The Empire continues to rise with today’s post, with two sets of the Imperial Specialists Personnel Expansion painted up.

I went with the standard feldgrau uniform for the Imperial Officer here, though she does look a little too shiny here so I may have to go back and sort that out in the future. The R4 astromech I painted as R4-I9 which is the first imperial astromech toy with the right kind of head that came up. I was tempted to paint the Comms Officer as the Death Squad Commander, but for the time being I went with a more film-accurate version. I’ll do the classic toy version sometime down the line. The medical FX droid I just based on the box art.

With two sets of these I needed to distinguish them from one another a little. The obvious first part of this was to paint the officer in a different scheme, so she got one of the black uniforms. The Medical Droid and Comms Officer both remained the same due to obvious uniformity, but the Astromech gave me the opportunity to swap out the model for a different one – so in this case the R5 droid from a Rebel Specialists Personnel Expansion set which I painted as R5-J2. Those fine silver lines were a nightmare to paint as well! When I get around to painting the rebels, they’ll have the R4 for their own variation.