I’ve seen a few here, but anyone seen a nice alternative fleet troop paint job that you like? Something other than the traditional? I have a heavily jungle themed rebel group, and feel like they should match somewhat.

I have done a squad in what I dubbed Senatorial Security, inspired by the guys that accompany Mon Mothma in the Rebels series.

I have been thinking about this. I am considering a squad in my faux-Hoth colors. White hat, shirt, vest and boots, light grey pants and gloves. Just to add a different type of trooper to my cold weather army.

I am also considering a non-Hoth rebel army using fleet troopers in yellow shirt, brown pants and vest, white hat and boots. This would be led by a stripped down"Han": painted in a black coat and renamed Colonel Edi-Wan Drake.

I love the idea of alternate paint schemes for all squads. Variety is a great thing. Although I did convert an entire squad of Fleet Troopers to a full alien squad, I didn't actually change their uniforms. (they are the only miniatures I didn't give a different theme to) To explain squads as being out of their environment I have escape pods which can be placed in the deployment area and that give you a multitude of reasons why they are where they are.

In SW battlefront 2 the Assault an heavy classes in the Yavin 4 map wear fleet trooper helmets, the assault is really close to a fleet trope itself.

I intend to paint mine in that color scheme but I first need to gather some conversion bits for them.

13 hours ago, Andreu said:

In SW battlefront 2 the Assault an heavy classes in the Yavin 4 map wear fleet trooper helmets, the assault is really close to a fleet trope itself.

I intend to paint mine in that color scheme but I first need to gather some conversion bits for them.

Could you get a screencap? I have tried to search google images but can't seem to find a picture of these guys.

Nevermind, I found this.

The guy just past Rex appears to be somewhat fleet trooperish.

38 minutes ago, devin.pike.1989 said:

Nevermind, I found this.

Yep the first 2 are exactly the ones I was talking about. The assault colorscheme is the one I'll use once I find the conversion bits I'm looking for, some estra bels and pouches to make it look more like frontline troops.

Good stuff, thanks guys! I’ll post my painted up guys.

Here's a sample of a fleet trooper commander in my alternate uniform :)

Mazzy.

Here's some unfinished troopers I'l be using for Leia's Personal Guard. The squad leader is the blue skinned gal in the lower picture who also happens to be a Leia model with some adjustments.

I have done an "urban assault" variant of fleet troopers that is really quick and easy--painted them up in a few hours, which is flying compared to my usual snail's pace! They definitely won't win any awards, but they are table-top ready and look different next to their traditional counterparts.

Here they are on the left below, more or less finished save for the light dusting of snow I intend to add. They won't match your jungle theme, though....

Love those urban guys!

On 10/5/2018 at 7:14 AM, C3POFETT said:

I love the idea of alternate paint schemes for all squads. Variety is a great thing. Although I did convert an entire squad of Fleet Troopers to a full alien squad, I didn't actually change their uniforms. (they are the only miniatures I didn't give a different theme to) To explain squads as being out of their environment I have escape pods which can be placed in the deployment area and that give you a multitude of reasons why they are where they are.

I do something very similar. I have four different themes, and I paint units into one of the four themes (I try to get one of each unit type in each theme). I like the variety in painting, and like you I also have some drop pods handy to explain their arrival if a group of urban assault troopers or a jungle-ready squad shows up unexpectedly in a desert engagement.

Finished a new squad, Fleet Troopers of the desert..

@Gary42 what’s going on with your bases? Are you basing them on nickels?

I am very much a fan of the classic Fleet Trooper colors. Even if you have a Jungle theme, these are FLEET troopers. Presumably they don't dress to camouflage.

If you saw them fighting on a Jungle world, it'd probably be near a spaceport or crashlanded capital ship. In both cases they'd likely still be wearing the same blue, grey and black.

I suggest keeping the same colored uniform but if you must change something, try adding on either dirt and mud or some hastily improvised camouflage like branches and just say they are guarding a crashlanded capital ship until rescue arrives.

I am indeed basing them on nickels! I did this because all my other minis (Which are in the many hundreds!) are based this way. If anyone ever gives me grief about it I can actually just flip over all the bases that came with the minis add a little ball of glue tack and push the nickels into the recess of the base! Nice and flush. Plastic minis stay up way better on metal bases.

Being as though this thread is specifically for "Alternative Fleet Troopers" I would say it's a place where people can be creative with their paint jobs and not paint only canon stuff which can be dreary if you've painted a bunch. I've called my yellow and black troopers "Leia's Guard", added some points to them and given them Guardian 1 so if you MUST keep them the same you can use Pantone colours to correctly match the Fleet Trooper uniform... But I guess you'll have to gamma correct your monitors as well.

I gave mine bomber jackets and camo pants with green helmets for planetary deployment. https://qualitypunk2.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/fleet-troopers-starwars/

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