what the heck I should add it to my collection anyway.

Base coated it in Plastic Solider Company WW2 British Armour spray.  My eldest was then responsible for the camo pattern with Contrast Wildwood and Creed Camo.  The gun on the front is Vallejo Metallic Black with a dry brush of Steel over the top.  Weathering is a mix of a AK Interactive dust paint and Vallejo burnt umber pigments.  Unfortunately I didn’t varnish until I had the clear plastic on which then has completely misted over – need to clean it off.

Why is that I only spot the bit I missed when looking back at the photographs.  Still needs to come back to the painting table to get the windshield sorted.

So got myself some Tauntaun Riders, as my army is Forest based I decided to introduce the lesser spotted Forest Tauntaun.  My two young boy helped with painting the fur (I can’t remember the paints on this one) with a base coat, wash and a couple of dry brushes.

I’m back on a few Star Wars figures that I have been meaning to buy so the Rebel Specialists arrived and have been painted.  Nothing special with these.  The Medical droid was undercoated in AP Chainmail Silver and then Leviadon Blue Contrast was used to paint him up.