Separatist Battle Droids - The Fastest Army You'll Ever Paint! [How I Paint Things]

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Whether you're a parent with a starter set and a kid who insists on playing the Clones, leaving you with the Separatist chaff, or - like me - you've got a soft spot for the faceless cannon fodder in any wargame... you're going to end up painting a lot of Battle Droids. As luck would have it, they're some of the easiest things in the game to paint - hovering around 2-5 minutes for unmarked basic droids to around 8-10 minutes once you include Commander or OOM droid markings, it needn't take you long to have a great-looking army on the table.
Find the Dark Fire Designs STL sets here: darkfiredesigns.com/
The Corvus Games Terrain website has the base used near the end of the video and loads more support-free Legion terrain for FDM printing as well: corvusgamesterrain.com/produc...
00:00 - Intro
01:01 - The 'Five Minute Droid'
04:10 - Commanders & Security Markings
09:33 - Printed Bases - What's Faster?
10:46 - The Finished Droid Squad
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THE BASES: Vallejo Earth Texture 'Brown Earth,' drybrush Citadel Tyrant Skull. Base rim painted with Brown Sand (Vallejo). That's it!
PAINTS USED:
PRIMERS:
Wraithbone (Citadel Spray)
ARMY PAINTER:
Soft Tone
VALLEJO:
Black
Red (70.926)
Ivory
Basalt Grey
CITADEL:
Flash Gitz Yellow (Layer)
Carroburg Crimson (Shade)
Tyrant Skull (Dry)
VARNISHES:
Citadel Munitorum Varnish Spray

Пікірлер: 56

@gomasso Жыл бұрын

To Coruscant? That doesn't compute. Eeeeh, wait. Eeeeh, you're under arrest.

@timothyyoung2962 Жыл бұрын

Battle droids are the epitome of automaton cannon fodder. Sometimes playing guys who are “the worst” in a game can be fun as hell. I play a group of Traitor Guardsmen and Chaos Cultists in old Kill Team. Hit the max for the number of men you can field. They are “The Howling Maniacs” and are the worst. I use no tactics and just rush, shoot, and stab my way through the battlefield. Can’t recall ever winning a match with them, but I have a hell of a time playing them : D

@sleepsinleaves Жыл бұрын

Wow, at the end on the spinny thing my brain was having crazy synthwave/Tron color scheme thoughts.

@alessiodecarolis Жыл бұрын

Pratically they're SW's equivalent for skeletons, the paintjob is pratically the same, normally I give a black base, then white leaving a thin black line to give a better definition for markings, so the colour stick out better (old White Dwarf 's trick)

@irishtom30 Жыл бұрын

Haha that's very true

@vthunder4238 Жыл бұрын

WHO IS ROGER AND WHAT DO THEY WANT WITH HIM????

@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын

I shudder to think what'd happen if we ever found out!

@samellowery Жыл бұрын

But the real question is how is Roger and why.

@Marshal976 Жыл бұрын

These look fantastic and as horde will be awesome. Probably a great starting project for any first time painters getting into the wonderful world of miniature gaming/painting.

@peterplayingwithleadbrian5464 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Refreshing to see someone show how you can paint effective looking models with minimal effort.

@Matt-md5yt Жыл бұрын

These B1 Battle Droids are looking great my friend .

@Rastlin-jk7rx Жыл бұрын

Amazing result….great tips, thanks!

@kirishima638 Жыл бұрын

Very simply but super effective paintjob!

@loupiscanis9449 Жыл бұрын

Thank you , Troy . 🐺

@Adam-mq2ex Жыл бұрын

Wonderful tutorial. I really appreciate when you show the fastest way possible to do things and still make them look great. Thanks for all of your tutorials!

@alwoodsmodellingmayhem Жыл бұрын

Wonderful result, I am just about to start painting mine, so this was useful.👍👍😉

@andreaspersson5639 Жыл бұрын

Vallejo reds are amusing. There's Red, Flat Red, and Dark Red (and that's just the three that I use most often). And of the three, I'd say Red is the darkest by half a hue (and Flat Red definitely the lightest). Also, thanks, because of you talking about "just Red", I realized that I had picked out the wrong red for my next step :D

@3tacoman Жыл бұрын

Look great ! Can’t wait to paint my guys using your method Thank you 🎉

@johnkelley9877 Жыл бұрын

This was a neat tutorial and the figures look great! Thanks for sharing this.

@captainbrick2012 Жыл бұрын

Really helpful!! Many thanks

@AnExtrovertPaints Жыл бұрын

Looking good!

@TheEccentricMan Жыл бұрын

Excellent guide to painting these.

@mdbboyd Жыл бұрын

I think I'll follow that paint scheme for the rebel 2 legged walker in the starter box.

@robisonwells1 Жыл бұрын

They look great. I've been looking forward to this since you posted the sneak peaks on Twitter. Surprisingly easy how to get good definition. I wonder how these 3D prints stand up against the Star Wars Legion sculpts. (I haven't been too thrilled with the quality of some of the Star Wars Legion plastic.)

@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын

They're pretty good, comparatively. I don't see any major differences, except for the prints coming in with heads that're in one piece rather than two for the plastic kits! 🤪 Nuts to assembling an army out of those guys!

@MSnell Жыл бұрын

I personally find the sculpts he painted here for the B1s to look better than the official kits. As far as quality goes, the later releases are all hard plastic on sprues which are very nice, but the early releases (and unfortunately most of the Rebel and Imperial factions) are all softer plastic.

@Gabbiano88 Жыл бұрын

Super cool

@stevenbuerkle9329 Жыл бұрын

Roger Roger ! Very good video. I did the same thing with my battle droids.

@jherazob Жыл бұрын

Amazing results to effort ratio, you'd think these took more effort than that!

@SavageBehir Жыл бұрын

I printed some of them and due to the fact that I was trying to use up my resin (so there were only dregs in the tank) and my fep is also dying they didn't come out great. Also I tore out some limbs during support removal. But hey, I can chop them into pieces and put them on some bases! This is what I get trying to cheat my "I won't buy any Legion models before I paint a certain amount (as it's no longer a number, lol) of the things that I already have either bought or printed" rule, I guess. And I do want to get some Shadow Collective models. I hope that the next batch with new resin and new fep comes out better (still, I promised myself that I won't buy new resin until I the 3d printed stuff I already have is painted). Either way, this fast and easy method "made me" try to print these guys in he first place :D. It's nice to be able to see the effects and feel the accomplishment in just a few minutes :)

@JimmyCarmine Жыл бұрын

Roger, roger

@jacknorthey9215 Жыл бұрын

Great video, can you do the wasteland warfare fog crawler?

@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын

It's not likely to come up, I'm afraid. It's a bigger miniature and just doesn't have a lot of use on my table - I don't ordinarily get these things for free, unfortunately!

@Strawfoot Жыл бұрын

Rodger, rodger!

@hoteckkan Жыл бұрын

Droids, engage photo op mode! Roger, roger

@donaldkelly9833 Жыл бұрын

Roger roger!

@peterclarke7240 Жыл бұрын

"What's our vector, Victor?" Oh, wait, wrong film...

@JohnSmith-ve8mj Жыл бұрын

Shame they didn't do droid body with c3po head lol!!

@Dumahlok Жыл бұрын

I would love to see your take on Geonosian battledroids

@123JWhyte Жыл бұрын

may I ask if they are same size as the plastic ones

@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын

Yup, they're exactly the same. They're 3D prints, anyhow, so if you want to rescale them for other purposes they should work alright.

@123JWhyte Жыл бұрын

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio that's good I'm looking at some of their clones for my army

@JanitorScruffy Жыл бұрын

I would think doing battle damage on B1 battle droids is a bit unnecessary. If you damage a battle droid you have probably just destroyed it already.

@joesturn7740 Жыл бұрын

The other thing about battle droids with battle damage is that they are broken battle droids. B1s weren't known for their ability to take any kind of hit and keep fighting.

@sprinkleLPs Жыл бұрын

Are you planning to do more painting guides for the other separatist units?

@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын

As long as there's useful STLs out there, eventually, sure. It's a little easier for me to print a miniature to paint than it is to get a box I'm going to paint just one or two miniatures from!

@sprinkleLPs Жыл бұрын

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio awesome, cant wait to see your future legion content :)