Tag: Galactic Republic

I’ve been working on a few larger projects over the last few weeks and wanted a break from building so decided to look around for model I could paint in a couple of evenings. I had built and primed the Obi-Wan Kenobi model from the Clone Wars starter set for the Star Wars Legions game alongside the Clone Troopers from the set but never got around to painting him. He seemed like an ideal candidate for a little change of pace!

Like the other models in the starter set, he’s made of that soft boardgame plastic which is honestly not super fun to build or paint, especially when compared to the newer hard plastic models in the game’s range. I struggled to get the lightsaber to stay straight, and it definitely looks a bit wonky from some angles.

Just like the Anakin model, he’s holding his lightsaber quite close to his face (seems dangerous!), which means an opportunity for some dramatic lighting there! As with all my lightsaber glows, the main glow effect was achieved using the airbrush, with some spot highlights done with the brush to enhance the effect. The low highlights on the tunic and the belt are just painted on with the brush. This glow is painted on top of what is effectively a finished paintjob and is always a scary step!

Unlike the clones I’ve done up for the army I’ve kept his armour clean and unchipped, as I presume a person of his stature would be able to get fresh armour rather regularly while the clones would have to make do with what they had. No idea if that’s how things are described in the stories, but it made sense to me.

I made an attempt to replicate the Jedi symbol on his shoulder pad and I think it turned out ok, not as smooth as I see other painters get their freehand work, but close enough for me!

I’ve not made a habit of showing off work in progress on the blog so far, so won’t go over what I’m working on in the background, but I expect it to take a little while so you might see a few one off models like this over the next few weeks as I paint things up as small breaks from the bigger stuff!

It’s been a few weeks since I posted anything as I’ve been on a brief hiatus caused by me getting into some card gaming with some friends, but the painting itch has been strong and I was excited to get back to finishing models!

This week I painted up these clone troopers for Star Wars Legion, to add to my 501st Legion Clones. As you may have noticed, these have yellow* markings rather than blue, to mark them as part of the 7th Sky Corps, Obi Wan Kenobi’s troops. I wanted to do this because I plan on fielding Kenobi in addition to Anakin Skywalker in the army, and I fancied them having a squad each from their respective commands.

* Interestingly, the wiki article says the markings should be orange, but they always looked yellow in the tv show to me, probably a trick of the lighting!

These were painted in exactly the same way as the first batch of clones, and I kept the marking positions the same on both, just changing the colour.

These were nice and quick to paint, a good project to get back in the painting flow!

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.

I don’t know if this happens to everyone, but when I come home from a tournament my mind goes directly to wondering about my next project in that game system. As I mentioned last week I played in my first Star Wars Legions tournament, and of course had the urge to paint more models for the game. A quick chat to a friend with unused Legion models later and I’m apparently starting a Galactic Republic army!

First up on the painting table is Anakin Skywalker! I’ve already painted his future self so it only seemed fitting! The model is one of the newer Legion offering and was very nice to put together and a beautiful cast all around. Far cry from the early models which were made from that terrible boardgames model plastic.

As I’d done the glow effect on Vader’s lightsaber I felt I should do it here too, although I was very apprehensive about putting blue all over the face I’d just finished painting. Luckily I think it turned out ok.

I used the airbrush to sketch in the glow itself, and went back over and picked some highlights with a brush to accentuate the effect.

The lightsaber I painted after having done the airbrush work, as it was very much in the line of fire! I just did a somewhat textured gradient from blue to white using a brush.

When it came to basing him I wasn’t too sure what to do, but settled on a swampy look. This was nice and quick to do and should look nice over a whole army.

I also painted some terrain this week, but I’ll wait till I’ve received the new mat that goes with it before showing it off!