3 x packs of Doctor Who CMG figures from Woolies, @ £8.00 ea
1 pack of Star Wars CMG figures from Forbidden Planet, @ £14.99
4 Rare Star Wars CMG figures via eBay, £9.94
1 issue of Miniature Wargames, @ £3.70
Total: £52.63
Posts Tagged ‘star wars’
Counting the Cost of War(games) – July ’08
Posted on in Miniatures, RPGs.Broncosaurus Rex RPG from eBay, @ £8.58
Renegade Legion Interceptor from eBay, @ £5.49
2 packs of Star Wars Legacy of the Force collectible miniatures from Forbidden Planet, @ £9.99 each
Total: £34.05
Counting the Cost of War(games) – June ‘08
Posted on in Books, Dinosaurs, Magazines, Miniatures.1 pack of Star Wars Legacy of the Force collectible miniatures from Forbidden Planet, @ £9.99
I issue of Wargames Soldiers and Strategy, @ £3.95
1 issue of Miniature Wargames, @ £3.70
1 T.rex and 1 pack of Syntarsus from Jeff Valent Studios , @ $38.90 (£20.74)
[Update] – The order from Jeff Valent never turned up. 
Total: £38.38
Total for the quarter: £37.74 + £26.94 + £38.38 = £103.06 (a smidgen over the £100 budget).
Counting the Cost of War(games) – May ’08
Posted on in Magazines, Miniatures.1 pack of Star Wars Force Unleashed collectible miniatures from Forbidden Planet, @ £14.99
2 issues of Wargamesd Illustrated, @ £4.00 each
1 issue of Wargames Soldiers and Strategy, @ £3.95
Brontosaurus Rex RPG from eBay, @ £9.99 lost in post, money refunded by seller
Total: £26.94
Counting the Cost of War(games) – April ‘08
Posted on in My Life.1 Star Wars collectible miniature from eBay, @ £3.65
10 28mm WotC Star Wars metal miniatures, plus 13 25mm WEG Stars Wars metal miniatures from eBay, @ £21.40
1 issue of Miniature Wargames, @ £3.70
1 booster of Star Wars Legacy of the Force collectible miniatures, @ £8.99
Total: £37.74.
Oh, and there was Salute as well but that comes out of a different fund.
Best YouGov Survey Question, Ever.
Posted on in Films, The World, TV.Which of the following characters from the following science fiction movies/ programmes do you think is the most attractive?
- Seven of Nine (Star Trek Voyager)
- Princess Leia (Star Wars)
- Rachael (Blade Runner)
- SuperGirl (SuperGirl)
- Barbarella (Barbarella)
- LeeLoo (Fifth Element)
- Padme (Phantom Menace)
- TX (Terminator 3)
- Lt Uhura (Star Trek)
- Sil (Species)
- Don’t know
- None of these
Having watched Vengeance on Varos last night I read Sil and had a very different image leap to mind than the one they intended. Has anyone see if there’s an equivalent question about the boys?
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Very True Mood: 
amused
amusedLast Year
Posted on in Browsers, Doctor Who, Films, My Life, Science, Sport, The World.365 days ago I made a post about things I was looking forward to in 2005. How did they turn out?
Obviously, getting married and the subsequent honeymoon was fabulous beyond words. (If you haven’t seen them already Lettice has stuck a whole load of photos online.) Also on a personal front I moved house and got a new job, so a very good year.
Doctor Who was incredible. Listened to some of the commentaries on the DVD box set (and is that a wastfeul piece of packaging or what?) yesterday and was thrilled all over again by the passion and dedication of the people who brought the Doctor back.
The market share of Internet Explorer did continue to fall. On the SFSFW site it fell from 77% to 67%. This is also the year that Opera became totally free. I also finally got around to learning a bit of XSLT which I’ve been meaning to do for ages.
Serenity was the best film of the year for me (yes I have middle-brow sci-fi tastes, didn’t you know?) and well worth the wait. Can we have a sequel (or two or three or…) please? Batman Begins and The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse were also very good whilst The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Revenge of the Sith were better than expected (but as we expected total train wrecks that’s not actually saying much).
And finally, I was looking forward to the general election, but it turned out a bit dull. It did give us one last chance to be rude about Tim Collins before he vanished into well deserved oblivion. But for my political fix this year I’ve been watching the post-election leadership battles (Brown vs. Blair; Davies vs. Cameron; everyone vs. Kennedy) with much glee. Politicians spending so much time shafting each other means, we can but hope, that they have less time for shafting us.
Good things I didn’t predict at the start of last year included, Wales winning a Grand Slam; England winning the Ashes; London winning the Olympics; Judge Jones putting both boots into the Intelligent Design movement. 
Counting the cost of war(games)
Posted on in Miniatures.Renew SFSFW membership: £18.00 and Rebel Storm miniature from eBay: £2.20.
Running total is now £356.74
The Force is strong in this one
Posted on in Miniatures.I’ve bought nine Rebel Storm boosters in total (hangs head in shame) and in those I’ve got three Rare miniatures and six Very Rare miniatures. I’m not sure what the odds of getting a Very Rare should be but I’m certain that they shouldn’t be double the odds of getting a Rare one. If they are then the prices on eBay are seriously out of whack.
So I’m offering my services to the general public – I’ll pick a random pack off the rack for you in return for a small fee. Go on you know you want me to.
Darth Vader’s dance workout video is available now in all good stores
Anyway, the Very Rares I’ve received have been a fairly useless bunch:
- Princess Leia, Captive ×3
- Darth Vader,
Ballet DancerSith Lord - Jabba the Hutt
- Wampa
See? No Luke; no Obi-Wan, no speeder bikes; no Emperor; no Dewback; no Boba Fett.
Rebel Storm miniatures review
Posted on in Miniatures.So what did I get in my box? Ten miniatures – the Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader miniatures that are in every starter set plus two different stormtroopers, a rebel trooper, a rebel pilot, an Ithorian scout (that’s Hammerhead for us old timers), a Bespin guard, a Gamorean guard and a Tusken Raider.
I had seven out the ten as action figures back when I was a kid. Hmm, so I’m going round in circles. Except that these are smaller. Ever decreasing circles perhaps?
The miniatures are about 30-32mm toe to eye. This makes them as tall as many of the larger “28mm” miniatures available. However, these are much slimmer – realistic proportions rather than the chunkiness we’ve come to expect from metal miniatures. It’s not too much of a problem with the aliens and armoured figures but the ordinary humans won’t mix too well with other ranges.
From left to right: Ground Zero Games 25mm Stargrunt; Foundry Street Violence; Copplestone Castings Future Wars; Fantasy Forge Kryomek (available from Scotia-Grendel; Harlequin Doctor Who (available from Black Tree Design); Rebel Storm; Foundry Street Violence (big guy).
The miniatures are made from a rubbery plastic and spring back into shape if bent. I’m not sure whether this will make them harder or easier to convert than metal figures. Some of the poses are a little strange – The Rebel Pilot seems to be trying to “walk like an Egyptian” whilst the Rebel Trooper is leaning alarming far forwards.
The paint jobs are okay. I doubt I’ll totally repaint them but I may touch up some of the details. (The photograph above isn’t very flattering to my painting abilities – I may not be great but the flash really hsn’t helped matters. Time to buy some matt varnish perhaps?)
I think I’ll be buying some more, I’ll mostly be hunting for the common troop types – with luck the collectors will be flogging them off cheap having bought a gazillion of them to get their hands on the very rare figures.
The rules? Read them, seem okay for what they are. I doubt I’ll be using them much. Daleks vs Stormtroopers in Stargrunt II anyone?