Star Wars Legion: T-47 Airspeeder

This one took about a month+ of work off and on, but it's finally complete!

I went with a slightly different marking patter from the one seen in Empire.  The main difference is the extra bit at the "wing tips" and stripes on the end of the guns. 

I used a filter for the first time on this model.  It gave the color a more dirty brownish tint.  Overall,I think I'll use filters in the future on larger miniatures, but still not of Flames of War (1/100 scale).

Originally, I was planning on shading the canopy with my airbrush.  I made the mistake of leaving them as the last thing to do.  Masking it off proved to be too difficult.  If I were doing it again, I'd paint the canopy first, mask off the window panes and finish the rest of the model. For this one, I ended up painting them by hand.

The decals I looted from a Bandai 1/48 scale kit.  The Bandai kit comes with a set of water slide decals and also a set of stickers.  I've stashed it away for when the kids get older.

Magnitized weapon options, thought I think most of the time I'll run it without a secondary weapon.

The underside (which nobody will ever see) really shows off the streaking effect that can be achieved with the filter and wash.

Details of the base.  I cut the fire arc lines into the sides and painted them different colors.  Hopefully, they are still usable this way.

Star Wars Legion: Luke Skywalker

Finished up Luke Skywalker for my Star Wars Legion army this past week.

Like my other Rebel Trooper Units, I painted the base a different color to distinguish it on the battlefield.  I'm planning on doing commanders in this goldish color.

Everyone and their sister is jumping on the object source lighting (OSL) bandwagon these days when painting lightsaber-welding figures.  I also decided to give it a try, but went for a more subtle effect.  In most examples I've seen, they take it too far.

Missed a pretty nasty looking mold line.  By the way, is his head huge or is that just me?

I couldn't quite get the eyes right so I just gave up for now.  

Star Wars Legion: Rebel Troopers

A few weeks ago, my friend and I took the dive into Star Wars Legion.  I went with the Rebel half of the core set.

Recently, I just finished the two squads of Rebel Troopers.

As you can see, I've modeled mine on the rebels troopers on Endor from RoTJ.  Each squad was given different color bases to help tell them apart.

There were several new tricks I tried on these miniatures.  The first was painting the miniatures first and doing the bases last.  This allowed me to get better access to all parts of the model during painting.

The camo pattern was another new trick.  I had to achieve a soft-edge airbrushed look,but on a surface that was too complex and small for the airbrush.  Basically, I used water to blur the camo pattern.  I came out looking pretty slick.  I may do a more detailed write-up on the process some day.

One of the few complaints about the figures in Star Wars Legion is the lack of easy customization. These two figures are the only conversion I did.  It was just a simple arm swap plus green stuff to fill the gaps.

I spent a lot more attention on these bases than I have on past 28mm figures.  I used a special blend of tea leaves for the forest floor and cut up fake plants to create the ferns.  This may also be worthy of its own article at some point in the near future.