And a third contestant with both Squad Leaders and Vehicle Commander: 15mm Blood Angels Terminators and a 15mm (of course) Leman Russ by Gunner from Gunners Wargaming.
"(...) 15mm Blood Angels Terminator assault squad, heavily converted from
Eureka 25mm NSL power armour, bare head is from a 15mm Khurasan Iroquois
warrior, the vehicle is a 15mm Death Korps of Krieg Vanquisher,
converted from 1/76 Airfix WWI Mk IV tank, the figures are converted
15mm Blue Moon WWI Germans (...)"
Damn, this is some stiff competition! From the thumbnails I'd swear those were 28 mm SPESS MURINEEEES, but nope. Just some of the best conversion work I've seen at this scale. As for the tank, it's the perfect choice for the dark future's most depressing war ;)
ReplyDeleteYou don't say... I nearly answered Gunner that I couldn't accept his entry because this was a 15mm competition!
ReplyDeleteLovely work on both counts both conversions and the paint jobs. Love the lightning on the claws and hammers.
ReplyDeleteThese are great conversions. I too would have sworn they were 28mm until I looked closer. So much detail, ...
ReplyDeleteThe minis are really great and extraordinarily well done. : )
ReplyDeleteBut I was hoping we could finally escape the GW elephant in the room for a change.
At least they didn't make any money off of this ;)
DeleteI do not buy GW, although I have in the past, I only make these because they have a nostalgic factor, and I find it fun, I don't actual play 40k, if they make it to a table I will use what ever rules are easily available, as you can see, Khurasan, GZG, Airfix, and Blue Moon have all made money on the 2 units above.
DeleteI've been watching the tank's development on Gunner's blog, somehow hadn't spotted the terminators but have looked them up now too. Astounding sculpting!
ReplyDeleteReally nice work.
ReplyDeleteDan,
ReplyDeleteThese figures are brilliant and extraordinarily well done. I meant no insult with my post earlier. You summed it up perfectly here, "I find it fun." That is all that matters.
I guess I am just tired of the modern GW and its regimentation and trying to squeeze the last penny out of a dollar. Like you, I find the miniatures great and it brings a feeling of nostalgia from when I really liked those games.
No worries Markmors, Space marines were the first figures I ever bought, back in 1984-85 apart from 1/72 1/76 plastic WWII figures, which I had as a kid, and are what got me into sci fi, I haven't bought much GW since the late 90s, but I occasionally still look at their stuff on line, now I can make a 15mm space marine for less than $1 and have more fun then I could with the real figures, I find I can make 15mm replicas of pretty much their whole line, and have fun doing, I also like to show everyone else that you can do your own thing in 15mm and not have to worry about paying $25 for the genuine character figure that's supposedly needed.
ReplyDeleteDan,
ReplyDeleteThat is really cool that you get such enjoyment out of what is art now, at your level of expertise.
Show is more stuff! Try the The Miniatures Page--that gets of lot of eyes.
Yeah have have been a TMP member for a long time now
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