Jodain's SW:L Hobby Weekend

Well it was Star Wars day on Tuesday and I had spent time last weekend starting on my Clan Wren.  Decided on two things quite quickly:

1. I don’t want to paint grey and yellow (I have a cygnar army in those colours).
2. I don’t like the clear flight stands.

The solution to the first was fairly easy, rather than paint Clan Wren, I took inspiration from the Mandalorian Season 2 and painted Bo-Katan and the Nite Owls.  I have tried my best to include the helmets of all three Nite Owls that were shown in the series, I leave you to decide if I managed it.

For the flight stands I went to Deadly Print Studios and picked up their Wren backpack smoke resin prints.  I could have gone with the stl files but my resin printer is not working so as I only needed three I ordered them printed.  The print quality was excellent.

To paint these I started with Contrast Black Templar and a little Contrast medium to get the undersuite.  The Blue is Vallejo Air Ultramarines Blue with GW Drakenhof Nightshade wash and then a highlight from P3 Exile Blue.  The leather is a Horse Tone I think, but the name has long disappeared from the bottle.  I tried to show some plates in the highly metallic Beskar as well and used Vallejo Silver and Steel for those, with a wash of AP Soft Tone.

The smoke stands are painted with Cassandoran Yellow over Wraith bone, then dry brushes of white at the top, orange in the middle and red lower down.  The bottom was painted in AP Necormancer Cloak with dry brushes of Uniform Grey and Sky Grey to finish off.  I dry brushed the grey further up over the colours to suggest some smoke further up the plume.