Draconis does…… Droids! Back to Star Wars Legion again.

10th February 2024

Haven’t really had much hobby time, but I have managed to get the minis primed.

The majority of the droids are in wraithbone. The Droidekas are leadbelcher and the rest are grey (couldn’t find black for the sith).

Not sure when I will get the painting underway, but hopefully soon…

10th February 2024

Haven’t really had much hobby time, but I have managed to get the minis primed.

The majority of the droids are in wraithbone. The Droidekas are leadbelcher and the rest are grey (couldn’t find black for the sith).

Not sure when I will get the painting underway, but hopefully soon…

4th February 2024

Now came the basing chore…. ☹

Whenever I can’t decide on a specific basing method I fall back on the standard sand and gravel mix. This will match my Clones anyway, so is probably for the best. I couldn’t find my usual mix, so had to knock up a new one.

Then it was onto the slow laborious process of basing all of the models. For the large bases I left the marking lines clear for in game use.

Grievous also had a few build options.

The version with four lightsabres grabbed me, but I also wanted to try it with the cloak.

Had a bit on an issue getting the feet to position correctly, and then came the arms ? These are a ball joint onto another ball joint, so kept moving on me. Additionally, since I wanted to fit the cloak I had to be careful about the shoulder positioning and suchlike.

After much prodding, moving around and blu tac to keep arms in place I finally got something that worked for me.

For painting though I will keep it with the cloak (and therefore head as well) off.

Maul had three build options, I went for the sabre behind him. Forgot to get pics here, but he went together pretty well with nice joins and overlaps.

The three droids were also relatively easy. Laid out the parts, did a test fit, then whacked them together ?

Dooku was a straightforward build.

Only a few components, and no optional build. However, it is the only one from this project that is not hard plastic. So out came the superglue.

I have been so used to a thicker superglue that my new thin glue caught me by surprise again… and ran right over Dooku’s face ☹

I wiped as much as I could off – hopefully it wont impact on the detail when it comes to painting.

I left the model in two parts for painting, so that I can get to the back of the torso and the cloak easier.

Got these fellas built up. I worked the same way as for the attack mode ones. Built up one of them first to get the steps and process in place. Then went ahead and laid out the parts for the remaining three and rolled out the process for those. Again this worked pretty well for me.

I used superglue to attach them to the bases, then ran some plastic glue around the contact points. When it comes to painting though I do expect to have to re-attach some of them ?

29th January 2024

Onto the Droidekas now. Starting out with the attack mode versions. I worked on just one at first, so that I could get the build sequence in place and get used to it.

With one built I then snipped all the components for the remaining three and laid them out in the sub assemblies that I would work on. Theses three were pretty quick to build once I had built the test piece.

Also during this build I magnetised the larger bases for these and the STAP riders as I hadn’t yet done them.