Sci-Fi Battered and Damaged Landspeeders (Curufin 3D Prints)

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A pair of Landspeeders today, for use as terrain for Star Wars Legion and possibly Shatterpoint.

Sure, the scale may be off a little for Shatterpoint, but as terrain pieces that have very little to do with gameplay, I feel like they’ll still work okay.

These were quick and easy to paint. Spray paint a base colour then a zenithal of a lighter spray.

Next was a bunch of sponge highlighting for both the green and then the blue to give them a sun-bleached look.

The racing stripes on both were done by masking off the stripes and then simply stippling on the yellow/red.

I finished them up with more stippling using a couple of shades of metallic paint, as well as painting in the other details like the vents and seats. The windscreen is a piece of cut out plastic just slotted in there. I need to cut out another piece at some stage for the second speeder as well as I’ve just passed it back and forth for the photos here.

These models, digitally sculpted by artist Curufin can be found for free on Cults3D, along with a bunch of other models inspired by fantasy and sci-fi.

Some protocol droids provide scale for us here.

Yet again, these models were printed before December (during November, in fact!) and cleaned up & assembled in January so they count towards both Anne’s 2026 Miniature Assembly Challenge and also Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26.

Star Wars Imperial Assault: Grand Admiral Thrawn

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Star Wars Imperial Assault: Grand Admiral Thrawn

Back to Imperial Assault today with the miniature for Grand Admiral Thrawn. He’s a “Chiss”, which roughly translates to “Human but blue, of the Blue Man Group”.

Star Wars Imperial Assault: Grand Admiral Thrawn

I’ve never really known Thrawn in any significant way. I know he was the Big Bad from one of the 1990’s video games, possibly on the N64. I mean, I could look it up obviously, but I’m busy typing here! Then he was in some books, became a fan favourite for some reason. Maybe the books were well written?

Star Wars Imperial Assault: Grand Admiral Thrawn

I believe he was also in at least one of the Animated shows that I haven’t seen. Probably Rebels due to it’s place in the timeline. And then he shows up in Ashoka, which I also have not watched. But in Ashoka his stuff is all falling apart and broken and his stormtroopers are undead or something and held together with red bandages and golden glue. Something about the (former EU) Deathtroopers being reconfigured and transported into the new canon, and something about Nightsisters which I know very little about. I’m sure I’ll watch all that crap eventually, so no need to fill me in as I appear to have absorbed quite a lot of spoilers through osmosis already.

Star Wars Imperial Assault: Grand Admiral Thrawn

And here hs is alongside the Legion models of Vader and Palpatine. Yep, Admiral Chiss here is a tall boi, and so I can probably use him in Legion, though there’s also an official model coming out soon. His base is a little short for a stormtrooper, but it’s okay, as I’ve recently printed off some lifts for shorty bases like this one. You’ll see one of them in action in a few posts once I’ve taken some photos. This is also why I’ve based him with the same “is it sand, or just light dirt?” looking basing style as my Legion models.

Once again, Thrawn counts towards both Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 25-26, and also count towards Anne’s 2026 Miniature Assembly Challenge as once again, I did have to clean up the mold lines on Thrawn, and that was done in January.