Repainting X-Wing Miniatures

Well.... this was bound to happen.


I repainted my X-Wing miniatures.


Or rather, I did touch ups to my TIE Interceptors, and pretty much completely repainted my Firespray-31, affectionately known as the Slave I.

I mean, the prepainted figures are great, but I just feel that since I can paint better, it would be a crime not to do so. And besides, it was an excuse to mess with Object Source Lighting. No airbrush of course, because I don't own one.

I *had* to go ahead and get myself a 181st Fighter Group list, so here we are - Soontir Fel & Friends.

And the Slave I repaint. The colors themselves were inspired from someone who did a Slave I in this scheme on the FFG X-Wing miniatures forums, so I decided to go for the same design. Turned out awesome!

Break time...?

Well, it's certainly been more than 2 weeks since the last post, and since the post before that, I've been working on a french line infantry battalion... which STILL isn't finished.

So this is basically a painter's block.

I've been having a tremendous amount of time not being motivated to paint. I did receive my Pendraken order, along with the most recent Magister Militum order (French line lancers) which are frankly well proportioned in terms of casting (compared to my previous foray into their miniature line). So I might try and work on those line lancers soon.... but finishing this battalion of line infantry has been an insurmountable ordeal.

I should also work on my Flames of War, but I'm even less motivated to work on them. I don't know what it is, but I just don't feel like doing any of that.

I suppose it doesn't help that I've bitten the X-Wing Miniatures game obsession bug and I've completely dived into it with both feet - and so have members of the miniature club.

Frankly, after playing several games of it, it's been a blast! I think it's also for that reason that I've been having a very difficult time motivating myself to paint Napoleonics and Flames of War. Compared to my naps and Flames of War, all I have to do is buy X-wing miniatures, and be ready to play right off the bad. No painting, no assembling, just purchase and enjoy.

Sure, I did go off and do some touch up painting work, but the time invested is miniscule compared to say... spending over 2 years painting napoleonics, knowing that I have to build both Austrian and French armies as noone else plays; or my Flames of War where I already know I have several armies, and that adding additional squads is only to expand on the stuff that I already have, so it's not like I *need* to get them done either.

So yea, it's been difficult to motivate myself to paint, and instead I've been enjoying gaming with the X-Wing miniatures a lot. What can I say, it's just fun!

So what list have I settled then? An "Imperial Aces" 181st list! With TIE Interceptors, of course!