2025 Painting Log

I hadn’t planned on getting the Real Quiet Like squad pack for Shatterpoint, but my wife talked me into getting both Ewok sets so I figured I may as well go Endor all the way.

Han’s pose is very silly, and he and Chewie are both inexplicably standing on droids from Jabba’s Palace. Chewie appears to have stomped an IG series droid into the ground, which could have happened. There is a terrific pre-Disney short story collection called Tales of the Bounty Hunters, in which we learn that (spoiler ahead) IG-88 had downloaded his consciousness into the second Death Star’s computer core, and was on the verge of taking it over when they blew it up. So I suppose it’s possible that one of his many copies was stomping around on the surface of Endor at the time and made the mistake of getting into Chewie’s way. We play games to tell new stories, I suppose…

Anyway, I used my usual mish-mash of different techniques on these. A lot of the usual base color – wash – drybrush highlights, but I’m finding that the Dallimore tri-color approach is great some things, especially faces and hands. And Grim Black Speedpaint is equally great for black areas, like Han’s boots and vest. I’m really starting to appreciate Speedpaints as a high-pigment wash, very useful for things like belts and straps.

These last two are from the Ewok sets, which I wish they would give proper names to. I’ve got a massive assembly line of Ewoks on the way…

I don’t really play any military games, so haven’t painted this much camouflage since the Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps board game. I found it to be weirdly relaxing, just painting random blobs.

I did a lot more with plants and shrubs than I usually do, adding some of the Gamers Grass shrubs and paper leafy plants to fill out a few of the bases. I don’t think I would use this much foliage on a regular basis, but I think it looks nice in this particular case.

2025 models painted so far: 71, for 5 different games