I have now finished painting all of my Star Wars Legion miniatures. It is good to have the project essentially wrapped up from a painting perspective, especially having started back in March with the starter box set. I definitely ended up spending much more on the miniatures than I originally intended. There was always that one extra units I just needed to make the collection complete or add variety, and it was always on sale. How could I resist!
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| The Star Wars collection. |
The one saving grace is that I spent little to nothing on terrain, having either scratch-built it or repurposed stuff I already had in my wargaming stash. With my son visiting for a day of painting, I needed to quickly find something else to work on and decided to return to my English Civil War collection. The unpainted pile is slowly dwindling, just enough remains to complete three more bases of infantry and four bases of cavalry. Once those are painted, that will likely mark the end of my ECW collecting and painting, though I may still pick up a few heavy artillery pieces in the future to allow for siege scenarios.
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| One more infantry unit to add to the ECW collection. |
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| The remaining figures to be painted. |
Two book games arrived yesterday from Worthington Games: “Waterloo Solitaire” and “Bismarck Solitaire”. Both look very interesting and have solo mechanics driven by dice to manage the opposition. I had originally planned to just purchase the Waterloo game after watching a YouTube review of the game, but then added the Bismarck game to the order to reach the free shipping threshold. You never know it may just tempt me to dust off my naval models and play some naval wargames on the tabletop.
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| Recent purchases. |
I have had a chance to play the first scenario from the Waterloo book, which includes a total of 24 games (12 playing as the French and 12 as the Allies). The games have three levels of difficulty which gradually increase as you play through them. In my first game, I played as the French and was defeated. I managed to break the Allied right wing, but things quickly started to go wrong when the Prussians began arriving over three consecutive turns (3 sixes in a row for Allied orders). From that point on, I was in serious trouble.
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| Playing a game using pencil so I can erase and play again. |
That is quite a large collection of Star Wars figures. Running out of figures to paint? Time for a new project.
ReplyDeleteI think the Star Wars project will be my only project this year. I have a few leftover figures with other armies I would like to just finish off.
DeleteI will be interested to hear how you get on with the solo books. I have the ‘Braveheart’ book, but have not dived in yet. They look to be a good distraction for anyone on vacation or having a hospital stay.
ReplyDeleteThe book games are certainly good for taking away on holiday. The one game I have played was interrupted but should take less than 30 mins to complete. A good filler game in the evening when not wanting to set up a game on the tabletop.
DeleteThe Star Wars collection looks fantastic en masse Peter
ReplyDeleteI was quite surprised how big the collection had got. I will only be using them for skirmish games and I will have a variety of units to choose from.
DeleteA good week Peter. One project completed, another almost done, plus something new and shiny 😁
ReplyDeleteYes, an excellent week.
DeleteI have a fair few of Mike Lambo’s book games and, instead of playing with paper/card counters on a paper battlefield, I play with miniatures and MDF hexes. I highly recommend Mike’s games - available from both WargameVault and Amazon.
ReplyDeleteStar Wars Legion? Surely a project is never really finished - you’ll eventually see something else you need and, as long as the price is right, you won’t be able to resist 😉
Cheers,
Geoff
I will have to check out Mike Lambo’s games. As for the next painting project, that will wait until next year while I tidy up the loose ends on some previous projects.
DeleteAlways nice to see projects reach their end, or as near as wargamers ever get!
ReplyDeleteThere will always be opportunities to add to them.
DeleteNice work Peter, that is an impressive Star Wars collection, and the Waterloo game looks and sounds interesting too.
ReplyDeleteThank you. The project was meant to be a small project but just grew.
DeleteThose are a lot of Star Wars toys to play with and well done on getting them painted so quickly. Nice work on the ECW too. I've not seen those books but they do look good.
ReplyDeleteThe Star Wars collection became larger than I originally anticipated, but will give me a variety of units to pick from for the various skirmish scenarios I am planning.
DeleteGreat Stars Wars collection Peter. Must feel good to finish the project.
ReplyDeleteThe solo games look interesting. I must investigate.
Thanks. I also noticed the company has also produced a board game based on the Waterloo Solitaire book. It looks the same, but with blocks and a map.
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