51 minutes ago, TauntaunScout said:

Still wet. Working on the first squad of vets.

Won't put glue to any more until I figure out the full range of possibilities. Might be able to convert some heroes pretty readily.

I'll send you mine

44 minutes ago, Tirion said:

I'll send you mine

You can do it!

It's just the Litorco paint scheme, basically. I primed off-white. Then I drybrush the boots coat and hat white. Paint the mount light grey. Paint the pants, gloves, guns, belts, scarves, and assorted accents a medium grey. Then the saddle, bridle, and horns were painted medium brown. I washed the whole model with a dark grey-brown. Then I drybrushed white over the whole tauntaun and the white parts of the uniform again. I washed the guns, horns, inside of the mouths, and other details with an almost-black shading wash. Yello-wgreen wash was carefully applied to the lenses of the goggles. It takes about one non-contiguous hour to paint a squad of rebel troopers in such a color scheme. I'd guess the tauntauns also took about an hour, as are my current squad of vets.

I'll try that, though I may be the world's slowest painter. rebel Swiss takes me hours upon hours

55 minutes ago, Tirion said:

I'll try that, though I may be the world's slowest painter. rebel Swiss takes me hours upon hours

Yeah... with Legion I had to embrace the 3-foot rule. I am going for speed not quality. I reaaaaalllllly didn't have time to add a new wargame to my painting schedule when Legion dropped. I am a poor painter, having zero hand-eye coordination, but I adopt strategies to overcome my natural lack of ability.

I timed myself once, I batch-painted a squad of Rebel Troopers like this in 44 minutes of actual brush time. Lots more drying time in between. And that was a high-ball estimate! That day, I was out of grey and had to mix it from black and white. And I was out of wash, and had to mix more! 44 minutes included time to mix colors. Though it did not include assembly (which even the unpainted must do) nor spray priming (which is negligible time).

What are "rebel Swiss"?

Edit: @Tirion I should add, this color scheme lets you breeze past your mistakes. White and grey are each other's highlight/shade so no one notices if you make a small mistake. Plus, the allover wash blends the edges together, hiding most errors. Don't bother fixing any but huge mistakes until the end as once you're done, you usually can't see them anyways! A huge time saver.

2 hours ago, TauntaunScout said:

What are "rebel Swiss"?

autocorrect for squad...

thanks for the tips!

6 hours ago, Tirion said:

autocorrect for squad...

thanks for the tips!

Bummer, I was hoping Revel Swiss was going to be some new exciting thing I had missed.

I need some rebel Swiss in my life ASAP...

On 8/5/2019 at 7:00 PM, Tirion said:

autocorrect for squad...

thanks for the tips!

And here I assumed it was some kind of ski patrol reference.