A slightly out of order post today – I have some stuff from January I still need to post but like an idiot I forgot to photograph them the other day, so instead we have some of this month’s models. The Imperial Royal Guard from Star Wars Legion. If you’re of a certain vintage lile myself, you’ll think of these as Emperor’s Royal Guard instead, but I guess it is what it is on that one. I don’t really care, but given that the official name of the models is “Imperial” we’ll go with that in the post title.
Much like both Palpatine and Vader, these guys are predomonantly one colour. Which obviously this time is red. So again, it was time to try to vary the colours and use different finishes within that to show the different materials and textures, though there are some comics and action figures and such out there to give ideas.
Despite being out of sequence, these were indeed cleaned up and built in January so they count towards Anne’s 2026 Miniature Assembly Challenge, and of course they’re completed before the end of February, so they also count for Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Excellent work on these mate, and fantastic work on the varying colors and textures.
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Thanks Dave! I remembered how my old Kenner & Hasbro Action figures had used multiple shades of red(ish) – especially under the robes & kinda went with memory impressions on how to go.
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Nice 🙂
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Cheers! 🙂
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Cool job on these too. It’s not easy to make an essentially monochrome mini look good, but you really got these right!
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Thanks Suber – seems there’s quite a lot of that in the Star Wars range, espcially on the Empire side!
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Cracking job mate – great use of gloss on their lids, that works really well
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Thanks Alex – I pretty much had no choice on that part of the models, after all! 😀
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Excellent job on these cool-looking soldiers. If nothing else, Star Wars has always produced some really cool character designs!
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Thanks mate. Being for the screen and with more use of real-world inspirations (for a lot of things – not all) the designs are often simpler and far less busy and blinged out than most of our miniatures today but still hit home extremely well.
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These are brilliant! 🙂 I think the red is absolutely spot on!
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Thanks John – I’m going to need to replicate it before too long. I hope I took a paint bottle photo! 😮
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They look great mate and the variation in red and texture etc is spot on
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Thanks mate. Gloss varnish doing its job here for sure!
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Excellent painting. The colour/texture really shows when comparing helmet to cloaks.
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Thanks Tarmor. The colours are very close so that gloss varnish is really helping out here! 🙂
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Excellent work. I remember thinking these guys looked extremely cool when I first saw them as a kid.
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Yeah, they had a cool air of mystery and danger – even though they did nothing. Pretty par for the Star Wars course, really!
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Great work on these, I particularly like the helmets
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Thanks mate, I’m quite happy with how well they came out!
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These have come up lovely mate, especially like the way the helmets look like shiny plastic and the capes look like fabric, good stuff.
cheers Roger
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Thanks Roger – gloss varnish for the win here!
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Very sinister looking!
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Cheers Mark! 🙂
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These are Groovy! You know, what would really be far out would be making them like a Chinese nesting doll, one inside the next. 🏄♂️
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Cheers mate. You know what? I imagine that someone out there has done just that in the past decades.
Well.. close!
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