Sunday 7 July 2019

Any old iron? Any old iron?

...any, any, any old iron?
I have a hankering for a Tatooine themed board for Star Wars: Legion and nothing says Tatooine more than Jawas and Droids.  I had already painted several of these wasteland natives curtesy of Imperial Assault, but have added to these with some Wizards of the Coast pre-painted Star Wars Miniatures and some new 3D printed sculpts from Skull Forge Studios.  All were primed, including the pre-painted ones, which on reflection seemed a waste of time, and based to match the existing models in my collection. 
 The 3D printed sculpts were lovely, but a little smaller than I imagined so I decided to raise them a little with an additional washer.  Then, following a painting tutorial from Sorastro, set about polishing off half a dozen of the little scrap metal merchants, before turning my attention to their stock and trade.  
I seem to have amassed quite an assortment of Droids from various benefactors and manufactures over the years.  They have sat idle for far too long whilst I pondered over colours and designations.  Now, with a little more time at my disposal, I decided to stop prevaricating and get on with it!
With decisions made and research completed, I was pleasantly surprised and how quickly I managed to get through them.  Having decided that these droids were going to have found themselves abandoned on such a desolate place, they were given a fair amount of rust and weathering, which had the added advantage of concealing a multitude of mistakes.

45 comments:

  1. Lovely work, great to see what you do with these

    ReplyDelete
  2. More "Star Wars" goodness, Michael. Marvellous stuff. Simply marvellous :-)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you Simon, a couple more Star Wars posts and then on to this summer's big reveal.😉

      Delete
  3. Those Jawas, they end up in Alderaan places.
    Nice. The two box type droids, Dewey and louie? The Colours fit, blue and green.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Sorry, not Donalds nephews but from the film Silent running

      Delete
    2. Nope, those two were in the mix of droids that the Jawas were selling.
      Huey, Duey and Luey were wider, hexagonal-ish and had slightly longer legs.

      ps - I knew exactly which robots you meant!

      Delete
    3. Love the Alderaan pun Paul! I had forgotten about Silent Running, somebody must do those droids? The Gonk droids often cropped up throughout the Trilogy - on the Lars' farm, inside the Sandcrawler and most famously being tortured in Jabba's palace. The blue colour scheme is a nod to one of my earliest Star Wars toys. :)

      Delete
    4. There are models of the three but bigger scale.
      @Tasmin. It´s one of my favourite films but I can´t watch the bit when loiue gets "lost"...almost as sad as the bit in Dumbo when he´s seperated from his mother.."sob!!"

      Delete
  4. Lovely, the Jawas are great but I especially like the green box thingy, it's very nicely painted.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you, another Gonk droid, the weathering hides a multitude of mistakes.

      Delete
  5. This makes me very jealous, but I must resist. That galaxy, far, far away is a very deep rabbit hole to tumble into.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you and you are not wrong - so, so many options!

      Delete
  6. Lovely miniatures, if there's anything I like about Star Wars it's the Jawas and their sandcrawler.
    Really great paintjob you did!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you, it would be wonderful to have a Sandcrawler as a terrain piece. Mmmm?

      Delete
  7. Well done getting the motivation to produce these finished mins, they do look the part too as unloved bots with the jawas in pursuit.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you Joe, they are great for setting the scene.

      Delete
  8. Nice work! You can never have too many assorted droids. Especially for SW types of scenarios, there are always a good variety of them running around in the background. The jawas look good, too - nice glwoing eyes.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you and I totally agree, fill the void with a droid!

      Delete
  9. A ot of excellent SW stuff! Love it :)

    ReplyDelete
  10. Lovely collection of assorted Tatooine inhabitants!

    ReplyDelete
  11. Inspired and wonderful work Michael!

    ReplyDelete
  12. Fantastic work Michael, as for a sand crawler Palitoy do one that's almost perfect scale, when they have it in stock, got my eye on one ! LOL

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Oooh, I bet that's not cheap. I might have to have look though.

      Delete
  13. I so need to get myself some of those droids . . . Brilliant job as always.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you Mike, lots of different makes on show.

      Delete
  14. Lovely as always, Michael!

    ReplyDelete
  15. These all look fab. Especially love all the droids

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you Simon, you can never have enough droids.😀

      Delete
  16. Very nice. The pair of the droids in pic #6 got me to smilin' this morning.

    ReplyDelete
  17. Another great collection of your Star Wars figures Michael! Excellent paintwork as always!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you Terry, building up quite a collection, just neglecting to paint the troops for my own army!

      Delete
  18. Fantastic Mike! Now you need a in scale Sandcrawler for these little buggers to peddle their wares from. ;)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you Dai, very tempting on the Sandcrawler front, certainly worth thinking about.

      Delete
  19. A great and characterful crew!

    ReplyDelete
  20. Great work Michael ... they're certainly spot on in terms of color scheme.

    ReplyDelete

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...