Generally curious, as to how others will approach painting their Imps or Rebels. I anticipate personality arch-types like ...

• Literal - Every figure will have the most minute detail of accuracy based on every photo or screen cap of all time. Anything else is just not right and not painting in this manner is a disservice to the game

• Variety - A mix of factual figures with movie themes and some stuff you just think looks cool. Like, I get it and I still need a small amount of freedom of expression.

• Outside the Box - Everything will be unique to want you want and, most likely, at the highest ends of creative and original. Obviously, 1% range of cool factor. Doing my own thing ... including non-white stormies ... and, well, don't care what the tribe/herd/others think

Tongue in cheek ... little brevity with this ... having some fun with the topic. However, interested in people's answers.

I am quickly falling into variety.

I know I will have some thematic squads. Meanwhile, I am diligently working on my final Rebel color scheme, which has NOTHNG to do with the movie. Something I like and want.

Think the bigger question is Endor, Hoth, Sullust, Tatoonie etc themed colour schemes.

Soo many basing options not enough bases.

Seriously want to paint stormtroopers in "squad colors" not unlike the clone troopers in Clone Wars. Rebel troopers will be in Endor colors (one MUST be Captain Rex... you know which one). Standard Vader Colors, Standard Luke colors. Snowtroopers...... undecided. Their armor is already snow camo. Biker scouts... considering camo pattern or slate grey (the empire learned something after being drubbed by a bunch of ewoks)

11 minutes ago, DarkTrooperZero said:

Think the bigger question is Endor, Hoth, Sullust, Tatoonie etc themed colour schemes.

Soo many basing options not enough bases.

Very intermingled

I am quickly learning something you have to test and think through. So you don't end up with a bunch of minis you are time committed on with some ... yeah, not feeling it ... regrets

I will be painting most of the Imperial stuff as seen in the movies as well as the important Rebel characters (Luke, Leia, Han, etc), but with the generic Rebel infantry I will just be doing whatever I think looks good.

1 minute ago, ShadowKite said:

I will be painting most of the Imperial stuff as seen in the movies as well as the important Rebel characters (Luke, Leia, Han, etc), but with the generic Rebel infantry I will just be doing whatever I think looks good.

This

Heroes, opinion, organic and precise. Everything else? What looks good

I spend a lot of time outdoors; in camo; and have the colors I really like and high chance my Rebel forces look just like that

Commanders need to look like the movie characters. Most of my Imps as well, with basing likely based on desert (seems like it could work for lots of different maps). Rebels I would be a little more loose with.

Commanders and named characters will get screen-accurate treatment. My Imperials will be a back-world garrison, with dirty armor, and rusty, oily faded vehicles and weapons. My rebels I haven't decided on yet, probably screen-accurate ish for most of them. Forest or city bases for both factions.

As a historical wargamer, I am sorely tempted to paint various Rebel trooper squads in the colors of different nations involved in WW2, or at least using different late war camo schemes. Partially as I already have the paints, and partial in reference to the LARGE amount of surplus WW2 weapons and equipment that was modified to make props for the Original Trilogy.

The Snowtroopers I am definitely planning on Galactic Marine style paint job, as I find it more interesting, but still using essentially the same armour. The Stormtroopers... I'm not sure yet. I don't really want to try to paint movie accurate as then I will have a harder time telling them apart from everybody else's Stormtroopers, but I do want to at least come close. I might do a bone color armour instead, with different color accents somewhere to deliminate squads.

My rebel troopers will look like private basteren from rogue one.

My Stormtroopers and snowtroopers will be dirty but screen accurate. My commanders will all be screen accurate and my fleet troopers will be... Not sure yet...

Relatively screen accurate.

I am just putting this out there: If you are doing screen accurate, make the BASE distinctive in some way. Tournaments and other organized play events might end up having Empire vs Empire and Rebel vs Rebel, so try to make SOME part of you models look different.

Edit: Even something as simple as painting the rim of the base in certain colors, or something.

13 minutes ago, Caimheul1313 said:

I am just putting this out there: If you are doing screen accurate, make the BASE distinctive in some way. Tournaments and other organized play events might end up having Empire vs Empire and Rebel vs Rebel, so try to make SOME part of you models look different.

Edit: Even something as simple as painting the rim of the base in certain colors, or something.

Yep this is great advice. I will be painting the rims of the bases and probably will mark the undersides as well so they don't get mixed up.

I'm going to do unskilled painter screen accurate.

4 hours ago, DarkTrooperZero said:

Think the bigger question is Endor, Hoth, Sullust, Tatoonie etc themed colour schemes.

Soo many basing options not enough bases.

Check out clear basing - can be very useful for multiple terrain types. I haven't tried it myself, but aside from the odd glossy glare here and there, it seems pretty convincing.

Article for Bolt Action Basing - see end of article

As many have said, heros will be screen accurate. Trooper units will have a unique look, while the entire army is cohesive.

Side note. Just watched an interview with Matt Wilson from FFG. He spoke to the extreme possibility of seeing non GCW units in the future, after we've seen all the classic units first. He talked about how there are the classic characters we haven't even seen yet in the same breath as not seeing special forces yet. He also referred to the core box Rebel troopers as the "Endor ruffians types". I think that puts a nail in that. We wont be seeing any Endor Pathfinders as we already have them.

French Foreign Legion dress uniforms for stormtroopers, some kind of camo on scout troopers, and WWII French tank camo for my AT-ST.

Vader is probably gonna be stock.

I'm debating whether or not to have the fleet troopers be screen accurate or have them wear red like the "Rebel Friend" in Lego Star Wars II.

My storm troopers will be pretty average, with only the shoulder pauldron seeing any customization as colors go.

I may attempt kill markers on the At-St, but other than having my bases rimmed with a color will be a nice touch.

Screen accurate with some exceptions:

Stormtroopers:

HH-12 trooper painted like a shock trooper,

DLT-19 trooper with blue shoulder plate,

Rebel Troopers:

Z-6 trooper with urban camo colours (blue, light grey),

MPL-57 Ion trooper with urban camo colours,

Snowtroopers:

T-7 Ion trooper with blue shoulder pads,

Flametrooper with galactic marine pattern,

Fleet Troopers:

One trooper will be painted to be a Zeltron.

Scattergun trooper with red shirt,

MPL-57 Grenade trooper with red shirt.

If IA is any indication... slowly and middlingly.

2 minutes ago, KalEl814 said:

If IA is any indication... slowly and middlingly.

But that way you get the absolute most value out of your models!

Stormtroopers, speederbikes, AT-ST, all in the standard colors.

Not sure about the snowtroopers, might paint one squad in shore trooper colors to use "outside of Hoth"

Want to make a dedicated Hoth collection, including a basic amount of snowtroopers and a surplus speederbike duo in white and greys.

Rebeltroopers and AT-RT in a mix of blueish greys, khaki and browns like the rogue one uniforms.

Might paint the Airspeeder in khaki with blue markings.

Was planning to paint the fleettroopers in brown best with khaki trousers and shirts. But if the models are as the look on the pictures I'll keep it and one squad and use the standard colors

Characters as it is shown.

Basing is going to be woodland, with small rocks, grass and some tuffs.

And ofc snow and rocks if I make that seperate Hoth collection

5 minutes ago, Caimheul1313 said:

But that way you get the absolute most value out of your models!

It’s true!

Also it’s nice to see that I’ve improved over the year and a half or so I’ve been painting. My latest Stormies look much better than the first ones I painted, which were just the second batch of minis I did when I was painting again for the first time in 20+ years. We now lovingly refer to them as Derp Squad.

5 minutes ago, KalEl814 said:

It’s true!

Also it’s nice to see that I’ve improved over the year and a half or so I’ve been painting. My latest Stormies look much better than the first ones I painted, which were just the second batch of minis I did when I was painting again for the first time in 20+ years. We now lovingly refer to them as Derp Squad.

Yeah, I have some models like that too. You COULD always strip them and start over... or just keep them as museum piece.