Rob's First Steps into Legion

Hi, Rob here again with another blog post. Today I'll be showing you my Star Wars : Legion force that I've just started. 

I've recently picked up some Star Wars Legion figures to paint up. I started with the E-Web Heavy Blaster and the picked up some Snow troopers and General Veers. Prior to painting these guys I painted a few test models, because I find painting white to be one of the most difficult things to do. Seriously, White Scars players, I salute you. I thought I'd pace myself with these miniatures but I ended up painting them up in one day, that's how much I enjoyed painting them!

Squad Leader

E-Web Heavy Blaster

General Veers

The Gang

I've never really been too sold on FFG minis, the X-wing models always looked a bit too much like the old Micro Machines, but these guys were a blast to paint. My only complaint would be the cloaks aren't quite as crisp in places as they could've been. Perhaps they should get some GW sculptors on the case, because if there's one thing GW know, it's how to sculpt a good cloak.

I've got some Speeder Bikes and another squad of Snow troopers on order to bring me up to a legal skirmish list and then after that, I don't know, perhaps an AT-ST and some Death troopers to seek and destroy rebel scum. Oh, and maybe an Imperial Officer in more appropriate winter wear!

Star Wars: Legion - Luke Skywalker

My second finished miniature of 2021 is none other than Commander Luke Skywalker for Fantasy Flight Games Star Wars: Legion.

Like my Rancor, I followed Sorastro's painting guide. I am really happy with the end result, although the clothing is a little darker than I would have liked. I'm not overly keen on my OSL (Object Source Lighting) of the Lightsabre on his face, but I can live with it.

His face took some time and even though I followed the guide, I still struggled. I plan to concor face and skin tones this year!

Seeing as this is the angle I will mostly be looking at on the tabletop, I'm pleased.

He looks pretty cool.

Here's a close up of the face. The eyes came out pretty good, this distracts you from the rest of the face lol.

As they say, it's all about faces and bases. I have based him to match the rest of my Rebels (Well, my only other finished Rebel mini, AT-RT), and my Imperials.

And here is is, facing off against a Rancor.

I hope you liked the post. Please like and share!

Happy Hobby Time Folks.

Star Wars Imperial Assault Rancor

So here it is, my first completed (not so) miniature of the year. My Star Wars: Imperial Assault - Rancor.

This was really fine to paint and I learnt a few different techniques along the way. I tried my best to follow Sorastro's painting guide found here.

I'm going to use it for custom mission in Star Wars: Legion too. I found a stat card in the Internet to use with it. Please comment who to credit if you know.

Anyway, enjoy the pictures!

Thanks for reading.

Solo Games For Lockdown

Hi all, with the latest announcement of lockdown III here in the UK, I thought I would let you all know my go to solo play games. These games have kept me sane since March 2020 and they should keep me going yet again! I hope...

So here are my favourite solo play games. I have listed them in order of out of the box play-ability. Some games require an APP or to download and print off content, rule and cards etc...

#1 - Core Space: 

Core Space is a science fiction miniatures board game for 1-6 players. Each player takes control of a band of Traders trying to make a living in a dangerous galaxy, all the while hunted by the Purge, a semi-sentient race of humanoid machines whose sole task is to harvest worlds. It can be played competitively or co-operatively, and missions can be linked with a detailed campaign system.

Core Space is amazing, it tick all the solo play requirements and you can get started straight out of the box. If you didn't know better, you would think it was designed for lockdown.

You can purchase this game in the UK from: www.incomgaming.co.uk

Painting Points Are Back

Yep, as the title said, painting points are coming back and so is my regular blogging, or at least that's the plan.

It's been a long time, a looong time since I did regular blogging about my hobby. I left it for a while, I spent years building up a local gaming club Pork Chop Gaming that eventually turned into a hobby store and club Incom Gaming. But my ties are now severed, the kids are growing up and I find that I may have time to start this again.

I changed the domain address to, from Realm Of Warhammer 40k to Bespoke Gamer. This lost a lot of followers and traffic, but I have stopped playing 40k and moved on to other awesome games, so a name change was in order.

Anyway, I am going to try and paint more! I have a LOT of unpainted minis... Hundreds of them, time is creeping on and I really want to be the type of hobbyist that has finished or at least nearly finished stuff. I also recognise that I have a problem, I can't help buying new stuff. So the painting points will help control this.

If you search (on here years ago) you will find I had a painting point system, where by I painted stuff and each model gave me points, those points converted into ££s to buy new stuff! This also motivated me to get things painted.

I've not worked out all the details as I want to change my system so it's achievable. I don't want to burn out or do mass batch painting either. So watch out for the system to follow soon!

I am pretty surch what miniature I will start 2021 with, it should be a nice one to ease me back in, so that will also be announced soon.

Anyway, feel free to follow this blog and share with friends too.

Have a happy hobby time folks!