After a few weeks of little to no painting due to the excellent reason of getting a wedding ready, I sat down at the painting table over the last few nights and decided to tackle some more Star Wars Legion models, this time some clone troopers to go with The Chosen One!
After the large amounts of storm troopers I painted for my Galactic Republic army, the last thing I wanted to do was paint more plain white armoured troopers, so I decided to paint some markings on them as well as battle damage, loosely based on how they appear in the movies/shows. The blue marks them out as part of the 501st, the legion commanded by Anakin.
These models are made from the soft plastic found in Star Wars Legion starter sets and as per my previous encounters with the material, I did not enjoy the building or painting process very much. It’s sad because the newer hard plastics produced for the game are some of the best examples of plastic kits, I wish they’d started with that from the get go!
The battle damage did a lot of work to cover up some of the imperfections in the casting, and generally the poor quality of the casts guided my painting towards the faster end of the scale. Overall though I’m happy with how they look for the effort put in, and they were a great way to get back into the groove of painting!
If you follow the blog some, you may have noticed I’ve been experimenting with backgrounds to my model photos for a little while, and this is the latest experiment. I printed out a photo I took in Japan back in 2015 of these wooded hills in the mist, and I think they’re suitably abstract to work well as backdrops.
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Very nicely done, Nicolas! 🙂 Watching the Clone Wars animated series might give you extra ideas for clone troopers, although it’s a lot to watch! Good call with the backdrop!
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Thanks John! I’ve made it through the first couple of seasons in the past, plenty more to go indeed! But even that gave me some ideas, and generally informed the look of these as I found the armour of the clones in the show to be quite beaten up compared to what was show in the movies.
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The Clone Wars series are worth watching anyway I think! 🙂 I also noticed that the clone troopers all adopted some sort of embellishement, badge, decoration (even haircuts) etc. to give them a recognisable identity that set them apart from their identical comrades in arms.
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I’m glad to see you getting some more painting done with all the wedding prep going on! I think these look great and I wouldn’t have guessed that the plastic is hard to work with, if you hadn’t mentioned it. I’m a fan of the backdrop as well. It helps set the scene just that little bit more!
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Thanks! Wedding prep is over now as the wedding was on the second, so back to my regular irregular painting schedule 😉 good to hear my issues with the plastic don’t show up too much, the battle damage helps a lot with covering that up I think.
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Congratulations are in order then! No better way to celebrate than by painting a bit more I would say 🙂
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