Before I became absorbed with painting aircraft for the Blood Red Skies game over the past few weeks, I had been adding a few models and making conversions to my Star Wars Legion forces. Four of these models were straightforward builds, AT Walkers for the Empire and Rebels, along with a couple of Speeders.
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| AT Walkers painted for the Empire and Rebels. |
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| A couple of Speeders. |
The first conversion involved turning a Luke Skywalker figure into Obi-Wan Kenobi. I reversed the pose to give the impression of Obi-Wan deflecting a blaster shot or standing in a defensive guard. This required removing Luke’s head and replacing it with a spare, along with adding a cloak from the bits box. Green Stuff was used to make the hood and also lengthen the shirt to be more robe like.
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| A comparison between the figures. Obi-Wan on the left and Luke on the right. |
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| A cloak from the spares box proved very useful as when I make them from Green Stuff they lack movement. |
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| A view of Obi-Wan from the front. |
The second conversion made use of the spare torso from the AT walker kit. I added an alien head and cloak from the ever-useful spares box and mounted the figure on a cheap plastic dinosaur, which was slightly modified and fitted with reins and a saddle to create a suitably Star War beast rider.
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| A beast rider |
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| Another spare cloak was added to this conversion. |
With the aircraft painting done (for the moment) I am now reinforcing my WW1 Middle Eastern forces with some additional Indian units. So far I have added one unit of Indian cavalry and two units of Indian infantry. All are HAT plastic 1:72 scale figures. A battery of howitzers is also on the painting table, which will be crewed by some converted Indian figures, although they are not yet finished.
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| Indian Cavalry - HAT Bengal Lancers were used. |
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| Two units of HAT WWI Indian Infantry. The Officers were added from other WW1 kits. |
I hope to get these units onto the tabletop for a game soon.
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