Dibdab's Hobby Blog

 Just prepping my next project. These are some Scout Trooper sculpts from Skull Forge Studios . Going to be some nice variants from the model from Atomic Mass Games. These were printed out by my good friends at 3D Kingdoms. They will be painted up in the standard white imperial scout trooper armour and deserty style bases.

 Completed my Death Troopers this evening. Nothing to fancy, just some layered black and metals. I may go back and pick up some of the straps as I am planning for these guys to be like an end of level encounter rather than a run of the mill encounter.

Up next will be finishing of some Scum that have been sat on the painting desk and a couple of Spartans for Legion Imerpialis.

 

I am waiting on some basing materials to arrive so that I can finish off my first unit of French Infantry, I have ordered a selection of flocks, shrubs and flowers from Gamer's Grass as I am wanting a French countryside look to the bases, like what was seen in the early episodes of Band of Brothers. 

So I wanted something quick and easy to finish off, so plucked the box of Death Troopers from the pile of shame. These have been undercoated black and then a drybrush of Platemail then followed by a drybrush of Ray Gun Blue. Then the final layer was Black Templar. This is giving a nice blue hue coming through the Black Templar. 

Just waiting on the basing material to dry and then I will pick out the pouches and areas of metal to get the unit finished.

 Next up on the painting table was a new Rebel figure that might be closely ressembles Blaize from Rogue One. This was printed by my good friends at 3D Kingdoms. If you have not checked out their site pop over and have a look. They also do bespoke printing if you don't own one yourself
 

 

These have been sat on the painting for a while so it was good to finally get them completed. So all left to finish the army is Ashoka, Sabine and Clan Wren. Hope to get some progress shots this week.

 

Finally with some clear weather and not on husband duties I have got round to base coating the ATDP.

Started with a black undercoat and then Mechanicus Grey over the top.

Will now start on lightening up the base coat before I can start weathering. 

I am following Sorastros painting guides as I find them a very good starting point for a lot of my projects.

 

Welcome to part 1 of my All Terrain Defense Pod project. This walker has long featured in the graphic novels, books and cartoon series, but as yet AMG have yet to bring it to the table top. So I hunted around the interweb to find some 3D files. Now I have no idea and to be honest no willingness to learn how to 3D print at the current time, but a good friend of mine owns a 3D print business. So I popped him the files and hay presto like green magic I took ownership of my first ATDP.

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So here is the ATDP assembled and ready for priming

As you can see she's big

With a clone trooper for scale.

If the rain holds off this weekend I will get it primed and hopefully the first layers of paint.

 

Its been a while since I hit up some paints on the final unit of Rebel Commandos so this week I am aiming to get them completed. As you will see from the front row of troops I have 5 different alien races to work on.

Looking forward to using some different colour skin tones and a variant on the pallet. Next set of photos should be the unit complete meaning I can move onto Clan Wren and Sabrine.

 Work is progressing nicely on the next batch of 12 rebel commandos. Most of the base layers are now down, just some undershirts to do and then onto the cammo and washes. As you may have noticed there are some additional alien races to add some nice variants to the units. So are the following a Mon Calamari sniper, Ithorian gunners, Gran solider, Ishi Tib officer and a Chiss gunner. I am going to enjoy the paint work on these so that they really stand out on the battlefield. 

 Bit of break today from my Rebels, and completed an Imperial Officer for a future roleplaying game or a future Galactic Empire list. I went with a German Dark Green from Vallejo. So it now back to the rebel commandos.

 

 

Not much progress tonight just the gloves and back packs, but with the weekend ahead of me looking to get some major progress on the models. 

 

Some more work completed on the Rebel Commandoes tonight, laid down paint on the guns, trousers, helmets, belts and pouches. Its been a long time since I have done such a large batch painting run and forgot how little seems to be done. But I think another couple of painting sessions and I will have them completed and I can reward myself with Sabine Wren.

 

This weekend I have started on the major block of my Ashoka Army with the Rebel Commandos. This are the models from the core set, I do have some other models to fill out the units and to offer some model variation. But the major work on the bases is complete and rest of the week will start blocking in the colours.

 

Carrying on from my last droid the next completed model for Star Wars Legion is a refurbished Gonk droid.

This little beauty is an upgrade card for the Rebels and Shadow Alliance Speeder truck or the rebel only landspeeder. This gives 2 shield tokens to the model giving extra durability and with the added bonus in the end phase of recharging any spent shields. 18 points is a doozy of an upgrade.

 

Next model completed is the 2-1B Medical Droid that is an upgrade for one of my Rebel Commando units. This unit upgrade will all you to take a wound or poison token from a friendly model or unit within range 1 and is in line of sight. 

Really pleased how Aethermatic contrast has worked over metal to give the slight metallic dull blue scheme.

Next up on the table is the core of the army the Rebel Commando Units. So far they are undercoated and the basing material has been added. Hopefully see some progress shots this week.

 Last night I completed my first model for my Ashoka led Rebel list. Really enjoyed painting the skin and jacket on this so far nameless commander. Feels good to get the first model out of the way. This was painted up watching the second season of Bad Batch. Which is leading me to really looking forward to the release of those models. 

Also started work on the medical droid that will be supporting one of the rebel units.

I am going for the metallic looking blue that is seen in Empire Strikes Back when Luke is in the Bacta Tank after his encounter with the Whompa Monsters and Ben telling him to go to Dagoba to train under Yoda.

 Clone Captain Rex

What in the Box?

Clone Captain Rex is a Commander Expansion for you Galactic Republic lists, allowing you a differing

option from the usual Jedi lead force. Captain Rex comes with 3 varieties of heads, Clone Series 1,

Clone Series 2 and bare head. I went with a Clone Series 2 helmeted option, as I have some plans

with the bare heads that I will show in a future project.

Captain Rex comes in at 90 points without upgrades and Rex has the following Keywords:

Gunslinger: After you perform a ranged attack option you may perform an additional ranged

attached against a different unit.

Scout 1: This allows Rex once he has been deployed to perform a standard move up to speed 1.

Scouting Party 2: Once Rex has used his Scout Keyword, he can choose up to 2 friendly trooper units

with range 1-2 to move equal of Scout 1.

Sharpshooter 1: When Rex is determining the enemy over, he can subtract one from the defender’s

cover.

Tactical 1: This keyword allows Rex to gain an aim token each time he performs a standard move as

part of an action or free action.

Rex’s Keywords allow him to move up or make better use of the cover around him in the set-up

stage with the Scout and Scouting Party Keywords. His honed use of his duel wielded pistols makes

him a great at adding suppression tokens to key enemy units using his Gunslinger, Tactical and

Sharpshooter Keywords.

With Rex being a Commander, he also gains 3 Command Cards that can only be used with Rex in

your Army:

One Pip -Call me Captain:

Rex gains Fire Support and when he uses Fire Support , he does not flip his order token facedown.

While a friendly unit performs a melee attack, Clone Captain Rex can use Fire Support to add a

ranged weapon to the attack pool.

Two Pip- Take That Clankers!

Can give orders to 2 Troopers.

While a friendly troop unit with a faceup order token and aim token performs a ranged attack this

command card will allow you to increase the range of the weapons by 1 to a maximum of 4.

Three Pip – We’re Not Programmed

Can give orders to 4 Clone troopers.

Rex also gains Inspire 2 and 2 surge tokens. When Captain Rex activates, he recovers.

Inspire 2 allows Captain Rex to remove up to 2 total suppression tokens from other friendly units at

range 1-2.

I really like the 2 and 3 pip options, I think this gives the players some real tactical advantages and

swing a turn in their favour by careful use of these cards. Playing the Take that Clankers! Early on

will hopefully allow the Galactic player to add on those much-needed suppression tokens and make

a dent in some of the opposing players lead units. This card was updated that the units would be

required to have an Aim token. We’re Not Programmed combined with Rex’s other keywords

should make him a powerful unit in that turn either putting the final blows into an enemy unit or

piling on those suppression tokens and hopefully causing the enemy to retreat.

With Captain Rex you also get the standard card sheet of tokens that are appropriate for him and his

Keywords along with the following upgrade cards: Esteemed Leader, Emergency Stims, Recon Intel,

Smoke Grenades, and Endurance.

 Star Wars Legion Black Sun Enforcers

The Black Sun Enforcers are the foot soldiers and troop choice for the Shadow Alliance and Empire. At 48 points for the base unit they are expensive and premium troop choice. With a max range of 2 they need to use cover very well to ensure that they do not get focused on my the opposing army or make use of the A-A5 to get them closer to the enemy lines. The high points a costly but you do get Red defence and Close Quarters dice, so yes they are more expensive than the Pykes but should be more durable. 

    The models are big and at first I thought that Atomic Mass where guilty of scale creep but from going back and reading up on them and watching them in the animated series they are big, so hats off to AMG to staying true to the source material. The unit has 2 nice upgrades to choose from; Scatter gun If you opponent is infantry focused or the Mag-Det enforcer if they like to take vehicles. You can also add in another enforcer which gives you a cached dodge token.

Def need to invest in a cheap light box and get some better pictures taken. Up next will be the Pykes as I have at least my  2 troop choices complete. From reading over Christmas I will either need more Black Sun or Pykes, just need to get some more games in to firm up that choice.

Oh and Happy New Year,

 

So next up on the painting table is Bossk first featured on the bridge of the Star Destroyer in Empire Strikes Back and then more fame in Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon series. 

The base needs a bit of tidying up, the yellow is far brighter in the photos than it shows in real life. I think the green is maybe to green and needs to be more camo green colour. But happy another model complete. Next up on the painting table is Gar Saxon to lead my Shadow Alliance Force.