Despite recent hardship, I've still been doing a lot of painting in an attempt to clear up my backlog, this time two squads of Star Wars Legion Stormtroopers. This is a mix of the Stormtroopers from the core set, as well as the Stormtrooper specialist expansion set. With the exception of the specialist box, these are fairly terrible figure sculpts with some odd poses and both sets suffer from the soft plastic they were molded in.
Initially, I laid down a lovely zenithally highlighted fresh white armor...that then had to be brush painted over because I realized how many mold lines I'd missed. I attempted to fix that by mottling the armor with white and grey flecks and overdid THAT as well!
The last resort of saving any paintjob is weathering, so these troopers went from pristine parade ground uniforms to muddy, dirty grunts. I did this by sealing each figure with Krylon flat clear, then using various acrylic paints and washes to add earthy tones, and then removing excess with Tamiya acrylic thinner, in the same way a lot of painters do the "Grimdark" style with enamels.
I hope you enjoy!
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