B1 Battle Droid Painting Tutorial ~ Star Wars Legion!

Lachie paints up the awesome new B1 Battle Droids from Star Wars Legion! HARD PLASTICCC YALLLLLL!!!

A super simple colour scheme for the B1 Battle Droid, perfect for smashing out a horde of clankers. In this step by step painting tutorial we'll look at an impressive scheme to get your Star Wars Legion miniatures ready for the tabletop!

Star Wars Legion:

Warhammer 40k:

PAINT LIST:

PRIMER: Citadel Colour ~ Wraithbone Contrast Primer

Citadel Contrast ~ Skeleton Horde
Citadel Contrast ~ Black Templar
Citadel Dry ~ Terminatus Stone
Citadel Colour ~ Flash Gitz Yellow
Citadel Colour ~ Agrax Earthshade

Vallejo Game Colour ~ Charred Brown
Vallejo Game Colour ~ Plague Brown
Vallejo Game Colour ~ Bonewhite

Colour conversion chart for swapping between Vallejo, Citadel and other paint brands:

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[NotTheStinkyCheese]

I must say 'contrast paints' were the one thing I was thinking of for these ... good to see that skeleton horde is perfect for this.

[GoobertownHobbies]

Dude seriously you've made battle droids cool! How is this even possible??? :-) Great work, I love that paint job. "Geonosianfy the bases!"

[thegreatskinkpriest]

Your painting guides have been by far the most helpful. I still haven’t committed to buying the core set but I know that when I do I’ll have these videos to guide me through it. Seriously loving the content man.

[alexanderluiten]

jumping into the clone wars starter set late, but this is probs the best painting guide for b1's I've come across

[HypnoKraken]

Loving the Star Wars content, going to be jumping into Legion with Clones Wars myself

[Blarg]

Love it. My son is going to be playing Republic and I'll be going with the clankers. Looking forward to having my droids stomp some clones soon!

[jeffdave]

Great job Lachie, the contrast paints work really well for these figures. I may have to purchase a droid army when they come out!

[Eomer]

Are you going to build a geonosian battlemap?

[astolbro]

You want me to like the video roger roger. More seriously great video man!

[brianp]

Love it! I was thinking contrast would be great for these models, glad to see the finished results can be as good as i imagined them to be! Thanks for the great video!

[GiftofChaosStudio]

Yup, tried contrast for the first time on these. I hate them. Still ended up highlighting with my airbrush. I will say you got better results than most people on the Tubes. Well done

[FullmetalTimo]

Contrast paints seem like a godsend for this models.
Had not really interest in the "normal" SW Legion, but im getting this one for absolutely sure!

[SamSquids]

Excellent work on the paintjobs, me and my Dad are planning to do a Clone wars campaign, I decided to do up a Droid army with a mixture of units from the Prequels and Battlefront II 2005.

[Mailed-Knight]

Well there is Droidekas and the maybe some of original stuff like Bossk, Bobba, Chewie, Han and of course Darth Vader. Awesome vid btw.

[fullscaledconflict]

Excellent job again Lacky, those contrast paints really do work well on models like these.

[thatonebritishidiot]

personally, I like using a metal base coat an then going over with a contrast paint, gives them the most lovely shine, especially for the super battle droids, iron warriors and then basilicanum grey

[smoessmee]

Look great, Contrast paint really is a blessing for something like these. I can see even a slow painter like me knocking out a horde of these in relatively no time (my current highest models painted for the *year* is about 20).

[Vatniks_are_clowns]

Thanks for the great walkthrough. I just got into Legion, and I'm looving the clone wars kits. FF did a really great job with this line.

[KimboSheil]

Thanks for this video. They look great! I just got the core set and am looking at building up a droid army.

[juanfernandez]

Excellent video! I am really psyched to start assembling and painting my droids!