Back to Imperial Assault briefly now. Today’s model is Drokkatta, the Steampunk-looking Wookiee player character Grenadier from the Heart of the Empire expansion, which is next on our groups list (after we finally get the last two core campaign missions completed!)
Drokkatta has darker fur than the other named Wookiees shown to date, and a kind of bundled dreadlock thing going with his …hair? Head-fur? So I attempted to reflect that while still maintaining some tonal variation.
Marouda will once again be playing the Wookiee when we start the next campaign, so she’ll have the role of Drokkatta, since for some reason she always wants to play as the Wookiee. That’s …fine. Doesn’t worry me. But it does mean that it gave me quite the bit of advance notice on which model to paint up, and so once again she’ll probably be the one with the painted model for most of the campaign before the other two PCs get painted up. I guess I can probably pick my own character sooner rather than later and get started on whoever that turns out to be…
Looks like Drokkatta is all about grenades and pouches. And pouches and grenades. It’ll be a fair bit different to the close combat monster that Gaarkhan was.
…and yes, I’ve touched up that messy bottom of the base rim since taking the photos. It was bothering me, too!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Great looking Wookie, hoping to pick this expansion up soon, so will be having a go at him myself. Have you done the Death Troopers yet ?
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No Death Troopers in HotE sadly, just Riot Troopers who I haven’t even looked at yet, and Sentry Droids, who got the Hot Water treatment this afternoon..
Death Troopers are in the newest one – Tyrants of Lothal, which I haven’t picked up yet. Not sure if it’s arrived locally at my preferred retailers yet.
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Getting my box sets mixed up again ! LOL still on my list to get but after TOL
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All good! We haven’t started playing HotE so I don’t have any gameplay feedback for you yet. The AT-DP is pretty cool, though – even though it should be much taller, based on when I looked it up to see some artwork.
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Yep, that’s another nice Woogie and I like the darker fur too, nice variation.
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Thanks mate! 🙂
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I completely agree with Marouda , you can’t go wrong with a Wookie – and a Wookie with grenades must be even better! Great work, love the fur and the subtle metallics.
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Explosive Wookiee. Sounds like a euphemism for something, doesn’t it…?
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Aye, or the name of an amazing band 😀
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“Exploding Wookie” would also be a good name for a mixed drink.
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Awesome job mate, and glad you tidied up that messy bottom rim… ain’t nobody got time for a messy bottom rim!
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Where’s my rimshot emoji?
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Great paintwork as always, though for some reason I’m not that keen on the model itself, not sure why maybe its the googles?
Cheers Roger.
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Could be. He’s got a bit of a flat face, and the detail’s not so sharp there because PVC. Wasn’t the funnest model ever to paint so I was happy to get it completed. 🙂
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Nice work- the fur has come out well.
Another one to be allowed to win.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete. Getting the fur to reasonably match the art was a bit trickier on this one, but it worked out okay in the end!
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Some more nice variation here. I think I might be tempted to go even further in differentiating Wookies by deviating from the fur colours we’ve seen and doing patterns based on various animals. The dreads kind of remind me of Lister from Red Dwarf in the painting, but not so much on the Model.
The only place I get a steampunk vibe is his goggles, but he’s approaching Rob Liefield levels of straps and pouches.
What did you do with the basing? It looks interesting, but none of these pics really have a good angle on it.
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You certainly could do that, but in this case I was keeping it to the artwork, and with the other pair of warriors, I was happy to keep them looking traditional yet slightly different to the heroes. The dreads on the model are basically fat sausages, so it is what it is. 🙂
The base is just a 32mm GW diamond plate/aquila base painted in metal with some rust and oxide staining on it. It’s not super interesting, but fits better than the flat PVC thing he was attached to.
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Gotcha. I think there was maybe some reflection or something that was making it look like it might be more interesting.
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Yeah it’s hard to see what’s going on there from the angle of the photographs.
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Hey, it’s not even Tuesday yet, and here comes another Wookie! Nice paints on him, great job on the fur once again and I really like those grenades. Interesting character overall.
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It’s interesting to notice the difference between the grenades in the artwork and on the figure. Looks like he swapped them all out for double-yield ones!
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Ah, size wise?
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Yeah.
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Looks great mate. Nice work on the fur
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Cheers, IRO!
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Can’t really add any more to what’s already been said! Nice mini!
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Thnaks JNV. Marouda likes it, so that’s the most important thing!
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