Star Wars: Legion Project by Deltex

Friday 15/11/24:

I had set a New Year’s resolution to try and finish this project, but unfortunately have to admit defeat…
It is going on hold for the time being until I can get motivated with Star Wars again.

I have a Full Spectrum Dominance project that I managed to complete in time (which I will post soon).
And also working on a Warhammer 40k Space Marine project for a friend, so definitely motivated to complete that one.

Friday 28/06/24:

As mentioned in my last update, here are some pictures of the leg parts printed previously.
A joint part is pressed into each of the lower leg slots so that the upper legs can slide onto them.
These joint parts are moveable from left to right to allow for different leg positions.

Sunday 28/04/24:

So…. it’s been a while.. (cough)a year(cough).

This update signifies the moons aligning (that’s no moon) and I have finally caught up with posting updates that are up-to-date(ish), no more backdated posts.

Because of this, I have finally decided to make this project public so if this is the first post you are reading, please have a read of the project description to understand why I started this project.

Which brings us to today and the long hiatus…

Unfortunately about the time of Update 14, back in April last year, it became apparent that my friends had not started assembling their starter boxes yet.
I checked with them and we came to the understanding that their enthusiasm for Star Wars: Legion had diminished which I completely understand, it really is a full-on hobby trying to get these miniature armies assembled and painted.
No hard feelings to the guys, though this did unfortunately kill my enthusiasm for the project quite a bit 🙁

Between last April and now, I have been doing some more 3D printing here and there.
Managed to get a few more AT-AT parts printed so in the next few updates I will post my progress regarding them.
Hopefully should be able to get them assembled soon but still a long way off getting the AT-AT done.
No progress has been made so far with the Storm Troopers, they are sitting in a display box for now.

I made a New Year’s resolution this year to (at least try) and finish what I have started, this project certainly falls under that category 😀

….So welcome to the project, thanks for taking an interest 🙂 hopefully I will get this finished someday.

Saturday 08/04/23:

Attempt number two, here we go.

I resprayed all of the Storm Troopers with a white undercoat this time, then moved straight onto the Contrast Apothecary White with Technical Contrast medium step.
And to be honest, I am so much happier with this look 🙂 and it was fast.
So fast in fact, I managed to get all of the imperial troop squads sprayed white and contrasted in five days.

Monday 03/04/23:

At this point, I still wasn’t sure how I felt about the painted models, so I pressed on hoping that a full squad would look better in this style.
It took multiple hours per model to get to this point and from a distance they kind of looked OK, but up close you could really see the speckling of the dry-brush layers.
Normally with slap-chop the contrast paint colour going over the black and grey dry-brushing would help to hide a lot of the grainy/speckling bits but with white, not so much.
Also, it really did take a lot of effort/hours just to get these models to an ok’ish looking result, IMO.

After a lot of deliberation and dejected feelings looking at these models, I decided to start again….

Monday 20/03/23:
(Heads up warning, I ended up re-doing this squad of Storm Troopers)

I started on my first attempt with white armour, I wanted to try the slap-chop style to hopefully speed up the project with results that I would be happy with.

So I approached the white armour in the same way as any other colour, working up from a black primer coat to start.
Then, used a makeup brush to dry brush Citadel Base Mechanicus Standard Grey over the black.
Next, I dry brushed some White Scar over more of the raised areas.
After that, used some Contrast Apothecary White with the Technical Contrast medium
over it all, carefully not letting it pool on the flat surfaces and the medium helped with this.
Finally, dry brushed over again with White Scar because I felt the armour looked too grey.

Tuesday 14/03/23:
This week I finished priming all the models black, I wasn’t prepared for how long it would take to base all the models and prime them.
It really did start to drag a bit, unfortunately, but now this part is done 🙂

Tuesday 07/03/23:
Feeling happy with the bases, I went to town and got all the bases covered with the bird sand 🙂
I then started to prime the character miniatures, the squad of scout troopers, and the larger models.