These models are from the latest Relicblade Kickstarter, so I’m nearly a year late in painting them. But they came just a few days before I had to shut down the hobby space for months to prep for the move.
I decided to paint mine as if they were feral smurfs. The Chieftain gets red, like Papa Smurf.
The others are unnamed other smurfs, but generally wear white.
While nobody’s likely to pick them up and say “smurf!”, it amuses me.
Hello There may have been the first 2023 Galactic Republic squad box, but it’s the one I’ve gotten to. I started playing Shatterpoint a little after its release, and there was something a little newer and shinier. But now’s the time to backfill.
Shatterpoint tabards have been giving me trouble, but I think I finally got one right.
My clone troopers have gotten increasing gray in color. At least these have some nice orange to balance it out a bit.
Cody’s on the case. Unlike Aurra Sing, I managed to avoid snipping off his antenna.
Ruth has been playing Shatterpoint with me at the shop, and decided it was time to get the widgets painted.
She’s done a little painting with me over the years, but not regularly. It was fun to work on mine while she worked on hers.
This is the tenth time I’ve written one of these retrospectives. 2023 was less productive than recent years, though there’s good reason for that.
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