House Antigonus: Tiger Scouts

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Wednesday was not a normal day. I began in the morning taking part in a conference call/webinar from my study at home and ended the day in hospital having a chest X-Ray.

I'm OK, but the result being a couple of days off under doctor's supervision. Best will in the world looks like I'll miss Carronade at Falkirk tomorrow, where I was hoping to meet up with Craig and Dale at Critical Mass Games and take part in the Kyushu Bay game.

Still, painting Critical Mass figures is chicken soup for the soul. A platoon of these with bot support for Tom. War plus cleaning and building five GZG Light Gun & Scout Sleds keeping me busy.

If I haven't said it before, the Critical Mass Light Recon are a joy to paint - crisp detail, clean castings, no mould seams, flash or rough spots - I'm glad that Craig and Dale chose to expand the Light Recon range with support weapon troopers, available towards the end of the summer. I'm really looking forward to these as they will make the range 'pop'! I'm thinking that I might get some packs to be a discrete Commando unit in their own right.

I do still think the Light Recon need a pack of command/leader figures but having said that, in my games these guys are fully netted into the command grid - each member of the team receiving his own personal AI leadership and direction through his earpiece/displayed on his faceplate.

Cheers
Mark
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In the Pipe......Critical Mass Games NEW Sci Fi Armour

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Critical Mass Games are releasing some exciting new 15mm Sci Fi armour to support their newly released 15mm Kaamados Dominion range. Here is a preview of the 3D renders

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
Dractamaa APC Body and Heavy Tank

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
Dractamaa APC turret options

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
Heavy Tank turret options
(green box = 15mm figure height)

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi

Heavy Tank size comparisons

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
Kamaados Scout Cars

Critical Mass Games 15mm Sci Fi
Kamaados AFV size comparisons

(green box = 15mm figure height)

When Craig sent me these pictures a month ago, it caused me to sit down and rethink my 15mm Sci Fi gaming strategy.

I like these models a lot. The APC is rugged and purposeful - you can 'see' it at work on inhospitable worlds. The tank is pure HALO and as for the Scout Cars ..... I think they can be used in any future wasteland/post apoc setting as well! Imagine 3 of them as desert raiders.

These new models give me new focus for building and painting my armies over the coming months, where the successors of great houses are at war for control of a Tatooine/Dune'esque desert planet.

The Harkonnens battle force will have GZG's latest Rommel III hover gun-tanks and the Atreides/Antigonid faction will oppose them with the new Critical Mass Kamaados Heavy Tanks. Mercenary and alien cannon fodder abound. Gunships roar overhead and bots will secure the flanks.

Those Scout Cars, mmmm? Sahadeen raiders allied to no side but always ready to pick off the stragglers.

Speaking to Craig last night, the Kamaados armour should be available in July/August, which suits my pocket fine. Pop over to the Critical Mass Game Forum for more pics and updates.


Cheers
Mark
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"Klaatu... verata... n... Necktie"

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Browsing the Khurasan website.... I came across Jon's skeleton warriors in medieval armour ("Wights").

They are dead ringers for the medieval army of the dead in the 1992 classic tongue in cheek horror movie Army of Darkness, starring Bruce Campbell.

That's when my brain starts clicking and......

Take Mike at The Scene's male Zombie Hunter

......a little conversion, and you could have ......

... for medieval apocalyptic mayhem!

Plus the odd bit of Zombie, mutant and alien hunting!

If you haven't seen Army of Darkness, go out and get it, beers, pizza and enjoy some frikkin' serious fun that's more historically accurate than Braveheart to boot!

Cheers
Mark
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Grav Tank Platoon

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Old Crow 15mm Sci Fi
Gladius Grav Tank Platoon (WIP)

An hour to spare before lunch yesterday, so painted up this Old Crow Grav Tank platoon. The paint scheme is Humbrol Panzer Grey base dappled light grey bands over which artist acrylics are scrunched (Mars Orange and Burnt Umber). These are fast drying so I was able to give the vehicles a coat of GW Devlan Mud which tied the colours together.

Note that I paint the guns separately. On this occasion I'm replacing the ones they came with for barrels that look like they have a heavier punch from left over options provided with GZG V15-16A heavy anti-tank guns on ground mounts.

The Gladius is a bit uninspiring in the bare resin but once painted is a mean, sleek Grav Panzer. These models had been kept to one side to experiment with. Giving them elements from WW2 Panzer IVs - 75L gun barrels, hatches, shurzen from old 1/76th plastic kits - but it was too much pain to make it work and ensure the shurzen was wargame proof.

p.s. the turret ring of the Gladius is the same as a 15mm WW2 Tiger 1. May make an interesting WWW2 conversion.

Cheers
Mark
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Adriana's Last Stand

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A quick shot of how my 15mm wasteland terrain is shaping up.

15mm Post Apocalypse Wasteland Outpost
& 'Adriana' (ZH001 from The Scene)

Being the May Bank Holiday weekend - the emphasis of yesterday, today and tomorrow is definitely family orientated. So work on the wasteland terrain (all gaming) has come to a virtual standstill - but the wasteland terrain bases ground work has been painted and they are ready to throw on the table right now if I wanted- I'll catch up with the final detailing, rusting/weathering as and when during the week.

UPDATE:

If you feel suitably inspired, the van and cars in total came to around 40p, the oil drums are 10 for £1.50, the pipes are simply two straws picked up at Costa Coffee and CD from an old PC magazine. Including Polyfilla (spackle), glue and paint this terrain piece probably comes in around £1. Add liberal GW Washes, call it £1.50 all in.


Cheers
Mark
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Thank You!

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I just wanted to send a personal thank you the anonymous donor who paid for me to become a Supporting Member of The Miniatures Page (TMP).

It's really appreciated! Thank You!

This means that I now have Private Message (PM) status and can receive private messages via TMP.

A great way to celebrate 500 blog posts!

Cheers
Mark
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