'Fellowship' from AndrewE: Han Solo and Chewbacca & Raiding Party

For the Fellowship bonus round, what better models to submit than the ultimate bromance - Chewbacca and Han Solo!

Like all of the Starwars Legion models they are a dream to paint.  Nice and crisp detailing and big enough to get decent highlighting on.

Chewie was a reasonably easy model to finish with fur drybrushing and then picking out the details. Han needed a bit more care, particularly to get the different dark colours to be distinguishable from each other.

To finish them off – I also added a small unit of commandoes (aka spare wounds) to assist with the raid on the shield generator station on Endor.

These have turned out nicely as well, with the possible exception of my eye painting needing more work.

Strike team ready to go!

'Reconnaissance' from AndrewE: Rebel Commando Team

I've recently started collecting the awesome range of Star Wars Legion models but not quite getting around to painting them.  What better way to start my first ever painting challenge entry off with than a reconnaissance patrol of rebel commandos for the bonus as well.

Originally I was going to work on the imperial Scout Trooper models for the recon challenge, but then the Wookies came out and I knew I had to work on a rebel force instead.  As a start I've put together a small sniper team, with a couple of full units of commandos and Wookies to follow.

It took a bit of playing around to get a nice camo pattern going that wasn't just "everything is green" for the contrast.  In the end I went for two shades of green (uniform and then cloak) with sponged patches of colour on the cloak to bring the disruptive camo pattern to the model.

Overall they have turned out quite nicely I think.  The Mon Calamari skin was a bit of a challenge to get the right shades so they didn't look too lobster pink or fluro orange, but I think they have turned out nicely.