Painted Imperial figures

By keschnell, in Star Wars: Rebellion

If anyone is on the fence, painting these minis is a lot faster than Imperial Assault. You can just do base coats, drybrushing, and washes and make it look nice fast enough. For the storm troopers I just primed white, did a black wash and touched up a few black details on the mouth and eyes plus retouched some white.

I think the only thing that will be really tough to paint will be the Rebel Troopers. QGDgBzQ.jpg

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Great job!

Excellent work, any chance of some close ups? Also, what specific colours did you use for the At-At's? Thanks for sharing.

Looks awesome! What was the method used?

Love it!

Thanks. I'll see if I can post close-ups later. It's always a little hard with only a cell phone camera at night.

As far as colors/methods:

I primed everything black except the stormtroopers (actually, I did prime them black and tried drybrushing white and didn't like the effect, so I reprimed the troopers white). I googled a lot of the ship and vehicle photos for the Imperials and noticed that some photos had more of a gray tone, while others had a bluish gray or even purplish gray look to them. So I mixed up the colors a little bit (adding a bit of blue or purple to the gray) to add variety to base colors for the death stars, (super) star destroyers, AT-STs, AT-ATs, and imperial assault carriers. I then did some drybrushing of lighter gray. Not shown--I painted the exhausts on the star destroyers light blue with whitish blue centers. As far as the stormtroopers I used a black wash over the white primer to give it a worn look and also to do a lot of the work for me by filling in where black is on the suits (painting tiny black lines everywhere would have been painful and not looked great). Then I just touched up the black lines with a fine detail brush (in the mouth eyes, and under the chin mostly) and then lightly brushed white on some of the highlighted parts so the troopers weren't THAT dirty. Then I based everything to give it some variety (I prefer basing if it makes sense), some with indoor floors and others with outdoor terrain, since they are going to travel to a variety of planets.

Ooooh! Paint mine next, please.

WOW!!!!

That is amazing!!!

When you say you used black wash, do you go over the entire mini with the wash? Or just targeted areas?

For the stormtroopers, I washed the entire mini, which mostly took care of all black lines I needed to do. Then I just retouched some of the white. These minis are so small that details aren't nearly as plentiful as in a larger scale like Imperial Assault.

I got everything done for the Rebels this weekend except the Rebel Troopers. They will require the most work. Once I finish them, I'll post everything.

Cant wait to see the Rebels!

These look SOO GOOD. I have never painted a miniature before, but after seeing these I started watching how-to paint mini's videos on YouTube. Gonna invest in some supplies and take up a new hobby! Looking forward to seeing the Rebel figs.

Quick question, did you also wash the ships/death stars? Or was it just the stormtroopers that were washed?

Can't wait to see the rebels!

Thanks!