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Snowspeeders at a hidden base

Robin Rowland 

One of my holiday hobby projects was painting the Star Wars Command snowspeeders (with the aim, of course, photographing them in the snow.)

So imagine that on Hoth (or some other snowy world) some snowspeeders escaped the Empire attack on the main base and have found refuge in a hidden valley. (Planets are big places)

But given the Empire’s tech, and orbiting satellites, or patrols, the lined up snowspeeders could be spotted from above.

So that means it is a good tactic to disperse the snow speeders, with the pilot carefully landing this one at the edge of a cliff.

A second pilot brings the snowspeeder in right under the lip of a snowbank.

(Photos of other projects coming soon)

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