Star Wars: Legion Project by Deltex

Friday 03/03/23:
After seeing the models primed, I was very unhappy with how they looked. To me, it just felt very flat and uninteresting.
So after finding “Swords and Brushes” youtube video on “How to base miniatures: For Beginners” I also decided to use Bird Sand, and have to say I think it looks great 🙂

Once again, I based the miniatures and Primed them.
I also tried this on some of the larger bases to see how it turned out.

Monday 27/02/23:
Continuing with test painting the SlapChop style, I decided to get two squads of Storm Troopers ready.
I used some fine sand, PVA glue, and an old large painting brush to get the sand on the bases, basic stuff.
Once dried overnight they were sprayed with some black primer, I used Army Painters Matt Black primer.

WIP Wednesday 22/02/23:
This week I managed to complete the lower leg sections for all four legs and also printed one top leg section to see how it fit.

Moving back to actual Legion miniatures, I realised I had made a mistake when I pulled Yoda’s bases out of the box and they were yellow, whoops.
These miniatures are meant for the Clone Wars Republic Army but I decided to make them anyway 😀

Next, I started to have a go at painting (pre-warning, the first attempts do not go well, in my opinion)
I had been watching Miniature Hobbyist’s YouTube channel and he had been showing off the slap-chop style, in the past, I have always run out of steam on projects when it came to painting 🙁
So seeing a technique that was fast and still looked ok for tabletop standard I decided to follow along.
As you could probably guess, this does not work so well on white armour which I found out later.

I started with a black undercoat primer on a Storm Trooper then moved on to medium grey dry brush. Next, a white dry brush was applied over this, I also used some Black Templar Contrast paint on the blaster.

Friday 17/02/23:
For the last two weeks, I have continued the 3D printing side of things with more feet/leg parts.

All four feet have now been printed with the toe bits inserted, also one of the four lower leg parts has been completed and glued together with the half semi-circle joint inside (so it can move). Then that was attached to the foot with the two peg pieces.

After that was completed, I attempted to print out and assemble the piston parts, this was a pain and needed multiple reprints with each bit at different sizes until I found the sizes that I was happy with, this then allowed them to move around freely.

The piston size changes that worked for me (but might not work for anyone else’s 3D printer setup) are:

103-3-3 = 144.80%
103-4-4 = 133.80%
103-5-5= 139.80%
103-6-6 = 141.80%
103-7-7 = 141.80%

I have also uploaded a video showing the finished foot movement.

WIP Wednesday 15/02/23:
1x squad of Rebel Commandos done this week plus started on a project that I’ve always wanted to do since getting a 3D printer ? a 1/48 scale AT-AT for use with Legion ?

The files for the AT-AT were purchased from GamBody for personal use. If you want to have a look at the files for yourself, search for Gambody 3d printing via Google.

After a lot of trying to figure out what size I wanted to print at, I decided to print it at 144.80% of the original file size supplied in the stl files. I changed the scale size using Simplify3D slicer program.

WIP Wednesday 08/02/23:
Nice bit of progress this week ? IG-88 and IG-11 are done, they were a bit of a pain to assemble and pose but turned out good. 1x squad of Rebel Veterans and 1x squad of Imperial Scout Troopers.

WIP Wednesday 01/02/23:
Few more done in the last week, a squad of Imperial Death Troopers, General Veers, Cassian Andor, and K-2SO.

I made a small mistake with Cassian, I did not read the upgrade cards correctly and assumed that the A280-CFE Pistol and Sniper configs were separate weapon options.
So what did I do? only went and scraped off the hand on the pistol and added to the model as well as the rifle.
I realise now it’s meant to be the same weapon, haha.

Maybe Cassian got bored of re-configuring the gun and decided to get a second one 😀

WIP(work in progress) Wednesday 25/01/23:
So I have been working on the core box ? managed to get them all assembled with a little bit of magnetizing of the AT-RT’s weapons because I have no clue what the list building is going to be like yet haha.

Also assembled the AT-ST (though I had done some of it before because I have had that model for a few years now) getting really excited to play Legion.