Peace and security for the galaxy

Keeping up with my Empire squad for Shatterpoint, this week I've been working on Director Krennic's squad and the Inferno Squad.  I love Krennic's character in the movies and his most recent appearance in Andor, and the model for shatterpoint really captures the look of Ben Mendelson on the role. The miniature is simple yet imposing and menacing. I love the fact that the pin-up for the card has a blaster in his hand, but the sculptors decided it was not necessary for him to be armed to transmit his aura of power.  This set of miniatures was …

If you only knew the power of the Dark Side

Keeping up with my Shatterpoint painting, after finishing my core box I bought some expansions to allow me to play as the Empire. I got one pretty sweet deal for the Darth Vader box and the Inferno Squad box, so I'm currently working on building a complete functional imperial squad. One of the hardest things about painting Star Wars is that there are a lot of pure white and pure black elements that are particularly difficult to paint if you want them looking right. Particularly because, being pop culture references, everybody knows pretty well how t…

Mandalorian civil war

Recently my gaming group has had a renewed interest is Star Wars Shatterpoint. We saw that Atomic Mass had updated several old profiles of the game and decided to give it a go again with some new players. After some demos, and seing that we were probably going to play this again, I decided to invest some time in painting the remaining parts of my base set that were still just primed.  I had not painted any of the mandalorians on the base set, hoping maybe to sell them off one day, but as the game has not come out with any new base box and everyone playi…

You sound like a separatist!

As a CIS player on SW Legion, when I entered Shatterpoint I told myself I would steer clear of the droid army. Too many an evening painting droids has left me a bit tired of the good ol' B-1 battle droids. However, the starter box felt a bit disjointed with Ventress and Maul as main antagonists.  I don't really see Maul and Ventress teaming up while commanding CIS troops, so with the new releases I got myself a Grievous and a Dooku box to make my CIS playable as a cohesive force. My droids were done in the same Legion schemes, with simple metà…

Warcrimes on Geonosis

Recently I got caught in the Shatterpoint mass hysteria that's going on in my city. Everybody and their dog got the core box and a pretty reasonable community has formed around the game. I must say the sculpts are lovely and really enjoyable to paint, and they are quite fast too, as they have official colors you don't have to worry on color choices as there are a lot of resources online to check on the colors of the characters. As I play the CIS in Legion I decided that I wanted to make a GAR strike team for Shatterpoint. With the announcement o…