“Hello There” – Painting Star Wars

Here is the finished look for The Mandalorian, Din Djarin.

Had a lot of fun with this guy and even did the little orange highlights on his gloves which I was reminded about by someone from Twitter!

As well as working on the team from Rogue One, I also thought it would be fun to venture into the realm of 3D Printing and pick up some of the new miniatures by Dark Fire Designs.

I have obviously been loving The Mandalorian and so thought it would be cool to paint up the hero of the piece and Cobb Vanth “The Marshal” which were printed by Proteus in Wales.

The miniatures came in at around £20 for both of them and once I’d ordered them it too less than a week for them to arrive at my front door.

The details are really awesome and whilst the disintegration rifle feels a little delicate, it has survived my clumsy handling of the miniature, for now.

Cobb Vanth also came with an alternative head option which featured Boba Fett’s helmet but I thought I’d leave that off to make sure you could tell the two apart a little better.

I’m going to start work painting Mando first I think as he’s going to be a little easier. Then, it’s time to begin work on Vanth and get that battered armour looking good…or as good as I can get it!

I am eager to pick up more from Proteus now too. The vast majority of the Dark Fire line is on there, especially the stuff based on the new season of The Mandalorian, so I might end up snapping up more.

In terms of gameplay, I think using Din Djarin might work well as a stand-in for Cassian Andor perhaps with the rules for Boba Fett or Han Solo being good for Cobb Vanth. I shall have a tinker either way and maybe even work out some new rules for them!

I saw that Cassian Andor and K-2SO came up as available a couple of weeks ago and so snapped them up as additions to my Rebel force in Star Wars: Legion!

The miniatures were fun to paint and K-2SO was very easy to work with obviously. It was a bit of a pain working in the yellow bars on his joints but I think it came out well.

This then means that I now have Cassian Andor, K2-SO and Jyn Erso all banded together to get stuck into those dastardly Empire dogs!

The scheme for the bases fits in nicely with the rest of the army and makes them applicable to both Endor and Sariff which is good.

I was a little bumped out by having to paint Cassian’s jacket in such a light blue as I wanted something a little more “Space Wolf Grey” but I couldn’t be bothered to wait for one pot of paint to arrive through the ether!

I’ve dropped some images down below of all of the stuff I’ve now finished off beyond the heroes for my Rebel force. I got another Core Box all done and dusted during my time off recently…

One of the things I changed was the way I was batch painting the second set of troops (shown in red and white). Instead of doing three types of brown and the khaki I instead worked with just one single brown for most of their outfit which significantly cut down the time it took to paint them.

Another step was to simply wash the miniatures and highlight JUST he faces and hands to make sure they were tabletop ready quickly.

I also finished off both AT-RT Walkers!

I armed one with the laser and the other with a flame thrower but I have every intention of just using them as whatever weapon configuration I want against my friends when playing.

I think I did better with the basing materials as a whole and I now just need to wait for a Cassian and K2-SO plus some Pathfinders to finish off what I want to do right now.

Here is how these Star Wars: Legion Rebels look right now before they get a highlight and brought in line with the rest of the collection!

Another set of Troops to work on AND the walker but then I’ll have done the first half of a Starter Army to use in games.

Recently via my livestream this week (give me a follow HERE!) I also finished off some more of the characters from Star Wars: Imperial Assault.

I really wasn’t happy with how Gideon turned out, at least from the back, but I think that Fenn and Jyn are both looking good. I wish that I could give them proper bases but I think the grey will work best for these board game miniatures.

I think I went too heavy with the wash on Gideon (left) and I’m not sure that it came out as well as I had hoped. But, I think overall the miniatures look pretty good for board game figures.

One thing I have noticed is that these miniatures are nowhere near as good as the Legion ones in terms of quality (obviously). I am very much looking forward to painting up some Rebels over the coming week.

So, I got stuck into more painting recently and thought I’d show off a bit more of the work for both Imperial Assault & Star Wars: Legion. First up is the Wookiee himself, Chewbacca, whom I painted up as soon as I possibly could…

I tried to be brave and go with some super-light highlights but I just didn’t like how it looked and so went back to the drawing board on the model.

You can hopefully tell the difference in the fur colour from part-to-part but I was happy with the finished result and now the whole crew is together for some Rebel antics.

I also dug out Darth Vader from the Imperial Assault box and painted him up!

These miniatures are not quite as detailed as the later Legion ones and it shows. But, I think I did pretty good with black, a grey drybrush and then Nuln Oil to draw it all together.

I think he looks suitably menacing at the very least. Now, I just have to get to work on all of the other miniatures from Imperial Assault I now have!

I now have all of the Core Box plus Return To Hoth and Twin Shadows to get painted up…plenty of time to spend working at hobby now!

Time to dunk some of the miniatures into a soothing bath of Dettol too…