Imperial Officer

I’ve been painting up some longer duration projects recently and I’ve been needing a break to paint something quick as a change of pace to refresh myself (and feel like I’m making progress on something!).

This officer model is from the imperial specialists kit that comes with 3 other models: two droids and a comms specialist. I’ll be painting these up as I feel, when I need another break probably. One of my friends is keen to play “no named character” games, and this officer will lead my imperial forces when we do that.

The main problem I had to solve with this model was the colour of the uniform. As with the emperor, the colour of the costume and how it comes out on screen seem quite different to me. I looked through my Star Wars costume book to look for references and the uniform is clearly an olive green in the photos, while I always saw them as grey in the movies. I tried to mash the two together here, aiming for a grey with some green in it.

The shiny black leather is painted just like I do on all my models, with successive highlights of Vallejo Dark Sea Blue with more and more white mixed in.

This model is one of the soft plastic models that were made for the game and detail is lacking compared to hard plastic models such as Games Workshop plastics. Here the eyes were not really marked out, so I painted them where I thought they should go, an interesting exercise. I have a couple of the hard plastic sets for Star Wars Legion built and ready to paint, I’m keen to see what the details look like on those.