peteyfrogboy | Gaming Miniature: Duros Soldier

I'm getting a chance to get back to my roots: the other kind of miniatures. I'm going to start playing in a game again for the first time in years, so I'm pretty excited. It's a Star Wars game and there's already a Jedi in the party (big surprise), so I made myself a Duros noble/soldier with a big blaster rifle. The only Star Wars minis I have are an ancient West End set of movie characters, some generic sci-fi humans, and some old lumpy sculpts I made a few years back. Not surprisingly, none of them were Duros, let alone ones with big guns.

Back in 2005 I bought a whole mess of pirates from Eureka. I painted about half of them, but ran out of steam before I finished the rest. I decided to take one of them and use it as the basis for what I needed. I cut off his arms (holding a shovel, of all things), cutlass scabbard, and nose. I replaced the arms with some leftovers from a box of plastic Warhammer 40K Imperial Guardsmen, and also added some gear on his belt from the same source. The arms are drilled and pinned at the shoulders with some cut-down bits of spare pewter. The left wrist is drilled and pinned with a piece of a quilting pin.

The original legs had cut off pants and bare feet, so I cut a toe off each foot and sculpted knee pads and boot bits out of green stuff. I also transfered the whole thing to a GW round plastic base and filled in the gaps at the shoulders with more putty. The rifle scope is made from the barrel of a heavy laser pistol from the IG bits. So far, I'm very happy with how it turned out. Hopefully I have some paint left that hasn't dried up out in the garage.