Thursday 20 May 2021

Pilot for my A-Wing!

 

A few months back, I picked up a bargain, - an A-wing fighter from Amazon. You can read all about it here.

The only thing that disappointed me was that I didn't have a pilot for it. Well now, thanks to the Stargrave Crew box, I had the parts available to build my own! 

The figure is a straight assembly of parts in the box, and it scales almost perfectly with the fighter! 

I don't paint with orange very often, unless I happen to be painting pumpkins, but there is something really delightful about the high contrast between the orange jumpsuit and the white straps. It really makes the figure pop! 

I must admit, doing this one figure has kind of got me interested in doing a small squad of 'rebels'. 

(P.S. Yes, I know that in the movies A-wing pilots are generally depicted as wearing green, but I wanted orange.)



8 comments:

  1. I'd love to see a battle report of your record against your pumpkin-headed monsters! I miss those guys.

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  2. Great looking rebel miniature and fighter. The orange works really well, and the pilot is nicely painted. Sometimes orange can go a bit patchy, but your work turned out lovely.

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  3. Looks great! Nice painting on both items.

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  4. Looking good. And looking foreword to seeing your Rebels and Stormtroopers that you will have to build to fight them.

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  5. Orange is just a better color anyhow. It's lively!

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  6. Those Stargrave minis are nicely simple, but still have a lot of character.

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  7. That really looks the business!

    Are there any plans to license official Stargrave mats? I used my FG and ROSD ones as references for basing their respective miniatures so they match up. I would love to have some SG ones to do the same! I am woefully indecisive when it comes to basing styles...

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    1. Not that I know of. Osprey handles such deals. I base almost all of my models exactly the same, just so I don't have to think about it!

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