One of the really cool things I found in the series Andor, was the use of lots of different types of Imperial troops, not just Stormtroopers, and wanting to replicate with my own armies, I found these great Riot Troopers on Ebay with a seller I've used before bertd70 , unfortunately all his listings have currently disappeared, hopefully he's just repopulating, but will keep an eye on it. Now the Riot Troops appeared in both season 1 and 2 of Andor, and were used as pawns on one occasion to start a riot, by being shot by an Imperial Marksmen. The models are resin 3D prints, that come as a single piece with separate heads so you can customise quite a bit just with a head movement. The other cool part is the shields actually have gaps for the clear part of the shield to be put in with acetate.
For the painting, I highlighted the black cloth one way, and tried highlighting the armour with white contrast paint, then dulled back down with black wash, I quite like the effect, and will keep experimenting with this.
I've also found a couple of models from model kits, a Imperial Officer, and a R2 astromech, which came in a TIE fighter and X-Wing kits. Painting was straight forward. I'm going to use the astromech on the droid parts stall hence not being on a base.
Size wise they are pretty close to Legion models, and as humans come in all shapes and sizes, I'm happy with it, plus trying out the GW dark greens was a good experiment.
This month I'm hoping to paint my sons Orks for Orktober, so hopefully you may see them later in the month, and possibly some more star Wars stuff, or something else, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !
Cheers Dave
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