Today's Progress

    

Despite my drill bit snapping and going stright hrough the tip of my thumb, typically the only time I didn't wear a work glove, I've got the following ready for painting:

• 1 squad of P.Pig Legionnaires (AK47 range), in standard helmets with green stuff visors
• 2 squads of P.Pig Legionnaires (AK47 range) in mix of berets (with some further conversions) and CMG Light Recon helmeted heads. These guys are cool. I like them a lot.
• 1 squad of CMG Light Recon in a mix of their own helmets and P.Pig separate Modern Legion berets.
• 1 weapons squad of 2 combat droids with 'handler' and UAVs

Phew!

This gives me a flexible transitional force,which can morph across tech levels as required. 

I still have the squad leaders to do (from AK47 Range Israelis) and maybe a Khurasan Federal Army Infantry Command Team (new shoulder plates from green stuff and/or Light Recon helmeted heads should do the trick).

I reached the great watershed this week of having to wear reading glasses to work on the figures and paint them. So am not sweating the small stuff anymore. Out of both necessity and practicality I'm painting for effect rather than detail now.

Cheers

Mark

 

Basing with Washes

My faux pas yesterday on the left (Ogryn Flesh) and what I was aiming for on the right (Gryphone Sepia). Figures are Rebel Minis' Earth Force Marines originally from Master Chef's collection.

Both are how they look after I applied the wash. No other drybrushing etc has been done at this point. The bases are 40mm round (2mm deep) MDF from Warbases.co.uk.

We use these larger bases for both Future War Commander and ASQL2. If you like the ground effect (even if not the colours),you can create it simply yourself.

I will either mix 1: PVA to 2: Multi-purpose (ready mixed) Polyfilla (spackle in the US) or slap on the PVA and apply the Polyfilla over the top, allowing it to mix togrther. I apply the Polyfilla with a stirring stick from Costa's. Starbucks have thinner cofee stirrers that are thinner and better for making wooden structures, fences etc.

In normal NE Scotland temperatures and humidity I give it a couple of minutes to start setting and then use a cocktail stick to 'flick' up the Polyfilla into peaks. Creating a very 'other worldly' effect.

The darker 'pools' of wash you see are going to be turned into yellow or green acid pools using layers of OOP GW inks. Once again, just to make these a little more different than grass and rocks.

Cheers
Mark

First Froggie Off The Production Line...........

Not quite the Frogstar Troopers I'd planned for this week but sometimes you've got to just go with the creative flow..... mais "Non, je ne regrette rien" so here is "Mon Légionnaire".

Only 20 odd hard bitten 'Fighting Cockerels' to go!

Cheers

Mark

You, Me & La Marseillaise

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Couldn't focus Monday no matter how hard I tried. So, I decided to finish off several sets of miniatures which needed basing, rebasing or just a new bit of foliage here and there to tidy them up.

Somehow, rather than finishing the day with a feeling that I'd accomplished something, I seem to have merely created more work for myself! I found that these guys only have 7 not 9 bases, these other guys are missing the support bases, over there those guys bases need to be drilled for drones, where's the command for this platoon? Aaaahhh!

Then whilst applying a GW wash to some bases, I'm thinking  "this is turning out very red."  It was, I'd opened Ogryn Flesh instead of Gryphone Sepia. :-o

The effect was interesting but not as colourful as my language. And then of course, I find the buggers are a squad short anyway. More filing, more basing, polyfilla, pva, sand, undercoating......

I should have just begun a new platoon of something, anything. So to cheer myself up, I took a spare bag of mixed Critical Mass Games' Light Recon and wopped their heads off, as I'd found a pack of Peter Pig separate heads wearing French berets (no onions or garlic) lurking around yesterday evening. I also cut down the bazookery thingy so it looks more like a LAW or shortened Charlie-G. Then pleased with myself and feeling very francophile, I sang/hummed three choruses of La Marseillaise.

When finished these guys will be the 'heavy' section d'assaut to my Pig French Foreign Legion for Tomorrow's War. etc I say when, as I happened to take a head from the Light Recon and tried it on a Pig Legionnaire - Oooh la la! C'est tres magnifique! I now have a pile of headless Frenchmen too!
 

Cheers

Mark
  

GZG Webstore

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Well, I've had a good shuftie round GZG's new webstore and it's a dream. Regardless of my taste in miniatures I like things to be easy when it comes to buying stuff and the new webstore is easy to navigate, find exactly what you're looking for and compare products.

All the latest releases are there too, Crusty Mecha, 6-Wheeled AFVs, L-UNSC support packs etc etc.

Oh it's too tempting........

Cheers

Mark

Get away from her you BITCH!

Ripley might have a Class 2 rating. But she probably never thought the day would come when she would have to strap one on to handle a big monster!

 Another Dropship in the pipe exclusive report. Coming soon to a docking bay or landing pad near you - the DIMOG Hercules loader.

Pack TTC-2011 is a conversion kit that allows you to build the Hercules using the core components from Khurasan's Federal Army DIMOGs. To be clear, pack TTC-2008 or TTC209 is required to complete the Hercules loader variant.

The Hercules conversion kit also comes with a civilian driver.  It would be easy enough to strap on some guns, welded armour plate (plasticard) and Voila! The Hercules becomes an improvised assault vehicle pressed into service by the resistance or survivors of xeno infestation! In other words...."A bug hunt!"

Seriously though - one or more of these would be excellent dressing for your loading bay/starport scene - but also as an improvised  weapon in asymmetric Sci Fi and post apocalypse scenarios or even with a little conversion - a Space Orkz Mekka!

Available from Khurasan Miniatures shortly.

(the definition of 'shortly' may go up as well as down.)

Cheers

Mark