In A Galaxy not that far away.

I then put the above over the plastic stand and around the centre of the bases and then left it to dry.

Once enough time had been allowed to let it dry I added my sand mix scatter over bits I missed and left it over night.

Next day I broke and cut up the ground prickly bushs that were on the large black bases on the larger plants

Plus I took the big 8″ plants and snipped them down.

I then used these to hide the lumpy bases as much as possible.

With the two bigger items I did use the paint brush protectors cut down and stuck to bases as plugs to bulk out the foliage as can be seen in last two photos on gallery.

All in all 16 bases worth has cost around £32 , bit more if you add mdf bases   but if course you could use any basing material you have to hand  I just happened to have these handy.

Time taken about 5 hours all told for the lot.

Having done for the time being all the figures  thought I’d have ago at the terrain. As can be seen from previous sections of project I have plenty of desert terrain. What I don’t have is Scarif type Jungle, tropical island terrain. I plan to buy some Blue Hexon in the next few months to add to my collection  and break it up into islands.

Now how to do it cheaply?

Aquarium plastic plants was my answer . I got a couple of larger pieces of Amazon  but raided a local store in Willenhall West Mids for the bulk. I brought both 4″ and 8″ sets of plants. I suggest if you intend to follow my plan don’t get the 8″ ones as they are unsupported and flop all over the table. It wasn’t a waste as I was able to cut them up for use later on.

1. They come with a big plasic base  which initially I had intended to remove and use paint brush covers to peg down to mdf bases, but hadn’t got enough.

So I decided stuff it and decided to use the black bases and just hide them later. So using some mdf bases I had bought some time ago for an unstarted project, just stuck them to top.

With the larger plants , which I had broke up from the really silly square plug in bases they came with  , I put one plant per base, but the smaller 4″ones doubled them up per base.

I then put just a base coat of Sand over both the black base and mdf base.

I then added flock . I had dark Steppe grass  and very green static grass , neither looked right on their own so I did the Gerry thing of mixing them together.

Bit later than promised , but here are Clone war Figures , but this time in action. Some time in the future I will try and do some better photos,plus Rex and Dooku.

The Droidikas just a basic gun metal and wash over the top ,simple but it works.

Obiwan in Action

And after getting the new Vada   had to get the upgraded farmboy, again a nice figure, painted using the same techniques as on Veda

Later today or tomorrow I will add the units done for Clone Wars.

• Having watched the Empire stikes Back again recently,  heard the comment that the snowspeeders weren’t   they couldn’t be used to look for Luke as they had not been fitted out for conditions,  so went Desert colours again.

I finally got round to doing Leia having brought when 1st released and Chewie as a bonus to my bootcamp wookies.

With the sudden re-release of Sabine Wren , with thanks to OTT store  I virtually spent a day just painting her.

And you dont look to good your self Sir!

Whilst doing the Imps  the rebels were not forgotten;

Starting with Imperial Veterens, I again went for a desert scheme, again waith bone primer and skeleton horde as base, flak jackets were over done in snakebite leather, and once detail and faces done an overall Agrax Earthshade wash.

Liking how they came out I used  the same theme for the two squads of Rebel Troopers adding the odd blob of camoflage with wash.

1. For my 2nd unit of Fleet Troopers went for planet base groundbase security in same desert theme.

I then my Imperial specialists  only the  astro droid used contrast  the rest used traditional paints and washs.

I also finished my AT-ST’s, old fashioned dry brushing , GW transfers on both models and base, plus more aquarium plants  used miliput mounds on one, to stick them down but on 2nd cut up some of the plastic protection tubes of paint brushs and the jist plugged them in.

I literally in last couple of days got the new Vada figure, and what a figure . Used a wolf grey for base and then black templer contrast , wet blending gryph charger grey to darken up some of lighter parts on cloak.

1. I didnt gloss varnish the helmet allover, just picked out bits, so detail wouldn’t disapear.

Well after weeks of work the Legion project Is nearly finished.

So firstly additions to the empire. I finally succumbed and not only managed to find but also finish  a unit of SnowTroopers :

As you can see went for Desert Assualt Troopers look, a base coat of GW wraithbone, then a coat of Skelton Horde, Adding a bit of brown wash to darken the cloth parts , with a final coat of Agrax Earthshade at the end.

Despite the overall Desert colours I continued my Scariff theme for the bases.

On the bases of the heavy weapons In addition to the stick on clumps I added bits of plastic aquarium plants I got from a large retail outlet in Willenhall called thee range, but about 8  packs of 8″ and 4″ plants. They are clip together , but you can clip of smaller bits easily enough to fit what you want to do.

I also finished two more units of speeders, one in traditional White and one as a scout unit for my DeathTroopers.