From SanderS: These are not the Sand Troopers you're looking for! - (71 points)

Hoi,

What's this Sander? Are you actually going to paint Star Wars Legion troops? Have you started another project? The answer is no, the figures presented here are part of a commission I took following the Crisis Protocol post. Remember that I painted those figures for our FLGS owner? Well one of his customers noticed them and asked for my contact information and well, the rest as they say is history from a long time ago and a Galaxy far far away...

My client has just about any set from wave 1 and quite a lot of wave 2 as well. I am to paint the Imperial side and all different squads (Storm-, Snow and Scout Troopers) are to be done as if ready for a desert environment (Tatooine anyone?)

What I did to make them more gritty and wheathered is I coated them Zandhri Dust, build the layers of armour up as follows:
- base coat
- Valejo Dark Sand
- Gryphone Wash (GW)
- Valejo Dark Sand
- Army Painter Arid Earth
- Valejo White
All the while making sure that lines of the basecoat kept peeping through, I really like the result.

The Dewback is a whole other story... I cannot remember how many layers of green I used nor how many washes, but it was huge fun painting this beast!

Quite a lot of stuff is cluttering my work desk at the moment: before I took the commission I was trying to finish my Death Watch Marines, which I am still painting alongside the Stormies. I also have my mission from the Snow Lord and have to prep stuff for that and my other Challenge Island entries are almost all prepped and ready to go except: since there's another storm going on outisde (this one is called Ellen if I am not mistaken) I can't go outside to base-coat anything... bugger!

Pointswise I think 7 x 5 points for 28mm figures is 35. The Dewback is a bit harder to count: if one takes it as a "28mm mounted figure it's 10 points, but it is rather more work and larger than a regular horse, while it isn't as big as a vehicle so I'd say 15 points? Well I'll leave that up to the administrations of our beloved Minions...

Cheers Sander


I thought that SW Legion figures were somewhat larger than 28mm, so I have taken a look back at other entries and they have been scored as 40mm figures. I've scored the Dewback and the rider separately as mounted (it's a big beast) and foot. So, lots more points that you expected!

TamsinP