Boba Fett

Here is the latest addition to my Star Wars Legion army, the famed bounty hunter Boba Fett.

This is a very cool model, I really like that they made him mid jump, as it really emphasises how different he is to the rest of the army.

He has a surprising amount of colour on him, more than I’d realised watching the movies. We have a book on the costumes that were made for the original trilogy that has a lot of photos of the Boba Fett costume, which was invaluable for this. I tried to stay true to the colours as much as possible.

There are a lot of different ways of painting chipped paint on metal pieces, and in this case I chose to first paint the chips in a lighter colour, then fill in the centre with a dark metallic paint (Vallejo’s Gun Metal in this case). I chose this method as it is what the prop makers in the movies did!

For the glow of the flames from the jetpack, I first used the airbrush to define the glow area using a bright yellow paint, and then darkened that back down with a glaze of orange paint. I chose to go this route as the orange paints I have access to are not opaque enough to sell a “lit up” effect. They would just end up adding a transparent orange layer over the dark green of the cloak which would end up more like a brown stain. Finally I mixed in some of that bright yellow into the orange to highlight back up the points where the light from the jets would project the hardest.

I painted the logo on the should pad pretty roughly, more to suggest the shape of the original design than anything else, the area is pretty small and the cloak half covers it so I’m not too worried about matching it exactly, it looks good enough on the tabletop.

This model was a fun change from the white and black of the rest of the army, and he really stands out from them on my display shelf. I have a few other models lined up to expand the collection, but these are mostly black, so back to normal!