Asteroids for Star Wars X-Wing

I like X-wing, it's very jolly and easy to play (if a little repetitive after a while).
However the two dimensional "debris" tokens have always irked me.
So I made some asteroids or meteors or whatever from some of the yellow insulation baord the builders had left in my garden.

 The full set

 Three of the big 'uns

 Three small 'uns and my new Imperial Ace for scale

Imperial Ace with a couple of the larger ones

Easy to make by just cutting the foam into squarish shapes and then pulling/cutting chunks out. They were then hot-glued to cocktail sticks which were in turn attached to some Mini Bits round bases I had lying around. I then coated the rocks with a mix of paint, plaster, PVA and some fine sand to seal them, before spraying black (you need to seal first of the spray melts the foam) and drybrushing.with some greys.

Very pleased with them and they've already seen action in a couple of games.

X-wing with the Gaming Heir

Smallest boy snagged himself a Millennium Falcon for his birthday, so we had to squeeze in a game at the first opportunity.
He took the Falcon with some upgrades and I ended up with three TIE's to try and take him down.
I only took a couple of pictures as the camera didn't like the black cloth and the energy saving light bulbs.

The game swung back and forth but finished up with the Falcon and my last surviving TIE each with a single wound remaining.
To my relief the Falcon blasted the TIE before I could shoot and the new ship had a succesful first outing.
Always best to "Let the Wookie win" wherever possible. Especially when the Wookie is using his birthday present for the first time.

Star Wars X-Wing on New Year's Eve

So with Mrs Tom's Toy Soldiers catching up on her Phd, the boys and I, at a loose end on NYE, set up for a game of X-Wing.
Smallest boy took a Y-Wing and and X-Wing with Luke in, while son and heir had a pair of TIEs and I took the TIE Advanced.

After much low quality maneuvering, Luke and the Y-wing blasted apart one if the TIEs, but the remaining Imperials managed to corner and eventually blow apart the slow moving warhorse.
With eldest boy running for cover I went headlong toward Mr Skywalker expecting that I'd crash and burn and maintain harmony in the household for another evening, but it didn't quite work out like that. The Force was weak with the small boy and all shots missed, whereas I managed to put the three damage I needed on the hero of the Alliance and re-write the history of the galaxy far, far away...
However, credit where its due, the youngest took his defeat in good part and all's well as night descends.
A cracking good little game is X-Wing - I must get it out with the kids more often.

 The forces of evil mass over the sands of Tatooine

 The Alliance ships scatter as the TIEs approach

 Luke flies by the TIE Advanced

 The Y-Wing approaches its nemesis

Luke fires...and misses...

Two post on one day (and two games in less than 24 hours!) brings 2013 to a close.

Happy New Year to everyone who visits here - I hope you've enjoyed my ramblings this last twelve months.

Thanks for taking the time to drop by, I hope next year is a good one for you and yours.

Expect more of the same in 2014.