Michka's Star Wars project (Second vendor stall started 7/8/2017)

[Michka]

Awesome to hear. Post some shots when you get a few painted. I'm loving everyone's Star Wars threads right now.

So which Crooked Dice figures did you get?

[rumacara]

Well, it may take a while before i paint something.
About the Crooked Dice miniatures i choose are these (pictures taken from the CD website):

[rumacara]

I´m also seing some CP Models from their SciFi range to use as bounty hunters or aliens on rebel troops, like the one pictured.
Sorry to highjack your thread with pictures.

[Michka]

Time for another update. I finally got a Rebel Hero from Imperial Assault painted. This is Fenn Singis, also known as the Veteran.



I also started doing a few touch ups and re-painted on some older Star Wars stuff. I finished re-painting my Rancor.



This is the Action Fleet Rancor toy. I glued his mouth in place, filled some divots and screw holes, and fixed the arms in place. Originally this toy could open it's mouth and you could stuff the small Action Fleet figures into it's mouth. The tail would open up so you could get the figures back out. I knew this feature had to go before my players started shoving fully painted miniatures into the rancor.

Even though this isn't the best representation of the beast, it's size is perfect for these larger minis. Here's poor Fenn having a really bad day.



It's quite a bit larger then the WEG version. I never did finish this figure. (Sorry for the bad picture. The raw metal blends too well with the white background.)



I also started making some scatter terrain for this project. I like how the painting turned out, but I'm not pleased with how big these bottle cap crates are. Maybe they'll look better in an outdoors setting. I'll be looking around for some smaller bottle caps to try out.





More to come. Let me know what you think.

[Raxxus]

how big are the imperial assault figures compared to hasslefree or gw?.

[randycarter]

Very nice job, I liked the rancor very much. Did you fin difficult paint toy's plastic? Did you used a spray prime? I nave some old toys top that I'd Luke to sue ad exoscheleton-mecha or something like

[Michka]

Thank you randycarter. If memory serves, I used Testors Flat Black spray paint to prime the toy. Back in the day I painted it I used standard miniatures paints, dry brushed over the primer which worked fine. Sealed with Testor's Dull Coat and the paint never came off.
For the re-paint I just painted over original paint job using thinned down cheap craft paint.  A few layers of thinned craft paint, then a few blotchs of green and a dry-brush over the whole thing. Washed with GW Nuln Oil and it was done. If I was starting from scratch I'd wash the toy with soapy water before priming it. I've been doing this recently and it's made a world of difference. 

Raxxus, I will try to get another scale photo taken in the next couple days.

[randycarter]

Thank you very much!

(Damn mobile, when I write in it I sound like a gungan  )

[verd]

Great stuff in this thread 

[rumacara]

Very good Michka.
Those bottle cap crates look very nice and if you find some a little smaller you can make 2 varieties and it probably disguises these ones size. For me they look ok.

[Michka]

Thank you Verd and Rumcara. I haven't painted any more terrain lately, but it's on my mind a lot.

Update time. Feels like I haven't made an update in forever. First up I have a minor character from Star Wars.



The Darth Vader figure comes in the Imperial Assault box game. Not a bad figure, but something about the head looks wrong to me. I replaced the blade with brass rod, which I do with all my lightsabre blades. Well, not the WEG ones. Those aren't as bendy and out of control as the plastics and such.

Speaking of Lightsabres, I have a pair of Jedi characters from the metal WOTC line.



These were originally painted years ago, but I had to touch them up a lot to bring them up to snuff. The blades were replaced on these as well.

Here are two of the hero figures from the Imperial Assault box, Gaarkhan the Wookie and Mak Eshka-rey the Bothan Saboteur.



The bothan came out really nicely. I wasn't sure about him till I put the last dot in his eyes. Now I'm pretty darn happy with him. The wookie is suffering from shiny wash syndrome. I've given it a blast of dull coat which helped. I'm hoping a second blast will tone the shine down some more. Darth could use a second blast too. 

Next up, the Nexu from the Imperial Assault box


With bases


Without bases

I worked on these figures for weeks. I even re-painted the second one because I wasn't sure the fur were coming out light enough.
So what do you guys think? Should I add the bases to the Nexu, or leave the bases off?

And finally a model I painted a while ago, purely to serve as terrain.



It's one of the pre-painted X-Wing models that came out a few years ago. I weathered it quite a lot, and added details to the cockpit. I took a shot with some I.A. stormtroopers to show how well it matches for scale. It's not screen accurate scale, but it works for a miniatures game.

 

That's it for now. Raxxus, I'm sorry I forgot to get those scale shots taken. I'll try to get that done soon.

[rumacara]

Well done.
Your collection is groing fast.
That x-wing looks great as scenario. I think Revell or AMTERTL has one in 1/48 () that is also good.
With or without bases the nexu look great.

[huesped]

i must admit that the bothan mini is damn cool. great paintings!!!!

[Mason]

Lovely additions.
That sure is one angry looking Wookie!
 

Would love to know where that X-Wing came from too.
 

[twrchtrwyth]

Wonderfully painted minis. Where is the X-wing from?