“Hello There” – Painting Star Wars

So my Star Wars: Legion journey continues and I got Luke Skywalker from eBay today. Yes, he has a mould line…but I have never really bothered cutting them off unless they are obnoxious and he looks fine from a wargaming view haha

I really like the miniature and I am looking forward to getting that Age Of Rebellion Starter Set so I can get stuck into some Rebels.

I was thinking of trying out some contrast paints across the range as a whole but I might go with regular paints and washes instead. I think painting them would be pretty simple as a whole.

Not much to say here other than I’ve finished up the base and trimmed down the lightsaber to a more manageable level.

As I also got an awesome version of Obi-Wan Kenobi from blinky here in the community I thought it best to dive in and paint up that fellow too. Here is the more-or-less finished version of Old Ben.

The 3D print was really nicely detailed and took the paint well. I went for the big heavy highlighting method that I’ve used on other miniatures to match the Obi-Wan Kenobi that I worked on last week.

This miniature also came with a big bonus, a light-up lightsaber!

Since doing that quick test fit of the lightsaber to check the size, I then snipped that down a bit so it didn’t look quite so big. Now, it matches the size of the lightsaber that my other Obi-Wan has.

I’ll have a fully finished and based version to show off too soon!

So – a little while later, the base is now finished and I think it makes the miniature look much better.

Bit of snow/tundra mixed with grass to mix it up a bit. Considering putting some shrubbery on there but not sure it’s needed. And as always, rim your bases in brown not black haha.

So, over lunch today I finally plucked up the courage to finish working on the model and whilst it’s nowhere near as good as some folks’ Obi-Wan Kenobi miniatures, I think it looks pretty good (especially considering I hate white so much).

I think the model as a whole has got more of that comic book style that I seem to have deviated into when it comes to model painting and I’m fine with that. I think I’d be happy with him on the tabletop but it is very different moving away to paint these models compared to Burrows & Badgers!

Here are some more angles on him so you can see what the details look like.

I’m contemplating what to do with the base now. I think that I’m going to go with a grassy look which keeps him feeling rather neutral as a character and should fit on all manner of tabletops.

I used to have some of the nice cracked earth texture paint from Games Workshop but that has all gone the way of the dodo. So, I will be basing him up with grass and a bit of tundra so that he looks like he could be fighting on Naboo or somewhere more far-flung.

I did make some progress pictures but they came out a bit shite. So, with that in mind, I thought I’d just show off what the miniature looked like when I had done all of the base coats for the models.

I was genuinely not happy with the white (at all) but I thought I would grin and bear my way through it. Regardless of that, I thought that for a simple scheme – this is at least looking like the character from the movie/TV show haha!

After watching Duncan Rhodes paint the miniature I think I would have been happier just working this up from an off-white/grey and then using Contrast White over the top of it.

I think leaving it like that would have done a lot more to finish the overall look and keep it looking smooth as a whole.

As I mentioned in the description, I am very much in a Star Wars mood and so I decided to pick up Obi-Wan Kenobi thanks eBay. Here is the miniature!

First thing to say is that the miniature is rather nice indeed. I’d not looked at any of the Star Wars: Legion range in detail before but they are very nice plastics. Also, the lightsaber wasn’t bent which is a credit to the fellow who sent me the miniature!

Now I just had to get painting him…