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Star Wars Shatterpoint: General Veers

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Star Wars Shatterpoint: General Veers

Yeah I know, the Shatterpoint model of Veers comes with a trio of Snowtroopers. I’ll get to the Blizzard Force models when I get to painting their Legion counterparts and do them in a combined batch-paint.

Star Wars Shatterpoint: General Veers

Obviously, since I was painting the other Veers models and the Veers-alike print, it only made sense to me that I should also paint the Shatterpoint version of him at the same time. So that’s what I did. I figure I’ll do the same sometimes when painting Legion models and also drop in some of the Star Wars Imperial Assault models as well – it’ll be a decent way to get models for the other two games painted while not nessecarily focusing on those games. Some of the IA models can fit into Legion as well with a bit of a base lift, though perhaps less so for these big Shatterpoint boys!

Star Wars Shatterpoint: General Veers

Once again they did a good job with this Shatterpoint Veers. I wonder if they got the same sculptor who did the new Legion model to do both as they share a very similar sculpting aesthetic. It’d certainly make sense, I guess!

Star Wars Shatterpoint: General Veers

Now when I posted those crates a little while ago, I mentioned how I’d used the same palette on them as I had for my Imperial Officers. They were actually all on the go at the same time for awhile (these officers actually started WAY earlier, and just took forever to get finished – I had actually been hoping to get these models done for the Forward March challenge, but I got stuck on their cloth uniforms for awhile. Like 2 months.

Star Wars Shatterpoint: General Veers, Star Wars Legion General Veers, Anvilrage Studios The Desert General.

In any case, here they are alongside the crates. Once I get hold of some regular Imperial Army Troopers and get those painted as well we’ll really have a box party happening!

(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!