The first models I finished in April were actually posted awhile back – the two Ice Elementals from Mantic and the big red K̶h̶o̶r̶n̶e̶ Wrath dude from The Others: 7 Sins – both posted up as part of Monster March, as I finished all three of them just over the line (AU time) – but they’re ultimately April models in my own timeline. That leads us to this set of four models – these were started in February and were part of that initial “hey….” thought that led to the inception of the Gender-Ambiguous March Painting Challenge, along with the Mummies and Beavers and Werewolves.
Looking at the shoulder pads on these models, I figure that they fit in well enough with Armoured April, so they ended up serendipitously rolling into the following month’s challenge…
This time, when painting the models, I pretty much ignored the “canonical” images, as I preferred to paint them metallic as opposed to in greys. So I did just that. I’m such a rebel.
(See what I did there?)
As usual for Imperial Assault gameplay purposes, I needed to differentiate the leader/Elite model. I did so this time by painting the usual part-of-an-Imperial Cog on the edge of the base, and also by adding additional markings on the head, chest, back and shoulder beyond the more subtle chest and shoulder markings I’d painted onto the regular droids. Should be enough to make him fit in with the Imperial Forces while also standing out just enough on the tabletop.
And that’s it for today’s update. I’ll get some more stuff up shortly (I took a few more photos tonight) and hopefully continue to slowly catch up with all of the blogging things over the next weeks.
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Great renditions mate, the subtle markings and leader markings work really well, and like the silver colour you’ve chosen
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Thanks Dave – they just “felt” like they should be silver/metallic to me, rather than black or grey.
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As always nicely done mate and I hope life is treating you a little better.
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Thanks TIM. It’s a bit more settled right now, but there are pretty regular “things” and way too many meetings for my liking with all manner of people what gots to be done, taking a bit of time and varying wildly on the stress levels..
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Great work- the little paint additions on the leader work really well.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete – glad you like how they turned out!
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Excellent mate, neat work on the leader’s markings! They’d make great ‘men of iron’ in the 40k universe…
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Certainly an interesting idea. I wonder if we’ll get more profiles over time for the MoI?
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What a rebel indeed! Those are very nice, not seen those models before! Good way of identifying the leader!
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Cheers, John – I prefer to have the differences work “in-character” rather than rimming their bases in bright red. I mean, that works well for boardgame models, but my aesthetic is more “miniatures first” so I needed to work out a more subtle way that’s still easy to spot.
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Nice mate. I like the markings for the leader.
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Thanks mate, I tried to make them look like the sort of things that Star Wars regularly puts on their Republic/Imperial troops.
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One thing I have learnt mate ,is that you guys paint metals so well ,these look really good !
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Nice metal work, I saw these and methinks my Warbots have cousins here, though much better detailed and armed than their ‘70’s relatives. Hope all is well and glad to see you back on the path to hobby land.
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