THREE'S A CROWD

 

While I've been busy trying to finish the last of my Christmas presents, I have finished off a set of three models that have been sat on my desk for far too long, the herders for my Salamander. The models were originally the second edition herders that were updated with greenstuff to look more like the current versions.

Below is the GW latest version, I had to change the weapons to match the current ones, and also add the backplates to bring them inline. That's all for today, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

JON & FRIENDS

 When my daughter was looking for presents for me she found a 3D print of Jon Favreau holding an E-Web cannon, and thought I would appreciate it, although had no idea what I could use it for, well I'm going to add it to my Rebel forces.

What would have been a ideal was a model of Dave Filoni as well, but she couldn't find one, so based on his appearance in the Mandalorian as a pilot within the New Republic, I made a version of him as a rebel.

Here is the dynamic duo together, I suppose the title of the post my guns bigger than yours, but it's not a competition ! LOL

Next are two characters that were in Star Wars Rebels which was Dave's work from the Inquisitors the  5th Brother and 7th Sister.

That's all for today, so until next time stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave 

FLOCKING TOGETHER

 Today is the last of my Kroot reinforcements I got for Christmas the Krotox Rampagers. This is a new type unit, as before the Krotox originally were always described as slow and lumbering, and not massively aggressive, where as these seem very different from that, so in my lore I will have these as young bulls, before they learn temperance ( don't know what the GW lore is).

Used my normal colour scheme, and no conversions, these are straight from the box ( it happens occasionally ! LOL) that's all for today, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

UP THE REBELLION

 One of the gifts I got for Christmas was the new Rebel Sleeper Cell box, this is one of the new sets by Atomic Mass Games, and there are several noticeable differences to previous rebel box sets, first there is more models in the set (that's a bonus), the next is the face detail is shallower, so needs more work to make look right ( not great, but manageable), and the last difference was there was no female sculpts in the set (disappointing, as I liked the equal opportunities element). The set contains 5 humans, two aliens and an astromech. First up the humans.

Went with the same colour pallet I've used on all my rebels. Next is the aliens.

As you can see you get a Sullustan ( same species as Nien Nunb) and a Rodian, I've gone with blue skin, as I've already got a lot of green, and yellow/orange ones.

Above is the Astromech, now this comes with several options, but as I've painted a lot based on the movie ones already, I went with the option that isn't movie based, and decided to call it A2V. The set also has a Loth Cat, which is supposed to be on the base of one of the rebels, but I put it on a separate base and will add it to the bases I've got from Imperial Assault. That's all for today, so until next time stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

BIRD'S OF FEATHER

 Today I have another Kroot reinforcement from Christmas the new Krootox model, I've built it with the new grenade launcher option, as this will give my army another new weapon to use.

I've painted it up in my standard colours, but played with darker tones on the Krootox, overall I like the new model, except all the bangles on the arms, they're a bit over the top for my taste. How does it compare to the old model, well here they are side by side.

As you can see above it's a bit larger and a lot more quills on it, so it could be the old one is female and the new one is male, as I'm not replacing my old ones, just adding in the new one, as you can have up to 5 in a squad and this now brings my total up to 4, there is a spare head, so I might a second one, just not sculpt all the bangles on the arms so I have a full contingent. That's all for today, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

GOING DOTTY

 For Christmas not only did I get more Star Wars miniatures, I also got some reinforcements for my Kroot army, yes I know last year I said it was finished then GW released a whole bunch of new models, so it was probably a given it was going to increase ! LOL So what have I got to show today, it's the new Kroot Lone-Spear, the rider I've done in the normal colours for the army, just a bit of a darker shade to normal.

The colour scheme for the chameleonic Kalamandra, I've gone for a Chameleon colour scheme, yes I could have gone with GW's colours but as I haven't for the rest of the army, why start now ! LOL Below is the reference picture I used as the basis.

One thing I noticed was the the colours seem to be dots all over the body, so used this as the method to paint the whole beast, never liked doing this process in art which is called pointillism, but actually enjoyed doing this a lot more. That's all for today, so until next time stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

RIOT SQUAD

 

If you are expecting Ruby, Liv, and Sarah you'll be disappointed as these have TK  numbers, as it's the new Star Wars Legion Imperial riot control squad. It has multiple members the first 3 are the sergeant with sniper rifle and two troopers with blaster and shield.

The next two have energy batons and shields.

The last two to round out the squad are K series enforcer droids.

This is one of the first kits I've got made from Atomic Mass hard plastic, and I'm not a huge fan, they are a pain to glue, as they don't take plastic glue ( mind you the previous ones didn't either) the plastic is very brittle and doesn't carve well, and my last complaint is the lack of detail compared to the older models, especially the enforcer droids, as I have the K2SO model to compare it to, and the detail is sorely lacking, but at least these are now finished, that's all for today, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave