Weekender XLBS: Star Wars – Taking Toys To The Tabletop
March 4, 2018 by warzan
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Happy Sunday to all
Happy Sunday Mate 🙂
Hoping you Guy’s all got home OK that’s some mental weather we are getting in Ayrshire as well cars getting stuck in drifts in the town and everything.
Fussing over a little bit of snow, we got 8 inches Friday. .. but we might be better geared for it 😉
As I watch – Add some plasticard pieces to the sides adding detail 🙂
Of the melinu\ium falcon I mean 🙂
Or take after the “real” one and add any leftover model bits – even combine the two
This may well be something we’ll have a go at, time to pick up some cheap tank kits I think
Happy sunday
I hope the force is strong in you today mate lol
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday!
Wouldn’t they paint the AT AT’s to match the terrain they would be fighting in Or would that not be proper in a pulp scifi space opera game?
You would think so wouldn’t you, but yeah we may have to defer to the pulpiness to keep it recognisable 🙂
like early war germans, everything in factory grey
Constantine fans – he is appears in episodes 9 and 10 of the current season (3) of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow tv show.
I think he will appear later this season
He also appeared in season 4 episode 5 of the Arrow tv series.
@warzan The BBC series mentioned is superb You can get it on Amazon
Happy Sunday all! 🙂 Another great show!
@oriskany. I dont know if you watch it but this weeks Big Bang Theory has Sheldon playing the SPI game Campaign for North Africa
Happy Sunday!!
A number of Kenner MFs on eBay – most seem to be missing the cockpit cover!…
… and for some reason the number 0f bids on the good ones are about to go up!
Makes me think… Is the connurtations behind ‘MF’ another reason for the Millennium Falcon’s name?
I assumed the name was a sci-fi take on ‘Maltese Falcon’.
If ‘Millenium’ follows 1999, the Falcon – which begins with the letter ‘f’ is a bird which follows Eagle – which begins with an ‘e’.
On a completely different tack, did anyone watch the new BBC Civilisations series episode 1 that started this week? There was a lot of ‘artefact porn’ in this episode, including a number of figurines and depictions through early history. Wait until you see the first known depiction of a fight scene on a small brooch/buckle; it could have been drawn yesterday as artwork for a new game. Episode 1 is still in very early history (i.e up to 500 BCE) but this will only get more relevant to historical settings we recognise as the series progresses.
Yeah I watched it. The fight scene buckle/ring was amazing
@warzan here is some pages that might help
AT-AT
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/All_Terrain_Armored_Transport
Sandcrawler
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sandcrawler
Vaders Fist – 501st
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/501st_Legion
Happy Sunday everyone!
A quick question for you ‘teckies’ out there: why can’t I chromecast this content from my android phone to the TV? I can with the Saturday’s show!
Thanks in advance and apologies for my technical ignorance!
I presume certain broadcasters is BBC,you tube, Netflix etc have agreements with Google about casting stuff through the Chromecast. That’s probably all wrong but its my very limited understanding on tech stuff. I do know that’s my Android devices has a cast screen button in the settings that allows me to cast what is on the screen on my device to the TV and have used it xlbs before
Saturdays’ Weekender is hosted on You Tube.
Sundays’ XLBS is elsewhere, probably due to the need for it to be behind a paywall – to stop none Backstagers from being to watch it.
Sunday weekender is hosted on vimeo which allows more privacy controls including where the video can be played. To keep it backstager the video will likely be set to play on this page only.
FWIW I can open the page on safari on my iphone and airplay the video to apple tv. Would a similar option exist for android?
You could paint the elite AT-AT in the inferno squad markings from the new battle front game.
Any pic of that handy?
https://twitter.com/InfernoSquadYT/status/905536620467769346
Happy Sunday everyone, hope all is well.
@warzan the history of the tattooine sand crawlers is briefly explored in the knights of the old republic game (KOTOR).
They are mining vehicles that roam around hoovering up what little mineral resources are on tattooine. The tusken raider (sand people) keep attacking them for encroaching on their territory and eventually the mining guild decide they’ve had enough and pack up shop leaving all their gear. The Jawas then recover the vehicles and use them in their nomadic lifestyle as mobile fortresses.
Any possibility they come in different sizes?
I honestly don’t know. Ive only ever read/played/seen about one sizes and only on tattooine. it is possible that this vehicle was bespoke made for that mining guild. a lot of equipment seems to be made like that in the Star Wars universe. Lando had a weird walking miner made for one scorching hot planet (the heat of the sun would destroy it so it continually walked on the night side) in the thrawn trilogy books by Timothy Zahn, in Star Wars rebels we have just seen another type of mining vehicle that kind of looks like a sand crawler… Read more »
No, they did not.
Get a copy of the “Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know” book. They reference the Sandcrawlers.
Basically they were used in the mines of Tatooine. Once mining was no longer viable, the Jawa’s acquired them. There were no different size of version according to the reference material.
If john is going to be scratch building one you should see whats scale for the shuttle launcher crawler you can get for the drive tracks @warzan
there are multiple classes of crawler you could say yours is the Survey-class crawler which is the smaller version of the Digger-crawler the jawas have.
@warzan ^ also link http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Survey-class_crawler
See? Dune spice miners.
The spice must flow!
Snow day here in Wrexham and there’s a weekender and XLBS to watch wheres my brew thanks guys. happy Sunday everyone
Lol enjoy the Brew @terrenone!
@warzan Might be worth getting one of your minions sorry colleagues to nip down to Belfast and the Old Toy Box in Smithfield market to seeing they have anything
Happy Sunday all 😀 .
Sandcrawlers were originally used as mining vehicles and aquired by Jawa’s after it was found that they weren’t necessary for mining on Tatooine.
Happy Sunday all.
Happy Sunday!
As said before the BBC LotR Drama is brilliant!
What a Tanker, all this Hate! Nemesis Wars with U-Boats in the Fabled Stars around the Batman Realms is trying to deplete my Hellboy fund. Stop it!
Happy Sunday first time I’ve watched the whole show in one sitting on a Sunday in ages.
Great Show guys! Really liked the Star Wars toy discussion. I’m looking at the Star Wars Models out there. @warzan I saw a 1:53 scale AT AT model that I’m looking at have you guys thought of checking those out? About a $150. Kind of expensive but I’m thinking about giving it a shot! Love Ben’s work on LOTR using alternate models. I’ve used Perry Miniatures Foot Knights to make my axemen of losarnach they look pretty good and the scale is spot on. Nice way to spend the morning today. Nice and quiet. Painting away on my LOTR Battle… Read more »
According to my Star wars encyclopedia a Sandcrawler is nearly 20 meters high and can house an entire clan of Jawas numbering up to several hundred individuals. Inside is a maze of living quarters and junk workshops.As already mentioned they were abandoned by miners and scavenged by the jawas.
When I saw the Sandcrawler, I immediately thought that would be awesome for an old school Squat 40k army.
Happy Sunday folks!