Jodain’s SW:L Hobby Weekend

I did make progress on the Eta-2 and it is now ready for weathering.  Whilst I was working on it I also cracked on with two figures.  Jyn Erso has been finished off today as had the one Rebel Commando that I realised that I had missed when I painted the rest (good job I listed the paints used).  For Jyn I painted the scarf and shirt in Contrast Dark Angels Green, the trousers in Black Templar.

So I purchased the Eta-2’s a while ago now and I’ve assembled one, see Episode 13.  Tonight I want to paint it, so I did some more research as I didn’t fancy painting yellow over Halford’s Grey Primer.  After a hunt I found an Eta-2 in Green which was the colours used by Yoda, so this is what I am going to do:  https://www.artstation.com/artwork/DxBvA0

So I’ve been really busy with work, but forced myself into some down time to finish off the squad of rebel troopers and Luke Skywaler.  The wife also insisted that I clear the craft table so the boys can use it for work.

When I say really busy – I’m a school teacher and have spent the last two weeks training our staff to remote teach.  As of tomorrow (Monday), I’m going to be online during our normal lessons teaching the students who are sitting at home all round the world.  So no extra hobby time for me.

Luke’s jump suite is painted with Skeleton Horde thinned about 1:1 with Conrast Thinner.  The lightsaber is Contrat Space Wolf Grey with Ghost Tint Plasma over the top.

The tree are 3D printed (so entry earlier in this project), I’ve tried to emphasis the vertical marks to hide the horizontal lines from the printer.

Spent sometime this weekend painting up Han Solo and 4 of the next squad of Rebel Troopers.

Went the full contrast route with them all again (problem is I keep spotting white bits when I take the photographs!).

Camo and Han’s coat are Creed Camo

Coloured spots on Camo Are Dark Angels Green, Gore-Grunta Fur and Snakebite Leather

Skin: Gulliman Flesh

Solo’s trousers – Gore-Grunta Fur

Alien skin flesh – Space Wolves Grey and then Drakenhof Nightshade (Shade)

I had a few minutes this afternoon so I though I would get on with assembling one of the Jedi Starfighters, so I went with Anakin’s one (although I don’t think there is any difference.

I decided not to stick Anakin into the cockpit and have hence left it empty, I also didn’t bother with the R2-D2 in the Astromech slot.  As this fighter is going to be on the ground I had to have a look to find a photograph of one landed.  The best photograph I could find comes from Harrow Modelling Society (http://www.harrowmodellingsociety.co.uk/picsscifi.htm)

As you can see the bottom wing is fully folded in so I had to take a hobby knife and run it along until the bottom part came off, which I then glued onto the other part of the wing.  Next up I need to mask off the canopy and get it primed.

I’ve had a bad week at work, which drove me to a bit of retail therapy.  Unfortunately for me that meant a search on Amazon and a purchase or two to add to my Star Wars Terrain.  I plan on building these a painting them up in the same colours and giving them a good weathering so they look a bit older and like something some desperate rebels might try and fly against the Empire.

I couldn’t think of something linked to a Star Wars Film to call this one, afterall Solo is rather singular and can’t simple be replaced and still hint at the name of the film.

I have decided to move on from painting miniatures for a bit as I had the barricades to paint up and I had an idea I want to put into action.  I’ve gone fairly simple here with a base spray of Uniform Grey from Army Painter, Soft Tone wash to give a bit of depth and some dirt.  I then decided that I wanted some graffiti on these, fortunately for me Wargames Illustrated had given away a set of Judge Dredd waterslide decals of graffiti so I cut some that I liked out and put them on using Humbrol DecalFix to help them follow the shapes on the barricade.  The screens and buttons on the reverse of the barricades have been painted as well.  Once the decals were dried on, I left them 24 hours, I tooks out some Vallejo Natural Umber and some MIG Vietnam Earth pigments to dust them up.  The photographs is prior to the varnish going on, but AP Anti-Shine should hold the pigments in place.

I outght to explain that I selected the big Chopper decal as I am a fan of Star Wars Rebels – now if only I could get Chopper from that to join my army.

I’m still enjoying getting some time to paint in 2020 and making use of contrast paint to get things finished and off the waiting table.  This time round is the unit of rebel commandos.

Cloaks and helmets are Creed Camo, undershirts in Space Wolf Grey, trousers are Wyldwood, backpacks, belts, boots and pouches are snakebit leather, human skin is Darkoath and Guns are Black Templar.  The Mon Calamari is Snakebite Leather over an a base of Orange (Khador Red Base if I remember correctly – I didn’t relabel the pot!), with spots of Wyldwood and Black Templar.  The eye is Casandoran Yellow with a spot of Black Templar.  The other Alien was Darkoath with Snakebite Leather over the top and Black Templar for the eyepatch.  The band and base rim are in Miniature Paints Terracota.