Captain Rex

 

Did up a small carving today of Star Wars Clone Captain Rex’s Helmet. Came out well, although I haven’t got the hang of printing on fabric yet. This is on a cheap T-shirt using Speed Ball Fabric ink, which I’ve only used a couple of times. It’s very different from my normal printing inks, so I’ll most likely be killing a few more t-shirts in the near future. Need to get some Blue ink to do a two tone version.

Star Wars Captain Rex T-Shirt Print

Now working on Cad Bane print converted from a nice drawing I found online.

 

TIE Interceptor

With my 3D printer really preforming well lately I'm still bashing out more terrain, this time a TIE Interceptor. I'm going to have to find time to edit the landing pad that I printed for the standard TIE fighter so I can have one to accommodate the Interceptor.

Meanwhile I got myself an early birthday present. A nice table saw, so making my spray booth is going to be so much easier. I'll actually be able to get straight cut edges. Even better, the building of a new house next door is tossing alot of plywood off cuts, so I'm gathering a good amount of free materials for future projects.  

on the home front , I finally got around to putting the letter box in place over the weekend. So far its settled in nicely and hasn't moved. Due to the fact that the main service lines go right under it I haven't concreated it in. Pegged in place and screwed in tight.  Next mission is gonna be the driveway garden ... next summer perhaps.

Now onto planning the Droid list for Saturdays Club day.

Tie Fighter

 Almost finished the Tie Fighter and landing platform. Just need to decide on how I'll deal with the stairs and how to attach them. Will probably look at using some magnets as that will make it much easier to store and transport. The print of the TIE fighter was a bit fast and at 0.2 so the lines show up a bit, but still looks the part for a terrain piece.

Here's a size comparison with my AT-ST, its the one in the low position, so the TIE Fighter is just a smidge smaller un height. 

Terrain Day

 With ANZAC day holiday today, I spent it painting all the terrain I have been printing over the last few months, well at least some it. And of course I'm printing more as at the moment, currently on teh printer plate is different style Tie Fighter. 

Started out with the landing pad and moved onto a load of scatter terrain in the form of boxes and crates etc, then moved to painting the Tie Fighter and it's platform, along with more work on my second AT-ST. The barricades still need alot of work, they aren't that inspiring to paint. A productive day off work for sure.

Terrain on the brain

 Now that I've got my 3D printer humming and printing really well I've been blasting out terrain with the goal of having a full on 6x8 table of terrain for Legion. I just undercoated the landing pad.

The I've also got the Tie Fighter Landing platform as well.

Going to have to go for some desert houses and buildings next or a random space ship for the landing pad.

Creative juices

My creative juices are currently supplied by Glenfiddich. No a bad drop at all, although my new house seems to have acquired an Angel that likes to take a its share... the Scotch is just evaporating all the damn time., I'm sure of it.

On the gaming front I got my self organised and printed off the updated rule book. Then created a clear file book for it, along with spine images. It came out pretty good.

My BX Droids are coming along slowly, not much more paint on them, got distracted with gardening etc on the new house .

 

Movement sticks

 First set of movement sticks almost done.. just a few touch ups to do. Looking way better than the plane old grey

Star Wars Legion AT-ST build - continued...

 I've now got the model together on the base (a quick snap while it drys). I discovered my positioning was a little out, so the right foot on the rock hasn't got a strong footing, so the bond isn't great. So I'll need to green stuff it and build up the rock to the foot, otherwise I can see it coming off during a game. Should be an easy fix.

Over all I'm pretty happy so far, still got some detailing to do and even possibly adding in a trooper.

Star Wars Legion AT-ST build - continued...

 After a day's drying of the base coat to allow the enamel to fully harden, I then coated the whole model with AK Worn Effects fluid using the air brush.

 Once dried I then applied the base colours for the desert camo using Vallejo paints and my air brush. Khaki for the under belly and shaded areas., then Golden Brown for the light areas. Then finally Iraqui Sand for the camo strips.

Once dry, I then used a hard bristle brush and started working out the chipping away the paint with water. The AK Worn effect fluid doing it thing and making it real easy to chip up. I had forgotten how good this stuff works.

When I was satisfied I had enough chipping on the paint work, I ran a gloss varnish over the whole model to seal it all together and to prep for the pin washing. Hardest part of that was knowing when to stop, chipping. its way to easy to over do it.

So for the pin wash I used a bunch of different AK products,

AK Dark Wash
AK Fuel Stains
AK Engine Oil
AK Light Rush wash
AK Damp Earth

Let it dry and then do a clean up and adjust the parts that ended up with too much wash or build up.

Matt coat the entire model to seal it together.

Star Wars Legion AT-ST build.

 Time to test out some modelling skills and weathering effects on the Star Wars Legion AT-ST. 

A nice big model to add in some little details. Started with the main body, adding in ladder rungs on the side, a rope on the top. I then used some left over lights from a 40K kit for front facing lights. Then using the two small plugs that came with this kit for plugging up the weapon mounts and attached them to the back. Also used a spare missile pod from a BattleTech mini which looks like some sort of sensor in this scale. Black undercoat and a glossy brown base coat for the rust effects base colour.

For the Base I've gone with a couple of stones and will position the AT-ST walking over them, with the main body turned so that it exposes the under carriage engine. Would be a shame to hide all that detail they have on the model. Using some blue-tak to hold it in place while I figured out the positioning.

Big Guns

 Got my 3D printer working sweet again after frying the hot end and having to replace it. So started cranking out Legion terrain few weeks ago. Got two large turbo laser turrets done and painted up.

Gotta love thing - XX-10 Turbo Laser Tower for Star Wars Legion by Syllogy - Thingiverse

New Year and new games

 So a new year and a new game of course. Now I finally in my new house and have all my toys back from storage, life is turning back to normal, well the new normal of course with good old Covid19. 

Painting and gaming now back on the table. This time its Star Wars Legion, which alot of the guys have gotten into at the club. In fact we had the whole club playing on Saturday. Here's a few shots of some the tables.

I started with the second starter box as I love the Droids. Also good to start painting again with something that isn't to difficult. Been a long while since I painted anything.

So on Saturday I played my first game against Bryan (second game ever for me and Bryans first game). We bumbled our way through it with help from some of the other guys. Was alot of fun and really close, we pretty much destroyed each other and then called it as a draw.

Second game I matched up against Joel, who want to test out Tank vs Tank battle with his Clone Troopers vs my Droids.

End result was 7 / 3 to the Clones, and both tanks finally destroyed by small arms fire. Awesome game and so close it came down the the last turn of the last round.

Roll on 2021 

Boba Fett and a pile of plastic

On the 3D printer this morning I have Boba Fett. I've scaled him up from the original model off Thingverse to be about 25cm tall. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3806630

I also pulled out the box of miniatures from the last Reaper Bones Kickstarter this morning, just one or two hundred models. Think I should have enough models to make an undead / vampire style army for Warlords of Erewhon.