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.
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Great work mate
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Thanks mate! 🙂
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Excellent work on all six, the metallic green looks great, and reminds me I want to do a metallic blue one I saw in the last season of the Mandalorian. I’m surprised Legion doesn’t have more rules for droids as they appear everywhere in the films and series.
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Cheers Dave – I haven’t really looked far into the Legion rules, but I do know there aren’t a lot of droids in the range, well, aside from the Droid army(!)
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Really cool work, I also particularly enjoy that metallic green! It’s so interesting to see how different paintjobs give such a different vibe to a model!
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Thanks mate. After finishing these ones I kinda wish I had a couple/few more of this model to paint in slightly different ways. I’ll hold off on printing more Gonks for awhile though since there’s so much else to paint still!
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Well done again matey👍🏻.
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Thank you Pat!
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Very cool – love that metallic green you used on K-27!
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Cheers Alex, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out!
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Nice work, those little “dustbin” driods look great.
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Thanks mate. Really quick to paint and a nice little free STL model.
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Very nice Az! Simple but well-done nonetheless
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Thanks Mark. These old-school Star Wars characters are all designed to look good on the Cinema screen rather than on an Instagram post, so they’re much simpler and have far less pointless filigree than Warhammer, etc models.
Not that I don’t also enjoy that as well, but this is a nice change of gears.
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Look, sir, droids! 🙂 This is a great looking group! I somehow forgot that C-3PO can have different paint schemes and how cool it looks. Those Gonk droids are awesome as well. A must have in any Star Wars fan’s collection, I reckon!
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All very nice! 🙂 A nice range of colours as well!
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