Star Wars (of a sort) - UD 28/5 More rebels WIP

[Silent Invader]

EDIT: This started as a Rogue project though I’m now (May 2020) inclined to move away from the Pacific island setting to somewhere more temperate, which will better suit my mass of terrain. As a like the lushness of Endor (but I can’t stand Ewoks) I might do some sort of mix-up between what are my two favourite movies: Rogue One and Return of the Jedi*

*as long as I bleach any scene involving Ewoks.

INDEX

P1. Wookiee
P.2 More Rebel minis (troopers, pilots, etc) WIP



I thought I’d started a thread on this before but I can’t find one so seemingly I didn’t. 

Anyways a slow-burn WIP project thread for SW: Rogue One inspired forces to be played with FFOL:Galactic Heroes rules.

First completed unit of six is the Wookiee Hole Gang:





These 6 WOTC bendies were prepped, based and painted in a day, which is a record for me. A few were also converted slightly, with the raised arm mini having its pistol added and others having bent weapon barrels replaced with styrene.

Here they are next to my only other completed minis, two human troopers made from Warlord Games WWII USMC and Project Z plastic parts.

[OSHIROmodels]

Brill 

[Silent Invader]

Brill 

Thanks coach 

[Dr DeAth]

Jolly Nice

[Elk101]

I like those, nice Wookie work.

[Silent Invader]

Thanks chaps, no doubt you’ll be able to kill them all at some point 

[AKULA]

Great work mate

 

[Silent Invader]

Cheers Matt - I’d hazard a guess that you have a vast collection of bendies 

[LeadAsbestos]

Exactly what I'm trying to convince my group to start. Watching w interest!

[Silent Invader]

Exactly what I'm trying to convince my group to start. Watching w interest!

Good luck and thanks 

[AKULA]

Cheers Matt - I’d hazard a guess that you have a vast collection of bendies 

 

Funnily enough no....but I have got a massive horde of WEG that I’ve not done anything with, plus four honking great AT-ATs that I was thinking of selling ....too many projects!

[Silent Invader]

Funnily enough no....but I have got a massive horde of WEG that I’ve not done anything with, plus four honking great AT-ATs that I was thinking of selling ....too many projects!

 

I didn’t intend to start any new projects this year. I’ve started 3 (or is it 4?)! 

[AKULA]

I didn’t intend to start any new projects this year. I’ve started 3 (or is it 4?)! 

 

Normally I’d say that that sounds all too familiar, but this might be the first year in at least a decade that I haven’t started any new projects...in actual fact I’ve sold a couple off...trouble is my existing ones are spiralling out of control.

 

[LeadAsbestos]

You’ll succumb before the year is out 

Maybe now is the time to suggest a shared storyline Star Wars project?

[Silent Invader]

I’m afraid I don’t have enough Star Wars knowledge* to create a storyline, I just liked Rogue One 

*I rely on my Star Wars coach, OSHIROmodels, for Star Warsy opinion, guidance, recommendations and approval 

I have, however, got a plan for a few small skirmish games involving a coastal outpost comprising bunker, gun battery and flight base.......

I’ve made a small board:





The water is clear acrylic sheet that has been ‘glued’ to a ply backing board using white silicon sealant with streaks and blotches of blue paint mixed in.

I’ve also made an entrance to an underground bunker:





Btw I’m not fully sold on these terrain items yet, as I think I will probably add more grass plus tufts to both, and more dust etc to the bunker.

And the gun battery is ready to paint (and has been for months!):



The gun units are magnetised so will rotate on their low towers.