This game is going to bankrupt me for 1:48 stuff. *lol* I'm a first-gen Warhammer 40K player, when, while everyone had miniatures, the game started out as a gamemaster-run skirmish game, with the player's character and entourage running up against the GM's forces, toward an objective. They've gotten back to that from time to time, with Space Hulk, Inquisitor, and whatever the current one is called.
So my approach with Legion is similar. I'm putting together small units -- Rebel, Imperial, and fringer -- with the intention of them being the opposition for whatever the person/people I'm playing with are working toward. And vice versa. I have a Shadow Scout and Force Recon Scout Trooper Sniper backing up my self-insert Royal Guard character, with a few other specialist troops. I have a bunch of bits that are gradually getting turned into some custom Mandalorians. I have layouts for scenery that has only marginally been begun. And I have vehicles... *sigh*
I didn't like the Legion AT-ST, so I got the Bandai one -- but also have the 3D-printing file for the ESB cockpit base, and the old Kenner AT-ST head and feet, since the side weapon mounts and feet are proportionally bigger on the ESB version than the ROTJ, and, since Kenner's vehicles were habitually underscaled, their AT-ST is about half the 1:18 of the figures, since it can only seat one, making it about 1:36, so those should be nicely oversized for a 1:48 walker... I'll have to lengthen the legs and finesse the other details.
I have an old MPC TIE Interceptor that's been upgraded with Paragrafix's photoetch detail bits for the later FineMolds 1:48 TIE Fighter, since the original kit was okay in general shape, but horrid in its details (no engines and the interior is laughable). the MPC Interceptor was box scale, the later amt TIE Fighter and the later still FineMolds one were both ostensibly 1:48... but with outdated/incorrect info on the size of the "real" craft, so they ended up underscaled. All are, conveniently, about 1:50/1:51. Which is definitely close enough for my purposes, here. I have a request out to Mel of MelMiniatures on Shapeways to upscale his Royal Guard TIE Interceptor winglets to 1:51. If you haven't seen his stuff, it's worth a peek if you play X-Wing, Armada, Legion, or Imperial Assault.
And now I'm frustrated there's no good option for Rebel craft. No 1:48 Y-Wing that isn't a horridly expensive and impossible to find garage kit. No 1:48 X-Wing that doesn't have lights and sounds and motors I don't want -- and is out of production and thus even more expensive.
But I'm planning setpieces like Imperial installations, landing pads, Rebel staging camps, and such like. I'm even turning my "what should have been" Millennium Falcon deckplans into a 1:48 3D Space Hulk style scenery piece for a cat-and-mouse type game -- the rooms are covered, so the player(s) don't know what's in them, there's something stalking them through the ring corridor and they have to evade or ambush... That sort of thing. If we had better deckplans for the Corellian corvette, I'd definitely Space Hulk one of those. And between Rebels and The Mandalorian, I'm hoping we can get a good layout of the Gozanti class, as well...
