Collins Does Star Wars Legion

Being a local peacekeeper had its perks, namely that Ronhar had issued body armour and a service weapon but that was about it. The bad guys hate him, the population blames him and somewhere deep down he feels there must be good guys but they were remarkably quiet when he needed their support. When the Empire came to town they brought their own ‘peacekeepers’ and Ronhar was out of a job, similarly those he served were also out of jobs and came to the realisation that he wasn’t a bad guy after all, just someone doing the job they didn’t want to

Angetenar and Ronhar go way back… They would usually spend the first evening of the weekend meeting up and chewing the fat. Usually about how much they’d had to drink and where Angetenar had liberated that cone from. The following morning Ronhar would regularly give out the same old advice and the same 5 credit fine that really made a mockery of it all as it was cheaper to spend the night in the drunk cell than the town’s motel. Now under the Rebellion the two have become firm friends carrying out fast attacks from the flanks and running off before their foe knows what’s hit them.

the rest of my Legion force was done by gluing sand down then painting with steel legion drab and adding a terminatus stone dry brush. add in pebbles, tuffs and flock and it worked but it was a lot of effort and was not overly similar to the mostly green of the models.

for these im looking at doing something easier. ive used a lot of geek gaming scenics base ready range and made a few of my own up in the past. but I don’t have a suitably deserty one that isn’t the exact same colour as the cloaked minis.

I made this mistake once before (at the Star Wars legion bootcamp) where my battledroids were put onto bases that had a similar colour on them and they just disappeared. couldn’t tell what was droid and what was palace floor tile.

I don’t want to make that mistake again

so left to right we have

model with base coated base

base with ‘desert sand and stone base ready’ painted with steel legion and dry brushed terminatus stone with the two tuft colours added

‘desert sand and stone base ready’ painted with brown wash

‘desert sand and stone base ready’ painted with black wash

‘desert sand and stone base ready’ painted with sepia / soft tone wash

then the large base shows natural ‘desert sand and stone base ready’ and 2 sides with simple steel legion and one also dry brushed with terminatus.

I believe the natural ‘desert sand and stone base ready’ is too similar to the model and will be lost but I also want something semi neutral that the tufts can stand out on. HELP!

I found a few more aliens and couldn’t resist printing them off even though I don’t have space in the list. I now have options!

my favourite is the piggy who has been looting armour and weapons from imperial army troops! it really doesn’t fit him but he really doesn’t care. so good!

Can Tim figure out what the last 100 points is yet? the other one is on the printer as we speak doing its thing

When you need something blowing up call in the Chadra-fan but when you need something specific blowing up in a very specific way, call in the Duros named Palo Menkib. He is cold calculating and precise. A number of Imperial war engines have failed in a spectacular fashion thanks to this Duros saboteur.

Every platoon needs to keep a communications link open. There is no point having all the heavy weapons you could need if you don’t know which way to point them. That task falls to the Sullustan named Tarrik Cohl. Remarkably cool underwire he is able to relay instructions and information precisely, if only his Officer was as gifted.

Lacert is a female Mirialan who threw her lot in with the Rebels when her brother was arrested and executed for ‘crimes against The Empire’. Since that time she’s been responsible for no fewer that 18 intelligence reports to the ISB but she doesn’t know that.

Karreio joined up when the Rebel fleet was hidden in orbit above her home planet of Pantora. After Order 66 her planet became poor almost overnight when the republic garrison transformed into the might of an imperial boot. She learned from her parents the joys of chain codes and mandatory registering. Something that to this day makes her blood boil.

Weems is a Bith and the Bith are known for being incredibly intelligent and good with a spanner. In this instance Weems is overly proficient with the squads automatic support weapon. He cut his teeth cutting down imperial army troops on Mimban. He found them to be significantly less tactical or armoured when compared to Stormtroopers in their laminate shell. Now he does his best to suppress them all so the close assault team can eliminate them.