Republic and Separatists for Star Wars Legion

Wow I hated building these. I’m also annoyed with myself I didn’t do something a little more dynamic with their rolling forms. Never mind. They’re done.

My original, ignorant plan was to have my son build the droids and use Sorastro’s guide to painting them. It’s pretty straightforward and my son likes contrast paint. Also I didn’t see many locals using the droids and I like to go with factions getting the least attention.

This idea fell apart quickly. The droids were very fiddly and annoying sculpts to assemble. The heads were in two parts! The Droidekas were particularly annoying. So I ended up building them.

My son didn’t want to paint them either. But he was happy to advice me. Grrr. Well at least there’s some interest.

I’m churning these out. Here’re the basic, B1 droids.

Ok it’s confression time. I completed the core box for the Clones and Separatists at the end of last year. But I haven’t pushed on with it as I’d hoped I would have. I’ve picked up on this again and will moving forward Legion for the final quarter of the year.

Originally this looked like a game that would finally interest my son. He likes building models and Lego but the plastic crack bug hadn’t really hit. My daughter is younger but enjoys painting. We’ve watched a lot of Star Wars together so maybe this will spark their interest. Nothing else has so far.

As to the figures, I was unimpressed with the early releases but FFG upped their level quickly and the arrival of the second core box coincided with us watching Clone Wars.

Since then the local scene has really picked up and I recently got a demo. I really enjoyed the game and dove in quickly. My local shop made it’s bonus that day.