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How to paint Galactic Empire
Every Galactic Empire unit, and the colour schemes and paint lists other painters have published for them.
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Galactic Empire colour palette
The paints a Galactic Empire force is built from, by area and by role — base, shade, layer and highlight. A starting point for every unit below.
Every paint below links to its equivalents in other brands.
Galactic Empire signature colours
Stark stormtrooper white over imperial black trim, an army painted to look identical from the first trooper to the ten-thousandth.
Stormtrooper white armour
- Corax White Citadel Base
- Celestra Grey Citadel Shade
- White Scar Citadel Highlight
Imperial black trim
- Abaddon Black Citadel Base
- Nuln Oil Citadel Shade
- Dawnstone Citadel Highlight
Rank pauldron trim
- Mephiston Red Citadel Base
- Carroburg Crimson Citadel Shade
- Evil Sunz Scarlet Citadel Highlight
TIE pilot orange accent
- Troll Slayer Orange Citadel Base
- Fire Dragon Bright Citadel Highlight
Units
Objective Cards
Condition Cards
Deployment Cards
74-Z Speeder Bikes
Stormtroopers
•Darth Vader
AT-ST
Snowtroopers
•General Veers
•Boba Fett
Scout Troopers
Scout Troopers (Strike Team)
E-Web Heavy Blaster Team
•Emperor Palpatine
Imperial Royal Guards
Imperial Officer
Imperial Death Troopers
•Director Orson Krennic
TX-225 GAVw Occupier Combat Assault Tank
•Bossk
Shoretroopers
Dewback Rider
•Iden Versio
Imperial Special Forces
Imperial Special Forces (Inferno Squad)
•Agent Kallus
LAAT/le Patrol Transport
Track this project from sprue to finished
Building a Galactic Empire force is a lot of pots to keep straight. Track the army, the paints you own and what each unit still needs — free, and without an account to start.