FORGOTTEN HEROES PART 4

 As I continue with my entries for this years forgotten-heroes-2021 I've continued to make some progress through the Windriders group. The above shot shows most of the group towards the end of the film Solo when they confront Han and the gang.

There is two that are not at this point, one will appear later in the post but the other shown above is killed earlier in the movie by Rio, as he is already dead, I won't be making this one, but thought it only fair to show Baroosh Pawk.

The first model I want to show is Tayshin Maxa, who does appear in the shot above.

The whole sculpt was done with greenstuff.

Painting wise I experimented with using a glaze as a filter to give the green tone on the trousers and tunic, was pleased with the results.

Next is Tayshin's sister Moda Maxa, who was the other character not in the top shot.

As you can see was made from greenstuff again, and kept with the martial art pose from the reference picture, very wax on wax off style ! LOL

Painting again I experimented with a green glaze as a filter on the trousers.

Next is Tubes, now I have also seen him called Two Tubes, and Benthic, so could be his whole name is Benthic Two Tubes, but that's just a guess.

Some plastic rod was used to help make the gun, the rest was done with greenstuff.

Painting involved getting lots of variance between similar colours, was happy with the end result.

Next is Waydurk, I don't have a lot of background on this one, except his species is Mimbanese.

Used a little plasticard on the weapon, the rest was done with greenstuff.

Painting was pretty straight forward on this one, just following the colours.

Last today is Silvasu Fi, which I have very little information on.

Some plastic rod, was used, as was a pistol from another model on this one.

Painting was pretty straight forward, but enjoyable.

Last today is a group shot of all the Windriders done so far, only leaving 7 more to do, will have to see how far I can get through the rest, before the end of the month. That's all for this post, so until next time stay safe and have fun !

Cheers Dave

FORGOTTEN HEROES PART 3

 WIND RIDERS

As I continue on with this years submissions for forgotten-heroes-2021 I've been working through some of the Windriders of Enfys Nest, I've gone for this part of the rebellion, as I have found a lot of figures which would work for Saw's Rebels, but nothing for this faction.

Auromae Iselo is the first one I've done, the reference picture above has details about her.

Above is the green I made, as you can see she is all Greenstuff.

The painting of her was fun, and threw in some challenges to match the colour scheme.

Next is Weazel, this was not the first time this character had appeared in a Star Wars movie, as he appeared in "The Phantom Menace" as a spectator in the crowd at the Pod Racing.

I utilised plastic rod to help construct his rocket launcher on this one.

Painting was challenging on this one, as even though the model is smaller, it has just as much detail as the full size models.

Above is a group shot so far, and shows the different heights between the characters, I have another 6 of the Windriders on the go at the moment, 2 that I've started to paint, 2 that need finishing details sculpting, and the last 2 are in the blocking stages, once I finish the painting on the first 2 I'll make frames for the next 2.

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

Cheers Dave

FORGOTTEN HEROES 2021 Part 2

 REBEL FACTIONS

As I continue on with submissions for Jez's forgotten-heroes-2021 I wanted to look at some of the other Rebel factions as well as the crime syndicates. When we were first introduced to Star Wars, it was a tale of two sides, Imperial or Rebels. Later on through series and additional films, we found that not all Rebels were the same, and some were even considered radicals like Saw Gerrera.

Saw was originally shown in the film Rogue One, then appeared in the Clone Wars series, and also appeared in the series Star Wars Rebels, more recently he has appeared in The Bad Batch as well.

For the time period I've set my gaming, I've gone with the shaved head version, and he hasn't got all the cybernetic implants that you see in Rogue One.

some of the details on the armour were painted on rather than sculpted in detail.

Another Rebel Faction we got introduced to was Enfys Nest and her Windriders, these appeared in the movie Solo, and were portrayed as thieves, until late in the movie.

The sculpt on this one had lots of little details that needed to be added, to give the overall look.

As with Saw some details were painted on, and gave me lots of opportunity to work on my freehand.

that's all for this post, so until next time stay safe and have fun !

Cheers Dave 

FORGOTTEN HEROES 2021

This year for forgotten-heroes-2021 run by Jez, I'm going to work on some more characters for my Star Wars project, instead of delving into comic book characters like I have in previous years.

Above is a reference picture of the first character Moloch, this character was seen in the Solo movie, and was the main character in Lady Proxima's crew.

Above you can see the green I sculpted to represent the character. 

And here he is all painted, the main areas were achieved with a sponge, as the reference showed a very mottled approach.

For the rest of the event, I'm hoping to work on some more models from the syndicates, and also some of the other Rebel factions.

YELLOW & ORANGE

Several other bloggers have been having problems with painting yellow & orange so here is a step by step guide to several techniques. All paints used are Games Workshop unless stated otherwise

STEP 1 from here on I will refer to the one on the left as 1, going up to 4 on the right. 1 & 2 were given a basecoat of  Yriel yellow, 3 was given a coat of Vallejo rosy flesh, and 4 was given a coat of fire dragon bright.

STEP 2  1 was then given a coat of Iyanden Yellow contrast paint,  2 was coated with Fuegan Orange wash, 3 was highlighted with vallejo elf skin, and 4 was given a wash flesh wash.

STEP 3  1 & 2 were highlighted with Yriel yellow, 3 was highlighted with Vallejo pale flesh, and 4 was highlighted with fire dragon bright.

STEP 4  1 & 2 were then highlighted with a mix of Yriel yellow and Dorn Yellow, that was very watered down, 3 was given a wash of yellow wash, and 4 was highlighted with Tau light ochre.

Now you can vary tones by changing washes to make the contrast less or more, all down to personal taste.

That's all for this post so until next time stay safe and have fun !

Cheers Dave