Space 2021 – A Star Saga
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About the Project
Each year I like to try and set a challenge for the year, usually painting some Kickstart miniatures boardgame or other. Due to not being in a great place at the start of 2020, it wasn't really possible to make any sort of pledge (I was living in a room that basically had a bed, a clothes rail and a TV). Things did get better over the year, I got some furniture, a desk, some lights and eventually got the paints out of the storage unit where I had been storing most of what I owned. By the end of the year I was pretty much back in the swing of things and that leaves me ready to do something for 2021.
This year's pledge is going to be Star Saga. Not just the Eiras Contract game but the complete, all-in kickstarter pledge PLUS the additional Deadzone mercenaries! And to make this even more fun, because I backed Star Saga jointly with my brother (something we do regularly), we will be painting it jointly - and it's the perfect game to do it with. My brother isn't the world's greatest painter and to be fair it is not his main interest. But that gives him a skill that I struggle with - Batch painting. I really struggle to paint large batches of grunts and minions, he struggles to focus on and paint a single miniatures to high standard. So a game that by design contains a large number of grunts and a smaller number of characters is absolutely perfect. He will be batch painting the goons and I will be painting the heroes and Villains. I will also be designing all the test colours schemes for my brother.
Also, given that it's been sat in the box for a few years now it's perfect for the Spring Clean challenge, even if I am starting it early.
Because it's a boardgame and will likely be played with people who don't play lots of miniatures games the intenion is to stick to the artwork as far as possible so that what is on the board looks like the picture on the corresponding card. Each entry in the blog will be a single character or miniature type and a little bit of information about the painting of it and my thoughts on the miniature. I won't be doing progress shots and tutorials because there is so much to paint that taking progress shots and writing blog posts would be way too time consuming.
So with all that out the way, let's begin!