„This R2 unit has a bad motivator!“
The first of those items are a couple of droids that formed part of a care package from the incredibly kind and generous Dave Stone; he of ‚Wargames Terrain Workshop‘. Now before I go any further, I need to stress that these miniatures are custom sculpts, produced for Dave’s own personal amusement and are not commercially available due to licensing restrictions. Apparently during an email exchange, I sounded a little down and the next thing I knew an amazing assortment of Star Wars inspired miniatures had hit the doormat of Awdry Towers. I hope to show more of the denizens of Jabba’s palace in a future post, but instantly fell upon the droids to paint first, seeing that they fitted into my current theme.
Sensing an easy win, painting wise, I decided to start with an RA-7 Protocol Droid; Action Figure aficionados might remember this one as the Death Star Droid. The body was duly given a silver base coat before washes were applied and the various details picked out in black. A RA-7 can be seen in the Jawas‘ Sandcrawler during Episode IV and so I decided to give mine some additional weathering and rust to match the hapless droid.
If RA-7 was to be a quick win then R5-D4, the second of my droids, was to prove much more costly, time wise. As with my R2-D2 the miniature this droid has a lot of small detail and required a bit more concentration and research to finish. Certainly not blessed with a lot of screen time, R5-D4 was always a favourite of mine and so I couldn’t be more thrilled to add him to the collection. Similarly to RA-7, I wanted to give the droid a weathered feel and so more washes and rust effects were applied, although I stopped short of adding his shorted motivator unit.
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