December 7, 2025

I just finished painting my three Micro Galaxy Squadron LAAT gunships.  I used Vallejo Model Color (Khaki, Burnt Red and Yellow Green).  I added a 28mm seated Clone on both sides of each ship.  The figures are by Modest Minis Studio on eBay.

With the LAAT gunships done I turned my attention to Ahsoka’s starship (also by Micro Galaxy Squadron).  When I did the Micro Galaxy Squadron Ghost ship, I liked their color scheme so much and it was so complex that I decided to keep the original paint job and simple age it to make it work with my other ships.  I did basically the same thing with Ahsoka’s ship.  I didn’t like the grey that it came with (looked too plastic) but I thought I could make it work and in doing so keep the white lines that ran through it, so I hid the red with masking tape and sprayed the grey flat black.  I then dry brushed the sprayed areas with Vallejo Model Color Khaki and then lightly dry brushed Vallejo Model Color Pastel Green (a kind of grey-green) over that.  Next I removed the masking tape and lightly (very lightly) dry brushed the red with Khaki to reduce the look of plastic, give it some look of wear, and help it blend in with the rest of the ship.  I was nervous throughout the process, but I very happy with the way it came out.

This past week I found a toy forklift at the swap meet and decided to paint it up for use as part of the terrain features of my terraforming space station complex.

As the week neared its end, I discovered that I had one more AAT tank (Micro Galaxy Squadron) that I hadn’t seen when I painted the others, so I put my brush to that.  I still have two more AATs to paint (the transformer version), but they required a bit of modification so that will probably get done next week.

I ended the week painting two of my Action Fleet AT-TEs.  I also modified the seats on the main gun so they would fit Clone gunners modified from the same seated Clones I used with the LAATs.