A nice, simple update today – just a pair of Wookiees from Imperial Assault. This pair work as a pair of player allies in the game in the campaign game, or a pair of troopers in the “vs” Miniatures Rules. We haven’t yet used them in any context, but I imagine they’d be rather nasty in melee.
There’s not a great deal to discuss here. After rebasing onto 32mm round bases (which they still manage to overhang in that pose) The paint was an interesting exercise as I wanted to create some interesting fur tones with some depth and variation, while making them distinct from one another as well as from Gaarkhan and …any other Wookiees I may have been painting at the time. *cough*
So I’m pretty happy with how that turned out. More practise on things like fur variation is never unwelcome for model painting, so there it is!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Nice to see two identical figures looking very different. Very nice.
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Thanks mate. When it’s not worth converting or you just can’t be bothered, some unique paint can be almost as good sometimes.
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Very nice work on the different fur colours. One of my (many) painting sins is being too lazy with fur/hair colours and application. I need more shades of brown still.
P.S.: Prior to this post it hadn’t really occurred to me that Wookiees don’t wear pants.
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Not having to wear pants is one of the major advantages of being a Wookiee, yes.
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“Not having to” is more with regard to who could make them rather than what decency would actually demand, judging by the second photo.
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I’m sure all that dangling is just front-fur…
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I wonder if they’d look more or less silly than The Hulk?
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Yeah, it’s something I’ve been practising more and more over the past few years. As for the Wookiees – they’re the ultimate Commandos for that very reason!
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Fantastic colour variation on the fur, must get round to picking these up at some point
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Thanks mate. They haven’t been used yet, so no idea how good or useful or not they are in-game…
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Nicely done mate, great work on all that fur!
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Cheers Alex!
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Nice job getting some variation in there. Also, I really like those blades they’ve got in their right hands. Remind me of Tonfa, which were my favourite weapons back when I was doing martial arts.
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Yeah, I still have mine here, which I keep handy near the front door (just in case!) – though here they’ve gone the typical fantasy/sci-fi route by making them bladed. Because of course, plain looking blunt weapons can’t hurt anything…
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They look great- let them win though. 😀
Cheers,
Pete.
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Will do! 😉
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I’m with TIM on these! Very nice!
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Cheers mate. 🙂
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Who doesn’t like a Wookiee!
Thread jacking, let me know when you get your twisted catacombs bits. Im
one of the last backers so I’m sure you’ll get yours way before me and I’m a bit out out the new kickstarter is happening before everything is shipped as I was pretty interested in it but not before I’ve had my pledge delivered on this one.
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I’m right down the end as well. I watched it without backing until the last minute instead of backing early for a buck, so I have a horrible high number. I honestly don’t expect that they will have gotten all of us the models in hand this year now that they are fucking around with their focus on another campaign.
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That’s my worry too. Especially as I’m 864 of 891. Still when they released the shipment timing earlier in the year it worked out I should get stuff in Oct so I’ll let you know when I get delivery.
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Yeah, I just extrapolated from their actual shipping time and rate so far to get to December – so based on that it would be awhile as it is without being distracted a lot for a month, and then constantly distracted somewhat for the rest of the year.. they still have 1/3 of their pledges to get out the door, yet they’re claiming “almost done” as they launch a new campaign. Smells like something their Minotaurs would be leaving on the ground if you ask me…
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Lovely work as always! love the colour gradient on these looks so much better than just brown with a DB!
Cheers Roger.
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Thanks! It was tempting to just do that, but since they’re large models and basically just fursuits. I added thectonal differences beyond just going with one light and one dark.
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Again I’m impressed by your mastery of browns. You’ve managed to both give these a lot of visual interest and made them look very diferent to each other.
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Thank you Curis, though I feel like I’m still very much on the road to mastering browns and fur. The good part of that is I can see when I’m learning new things and getting better, which is always a nice feeling!
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Like them, especially the fur variations! They’d certainly be fun in melee (not for the opponent)!
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Thanks Mark. It’d be interesting to run an all-Wookiee team through a mission one day…
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Yea, I’ve admired your work on animal fur, but I’d say you have definitely outdone yourself on these. Looking forward to seeing an all Wookie post at some point in the future.
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I actually have that coming up sometime (hopefully) inside the next week. It’s going to be a busy time for the daily posts as I get a bunch of stuff finished and posted up heading into the end of the month…
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Ok, Tuesday, then? 😉
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As soon as I’ve taken the photos and fit it into the queue, actually. I need to go take photos for today’s post shortly, so I’ll try to get a few days worth done at once…
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No rush, just teasing ya, because you always try to push us to get things done. Will gladly ogle the Wookie pics once they get posted though!
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😉
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