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The Thin Beige Line

The Thin Beige Line

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When I opened the Clone Wars core set for the first time I was surprised (and a little horrified), to be confronted with Sprues. It had been a while since I’d built a model from a sprue, much less multiple units! So it was with trepidation that I reached for my cutters and poly cement.

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Taking a good look over the components before starting to clip things off, I found that the Droid head’s and torso’s were all identical, with legs and arms designed in pairs to fit any figure. This allowed me to assemble the legs, torso’s and bases before revisiting the models to pose the arms and heads. I have to say I really enjoyed putting the B1’s together (although the two part heads are infuriatingly fiddly).

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Something to look out for if you are ignoring the instructions (as I did). The backpacks for the heavy weapon droids appear the same as the others but have a small notch on the inside edge. This is for the loose E5 blaster rifle to connect to, allowing the heavy weapon droids to carry the standard rifle on their packs.

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Having swapped the Clone half of my core set with a friend for his Separatist half, I had four units to build. By mixing which leg positions went with which arm and weapon options, I was able to add variety to my units.

From the two core sets I built four units of B1’s with the E-5C heavy weapon upgrade. I only built two of the four battle droids with the E-60R anti tank gun as I had a plan for the other two.

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Having picked up a B1 Upgrade Expansion, I had four additional droids. This included two additional heavy weapons (The Radiation Cannon and E5-Sniper), as well as two Personnel Upgrade’s in the form of the OOM-Series Droid and B1-Security Droid. The expansion also came with two spare E5 Blaster Rifle arm sets which I now used on the B1’s from my core sets, in place of the E-5C’s. This gave me a total of 40 Droids that could be fielded in five units.

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