New 6mm Star Wars Stormtroopers

 I have just recently picked up some Storm Knights from Wakes Emporium on Shapeways link

Here is my quick review of the figures...

The pros.

The quality of these figures are amazing.  They have all of the details you would expect to find on Imperial Stormtroopers.  The helmet is spot on in design.  The level of detail is amazing.  You can see the "mouth" crack and the eye holes on the helmet.  You can tell what kind of weapon they are carrying. 

It's hard to get closeup pictures to see the details, but here is the best I could do.

The first phot shows some of the pictures with a simple wash.  The second photo shows my poor painting skills, but does a good job of showing how you can pick up the details (if you have the skills)

The other thing that is amazing is the number of variants of the figures.  There are riflemen and light repeating blasters, and even some missile weapons.  Several figs have the shoulder pauldron that marks the officers.  For the light repeating blasters there are 4 or 5 variants, and at least 3 for the missile guys.  For the riflemen and officers it is hard to tell because some of the variants are subtle differences from the others.  I would have never expected to see all f these variants, and it is a wonderful addition to the line!

Now for the cons.

The printed resin is good and does a great job of showing the details of the figures, but at this scale there is occasionally a little graininess.  You have to look close to find it though!  Most will never see it unless you paint with magnifying glasses.  The other downside of the resin printing is that the figs are just a little fragile.  However, I don't know that they are any more fragile than metal 6mm figs.  (I have broken a few of those also).  I have broken two of the figures.  Unfortunately the  officer in the picture above is now KIA.  I broke his weapon off when I was trying to reposition him on the stand.  The glue had partly dried and I tried to remove him, and then "snap".  Another one I broke off of the base when removing him from the sprue.

Conclusion.

These are amazing figures and are a pleasure to paint, and I would highly recommend them to anyone wanting to do Star Wars in 6mm!

Here are some more pics.

With my Darkest Star Rebel Proxies

With my old Rebel and Stormtrooper Proxies

People wander if they work with X-Wing miniatures, and they are a perfect match!

My First finished platoon!

Star Wars 6mm Clone Wars Droids

My Star Wars 6mm quest continues.

I found a person that does Star Wars on Shapeways.  He has a pretty good number of items available right now, all scaled to 6mm.

I prefer the Rebellion era myself, but he has a lot of different items for Clone Wars era.  I decided to buy some to test.  I bought some Battle Droids from Shapeways.  I bought in the smooth, detailed plastic.  I have ordered in the cheaper materials before, but it was a bit grainy.  I think the smooth, detailed looks better.

I am pretty impressed with the details of the droids.  It is hard to do these in 6mm because they have some small parts.  He did a good job of catching enough detail to see them, without making them brittle.

One of my favorite things about them is that there is a lot of variants.  There are several infantry variants, then there are command variants.  Those include guys with binoculars, ones with light repeating blasters (or sniper rifles if you prefer), and rocket launchers.

The only negative complaint that I have is that the sprue that connects them is a little thick and challenging to cut.  I ended up breaking a few of the miniatures when I tried to cut them apart.

Next, I found out that he made some tanks and sold them on eBay.  He printed these himself.  They come in multi parts and require assembly.  It is a little challenging to assemble.  For instance, the turret is three pieces.  There is an upper part and lower part of the hull, then there is the gun.  The body has two parts, the front and the back.  (I should have fixed the joint on this, but didn't realize it was that bad until I painted it).  The two side guns are each two parts and are small.  If you use magnifying glasses they are much easier to assemble.

One of the challenges with assembling them is that they are printed in a translucent resin, and they are pretty small, so it is hard to match up the joints.  Once I started using magnifying glasses it went much better.

The Perfect 6mm AT-AT quest continues

I am still looking for the perfect AT-AT for 6mm.  So far haven't hit it quite yet. 

Here are the two I have so far.

The larger one is the Titanium Series.  It is close, and I may have to stick with it.

The smaller one is the F-Toys 1/350.  You get 2 in a box which is good, but they are pretty small.  The detail on them is quite nice though.

The figures are 6mm (1/285) from Dark Star Miniatures.

Next, I think I will try some DeAgostini AT-ATs.

Star Wars Infantry for Quadrant 13

Here are the first infantry units I have.

I kept weapons at TL2 to reduce the massive casualties.  In the old WEG Star Wars RPG it listed Rebels as having flack jackets, so I assigned them TL2 armor.  Stormtrooper armor is better TL3 armor.

Star Wars Project - Rules

It looks like for now I will be using Quadrant 13 rules from Too Fat Lardies.  The rules are based off of their "I Ain't Been Shot Mum" rules, and are pretty simple and quick playing.

The rules are available here.  Too Fat Lardies Link

Here are the first of the vehicles that I am working on.

Quadrant 13 allows special rules called Chrome, to customize the setting or units.

So far the first Chrome that I am working on is for Jedi.

Jedi Warriors - Jedi are Big Men and must be class 3 or 4 Big Men.

Jedi add +4 to close combat result when armed with lightsabers.

Jedi can "Reflect shots" at them - When attached to a squad or fired at individually, for each hit scored on the unit, roll a D6.  Class 3 Jedi reflect the shot on a 6, Class 4 Jedi redirect on a 5 or 6. 

 

More 6mm Star Wars

Wow, two posts in one month!  Almost a new record for me!

I have a few more toys painted up.

Rebel tanks.

These are rebel T1-B tanks.  I bought them from Shapeways Link Here
These are good models well detailed.  I mounted them on small washers to make it look like they were "hovering" just off of the ground.  I like how they turned out.

Next up is an E-Web Heavy blaster.  I designed it and printed it on Shapeways.  I think that the barrel is too long, and you can't see the details at the end.  I may revise it and then put several on a sprue to print more.  The Stormtrooper firing the gun is a gunner from Darkest Star Miniatures Grav Raft.  He fits perfect, so that part I got right.

It is hard to get a good picture of something that small!

I have also included some more of my AT-PTs painted up.  I like these figs.  They have great detail and are the perfect scale!

6mm Star Wars Update

Long time no post...  Sometimes life gets busy...

I have been quietly working on some of my Star Wars projects as well as ACW.  More on those later.

For now I wanted to do some updates on my 6mm Star wars project.

Rebel Fleet Troopers

My fleet troopers are from Darkest Star Miniatures.  They are the Federation Low Tech troopers
Darkest Star Federation

Rebel Ground Troops

My ground troops are from Ground Zero Games.  They are from their Dirtside Range, the FSE Legionnaires.  GZG FSE Legionnaires

Vehicles and weapons

My weapons and vehicles come from a variety of sources.  

AT-ST - I'm not satisfied with this one.  It is a Micro Machines toy.  It is too big, so I will probably look at one that is from Shapeways

The Golan DF9 and the Atgar FD gun and the AT-PT are all pretty good looking miniatures.  They are from Shapeways.  They are in a store from Hardware Studios Link.  I also have a few other items from him that haven't been painted up yet.

Golan Anti Personnel Turret

Atgar Anti Vehicle Gun

AT-PT