Draconis does…… Droids! Back to Star Wars Legion again.

15th March 2024

Onto the main three characters now. I initially thought that Count Dooku was all in black. However, some research indicated that his trousers were actually a dark brown, and his cloak was anything from dark brown to red (depending on sources) outside with a beige to yellowish inner. I tested out some browns and decided to go with my foundry Spearshaft triad.

I kept Dooku as two sub-assemblies, so that I could get to the cloak area that would be behind his torso. For the black tunic and boots I tried contrast Black Templar. However, I didn’t feel that it worked very well, so instead overpainted it with black legion, followed by a light drybrush of dark grey and some further highlighting with a slightly lighter grey. The trousers had a black/brown mix followed by highlights. And the boots had a gloss varnish.

For the cloak I started out with the spearshaft shade washed with black. Then I worked it up through stages of thin highlights of the dark mixed with increasing amounts of the mid spearshaft, finishing with pure mid for the finals highlights.

The inner cloak was a similar process, working from shade/mid mix all the way up to light with just a touch of white.

Then onto the face and hair. The face was thinned contrast flesh with a thin highlight. The hair was edged with black, then painted white, washed black and highlighted white again. I made an attempt at the eyes. However, my eyesight and hand stability are not what they used to be. His right eye came out ok, but the left less so. I tried to correct it, and just left it as ‘that’ll do’ in the end – rather than making more of a mess of it.

The lightsabre was red, a mixed highlight laid down in a line, then a white line laid down. Then I painted over a red contrast, wiping it away from the centre line for part of the blade closest to the hilt.