Droid Speeders

I've discovered a brilliant technique for painting B1 battle droids using Skeleton Horde contrast paint. Simply watered down slightly and wash over white, the results are spot on. This new discovery has led to B1 factories starting up again and the droid production line has begun in earnest. These little figures are a joy to paint as I keep saying because most of them are so simple to do.

These 'STAP' speeders were easy too once I had cross referenced the colours from a source book. They did come on blocky, printed bases but I had the idea of mounting them on transparent brush bristles. This worked well, as I could make them fly a lot higher and adjust the flying height too with different lengths of bristle.

Simple little paint jobs but effective.

 The stones add character to the base and give it so weight. They also help to secure the bristles.

The skeleton horde contrast technique works really well, any touch ups can be done with iraqi sand from Vajello.

Clone Heavy Repeater 15mm

These scratch built heavy repeaters should address the balance against the endless waves of droids.

I've decided to keep the clones in their basic colour scheme and not go for one of the colourful legions. In a way I think they are more striking in their white armour.

This is probably an early version of a type of E-Web repeating blaster.

The armour was given a coat of gloss varnish to make it shine. The gloves and blaster were Matt varnished. I gave the gun a bit of bronze colour to make it pop.

 

New Royalist Cavalry Squadron

The unit is now complete. I'm really liking the new buff clad troopers, much less 'fuss and feathers' of the others.

The figures in the unit are Dixon, Redoubt and Foundry.

Plastic horses from warlord games and Wargames Atlantic, they both work well together.

Just one broad brimmed hat, not too many. 

The Royalist cavalry so far, three squadrons of cavaliers.

I like the Foundry figure here in amongst the others, mounted on a bigger horse he fits in just fine.

 A more staggered formation should hopefully make them look like they've moving at speed.

Update: All based now with the cornet ammended too.

The basing is three layers of flock then mud added with a brush. The mud effect is 'Thick mud' from Vallejo.

ECW cavalry Cornets

As I'm painting more cavalry units, I thought it was time to update the ones I had done already. I placed an order with Flags of war and as I have two squadrons in each regiment, I doubled the sheet order. This should give me two standards for four regiments.

The newer cornets are so much more colourful they really pop. I just thought my old flags were looking a bit washed out.

I like this unknown black standard. However, it was a last minute swop and now I need to change the trumpet pennant to match.

Anything for speed, I used a Sharpe to colour in the white gaps around the borders of the cornet.

More red colouring, a much easier method than using a brush.

The new cavalry command has it's cornet and is now ready for basing.

 Much nicer, clear colours. Well worth the effort.

Silvan Elf Company (7th)

Another Elf company joins the army to protect the borders of Mirkwood.

This heroic leader figure is from Reaper Miniatures, while most of the others are from the Oathmark range.

This company has a few more greens in than normal, just to make them stand out a bit.

Holding back the tide...

The other base has quite a range of figures, mostly Oathmark again but also a few unknown makes.

Looking at these photos I might make a few tweaks and add a couple more spearmen to the rear ranks. Swordsmen are good but they don't really say shieldwall like a row of ash spears.