I usually don't share this kind of stuff but I figured "hey, I'm new here, and I like this game so why not?".

I finally finished painting my core set and the following are the results (took about 5 days - probably about 20/25 hours of work - to complete).

LUKE SKYWALKER

Started with a black base, tan and brown to recreate his outfit ala Empire Strikes Back. Hair was done in brown, then highlighted with tan, then dry-brushed with brown again. Lightsaber took two coats of blue, dry-brushed with white, then dry-brushed again with blue.

DARTH VADER

Based with black spray paint. The medium-gloss of the spray paint gave his helmet and the appropriate parts of his armor a bit of a shine but didn't work well for the cloth areas (re-based with black paint). Gave his black cloth areas a highlight with dark gray to bring them out a little bit more. Tried to get his little red/blue/metallic/green buttons as best I could, and did his lightsaber like Luke's but with red.

REBEL TROOPERS

Based with black paint by hand. Went with "standard" coloration to give them a Tatooine/desert world look and feel. Hardest part was probably getting the facial hair areas of the male minis to show up well and NOT look like junk. Sorry for the dark picture, I tried with flash but it looked even worse. If I take a better one I'll reupload later.

STORMTROOPERS

This was an experiment. I figured since these Stormtroopers were coming in with Vader it would make sense - for flavor - to style them like Vader's favored Legion/Battalion: the 501st. After looking up various concepts for 501st Stormtroopers I went with what I thought was best. Minis were based with flat-white spraypaint first then black and gray details were added in various places. Then came the blue accents...not entirely happy with how shoddy the chest designs turned out but I did the best I could, it was also a pain in the *** doing blue on white as it took about 4 layers of blue to get it to this point...

IMPERIAL SCOUT SPEEDER BIKES

Kept with the 501st style for these two as well, it was actually tough to find more than 2 pictures of what Scout Troopers look like with 501st coloration.

REBEL AT-RT

I'm probably happiest with how this one turned out in the end. Based by hand with black paint then given an almost complete layer of tan in keeping with the Tatooine theme. I decided to use the flamethrower attachment and plan to get two more of these and make them flamethrowers too to create a kind of "burn squad". In keeping with that idea I gave the model red accents where I thought appropriate and then dry-brushed nearly the whole thing down with metallic silver to give it a "painted metal" and "sand scoured" look.

BARRICADES

I thought this was going to be the easiest part of the entire set (that actually turned out to be Vader), but doing these 8 barricades ended up taking probably 5 hours start to finish. I saw many pictures of people just painting them one solid color or one color that they then dry-brush over with another and I wanted to do something a little MORE. I kept with the Tatooine vibe and did them in a mixture of tan, silver, dark gray, and reddish brown. I then attempted to give them a dry-brush of metallic silver to give them a "sand scoured"/"beat up" look but they ended up just looking kinda crappy.

Oh well, they're just barricades I guess.

….great efforts!....I would look forward to defeat such nice looking rebel scum!....