Star Wars Legion: 3D-Printed Imperial Officers – Skullforge and Black Remnant

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Star Wars Legion: 3D-Printed Imperial Officers. Authority Field Commander, Muddy Officer, Skullforge, Authority Old Captain, Black Remnant

The final model post for June is this one – a trio of 3D prints with a slight difference. These three models from left to right are “Authority Field Commander” from Skullforge, “Authority Old Captain” from Black Remnant and “Muddy Officer” from Skullforge.

Star Wars Legion: 3D-Printed Imperial Officers. Authority Field Commander, Muddy Officer, Skullforge, Authority Old Captain, Black Remnant

The interesting thing about these three is that I printed them myself on Flippy. Flippy, as many of you will know is a Bambulab A1 – an FDM, or a filament 3D printer. Not a resin printer. Now, when you click the image for the zoomed-in version, you’ll see the layer lines for sure. They also have little flaws in locations like their cap brims, chins and hands, which I’ve done my best to hide via cleanup and paint. These are not display models that will win a crystal brush, but as gaming models they’re perfectly fine and I think worked at least as well as the FDM-printed Ewoks I painted some time ago.

Star Wars Legion: 3D-Printed Imperial Officers. Authority Field Commander, Muddy Officer, Skullforge, Authority Old Captain, Black Remnant

Authority Field Commander seems like a pretty good proxy for the Imperial Officer from the Personnel Expansion but with a bit of a “Mudtrooper” theme (though not as hard as the Muddy Officer), so that’s a proxy series of models I’ll be exploring as well.

And that’s it for June’s models. I’ll have the Round-Up posted in a couple of days and then we move onto July’s models!

Star Wars Legion: Imperial Specialists Personnel Expansion

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The Empire continues to rise with today’s post, with two sets of the Imperial Specialists Personnel Expansion painted up.

I went with the standard feldgrau uniform for the Imperial Officer here, though she does look a little too shiny here so I may have to go back and sort that out in the future. The R4 astromech I painted as R4-I9 which is the first imperial astromech toy with the right kind of head that came up. I was tempted to paint the Comms Officer as the Death Squad Commander, but for the time being I went with a more film-accurate version. I’ll do the classic toy version sometime down the line. The medical FX droid I just based on the box art.

With two sets of these I needed to distinguish them from one another a little. The obvious first part of this was to paint the officer in a different scheme, so she got one of the black uniforms. The Medical Droid and Comms Officer both remained the same due to obvious uniformity, but the Astromech gave me the opportunity to swap out the model for a different one – so in this case the R5 droid from a Rebel Specialists Personnel Expansion set which I painted as R5-J2. Those fine silver lines were a nightmare to paint as well! When I get around to painting the rebels, they’ll have the R4 for their own variation.