Just now, Caimheul1313 said:

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

I maintain it’s thematic that the Stormtroopers whose helmets are painted very badly all get dunked on by the Rebels quite easily.

my current plan is to have 2 "main" color schemes...one with "Zandri Dust" as the base color (i.e. desert) and one with 'Waagh Flesh" as a base color (i.e. temperate forest).
there will be some variety in the gear though and at least one Blue jacket or vest and one "english uniform brown" jump suit.

Empire- Troopers will be screen accurate but quite dirty to reflect the SW "lived in universe" look. Maybe some coloured squad markings ala clone wars.

Rebels- Troopers will be styled after the Rogue One rebel troops. Fleet troops screen accurate.

Characters will be screen accurate

Vehicles will have some variety. Air speeder will be in a generic grey camo with coloured squadron markings like X wings have.

Bases for now ll be a temperate standard and later down the line might do a setting one- Hoth, Starship etc.

Here is my alliance ranger from imperial assault. I think of it as urban uniform. I plan on doing that with legion. Also painted the face chiss to test out having a 2nd alien in my rebel troopers. I don't know how I'll due my bases yet. Somehow urban but not sure how yet

Would it look weird if you only painted the bases and each corps was a different saturated color like Neon Green for one unit and Blue, Red, Yellow ect.. so you could easily tell the squads apart?

1 hour ago, Matt3412 said:

Would it look wired if you only painted the bases and each corps was a different saturated color like Neon Green for one unit and Blue, Red, Yellow ect.. so you could easily tell the squads apart?

Huh, that is an interesting idea. It would make it seems like the units are only visible on a tac display of some sort... Would have to see the paint scheme first, might work better as washes over a white basecoat.

2 hours ago, Matt3412 said:

Would it look weird if you only painted the bases and each corps was a different saturated color like Neon Green for one unit and Blue, Red, Yellow ect.. so you could easily tell the squads apart?

For my Flames of War bases, I paint one edge of the base a bright color (blue, red, white, etc) for units that need to be more distinguished or organized. This could easily be applied to the vertical sides of the round bases for Legion, still being visible while leaving the top painted to match a terrain of choice.

Mostly standard, for imperials and rebels unless I see a way to in corporate Mardi Gras colors because that’s always cool.

...my STORMIES with be a nice white...

18 hours ago, NukeMaster said:

I'm going to do unskilled painter screen accurate.

As a new painter, made me chuckle

Interesting results and appreciate the references to the WWII influence on the early films' props & clothing. Also, love seeing the Rogue One Pathfinders ... huge fan of that look.

Setting myself up to succeed and I know without a doubt painting 800 pts of stormtroopers .... white ... would wear me out. To me they need to look white or like one of the known variants. Nothing too aggressive. Rebels?

Can mix it up; little freedom and easier to learn on, as white is not forgiving.

I plan to paint my minis in alternate schemes - not sure exactly what yet.

Possibly flat black storm troopers with stark edge highlighting.

I have a conversion idea for the rebels that I need to see the models before I can commit to. As for the rebel colors... I'm tempted to go WW1 Brits or Napoleonic French.

Really need to see the minis first.

J--

Still playing around with my rebel scheme, they won't be uniform by any means but I will probably be painting them with my already existing Deutsche Afrika Korps paint scheme including early tropicals.

Still playing around with storm troopers, think my first batch will certainly be more based on the movies, even though I dread painting white. Going to certainly go for a weathered veteran on campaign look rather than the I just deployed from my shiny Star Destroyer. Maybe blaster scaring, and random bits or torn up camo cloaks made out of green stuff.

14 minutes ago, Virgil Cain said:

Still playing around with my rebel scheme, they won't be uniform by any means but I will probably be painting them with my already existing Deutsche Afrika Korps paint scheme including early tropicals.

Still playing around with storm troopers, think my first batch will certainly be more based on the movies, even though I dread painting white. Going to certainly go for a weathered veteran on campaign look rather than the I just deployed from my shiny Star Destroyer. Maybe blaster scaring, and random bits or torn up camo cloaks made out of green stuff.

Huge fan of the DAK colors and have some test IA models going with a mix of those colors. Most of my hunting and outdoor clothing same colors.

11 hours ago, Indy_com said:

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:

Scattergun trooper with red shirt,

MPL-57 Grenade trooper with red shirt.

Are you sure you want to do those last 2? You know the redshirts always die first.

3 hours ago, jsalyers said:

I plan to paint my minis in alternate schemes - not sure exactly what yet.

Possibly flat black storm troopers with stark edge highlighting.

The issue with the flat black is that if/when they release Death troopers it will be very hard to tell at a glance what you are fielding.

7 hours ago, Audio Weasel said:

Are you sure you want to do those last 2? You know the redshirts always die first.

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga;

Rebel Friend

16 minutes ago, Indy_com said:

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga;

Rebel Friend

I had the same idea but I couldn’t remember the name

1 hour ago, Indy_com said:

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga;

Rebel Friend

Ah, indeed.

If I bought in, I’d be looking at a mixture of screen and loose interpretation. I need to figure out how bad I am going to suck at this at first though... I’ve painted just the minis to a board game I have and the results were not stellar. Liveable though.

I would go for screen accurate Vader. I would make my stormtroopers and other imperial units semi close to screen accurate but may do some tweaks like we see in Clone Wars or Ep3 for a little personalization.

Then i would find a friend who is going rebel and trade my core set Rebels for his core set Imps. I’d keep my Luke and paint him up in an alternate universe evil dark side as a rogue dark Jedi. Since I have no intention of playing competively or at a tournament I want to add flavor to my mirror matches (which are bound to happen sooner or later since I suspect my friends who are buying in are all picking a side to play). My flavor to explain a mirror match is I’ll use Luke and his card/stats/flavor, but he’s not really Luke but rather a Rogue inquisitor or something. I have to write that backstory. Then we can have empire vs empire making sense in the form of a coup Vader must suppress.

10 hours ago, Caimheul1313 said:

The issue with the flat black is that if/when they release Death troopers it will be very hard to tell at a glance what you are fielding.

An excellent point... I'll have to consult my Star Wars experts for advice on how to differentiate them.

I don't actually know much about Star Wars apparently I have a lot to learn.

J--

56 minutes ago, jsalyers said:

An excellent point... I'll have to consult my Star Wars experts for advice on how to differentiate them.

I don't actually know much about Star Wars apparently I have a lot to learn.

J--

Use shoulder colours that correspond to the squad leader’s pauldron to identify squads/units

1 hour ago, ScummyRebel said:

If I bought in, I’d be looking at a mixture of screen and loose interpretation. I need to figure out how bad I am going to suck at this at first though... I’ve painted just the minis to a board game I have and the results were not stellar. Liveable though.

I would go for screen accurate Vader. I would make my stormtroopers and other imperial units semi close to screen accurate but may do some tweaks like we see in Clone Wars or Ep3 for a little personalization.

Then i would find a friend who is going rebel and trade my core set Rebels for his core set Imps. I’d keep my Luke and paint him up in an alternate universe evil dark side as a rogue dark Jedi. Since I have no intention of playing competively or at a tournament I want to add flavor to my mirror matches (which are bound to happen sooner or later since I suspect my friends who are buying in are all picking a side to play). My flavor to explain a mirror match is I’ll use Luke and his card/stats/flavor, but he’s not really Luke but rather a Rogue inquisitor or something. I have to write that backstory. Then we can have empire vs empire making sense in the form of a coup Vader must suppress.

A coup... against himself?

1 minute ago, Jabby said:

A coup... against himself?

No, if someone else is empire, I’d let them use Vader or their other correct commanders, and use my pseudo evil not-Luke as mine.

On 1/25/2018 at 12:23 AM, TK-423 said:

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

All of my Imperial Assault stuff is on a clear base. I really like it, and will probably do the same with Legion.

On 1/25/2018 at 10:11 AM, Ragnell said:

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.

I have been tempted to do exactly that for a while now. I almost did one for IA.