I have such a love/hate/love relationship with Atomic Mass Games‘ Star Wars miniature offerings. Legion hit in the mid two-thousand-teens and I loved the idea, but couldn’t stand the soft plastic miniatures. Then, Shatterpoint took the lead in the early 2020’s with some really dynamic sculpts and a fun game system.
But damn, buying the same characters again wasn’t something I wanted to do. Those soft plastics for Legion made my initial plunge into Shatterpoint an easy one, but then Legion ended up with some pretty good hard plastic sculpts as well.
Now it’s coming down to scale preference. At 35mm, Legion is already pushing the envelope of how big I want to get with a miniature. The 40mm figures for Shatterpoint look amazing, but with bases even bigger than Marvel Crisis Protocol, they get challenging to store, let alone display.
So, once again, I find myself debating going to one game at the exclusion of the other. Sure, I could keep both, but again, space is an issue. And Shatterpoint doesn’t have vehicles! AGH!
Still, Lord Maul for Shatterpoint was a blast to paint. He’s got those freaky spider mech legs from Clone Wars, and the larger minis really are fun to slap paint on.
Decisions, decisions.
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Fantastic work on Maul, it’s a great sculpt, I remodelled my Imperial Assault one to similar with the robes and legs.
As for the scale war, I started with Imperial assault, then when Legion came out I resisted until there were models in that range I couldn’t get any other way, so got Legion, then when Shatterpoint came out I refused to change scales again, some of the Imperial Assault looks okay next to the Legion scale where others are clearly too small, but I live with it until I find an alternative. The bendy plastic was a pain on thin pieces but I was okay with it in general.
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I really enjoyed Imperial Assault when it first came out! Part of me really wishes they had stuck with 28mm for the other two games, since who really needs three scales of the same characters? I’m coming to peace with it, though. The Shatterpoint minis are really nicely done, so if they end up in front of me I’ll gladly paint them! Worse case scenario they end up being small statues, lol!
Thanks for stopping by, Dave!
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