Friday 11 March 2016

From SanderS - BOOOM! Part 2 (???)

Hoi,

As stated in the first part of this entry, I have gained another 364 points with the Napoleonics I have painted, but at exactly 1475 points this leaves me 25 points short of my objective of 1500 points. (Note from the Friday Minion - you were actually a lot closer than you thought, but keep painting at all costs...)

Now the miniatures featured here have been a bit of a hush-hush project of mine. I have no idea what amount of points they will generate, I'll leave that up to Greg, but I am guessing they will be good enough for the 25 points needed.

Since I have been playing X-wing with buddy Mark, we have been wanting to do this cheaper. Studio Bergstrom offered a simple way out with their 1 inch Fighters series. These inexpensive craft (you get about a squadron of fighters for the price of one X-wing pre-painted one) only needed a scaled down version of the base, which is made possible due to lasered MDF ;-) I have painted up some test figures before (now in the possession of Mark himself) as well as a squadron of TIE Bombers.

Anyway without further ado here are the miniatures themselves.

The Rebel Alliance fighter command


The Imperium's finest. Yup, after taking the pictures I noticed I will have to do something with the TIE-fighter bases, I was not sure whether to use stickers or painted bases when I started with the project and only later, after finishing these eyeballs I decided to do fire-arcs on the bases of the other craft.


There are 5 squadrons of 12 figures each, shown here. Well I say squadrons but the Rebels are divided in 2 units of 6 fighters each, the Imperials have two 12 fighter units except for one of the squints (Interceptors for those not in the know) which I gave a blood red stripe and the initials of Soontir Fell. Also prominent is Dart Vader's TIE advanced so that makes 61 fighters. But how many points would they be worth? 

It would be very bad form indeed not to show my profound gratitude for the excellent services as supplied for by Greg, a better Friday-Minion one could not wish for. I found his commentaries bought fair and stimulating and his replies always swift and to the point. Thanks heaps for this!

That would be my final official post for this Year's Challenge.
Cheers Everyone!


Hoi Sander! Very nice to see a "surprise" project like this come into the light.  I'm sure you feel pretty psyched to have been working away at this for some time, and now be able to share it with all of us.
These fighters look great, and what a clever notion of running it all through a different scale with smaller miniatures.  While I have not been hit by the Star Wars bug myself, it has swept through the hobby space like wildfire (our group here in Winnipeg LOVES it), and yet this is the first time I have seen some clever folks opting for a more economical - and still cool - approach.  Very well done!

As I mentioned before, you were already quite close to meeting you goal, closer than you had thought.  For scoring I will deem these to be 6mm vehicles, which nets you 122 points - so more than enough to exceed the 25 you suspected you were short.  Congratulations on hitting your goal! It has been awesome today to see many members of the Friday Fun Crew beating their targets - we just need to crack the whip on a few to make for a proper team showing (Samuli, Gilles, you had best be painting while you read this...)

It has been my pleasure Sander! I hope we see you in the comments section as this Challenge concludes, and brushing up a storm in the next Challenge!

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  1. Excellent work Sander - great idea to use the Studio Bergstrom minis for a cheaper way to field large forces :)

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    1. Thanks Tamsin, to be honest I like the Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica proxies they sell but the more "alienesque"fleets are not my thing. Studio Bergstrom also sells a series of fleet battle ships of which I have a small Rebel Alliance and Imperial fleet as well and these are also great!

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  2. Never heard of Studio Bergstrom but I have introduced X wing to my school with Micro Machines, you get about 3 for the price of 1 standard mini but not bases no cards nothing really other than cool little space craft you can make Tie Fighter screams with. (kids think I;m weird)

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    1. Well we did some X-wing games at school too with simplified rules and it was great fun! As said at school we have a lasercutter (as well as a 3d printer) and that made it possible to reduce both the bases and the movement templates to 70% and voila!

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  3. Those look frikken awesome! ;)
    I heartily approve, but you need more " eyeball" and a distinctive beat up freighter to get the whole proper effect! ;)
    I also want to thank Greg for the wrangling of the Friday crew as well as the rest of the Friday miscreants whose work I could view throughout the day...and back too the brushes go I! ;)

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    1. Thanks David, yeah Greg really did a Stirling job!

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  4. Not heard of Studio Bergstrom either? A very impressive force Sander, the Force is definitely with you!

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    1. We can only hope so Ray ;-) Thanks for the kind words!

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  5. @Greg: counting the fleet as 6mm mini's is a very good idea and yes it seems I was nearer to my end target then I imagined indeed!

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  6. Well done on reaching your target!

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    1. Thanks, though I guess I will not be in 6th place for long ;-)

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  7. Another great points bomb Sander! And a very nice fleet! They look very nice even in the smaller scale! And definitely much more affordable. X-Wing and Armada prepaints are sometimes quite ridiculously priced

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    1. Some of the ship are brilliant to paint like the X-wings, A-wings and Y-wings. They also have some of the Expanded Universe ship which makes a large part of the X-wing game possible.

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  8. Good stuff, nice to see someone doing something different with this.. Now at that scale I could get tempted..

    Lovely work too

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    1. Oh don't start these mini's Dave, I'd miss the camels far too much!

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  9. I am another who had not heard of the company, (as soon as I stop typing I will visit the web site though). I like the price and the scale. My wallet cam feel a disturbance in the force. Thank you for showing them, they are excellent.

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