This post was to be called either “Protocols of Power” or “Power of Protocol”. I went with the former since the protocol droids (C-3Po models) are official Star Wars Legion models.

3PO and 0-0-0 aren’t to be confused with the Star Wars Imperial Assault figures I posted recently, I painted the 3POs at the same time, but I only painted 0-0-0 this past weekend. I’d just gotten the second two Gonk droids painted, and then decided I should paint one of the other Protocol droids beyond 3PO. After a bit of googling I decided on K-27, which is a protocol droid that was on Kashyyk (the Wookie planet) according to a short story in some magazine.

Good enough for me. This left me with one more of them to paint, so I thought “ah well, what the hell?” and painted it as 0-0-0, who we met in that previous droid post last week. These two additional droids give us options for running a second 3PO, or more likely a “3PO” in a Republic force, or a “3PO” in an Empire force. or just using them as thematic terrain (droids running around) or even as objective markers.

These “Gonk” droids are 3d prints. I printed one of them alongside a bunch of other stuff and thought it turned out really quite well, so I printed two more. This meant I had to paint it, so I naturally painted it in the colour scheme of the classic Kenner Star Wars figure “Power Droid”, which I owned as a kid. Obviously, one C-3Po and one Gonk wasn’t enough models to have in a post by themselves, so I painted the other two and got them finished this past weekend. The brown one is loosely based on another Gonk figure, probably one from the famous RotJ scene, and the other that I just made up and added a couple of Star Wars-esque stripes to.

There are no rules for Gonk Droids in Legion as far as I am aware, so as with the extra-3PO options, these will serve as “scatter terrain” or perhaps objective markers or some other thematic thing on the tabletop.

So Goldenrod and Bluey were finished in January, while the other four are from February. Still, given the challenge timeframes of the assembly/cleanup, they all count towards both of the challenges I’ve been posting towards recently: Anne’s 2026 Miniature Assembly Challenge for the assembly and printed-model-cleanup being done before February on all six, and Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26 for being painted between Boxing Day and the end of February. Win-Win.