From GregB: Imperial Shore Troopers (70 points)

More members of the Scarif garrison ready to deploy.

It is good to be back on the painting wagon again, and for my first submission today I return to a favourite subject from last year - Star Wars and the Scarif garrison from the movie "Rogue One". We have a group of Shore Troopers to bulk out the garrison. These are 28mm figures (yes, they still are, even if they are big), a mix of "official" figures from Fantasy Flight Games (not called that anymore, but I have lost track of what they are now called) and 3D print designs from DarkFire.

Shore Trooper squad from Fantasy Flight Games.

The Fantasy Flight Games figures comprise a regular squad of Shore Troopers, an officer and five troopers, including one with a heavy weapon. These are lovely sculpts and I really like the poses of the troopers, a nice mix of action, firing and moving among the group.

Squad leader and corporal, ready to deploy.

I love these firing poses...

The action poses are fantastic too - great sculpts.

Moving into the 3D prints, we have two support groups that are rounding the garrison out nicely. One is a sniper team (cue the jokes), comprised of a marksman and a spotter.

Imperial Shore Trooper "sniper" team - we know all the jokes about Imperial soldiers and their inability to hit anything in the films...but in actual table top games, the Imperial soldiers can indeed hit targets!

And to provide some leadership and direction for what is now a platoon-sized Shore Trooper force, we have a senior officer and a communications trooper. 

Command team for the beach!

Another view of the officer/command team.

I have applied my own interpretation of the various colour schemes I have seen online - and in the film - for the Shore Troopers.  The senior officer has the greatest variety of colours - between that, his pose and his pistol armament, and the flunky with the comms unit following him around, he is all set to look the part on a gaming table and lead an Imperial garrison in response to terrorist acts carried out by the so-called "Rebel Alliance". 

The Fantasy Flight sculpts of these figures are awesome, but the 3D prints are tremendous too - Dark Fire Designs is just great, and if you like Star Wars, I really recommend checking out their STLs. They have a number of licensed printers too, so you are spared from actually having to contemplate owning one of those !@#!@#ing things yourself.

For scoring, these are 28mm figures, although "Star Wars Legion" models have been scored at a larger 35mm size, so with ten of these in this submission I believe this will be worth another 70 points.

Another great contribution, Greg! I really like the colourful accents on these figures, although while they will not help them hitting any better they might help them getting hit. But I am confident they will teach those terrorist upstarts a lesson or two! I must say that the 3d prints look fine and go along very well with the "official" range, and your excellent painting really brings them together. Well done indeed! Now there seems to be some confusion about scoring these, as I have seen them scored as regular 28mm as well as larger, but for the sake of consistency I'll score them just as the last minion did ;-). Besides, after your fabulous monster tank for a mere 20 points I think I owe you something too. So 70 points it is!

Martijn