Chewbacca and R-5D4 Star Wars Legion

While on this painting binge I've been trying a lot of different techniques to try and improve my painting overall. And one of those new techniques has been wet blending.  The Chewbacca model from Star Wars Legion was the perfect choice for trying out this technique with all of his fur.

I was already basically finished with the model when I remembered maybe I should take a photo or two, so apologies there are no WIP shots - which, to be honest, thinking ahead to more future Star Wars posts, WIPs photos were something I totally forgot to do.

I watched several videos on wet blending and ultimately found Sorastro's guide incredibly helpful. If you're currently painting anything Star Wars I highly recommend giving his channel a watch. He's an incredible painter and has helped a lot in giving me new ideas to try.

The final highlights completed and the clear base attached.

I couldn't be more pleased with how Chewy turned out considering my history with a paint brush. I also painted up a few of the containers from the Legion battlefield expansion that look the business I think.

And as I've been painting in two's I also finished up R5-D4.

The droids are slowly becoming some of my favorite models to paint - despite me making a meal out of the orange line around the bottom of the droids head. I really need to touch up that spot on his left side.

And finally, just for the heck of it I entered my Samuel's Garage kit into a little contest that 4Ground were having a few weeks ago and I actually won?! A bit mad really but that felt pretty good. I won a 100£ gift voucher which I think is going to go to some 15mm buildings - I really only play in 28mm, but I've had a huge box of old Flames of War models sitting for years and I think I might want to give Too Fat Lardies "What A Tanker" a go using all those old tank models I have. A project for next year perhaps.

Until next time, thanks for looking!

Ivor