The last unit I finished painting for the June-It challenge is this foursome of Emperor’s Royal Guards from Fantasy Flight’s Imperial Assault game. Pretty simple and straightforward paint jobs – several shades of red, highlighted, shaded, glazed and highlighted again. A satin spray to finish and give the robes a nice silky sheen, and slightly more highlighting and a gloss varnish on the helmets to make them look hard and lacquered.
They’re not bad models by any means, though at the same time they’re not amazing or anything. Likewise, the paint job is very much a “good enough” tabletop level, and entirely appropriate for these figures. Most importantly, they capture the look of the troops from RotJ very nicely, and were a nice, quick set to paint up.
I’ve noticed that like Descent, people often mark out some of the models with red base rims. I didn’t want to quite do the same with these models, but I did want some way that I could make two of these ERGs slightly distinct without making them look jarringly different. I settled on painting the edges of the Imperial Cog on two of these bases, like a floor pattern in any Imperial base. It’s subtle enough to not stand out too much, but should be obvious enough in gameplay, especially with players looking down on the models.
These would have been published tomorrow, but I’ve just come back inside after taking photos of these and some others, and wouldn’t you know it – blurry, unusable photos for one of the other units. I really am not up to going back out to retake those photographs tonight since it’s dark and cold, so these guys are up for today’s post instead!
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In my ignorance I don’t know if they go together with the all black figures you recently completed but they would make for a great contrast. Great work as always.
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The all-black robed ones are from the Film (or Novels) The Lord of the Rings. These guys are from the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi. They do have being robed bad guys in common, though! 😉
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Time they were merged then, Star Lords perhaps?🤔
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Like Star Lord from Guardians of the Galaxy!
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Nice mate, lovely reds. You know, I always wondered what the point of these guys was back in the day… they didn’t look especially killy to me! Seeing their modern equivalent kicking ass in the Last Jedi was a bit of an eye-opener 🙂
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Thanks Alex – yeah, that scene was one of the few highlights of that particular film, but good to see what they’re capable of.
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I second this statement.
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Nice red, nice shading, nice overall!
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Cheers mate! They should do the job nicely on the tabletop!
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Nice group of bad guys, and nice touch on the bases. Curious – what glaze do you use for red? I don’t think I have one I like at present, though I could always use glaze medium.
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For these, I used Carroburg Crimson as a glaze/dark wash, because I wanted to get it quite dark. There’s also Bloodletter, which is a much brighter one and more of a true glaze.
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Never tried Bloodletter, but I do really like Carroburg for washing reds. It’s similar to Agrax, but gives a much nicer effect, bringing out the red a bit more.
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Actually, there’s also the Army Painter Red Tone which is pretty good. I’ve used that one more than either of the GW ones, but this time it was Carroburg time.
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Pretty sure I picked that one up, from a recommendation by you. Well, it was a pack of the AP tones. I think I tried the AP tones once so far, but need to give them another try.
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Yeah, they’re pretty good – and great over metal to give it a tint!
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Thanks – just ordered!
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They look pretty mean. In most pc games red means scary. I dont want to but heads with them
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Probably a good idea!
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You’re on a robes/cloak kick lately! 🙂
They look pretty ace, man. Tough models to paint, being all red and not much you can do for variation. When I first saw the bases, I was going to ask where you got those. Can’t believe you freehanded the Imperial Cog on the bases. That looks really sharp. Excellent idea, greatly executed!
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Once again you’re too kind. The upside of the lack of variation on models like these or the Nazgul is that it does make them a lot easier to paint decently because, well, there’s not very much to worry about!
I felt the cogs were a bit wonky, but good enough. Nice to see they hold up from a distance!
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Oooohhh nice work.
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Cheers mate!
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I really like the cog on the bases, what a great idea!
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Thanks Rachel. It was a bit of a last-minute “hmm.. how can I differentiate them without changing their paintwork?”
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