In my last game of Star Wars: Legion, with my pilot-themed Rebel Alliance army, I did a supremely bad job of flying in with Wedge Antilles’ X-Wing (as an airspeeder proxy) and getting my aft promptly handed to me by Kinpatsusamurai’s AT-ST. Mistakes were made, but in this house we eat our mistakes and we also learn from them. Not only am I hoping to do a little better in the rematch, when that comes, but I also intend to hit the walkers with something a little more dangerous to them than heavy blasters – that’s right, tow-cables.

Not unlike the X-Wing, I made heavy use of drybrushing and sponges with a few more precise highlights along the hull to try and make the airspeeder look like I’d put more work into it than I actually did. I stuck mostly to what I’d seen in reference art for the snowspeeder, up to and including the red-orange over the engine covers, and tried to add some silvery or lighter surfaces to mix up the look of the gray while I splashed on washes and stuff to make it all look subtle. In the end, it was a quick dirty project but also a very fun little speedpaint.

The last liberty I took with this was doing my usual ‘glow’ thing with the cockpit windows – in hindsight I might have made it look a little less tinted, but I kind of like the look that gives off on the tabletop. Since most of my army is based on a gold-brown to bone colored desert look, I tried to make the reflective glow at the bottom of the cockpit windows reflect that, with the blue colors higher up suggesting a brighter, bluer sky. Nothing groundbreaking, but I did have fun with this little model and I’m looking forward to flying it around on the tabletop – hopefully to better effect than last time.