It’s been quite awhile since I posted any Star Wars stuff here. To rectify that, I painted a little batch of figures from Imperial Assault over January.
First up, we have the rather well known C-3PO as well as the not-so-well-known 0-0-0 aka “Triple Zero” (an ironic name if you’re an Aussie, as you’ll see). I’m not going to explain 3PO, but 0-0-0 is “Evil C-3PO” and is some sort of sadistic torturer droid.
I didn’t have time to paint R2 in January, and the robot figure I alluded to in the Raptor post when I was talking about looking for a missing model is Triple Zero’s partner. Evil R2-D2 or BT-1 “Bee-Tee” (yes, I did have to look these names up) is currently MIA, so …one day.
Now we have the HK droids. If you played the PC RPG Knights of the Old Republic, you may recall the sarcastic assassin Droid known as HK-47 (not to be confused with the Soviet assault rifle). Anyway, like anything in Star Wars that is mildly interesting or gets mildly popular, the army of hacks that put together the majority of the EU over the decades that it was a thing kept returning to this particular well. And so we have a small batch of them for Imperial Assault. As always, IA (or Star Wars Descent) uses red-based models to designate “elites” and so I just paint them differently. These ones didn’t take much imagination to differentiate them.
All six of these count towards both Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26, and also count towards Anne’s 2026 Miniature Assembly Challenge. Well, not assembly in the typical sense, but I did have to clean up the mold lines on all of these models, so annoying prep was certainly part of the process performed in January!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Excellent work on all six mate, you’ve got a great detail in all, and your HK’s look a lot more unified than mine.
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Thanks Dave – my favourite part of the HKs was how quick they were to paint up!
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They look fantastic! Looking back, I was never too enthusiastic about painting the sort of minis in these games because they never seemed as detailed as the traditional GW stuff. But you’ve made them look so good, maybe I should try again!
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Thanks mate. I think the lesser amount of detail on some of these Star Wars models in particular is actually a benefit over the GW stuff in quite a few ways – less busy/more “realistic” and a lot quicker and easier to paint!
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Very nice indeed 🙂
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Thanks Warburton!
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All very nice! 🙂 I actually knew about Triple Zero because it’s featured in the Doctor Aphra graphic novel series (probably my favourite series of any of the Star Wars graphic novels)!
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Ah yes, I’ve heard of that character and read a brief bio to get past the “WTF is this?” but I didn’t realise that she was in the same books as Evil-R2 and Evil-3PO
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Haha, I had to look up what’s with triple zero in Australia, and I’d be concerned about who to call in an emergency! LOL
Apart from that, really cool job, seriously, I love them
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Well,. if Triple-Zero was anywhere nearby you’d want to call Triple-Zero! Thanks mate!
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Great work on these!
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Thanks mate! Keep on getting those SW models done and hopefully between yours, Dave Stones and mine we can keep each other motivated!
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Hopefully it will help us all through!
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Love the look of all of them!
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Thank you, Tarmor!
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Very cool mate! Never heard of any of ‘em apart from 3P0 – is that evil one ever in the films?
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Cheers Alex. The HK droids were in the KOTOR game and then ended up in a bunch of other things.
0-0-0 seems to be from a comic/comic series, so I assume also about a dozen books, but I really don’t know much about it that I didn’t look up for this post!
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You did a nice job painting them. I particularly like the droids.
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Thank you Anne. Hopefully I can get some more painted and posted up here this week!
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You’ll either know what I’m talking about and enjoy this or I’ll offend you, we’ll see which it is…
Nice painting, meatbag! 🙂 Its been years since KOTOR came out but I reckon HK-47 still stands as one of the better Star Wars characters. It is just so entertaining to listen to and interact with in the game. I think it inspired a lot of other droid characters that have come since then too.
Not to take anything away from Goldenrod either, who also came out really nicely!
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Thanks mate! You wouldn’t have offended me anyway, but I certainly recognise the reference. And yeah, you’re right – I watched a video on “all the HK droids” and it was a great example of SW EU writers not being able to leave things alone. As for Goldenrod and his evil twin… well, I just posted something about them now!
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