Slowly chipping away at the stormtroopers I need to finish, I've split them into 3 units, local garrison, reinforcements, and riot squad.
Have finished the local Garrison which includes 4 heavies, and 5 troopers with added shoulder pad.
As a break from white, I've painted up my venom that has sat in green form for a very long time.
Have also finished the sculpting of the Traventi in heavy armour.
That's it for today, so until next time have fun !
Cheers Dave
Have finished the local Garrison which includes 4 heavies, and 5 troopers with added shoulder pad.
As a break from white, I've painted up my venom that has sat in green form for a very long time.
Have also finished the sculpting of the Traventi in heavy armour.
That's it for today, so until next time have fun !
Cheers Dave
Okay you'll hate me now *ducks for cover* but I do wish your Stromtroopers looked pure white... I mean WHITE as in you need sunglasses to look at them - like in the movies. On campaign.. yes, but I would imagine on normal duty, every morning right after Reveille, their sergeant goes round the barrack with a glove on to see if he can find a single spec of dirt on their armour *grins*
No worries on the Stormtroopers as we all have our own preference, as I'm doing Tatooine, all the Stormtroopers you see there are dirty, as they are on the penal outpost in Rogue One, and in the battlefield in Solo, which is why I went for this scheme.
Yeah you`re right about the Stormies, for me I see white like the shine on the breastplate of a Queen`s Guard Cuirassier (had that drummed into me when I read the numerous Admiral Thrawn novels, just how pedantic the officers are about their men looking shiny and new. But Tatooine sure is dusty.. must play hell with those joint servo motors ^^
Indeed, and it all comes down to personal preference at the end of the day, this was just what I was happy with, not a quick method either, as to get the right look I have to paint proper clean white with shading first, before adding the washes and drybrushing to get the right level of dirt ! LOL
As for me don't know yet, want to finish the cantina and Jabba's palace first, then see what I want from there
Yeah, I think they did Legion in a different scale precisely so no one could mix and match (good salesmanship I guess, but darn annoying for us), but on the other hand, as you say, they did `seemingly` kinda shoot themselves in the proverbial foot whole doing it the way they have.
As for whether Imperial Assault has had its day I honestly wouldn't like to hazard a guess there. Look at Descent, they left that game, sometimes years between expansions, same with Arkham Horror. Best example might be Wizards of the Coast and their D&D Adventure System Boardgames. They made three games back to back, then left it for years.. then just when everyone thought the game was over, they made another one. Left it another two years then bought out one more, with a sixth due out in a month`s time LOL. Crazy stuff.. or is it? When they separate games like that (letting the market flood and dry up), everyone who is going to buy the game and expansions first time round - do so. But leave it a few years, and suddenly there is a fresh market who not only buy the new game, but suddenly their is a renewed interest in the old stuff (to them its new), just ripe for a brand new market. Its called perpetual market resource investment: works a treat, if you`re a big company.
Right, I`m off to finish painting these Santa Anna heavy cavalry been putting it off long enough (fiddly buggers, and unforgiving in 54mm too, all 8 of them and their horses staring up at me uuugh!).
Have fun with your cavalry
The Traventi is coming along nicely!
Just need to get it moulded now so the real fun can start with the painting