The Struggle for Tatooine- Forces

 Images taken from the expanded edition of Star Wars all rights belong to Disney.

 The Hutts, Tatooine is part of the galactic rim known as "Hutt Space" though its nominally controlled by the Empire in the first Star Wars movie its really controlled by Jabba the Hutt. My Star Wars escapades will be set after Return of the Jeddi when the Rebel Alliance is engaged in a full on war with the Empire. At this time (in my mind) the Hutts try to throw the Empire out of their "space". So Storm Troopers vs the forces of the Hutts. I'm collecting and converting figures to represent these Hutt troops.

But that will wait as Zomtober 2015 is nearly upon us! I have many zombies waiting to be finished off. I've successfully finished off a few zombies each Zombtober so I expect to get more done this one.

Blog Inturuptus

My blogging, blog reading, not to mention hobby work has been interrupted yet again by work! I have begun digging up figures to use in my Star Wars project. The metal figure next to Ric the Rodian is a Reaper D&D monster called Astral Reaver Monk. When I'm done with him he'll be an alien jedi hermit on Tatooine. A popular planet for jedi to hid out on. He ia a little thicker than the WOTC stuff but otherwise fits in well. More progress this Sunday.

WOTC Rebel Marines

Whats a Star Wars game without the Rebel Marines? A poor one to be sure. I have enough of them to make 2 8-man squads. in WEG  to make 2 squads in WEG, WOTC has put out several poses much better to my mind than FFG's single Rebel trooper sculpt for Imperial Assault.

 I actually have more that 16 but some of the WOTC releases are larger than the others as you can see in the photo.

Star Wars Beasts! Action Fleet Toys.

 

This is the Galoob Action Fleet toy that came packaged with the black speeder from last post it appears in the expanded edition of the New Hope. (original Star Wars movie) This animal is used by a Jawa to haul freight and will make useful terrain.

With Ric the Rodian for scale.

 

This it a Bantha ridden by a Tuskin Raider. This picture includes Ric the Rodian for scale. The Action Fleet Bantha has dolls hair glued on its back under the saddle. So if you have one of those little toy pony combs you could comb your Bantha. Besides the hair the other issue this toys has are feet whole in the Bantha's which don't look right. In addition to removing the hair I'll have to re-position the rider and fill in the back holes, But on the plus side he's awfully cute.

The Bantha is packaged with Luke's speeder.

This is a Dewback a creature native to Tatooine used by sand troopers. The sandt rooper rider is too small about 20mm and thus I'll have to replace him. Again Ric the Rodian is in the picture for scale. The Dewback is packaged with the escape pod R2D2 and C3PO use to land on Tatooine.

Speeders

These are Galoob Action Fleet toys I got off Amazon.com. They look rather small in the packages

But they are actually a good size for the realistically proportioned WOTC 28mm figures. I'm sure they would seem too small against the larger Imperial Assault figures.

Here are the package backs of the Action Fleet sets these speeders come from.

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Star Wars Miniatures

I decided to purchase some WOTC (wizards of the coast) Star Wars figures from their now defunct pre-painted collectible miniatures game. They are cast in a very bendy plastic, a little like giant Arifix figures, and are 28mm with realistic proportions. Nearly every character in the movies and from the 1990's & comic books are represented in the WOTC line. They can be had on the internet very cheaply. A few of the later sets are produced in 30-32mm and don't fit well with the earlier ones. More on that in future posts.

Luke Skywalker during the Battle of Hoth

Unnamed Rodian

Flash Speeder

As you can see bending out of shape is an issue with these figures. I've been experiencing technical difficulty requiring a full reinstall of Windows and now tonight I dropped & broke my digital camera! So all pictures are taken with a cell phone.

New Board

Work has begun on a Tatooine board for my Star Wars game. I'm playing a game where the Hutts battle the Empire for complete control of Tatooine. There wil be battles against the Tusken raiders too. You will see screen captures from the enhanced Star Wars The New Hope film of Mos Eisley Tatooine's spaceport. These are my board reference pictures. Short post I know but there isn't anything worth showing at this point. I have ordered a set of photographic lights so I should have proper pictures in the blog in a week or to.