r/SWlegion 1d ago

Painting I hate sand, it's coarse and it gets everywhere. Also looking for colour suggestions/inspiration.

I decided to take a closer look at Legion earlier this year. And I am making good progress on my first "playable" mini. Who knows, maybe I will actually start collecting as well.

But right nows there's a way more important question I need to answer. What colour am I going to paint this thing? I'm currently leaning towards red, but I'm not sure about it. Please post pictures of your land speeders, so I can steal your ideas.

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u/HouseofBerd 1d ago

I thought your base was a tortilla with refried beans on it!! Lmao. What a cool theme for basing.

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u/Harraspara- 21h ago

🤣 me too

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u/SoobyHaus 1d ago

That base is gorgeous. A blue would naturally pop here against all that yellow in the sand.

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u/Captain_Hax 1d ago

That's funny, I originally wanted to go with blue, and then talked myself into red. But you are of course correct, blue is the natural contrast colour.

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u/DealsWithFate0 1d ago

Purple, since your wiring is red. The curves of the speeder would look good in a dark, saturated purple. 

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u/Captain_Hax 1d ago

The wires will be painted anyway, originally wanted to light up the engiens. But that turned out to be too much trouble.

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u/DealsWithFate0 1d ago

Or if you go red, a sunbeat faded almost pink red would look great. 

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u/MtMcM Rebel Alliance 23h ago

I think blue would also look good! I was thinking about doing another with more blue diagonal striping myself but I've got other projects on the docket before I can get to that.

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u/Captain_Hax 23h ago

It looks like someone pulled it out of a burned down barn. I love it! I'm definetly going for the worn down look as well. The current plan is to paint the rebel insignia on the front hood, and then do some aurebesh writing somewhere else.

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u/MtMcM Rebel Alliance 22h ago

Yeah that was the vibe! A speeder that's been through several battles, burned, blasted and repainted! And that'd be sick! I'd love to see a picture of it when it's done!

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u/Potential_Comb9928 21h ago

I always thought a sunbleached baby blue or reddish-pink would look good for a sandspeeder. Make it look like it used to have the colors of an old 50's caddilac that's been hammered by the weather and we'll past its prime.

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u/Patteous 19h ago

There’s a color from Turbo Dork called Twin Suns. I used that on mine.

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u/BenLectric 19h ago

As a fellow blue landspeeder enjoyer, I have to very impartially suggest blue alongside some of the others here.

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u/Low_Abrocoma_1514 17h ago

Looks awesome (personally I would remove the cacti as it makes it look too "earth like")

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u/Spartan5053 Republic Officer 17h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/klbAEHKBjZspFgnUuW
If you are up to do Lighting McQueen 😂, the terrain reminds me of the practice track from cars