#copperforge

So, my lazy idea of using Mechanicus Standard Grey from the can absolutely payed off! 👌🏼

copperforge replied to your post “Old Republic Lore: Mandalorians are genocidal warmongers and the...”

You were a Mando not-liker?! Ma dude, you will be purged from my Aliit ori’shia tal’din list! �� (Obviously not, I love you, dude ��)

In my defense, the Mandalorian lore with which I was most familiar was from KotOR where they went ‘hey those cat-people can probably scrap let’s exterminate them for kicks’. So, you know, not my favorite sort of people. And most of the mando-fans I encountered were edgelord dudebros who wanted to identify with a warrior culture while being generally dickish and gatekeepy. In contrast, all the klingon enthusiasts I knew were mostly in it for the outrageously over-the-top melodrama and would welcome anyone who expressed any interest.

However, given that at least some of the more recent Mandalorian lore draws inspiration and parallels from Maori and diasporic Jewish cultures, they’re lots more interesting to me now. 

On a narrative level, warrior-culture Mandos were generally positioned as bad guys. Other baddies in Star Warrs include Empires, Hutts, and Sith. Imperials are blatant space fascists so they’re out. Hutts are what would happen if really gross-ass misogynist fanboys suddenly inherited a major drug cartel and the cartel just went along with it instead of dumping their largely immobile ass into the dune sea and getting on with business. And the Sith are always depicted in universe as absolute fucking batshit crazy supervillains bent on varying degrees of space fascism and omnicide, but they get to wear all black and have red lightsabers and fry motherfuckers with lightning. Which. Admittedly the ‘shiny blaster-resistant armor and many funky gadgets’ aesthetic is pretty good, it just can’t compete (for me at least) with this

however, you give me a scenario where the Mandos are the honorable warrior culture more or less on the run/in hiding from the space fascists, and when they all show up as the fucking cavalry to save Din Djarin’s ass, I will absolutely goddamn cheer and clap like a delighted idiot for the cool armored warrior dudes.

In short: Mandos as baddies, boring, out-aesthetic’d by the Sith.

@wtf-skittens Ouh I believe that! Prone to white-out for sure ^^ I’ll defo let you know but so far I don’t have new minis and Ultramarines only have boring swords ��

@copperforge​ You could always make slightly less boring swords for them! XD I made a more gladius-type sword for a friend’s Ultramarine - nothing majorly fancy but still something a little unique! It’d be good practice for making more complicated weapons later, too!

I think I've just peaked - for now 😅

The brass ornaments have subtle color variations, hard to pick out on the photos but I swear they are there 😁

Warsmith / Saturnine Praetor

Tried some fluorescent paints, but not overdoing it. Keeping it simple - as much as possible on this decorated dude!

But the more muted colors vs the bright highlights really go well!