...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.
Lovely work, great to see what you do with these
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Paul.
DeleteMore "Star Wars" goodness, Michael. Marvellous stuff. Simply marvellous :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you Simon, a couple more Star Wars posts and then on to this summer's big reveal.😉
DeleteThose Jawas, they end up in Alderaan places.
ReplyDeleteNice. The two box type droids, Dewey and louie? The Colours fit, blue and green.
Sorry, not Donalds nephews but from the film Silent running
DeleteNope, those two were in the mix of droids that the Jawas were selling.
DeleteHuey, Duey and Luey were wider, hexagonal-ish and had slightly longer legs.
ps - I knew exactly which robots you meant!
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. :)
DeleteThere are models of the three but bigger scale.
Delete@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!!"
Nice work Michael :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Tamsin.
DeleteLovely, the Jawas are great but I especially like the green box thingy, it's very nicely painted.
ReplyDeleteThank you, another Gonk droid, the weathering hides a multitude of mistakes.
DeleteThis makes me very jealous, but I must resist. That galaxy, far, far away is a very deep rabbit hole to tumble into.
ReplyDeleteThank you and you are not wrong - so, so many options!
DeleteLovely miniatures, if there's anything I like about Star Wars it's the Jawas and their sandcrawler.
ReplyDeleteReally great paintjob you did!
Thank you, it would be wonderful to have a Sandcrawler as a terrain piece. Mmmm?
DeleteWell done getting the motivation to produce these finished mins, they do look the part too as unloved bots with the jawas in pursuit.
ReplyDeleteThank you Joe, they are great for setting the scene.
DeleteNice 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.
ReplyDeleteThank you and I totally agree, fill the void with a droid!
DeleteA ot of excellent SW stuff! Love it :)
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Michal.
DeleteLovely collection of assorted Tatooine inhabitants!
ReplyDeleteThank you Mr. Nimrod.
DeleteInspired and wonderful work Michael!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Phil.
DeleteFantastic 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
ReplyDeleteOooh, I bet that's not cheap. I might have to have look though.
DeleteI so need to get myself some of those droids . . . Brilliant job as always.
ReplyDeleteThank you Mike, lots of different makes on show.
DeleteLovely as always, Michael!
ReplyDeleteThank you Dean.
DeleteThese all look fab. Especially love all the droids
ReplyDeleteThank you Simon, you can never have enough droids.😀
DeleteVery nice. The pair of the droids in pic #6 got me to smilin' this morning.
ReplyDeleteFor that alone, I am thrilled.
DeleteAnother great collection of your Star Wars figures Michael! Excellent paintwork as always!
ReplyDeleteThank you Terry, building up quite a collection, just neglecting to paint the troops for my own army!
DeleteAbsolutely brilliant!
ReplyDeleteYou are very kind Nick, thank you.
DeleteFantastic Mike! Now you need a in scale Sandcrawler for these little buggers to peddle their wares from. ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you Dai, very tempting on the Sandcrawler front, certainly worth thinking about.
DeleteA great and characterful crew!
ReplyDeleteGreat work Michael ... they're certainly spot on in terms of color scheme.
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