{"id":4996,"date":"2021-10-23T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T12:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2021-10-23T08:47:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T12:47:46","slug":"imperial-assault-twin-shadows-part-two-the-heroes-and-the-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=4996","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Assault, Twin Shadows Part Two: The Heroes and The Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Part Two of my Imperial Assault: Twin Shadows painting is complete, which means I have finished all the miniatures from the boxed expansion and the ally and villain packs released along with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are two rebel heroes in the Twin Shadows boxed set. This is Saska Teft, a combat engineer. As far as I can tell, she makes things blow up pretty good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The other hero is Biv Bodhrik, the stereotypical “heavy weapons guy.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looks like he has some skin problems. Chalk it up to poor layering on my part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next, an Ally Pack featuring some familiar faces: R2-D2 (does he even HAVE a face?) and C-3PO. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another fun fact: I bought this pack twice, because I purchased the first one from “Amazon World Marketplace”. The description said that was based in Great Britain, but the package shipped from Spain, and I got this in the mail: the Italian version. Although the miniatures are the same, all the game materials are in Italian. This is useless to me as I don’t speak or read Italian. So, I put this on eBay, thinking someone else must need it. So far, no one needs it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between the primer fiasco and the duplicate droids, this Twin Shadows project was getting fucking expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like many of my Imperial Assault miniatures, I painted these by following Sorastro’s<\/a> tutorials on YouTube. I like his tutorials because I often learn new ways of doing things. For example, the gold base color on C-3PO is not gold paint. It’s GW’s Leadbelcher washed with GW’s Seraphim Sepia, then highlighted up. This provides a nice depth of tone and it’s a trick I will absolutely use again, whether I’m painting shields or armor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally: Boba Fett, a bounty hunter who is even cooler than Dog, the Bounty Hunter (didn’t think that was possible, did you?). He’s featured prominently on the box cover and in several Twin Shadows missions; so naturally he’s sold separately. Thanks, Fantasy Flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boba Fett is a great-looking miniature, especially for Imperial Assault, where some of the miniatures are pretty lame (just wait until I get to Ahsoka Tano). Of course, the Star Wars Legion version of Boba Fett is so much better-looking, I try not to think about it lest I get depressed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That’s it for Twin Shadows, but I have many more Imperial Assault miniatures to go. I’d like to collect the entire run of the game, but that doesn’t seem likely. Two days before I wrote this post, a Grand Admiral Thrawn villain pack sold on eBay for $152.50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That’s one hundred fifty-two dollars and fifty cents<\/strong> for one plastic miniature. That’s fucking stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s ok. I can live without Thrawn for sure. In addition to two more boxed expansions (Return to Hoth and Bespin Gambit), I have 18 more ally and villain packs waiting for my paintbrush. When will I ever get to them all? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s what New Year’s resolutions are for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part Two of my Imperial Assault: Twin Shadows painting is complete, which means I have finished all the miniatures from the boxed expansion and the ally and villain packs released along with it. There are two rebel heroes in the Twin Shadows boxed set. This is Saska Teft, a combat engineer. As far as I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,3,11],"tags":[119,120,45],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-games","category-miniatures","category-sci-fi","tag-fantasy-flight-games","tag-imperial-assault","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5052,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}