joining my HWK-290 to the rebelion

Ok I must admit it, I'm not that big fan of the HWK-290 from Xwing Miniatures game, but a few days ago I saw the mini repaint from Stephen Donn
  and I knew I had to have one, so I grabbed my deneb stone some abbadon black was and my trusty old "blood red" color and I painted mine  here it is, I love it how it looks now:

for my method I didnt tripped the paint of the mini as I got into X-wing to play minis not to paint them not that I dont like to paint I love it but X-wing to me is about opening and playing, so I just painted the bened stone ober the old dolor as thin as possible, after all taking shorcuts is not the same as obscuring detail, after that I just applied  some black wash here and there to rise details and with red I painted over the original strips, it looks great simply great, after that I drybrushed some blue hues to get the engine effect, but if I get to work my aribrush I might retouch it.

Some touching ups on my Xwing ships

I have been doing small touch ups here and there on my ships, mostly to make them more personal, the most recent batch is my Z-95 squadron, so here they are:

the first one I painted was done for a friend that wanted that schema but the transaction never managed to complete

 Next I just weathered my second z-95

X-wing: Rebel fleet review

my love for Xwing is always growing on my, so today I decided to have a quick chek on my models, to see how the look Type by Type.

Xwing Decloaking Phantom

Recently I painted my Phantom and a friend liked it so much that asked me for one, with him we decided that he wanted to go with a schema like mine but as seen on the ACD upgrade card, so Today I did the paint job,  first I applied the black:

 Next I  applied the purple and blue

 Next I applied the Ice Blue and White

 Finally I did the star field

To close the post here are the two models one next to the other.

I dont know but I feel like my friend Phantom is decloaking while mine is cloaking, what do you think?

Painting my Tie Phantom

Recently I managed to get my hands on a set of Wave 4 Ships, and I started to personalize them,  I really like the phantom, so I started with it, and used the whisper card as base for inspiration.
What do you think it looks?

I really like how the transition from cloacking to decloaked (or viceversa) is  I managed to paint.

X-Wing economics of the game

Recently I have read some complains about the xwing prices but I believe that while not cheap, for what you get is not that expensive, why would do you ask?
Well first you pay usually $15 for a mini, and to play you need just 1 core and some ships depending on the faction, that is a decision you need to take as in any game if you are careless you can end up in a expensive experience, lets discuss today what is for me one of the most expensive 100pts list you can field as a xwing player, the tie swarm to field it you will need 7 to 8 ties at 100pts and you will need to purchase 1 tie fighter and 3 core sets  for $135 or  1 core and 5 ties at $115, I don't recommend to get the 7 ties as the cores bring the rules and dice plus some practice rebel scum, and the dice outside the core are expensive, that makes for are really standard competitive list and model wise a expensive one, what would do you get if you play warhammer 40k and warmachine the other popular games, in 40 the regular battle box is around $100 and you will need glue and paints that will cost easily the extra $35, that battle is by no means a tournament ready box, today the median for tournament armies at 40k or fantasy is like $500 now we are talking about expensive, lets compare it to warmachine, usually billed to a cheap alternative to 40k (well not usually but you get the idea),  the first 50 will get you the starter and around the next 50 will get you a unit and the last $35 will be for paints and possibly one special character, that battle list of purchases means like 20 to 25 points hardly the 35pts tournament level.

Lets compare what you get on each game  first GW then Privater
On GW side you get some high quality minis but you will need time to assemble them, you wont be getting the rules for them , optionally you can get the two player box and some minis then you can get to play but in both cases you wont be playing 5 minutes after your purchase with your own stuff.

On warmachine  side almost the same story as the battlebox includes the bare rules of the game plus the specific models rules,  to play you will need time to assemble and wont be playing tournaments 5 minutes after your purchase and even then your purchase will limit you to low level ones.

On xwing you get  the full rules and if a model need additional rules those will be there, plus if you want to play with your  purchase just open it and assemble the dial get your tokens and play.  And a rebel player would invest differently as he will need a core plus a few other ships like a b wing., that doesn't mean it will be cheap,   if you want you can get the champion list with like $150 as it has a core components ( a must for the rules dice and templates) plus 2 ywings, 2 b wings and two lambda transports  ( needed for the advanced sensors), that is expensive but not mandatory.

Please understand that it is no bad mouthing those games as both have appeals that I love, but being able to use my precious time playing is a big plus. And not having to invest on auxiliary products too.

That is why I have been thinking that xwing is not that expensive and it being star wars... you get the idea, only a B5 game would be better... mmm... now i have an idea.

What do you think?

My B-Wing modification

Recently I modified my B-Wing to allow for the depicted rotating cabin, for that first I broke the peg plug on the engines and drilled a hole to fit 1 magnet, decision I regretted almost instantly, as the magnets worked but not all the time so I drilled a side hole to remove the ship side magnet, and after that I drilled a bigger hole one where 4 magnets went in to the hole, 2 were left inside the ship and one was glued to the peg plug so it gives stability to the union, that did the trick to have a stable ship.  As for the cabin I forced the window part out and it slides out of a big peg inside (just like the ship stands but bigger), I only sanded the hole on that part to allow it to rotate and removed a portion of the peg  to accommodate 1 magnet one on the ship body and other on the cabin, with that the ship rotates as shown on the movie, hope you like it.

My New Found love XWING

Hi, I been really hush lately, but you will learn why here, so I was minding my own business in December when my Brother send me a box of unused but loved games, I opened it and there it was Netruner (discarded to better loving place by now), Mage Wars and LO AND BEHOLD a Star Wars Core Box, I don’t recall any more, I have been playing and my love for it has been growing, so much as my Warmachine friends might say, currently I have the bare minimal 2 core sets, one tie advanced, B-wing- Y-wing, YT-3000, Extra x-wing and Imperial Aces, 

but two events have made me come out, the first one of the friends the one that has been promoting the game in fact got a nasty surprise as his X-wing was damaged on a demo game and without him knowing badly really badly fixed, to the point where the peg plug was broken from the ship when trying to remove one of the pegs,

So I decided to help him, and this is the result:

first the broken ship

 next the first tool on the arsenal to have it restored:

 a pre-hole has been drilled on the peg usual spot. it will serve me as a guide

 now to a bi more to the size of the magnets to use

 A word of advice here: when dry testing be sure to only use one mgnet, that way if you cant tajke the magnets out at least you dont end up like me

 with  two magnets instead of th recesed one I was planning

 now for the damaged peg plug

 as it was already shaved I just glued a low profile magnet:

and now we have  ship that can be used again:

I hope te owner is happy when he receives his ship, next time I will post of ow I modified my B-Wing. until then.