Like father, like son

I've finally started my Imperial Assault (about time!). Sorry for you, be ready to yet another project... :D

After having played some boardgames with unpainted minis (shame on me!!) I felt... dirty. That wasn't right, I know, I know. One cannot find a piece of inner peace playing with soulless plastic. It needs to be painted!! So this time I've decided to do things right and paint first, play later.

So I've started the set with the two most iconic characters, Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. But I hope you wouldn't expect me to 'just paint' ;)

First of all, Luke comes with a blaster, as he's shown when escaping the Death Star. But oh, come on, you know he already deserves a lightsaber...

Let's burn some marshmallows...

It's just a matter of repositioning the arms a little and replacing the blaster with an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. My main concern here was how the hands were positioned. It's not the same holding a firearm than a sword, so I had to re-sculpt the hands a little.

And now I hold a giant wiener

The issue with Darth Vader was the pose. It wasn't quite readable for me, didn't transmit any sense of strength, at least for me.

These are the originals, BTW

But then, if you slightly change the torso, head and arms, you can get a much more aggresive pose:

Same materials, different attitude

So from this point it was just a matter of painting! Nothing specially creative, of course...

I still don't know how to wield one of these...

-'You fight like a dairy farmer' -'Moisture farmer!'

Lightsabers are quite an issue, at least for me. My first attempts were truly awful. A friend was kind enough of giving me a trick that, honestly, works fine (well, his first recommendation was an airbrush, but we had to stick to Plan B...). It's just a graduate highlighting. That simple. But it works good enough for me!

Laser pole vaulter

This much exercise ain't good for my asthma

Sooo, here we have something I hope to replicate on the board anytime soon...

-'No, seriously, son, you fight like a moisture farmer. Your dad taught you nothing?'

Well, I still have lots of unfinished ongoing projects, so it remains to be seen how all this evolves. But I'll try to keep it up and provide regular updates. Well, I won't try. I'll do it. As you all know, there is no try...