well, wonder no more!
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/01/hobby-star-wars-imperial-assault-painted-up.htmlBell blog regular bobafett has painted a few figures up, and while you can see more after the link,
here's a teaser of what they'd look like;
The Dark Lord and Retinue, all he needs is a saber-swap and he's ready to go! When I can get another set, I'll be converting the royal guards into the Force Unleashed Dark Guards (to go with my mandalorian soldier + snowtrooper headswap dark guards).
Some of the heroes painted, they look neat!
Theres also a slew of new generic sci-fi figures becoming available on the Form-+1 website soonish, so watch that space too (though for an idea of price, sans shipping and handling estimates, for just an R7-droid sized mini you're looking at ~$18USD, though nicely detailed!).
as an aside,
These SW:Imperial Assault figures are so much better than the Epic Duels figures from 2002.
I still like some of the WotC figures, though if you push me...
WotC pewter figures are still better than Imperial Assault (unless and FFG Imperial Assault expansion can prove me wrong...).