#StarWarsDay Mos Eisley Cantina Adventure Set (West End Games)

 May the Fourth be with you!  

(And also with you....)

It happens that Star Wars Day corresponds with my recent trip to Mepacon 50, trying to figure out events to run for Mepacon 51 (complete with survey!), and my attempt to start painting minis after a three month hiatus.

The theme continues as my first project I started in April was the Mos Eisley Cantina boxed set for West End's Star Wars minis line that I happened to pick up for retail at the... Mepacon 49 Auction.

WEG 40309

I've picked up a lot of Star Wars blisters over the years, and more recently, I've been picking up loose figures at the HMGS convention flea markets.  I do not remember ever picking up a boxed set... did I mention the cantina set I grabbed from the auction was still in the original shrink wrap. 

The set is ten different figures featured in the classic cantina scene from the original Star Wars.  We're not building armies here, we're developing characters for your RPG/skirmish game.

And I'm more surprised that I finished them before May 4th. 

I've probably previously painted up half this figs. none are perfect, but since I made the last bartender look like Uncle Own, it's nice to have some variety.  

The most amusing thing about the boxed set literally fell in my lap when I opened up the shrinkwrap. 

The back of the box, including the the product bar code, pictures of the figures of the figures and the logos for both West End Games and Grenadier Miniatures.  

Flipping the paper to the other side, West End has provided Star Wars d6 stats for each figure!

All in all, it's an effective boxed set, although the figures were also available in the three-figure blister packs.

Kabe (SW86) and Hem Dazon (SW81)

In the spirit of #StarWarsDay, I plan on using the boxed set for a standalone game... of Galactic Heroes for the Fistful of Lead rules. 

Muftak (SW87)  Kerru (SW84) and Sivrak (SW85)

Garindan (SW83) and Labria (SW82)

Bartender (SW90), flanked by Cantina Musicians (SW 88 and SW89)

In the Queue - A number of Death Planet Iota buildings to kitbash and get off my painting bench, some more Star Wars figures that weren't part of the boxed, then some Reaper Bones fantasy, and then maybe, just maybe, the Great War Teddy Bears.

Project: 350 - This is my self-actualization that I'll never get around to all the stuff I've stowed away as a draft in the back of Blogspot.  My initial goal years ago was to have 350 or fewer blog drafts and long-term scheduled posts.  

That number still makes me laugh.

As of this post, I'm currently at 452 posts (289 drafts /163 scheduled posts).  That number is up from 451 (284/167) from the last time I reported when I last painted in February.  I would have made headway, but I have set up some placeholders for about a dozen ideas for next year's #CharacterCreationChallenge in January.   Outside of my weekly Gamma World episodes, there's not much coming off of the scheduled posts through Historicon, and  let's be realistic, I'm more likely to run games off on the fly, rather than the saved ideas, but with little prepping necessary for Historicon, there's always hope. 

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