Today, while I wait for some minis for this little project of mine to arrive, let me introduce it to you...
Ajsalium's
NOT STAR WARS PROJECT
Episode 3'14
Attack of the obssessive compulsive disorder
I blame Agis. Some time ago, he posted a pic of a Weyland-Yutani commando in his AvP thread (here (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=91214.msg1149230#msg1149230)). Because the colour scheme was black and white, it struck me as some short of "near future" version of a stormtrooper. So I started to wonder what Star Wars could look like with a more gritty style.
Anyway, I managed to repress the need to start another project.
For a time.
And then a friend prompted me to start watching the Clone Wars tv series. Suffice to say that I've watched the whole six seasons within a few weeks, and am now onto Rebels. A true Star Wars overdose.
So last week my will finally failed, and I started to think about the Empire side of the Star Wars universe; specifically, about the stormtroopers.
And in order to illustrate this sort of fan-military-fiction, I want to collect a few minis. Not truly a playable force, just a sample of the different type of units I imagine for the stortroopers (probably 5 minis per unit, except the basic stormtroopers that'll receive a 10 man squad).
And since this is going to be a not Star Wars project, none of the miniatures used will be official Star Wars. I'm going to use the enforcer range from Mantic, simply converted by giving them the stormtrooper heads I've talked about earlier. As for vehicles, the enforcer jetbikes will be used as the scouts' speeder bikes from Episode VI; and probably a Scotia Grendel walker as a sustitute for the AT-ST (although, ironically, it's more expensive than an official AT-ST from Imperial Assault).