Collins Does Star Wars Legion

Legion comes with cardboard tokens… everyone knows cardboard tokens are the most basic of tokens. what you need is 3rd party upgrades!

Step into the breach Pocket Dimension Studios with their super cool, totally rad 3d printed resin tokens (stl files).

I bought the bundle to get all kinds but really I just wanted Sabine’s Phoenix starbird.

Everyone tells me that yellow it a bitch to paint. I didn’t find it too bad until I started to use a brush. airbrush was fine (and I am not experienced in airbrushing) but normal brush to correct mistakes etc was just pain.

I started with Halfords grey primer and then used 3 different citadel yellows. 2 through the airbrush (and touch up by brush) and 1 as an edge highlight by brush.

I used vallejo negro through the airbrush to create the black lines. Id used regular painters masking tape to mask it off. it worked a treat. I might have to get some more Vallejo paints to try them out through the brush as there was no mucking about with it. dreamy.

I then weathered with typhus corrosion and agrax earth shade. one of my favourite steps for vehicles.

The riders were done using basic scheme for the rest of the new army (karak stone, basilican grey and administratum grey).

For this Twi’lek I tried to go different yet again, didn’t work out as well as I had hoped. I wanted a pale lilac (see left figure below) but i think I went too bright white, or didn’t start off lilac enough. I used palid witch flesh with a purple wash as a base and highlighted up from there.

Won one of the last few golden buttons of 2021 and started 2022 by painting a few more minis. This time they’re FFG/AMG official minis, the rebel trooper upgrade pack and the specialist upgrade pack. The trooper one is of the few ones that contains a complete spread of races.

An Ishi-Tib

A Gran

An Ithorian

a Theelin

Two are commonly known and two are somewhat obscure.

The specialist upgrade pack was mostly boring droids and humans. However the male is a character from Imperial Assault (Gideon Argus – I gingered his beard though) and the female is a spec ops trooper from the age of rebellion role-playing game.

So I had to change the list due to the points change, frustrating but it doesn’t really make any difference. I just have more models painted for more variety going forwards.

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Graf is a Gamorrean who has an interest in fire support. He refers to himself as the bringer of despair, reason being either he is despairing when he misses or his enemy is when they’re suppressed and peppered.

He has also taking to looting, having stolen some armour from a fallen imperial army trooper. Several people have told him to doesn’t fit him but he doesn’t care and is happy with his T-Shirt save.

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Ranglhar left his home world when it fell to the Empire. The troops he fought alongside suddenly became cold, distant and aggressive towards his kind almost as if someone had flicked a switch. He and a few others managed to escape at the last moment and then, with no honest way to earn credits without registering he turned to smuggling, becoming an experienced freighter pilot. At one job he cottoned on that he was smuggling supplies to an underground movement rather than a simple criminal organisation or altruistic aid group. When digging around Ranglhar found himself disappeared only to reappear in the cockpit of an X-Wing striking out against the people that drove him from his home.

Sheltav is someone who is young enough never to have inherited their family’s ceremonial blades. Those sadly are now a trophy in some Imperial admiral’s art collection. He is on a personal quest to recover what is rightfully his. Until then he will make do with second hand armour and blaster from some poor stormtrooper who got in the way of his goal. The trooper didn’t need it any longer as the laser burns in the breast plate can attest to. Being a young Wookiee without the constant guidance of an elder Sheltav has decided to stylise the fur on his top lip into a moustache nobody knows why but they just accept it.

When you need some heavy support its probably because you’re facing a lot of infantry or maybe a lot of armour. What do you do if its both? Well Sateen decided that she never wanted to be in a position where she could never meet a threat with a tailor made solution. Thats why she brings a Z6 and a missile launcher with her everywhere she goes. Given how strong Wookiees are the weight isn’t an issue, so long as imperials perish she doesn’t mind the weight.