From ByronM - Imperial Storm Troopers (196 Points)

Continuing on with my Imperial faction for Star Wars: Legion, here are 4 units of Storm Troopers. 

The whole backstory for my Imperial force is they are hunting out the rebels on a desert planet, simply so that I could base them up to work with my desert based middle eastern building and Tattoine buildings that I make.

As such, I tried to go for a worn desert look similar to what you would see in the Mandelorian.  To achieve the look I painted them all with their white and black colour sections then clear coated in with a gloss clear.  I then slopped on a bunch of AK desert weathering grime (oil based), let it dry, and then used some hand-dandy GaiNotes panel liner sticks (thanks again for recommending those Greg!) and some odorless thinner to clean up all the paint that was not in the recesses. 

I find this wash method is super fast and comes out way cleaner looking than any acrylic wash you could ever do, simple because you can precisely remove excess wash with the panel liner sticks (think super dense / stiff q-tips).

All of these figures are all from the core box set (well two core boxes) and painted up as a very simple Red 1, Red 2, Blue 1, Blue 2 squads.  Each commander has a colour coded shoulder pad with the appropriate white stripe(s) and then each trooper has a set of dots under their base to identify which squad they go with.

While the images give them a slightly yellow tone, that mainly comes from the light and reflecting off the bases.  For some reason even with all of Curt's photo tricks he taught me, I can't get them both white balanced and black balances, which is I suspect since these images are essentially only white and black!

These 4 squads should net me a cool 196 points as the Star Wars Legion game is a much larger scale at close to 40mm tall for most figures!  I have several more squads to finish up my force for the Imperials, so watch for more in the near future.

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Wow, that is a mess of Stormtroopers, Byron. White can often be a little tricky to pull off well, but these look brilliant and your tips will come in very helpful for those thinking of collecting a force of these. 

While these fellows are certainly a hit, when the topic of Stormtroopers comes up we often think of something like this:

Well done Byron!

-Curt