Back to the Star Wars miniatures today to begin June’s models with two squads from the original 1st Editon Starter Set – the boys in white, the Stormtroopers. The original set comes with two squads of seven stormtroopers, including one each of two heavy weapon options of the DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle and the HH-12 Rocket Launcher.

There’s not a whole lot more to write about these guys, they’re very much the “potatoes” part of the “meat and potatoes” part of Star Wars. An amazing, timeless design, and you want a good number of them for any encounter!

I gave both squad leaders white “Sergeant” Pauldrons, as opposed to the orange ones that seem to designate “Staff Sergeant” but also sometimes “Squad Leader” which would potentially be something like a Corporal if taken literally except people also discuss black being for Corporal. In my own little force, I’m going to go with Orange outranking White, which does seem to be accurate across the board and gives me somewhere to go with additional models as I paint them.

And here’s the shot of them with Lord Vader leading them. I couldn’t take photos of my newly-painted Stormtroopers without one also featuring Vader now, could I?

More models tomorrow!