Scout Walker

 I went to Ross for the first time in a while the other day. I expected that I would find nothing, but instead, there were several things that I decided to bring home. I'll do a blog post on the rest of them in coming days, but the first thing that I found there were Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron ships. They had several Tie Fighters, but I decided to leave those behind since I already have two of them. They also had this:

I did not have any Scout Walkers yet, so I snapped that one up.

In case you don't remember my constant blathering about these ships and other similar toy offerings from last year, these are ships that are basically in the 1/72 scale. When they introduced them a while back, I came up with the quixotic idea of making a second, even smaller scale version of Ankletown Station that would focus on being a place where ships could be displayed.

I've bought a bunch of these ships now, and the scout walker is just another addition to them all. It's a good addition, though. Return of the Jedi is my favorite Star Wars movie, and I love scout walkers, so of course I would add this to my collection. It looks pretty good to me.

I'm not really so sure just how useful it will be, though. My idea was to build a spaceport on a shelf that I hang on my wall over my desk. I figured I'd put a lot of landing pads where the spaceships could go and make it look like the outside of a space station...like a space station in space. Like the ISS or something. So, where would a walker fit in? I don't know.

It's cool nonetheless. So, I have it. It comes with a 1/72 scale figure too.

This might sound crazy, but I think the tiny little figures are my favorite part about this toy line. I love them. I love how detailed they can be even though they are so small. I mean, look at that guy. He's got a friggin' belt buckle painted on. That's impressive. 

Someday, I'll get a bunch of one inch tall figures 3D printed to fill out that space station. Then I'll have to paint them myself, and I bet I won't do half as good a job.

The ships all come with a place for the figures to sit. This one just has the big hatch. 

The little porthole hatch thing that Chewbacca sticks his head up out of in the movie doesn't open on it, but the figure can sit right in there and operate the controls.

For me, it's mostly a good place to keep track of the figures. They're so small that they'd be easily lost, so I'm glad there's a spot I can put them until I'm ready to pose them all around the space station...you know the one. The one I'll never get around to building. I've got writing and publishing to do right now, but maybe some day I'll pull this all out of mothballs and set it all up.