You Look Like A Nail's Arts & Crafts

[You Look Like A Nail 834]

Like just about everybody else, I'm getting into Legion and painting up all my shiny new toys.

First up, a pair of filthy terrorist scum.  All my Legion guys are going to be painted for forest/jungle environments.  Keeping the bases a little understated but still thematic.  Pretty happy with how these guys came out.

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I also spent some time this morning setting up a tabletop to see if I had enough terrain (spoiler: no).  

The base I'm using are a set of foam flocked boards I made, um, a few years decades ago.  They've seen some hard use and clearly need to be cleaned up a bit.  I have a bunch of tree bases that I originally made for X-Wing that will be repurposed, plus some stock GW-made linear obstacles that will fit.  The big piece is an old toy AT-AT that I've had since forever, which fits in nicely scale-wise and adds a lot to the table.

Going to need to make more terrain to flesh this out but I think I have enough to get started (especially since these boards are 6x4 and so I can leave off 6" on either side).  I also have the barricades from the base set I can throw in if I need to.

 

[OMGBRICK 247]

The Mon Calamari trooper is awesome! Sculpted yourself?

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That was actually a head-swap from an old SW miniatures figure (Admiral Ackbar himself, I believe).

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Some more rebel scum.

 

Two more rifles.  The guy on the left is clearly Mac from SuperTroopers.

 

Squad leader is a head swap from the Duros guy, nothing fancy but I like the looks of it.

 

 

 

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Got my first squad of Imperials done.  I have a process for these guys that makes them actually pretty quick to bang out, which is good, because I have an acre of these fellas.

 

[gTrezona23 5]

Nice job painting everything.

[Xiervak 161]

Welp, now I know what to do with all those worthless Fringe pieces from SW minis! I am glad they scale well together! Well done with the painting!

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Couple more terrorist scum.

 

First squad complete.

 

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Head of Imperial HR.

 

I had given some thought to doing Vader in camo like my stormtroopers (my kids encouraged me to do so, even) but that's a bit too far, even for me.  Vader DGAF about you shooting at him and he doesn't dress to the occasion.  What you see is what you get.  You gotta respect that.

[Stasy 2,502]

What paint are you using for that z6 trooper? I'd love to change up skin tones, but haven't found one I liked for a darker gentleman. 

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The base shade is Vallejo Burnt Umber.  It's decent as a skin tone.  I tend to mix my skin tones as a bunch of one-offs, though, to get some variety across the squad.

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Working my way through painting so, so many stormtroopers.  In the meanwhile, doing up some conversions to add more variety to my rebels.

 

Two modified squad leaders, to go with the Duros one I've already painted.

 

 

Some modified squaddies.  One is a head swap from the trooper who was originally a Duros, the other is an ion gunner turned into a Togruta.