The Rebellion Continues!

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While the temperatures here in South Carolina are unseasonably comfortable, it won't stop raining long enough to allow us to go outside and actually enjoy it. As such, rainy weekends make for good mini painting days and as you can see, I have been doing just that. 

First up, another Rebel AT-RT. Perhaps the third time is the charm and I won't sell this one. Maybe. Prior to my last post featuring the vacation squad, I sold most of my previously painted SWL Rebel army, barring the Ewoks, Jawas and the unpainted models (well, except for the hideous Luke Skywalker sculpt, I tossed him in as a freebee). 

New & improved basing, with no question in regards to the base's quadrants. 

I wanted to change the way I base the miniatues as you can see here, in part because I really like the my new AK texture paints, and also becuase I am all but out of the type of sand that I was using for my Rebels previously and do not recall where I had gotten that from. It has been years since I acquired it. 

I noiced that the pilot's posture matched that of the Duros trooper in the prior post (I had another yet to be painted) and so did a simple head swap on the two models.

I have also changed the inking using the AK streaking grime that as become so pervasive in my paintjobs here of late, due to it imparting a darker, dirtier and gritier look. The Ewoks were spared as they're basing never matched to begin with and being little teddy bears, they're painted a little differently anyhow. 

I think the swap worked pretty well, and it gives this fairly generic model at least a small bit of unique visual appeal.

The Jawa's basing will get covered over with the AK texture paint to match the rest of the force. I ordered a few more to use them as proxy Ewok slingers (same stats), and their droid trapper will get the oh so appropriate 'insatiable curiosity' upgrade which allows him/her to steal upgrades from opposing units in base-to-base contact in exchange for an automatic wound on the unit. 

May I present to you my commander: Juan Solo. He looks like he has a black eye in this pic, so he apparently lack's Han's uncanny Luck rule. I'm still debating on whether or not to order him a Wookie sidekick named To'bacca. 

Curently, Legion has eliminated the generic commander option which makes no sense as there are minis for just  that purpose. I know that when 2.0 finally drops that there will be custom, build-your-own commander & operative kits for each faction which I am looking forward to, but I see no reason why the current one needed to be eliminated in the interim.

To make Juan's pistol, I just trimmed out the center of his blaster rifle and reattached the gun's barrel. 

At this point, My Rebels are down to a generic, 3D printed Jedi mini, the Ewok trapper (I really don't like that model) and six total Rebel troopers (including both weapons specialists) still in need of paint. Plus the forthcoming Jawas. I should be able to knock those out here shortly before the new minis come out. Honestly their miniature line feels terribly stale, so the refresh of new models will be quite welcome.

And who knows, maybe if I can find someone to show me how to play, while not playing said game like they're in a fucking tournament, then SLW will lose it's Bolt Action-like feel of  'I want to like this game but...'