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February 2026 Monthly Round-Up

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February round-up is here! it seems that I’m perpetually about three weeks behind on these things. It’s mostly because I just don’t have enough time to spend writing these things and I’m forever backlogged by the need to take piles of photos, then edit them, then write these things up!

Obviously the main things I got painted in February were Star Wars models – a couple from Imperial Assault, a few from Legion, a bunch of 3D printed Ewoks for Legion and then some Speeders for terrain.

The kind of ..”second wave” of things I finished was a result of the Oil Wash sessions that Marouda helped out with – a bunch of 3D printed terrain pieces. Three Hoth-style turrets – again with Legion (and Shatterpoint) in mind, the scale-agnostic Tech Cult Storage Tanks and then the Pyramid building from Shiaic3D for Epic and Battletech scale use.

I’m kinda wondering at this point – should I print and paint another set of these Tech Cult Storage Tanks? I’d mirror the damaged & destroyed versions so they’re not exactly the same. I’ve been thinking about it since finishing them and posting them up here, but not 100% sure yet on whether to or not… Thoughts?

So to work out the total of what I managed to complete in February – 3 Turrets, 6 Storage tanks in vearious states, 2 Speeders, 1 “pyramid” building, 18 Ewoks, 2 Lukes & 1 Thrawn, 4 Emperor’s Guards, 6 Droids, aaaannd… that’s Numberwang!

With 43 more models painted in February added to the 64 models from January, I’m up to 107 completed 2 months into the new year.

March isn’t shaping oput to be nearly as productive as January or February so far, though I’ve got more “start to finish” stuff completed than usual so that’s something that does take a bit more time typically. With 2 weekends left in the month (though this one looks busy) I may manage to get a decent number of modles done in March. We’ll have to see – but back to February – Literally everything here also counts towards Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26 due to being completed between Dec 26th and Feb 28th.

(Not-Hoth) Sci-Fi Laser Turret by ImperialTerrain 3D Prints

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Echo Base Hoth Rebel Defence Turrets, Sci-Fi Laser Turret by ImperialTerrain 3D Prints

Sorry about the delay in posting. I’ve been flat out for various reasons and the table I need to use to photograph larger models has been covered in random shit, so it wasn’t until this afternoon that Marouda kindly did some metaphorical shit-shovelling which allowed me to take a bunch of photos. So expect to see daily posts as I get the end of February posted and hopefully even some of March’s models if I manage to take more photos tomorrow…

Echo Base Hoth Rebel Defence Turrets, Sci-Fi Laser Turret by ImperialTerrain 3D Prints

I found and printed this trio of Turrets – from Thingiverse by ImperialTerrain – late last year when I was first getting enthused about getting my Legion stuff up and running. I got them prepped and assembled and filler-primered and regular-primered and base sprayed with light grey pretty quickly, but then when it came to finish them – largely with oil washes we ran into a bit of a huge problem – that same table that’s constantly covered with stuff for 3D printing and related stuff is the same one we use for gaming and the same one I use for these photos.

Echo Base Hoth Rebel Defence Turrets, Sci-Fi Laser Turret by ImperialTerrain 3D Prints

Aside from the main cannons being blackened with panzer grey and picking out some of the greeblies to add some interest, most of the heavy lifting was done by a couple of successive oil wash sessions. The first adding black/grey, and then the second the following weekend adding the brown & red rust/dirt streaking and discolouration.

They are pretty big, but I’m not sure if they’re terribly oversized. If you look at the size of the turret and hatch it seems pretty reasonable for a wargame, and it’ll also work just fine for Shatterpoint. Obviously with something like this there’s space for sizing variation, particularly as they’re also fictional.

Echo Base Hoth Rebel Defence Turrets, Sci-Fi Laser Turret by ImperialTerrain 3D Prints

They’d also work pretty well in quite a lot of other games. Sure, they still look a lot like Star Wars pieces because obviously, but unless you’re a recent-40k purist who thinks everything needs to be covered in arches and skulls, just like they weren’t for the first decade or two of 40k – and something like Marvel is an even bigger hodge-podge of stolen references than Warhammer!

Despite my long delay in getting these posted up, they’re still a part of Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26!