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Painted RAFM Crewmen

2011-01-14T14:33:00.000-08:00

Bought this pack simply for the pilot figure which I think is the best 15mm offering on the market. Will be using him as a dropship pilot in my USMC army. I decided to use a couple of the other figures for characters in the army as well.

I did a head swop to one of the figures using GZG's heads; now I think two of the figures will be well suited to the role of general in "the beloved corps". The final figure I will use as the dropships crew chief.

Hope you like the pic.

comments welcomed.

Painted Battle Robots (Terminators) The Scene

2011-01-14T14:10:00.000-08:00

Pictured are my recently painted Battle bots squad from The Scene. Came across them when I discovered the US Special forces set; they produce and thought they would make a good addition to my Terminator army and would go well alongside the Alternative Armies Automatons I have.

I have also included a comparison image of The Battle bots and Automatons together.

Hope you like the pics.

Comments welcomed.

Chris

Painted US Special Forces - The Scene

2011-01-14T13:53:00.001-08:00

As soon as I saw these guys I had to have them. They really capture the look and feel of the characters in the Predator movie in every aspect and look great in 15mm. Looking forward to using them in some cool scenarios.

Hope you like them. Comments welcome.

Regards

chris

Painted 15mm Conan figure

2010-11-19T13:15:00.000-08:00

One pic to share of my painted 15mm Conan proxy for use with my 15mm gladiators (There are more pictures in a previous post if you're interested).

The figure is from Majister Militums fantasy range. He came up quite puny next to the 15mm Gladiators I had already, so I mounted him on an extra penny to compensate for the height difference.

Really like the figure and great addition to my Gladiator school. Just have a few final figures left to paint then I will be buying some 15mm animals to add to the collection.

As an after thought and question from a TMP member I thought I would include a pic of the rest of the Majister Militum fantasy pack.

Thanks for looking, comments welcomed.

Regards

Chris

1st painted Automaton squad

2010-11-19T12:24:00.000-08:00

Wanted to share some photo's of my painted 15mm Automatons. Just the first test squad at the moment. Really easy to paint and quickly too, so I imagine more to come quite soon. I bought enough to have a similar size force to pit aganist my USMC marines.

I have always been a real fan of all the clasic 90's sci-fi movies (Predator, Aliens, Terminator etc) and have really enjoyed finding so many excellent 15mm ranges of near perfect (In my mind at least) proxies on the market to re-create armies based on my favorite film characters. With all the graphic novels and books available as part of the expanded universes for each franchise there is a near endless source of inspiration for cool scenarios.

Doing a Terminator themed army spawned from me recently getting hold of a copy of the- Aliens V's Predator V's The Terminator graphic novel. After reading the story (Excellent BTW, check out this link for a wiki break down if you're interested)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_versus_Predator_versus_The_Terminator

I had to get some of Alternate armies Automatons to recreate scenarios from the graphic. Also there is endless potential to expand on these for large army sized engagements.

Hope you enjoy, thanks for reading.

Regards

Chris

“Ummm bad asses” (Completed 15mm USMC marine corps: Figs from QRF)

2010-11-19T10:53:00.001-08:00

“Ummm bad asses” (Completed 15mm USMC marine corps: Figs from QRF)
This post is a testament that projects can be completed! I have to admit to being one of those collectors that flits between projects and never actually ever completes one. On this occasion I have broken my own rule.

Find pictured my completed 15mm colonial marine themed (of Aliens fame) infantry forces. I have split them in to 4, 10 man squads including: Sergeant, x2 flamers and a smart gun in each. Each squad includes at least one head swap from GZG’s heads to add a bit of character and I have tried; where-ever possible to not have duplicate poses with-in a squad.

I have to say over-all I am really pleased with the results and with the benefit of hind-sight would only have added camouflaging to their kit. Especially having recently read a really easy “how-to” that I thought even I could have followed.

I am going to invest in a number of rules sets so I can use these figs for several game variants. After much help from TMP I have decided to go with 5150 and the upcoming “tomorrows war”.

Future of this project:

I have already bought x2 of Khurasan’s awesome APC models, one of which is painted and I have nearly completed the basing (pics to follow shortly) and x2 dropships from GZG. So each squad will have its own transport. I will be adding some of Khuraran’s new walkers to my forces and have a few drone gun proxies from GZG. Once painted I think it will be a force to be proud of but for now at least the infantry are competed.

Thanks for looking comments welcomed.

Regards

Chris

Painted 15mm Gladiators comparison

2010-08-02T07:45:00.001-07:00

This is a new project that I have been working on. Pictured are miniatures from the three companies I have managed to find that make 15mm Gladiators. If you know of any more I would be keen to hear of them.

Pictured from left to right in both images: Museum miniatures, Miniature wargames, Outpost wargames, Museum miniatures, Miniature wargames, Outpost wargames.

The size and build of the figures differ quite a bit between manfacurer but I don't think they look out of place next to each other.

Comments welcome.

Regards

Chris

Blood bowl sideline figures

2010-08-02T07:29:00.000-07:00

This was a really cool batch of minitures to paint and offered a welcome break from some other projects I have been working on.

I have been trying to get hold of "Orc from Bilbao's" referee figure for quite some time and was lucky enough to see one for sale on ebay recently. I really love this figure and not just because I am a massive batman fan but because it captures all the fun and character of the game.

He is pictured alongside Heresy's Deathball coach and GZG's "Gentlemens collectables" nurse figure. I will be using her as my teams apothacry.

Thanks for looking

Chris

Khurasan's painted APC

2010-08-02T07:14:00.000-07:00

When I first saw this model on dropships blog I knew I had to have one. It was exactly what I was after and really captures the feel of the movies and looks great alongside my figures.

To do the miniature justice I bought some of forge worlds weathering powders. This being the first time I have used powders on a miniature I would appreciate any views or tips on how you feel the effects have turned out. FYI I used the rust and dark mud powders.

I was quite happy with the end results but it's always nice to get a 2nd opinion.

Thanks for looking

Chris

15mm painted "Alien" comparison

2010-08-02T07:03:00.000-07:00

I've seen some very helpful blog posts giving comparisons on the scale of the various 15mm Alien figures available out there, but thought it might be nice to do a compariosn on how they look together when painted and based in the same theme.

Hope this post is of use.

Figures from left to right: QRF's Large Alien bipeds (2 figs), GZG's xenomorph, Khurasan's Space demons, which are my personal favorite (2 figs) and finally QRF's small Alien bi-ped.

Thanks for looking

Chris

Pendraken Alien eggs

2010-08-02T06:45:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, been a long while since my last post but let me asure you I have not been idle and have a number of project updates to share this time.

First off; Pendrakens 10mm Alien eggs pictured alongside some of QRF's Deep space marine casualty figures and small alien bipeds to give you an idea of scale. Although they are meant to be part of 10mm collections I still feel the scale fits with the rest of the 15mm figures in the picture and am pleased with the end results and quality of the Pendraken figures.

Thanks for looking.

Chris

QRF marines with GZG head swops

2010-05-02T11:48:00.000-07:00

After seeing an excellent heads swops tutorial over on Mark's blog "Dropship horizon" I thought I would have a go myself. I am really pleased with the results especially as this is the first time I have tried any level of miniature conversion in the decade plus I have been collecting models.

The GZG heads are awesome and I can't wait to find a use for the rest as this is just a small selection of the two packs I bought. I only used a few just to add some personalisation to my marine squads.

Have ordered some of Khurasan's superb new APC models which I will be getting stuck into as the next part of this project.

Feedback and comments welcome.

Thanks for reading

Chris

Painted GZG Xenomorphs

2010-04-11T09:53:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, just the one pic of my weekends progress painting some of GZG's Xeno's.

Really nice figures. Will look good alongside the rest of my Aliens horde. I also bought some of GZG's 15mm sci fi heads last week which i'm going to be using to do some head swaps with QRF's deep space marines. WIP pics to follow, hopefully by next weekend.

As always thanks for looking.

Finished Star wars miniatures Fringe collection

2010-03-11T08:40:00.000-08:00

Although these are pre-paints I thought this still warrented a post.

I started collecting the WOTC's Star wars miniatures shortly after the Clone strike set came out. As a huge fan of the films and multi media I have been trying to complete a collection of all my fovorite Bounty hunters, Jedi, Dark jedi and other Dark side characters from between the Phantom menace era right through to Return of the Jedi era.

I had been quite happy plodding along buying a few miniatures here and there from ebay until I heard that WOTC are discontinuing the line so they will be oop come August this year! Since hearing this news I have been franticly trying to complete my collection before they become harder or more expensive to get hold of.

With this is mind I have just completed the set of Fringe characters I want, failing any cool new releases coming out in the Masters of the force set due out next month!

Thought i'd share a photo with you.

Characters from left to right; Maris Brood, Komari Vosa, Aurra Sing, Zam Wesell, Boushh, Greedo, bib Fortuna, Jabba the Hutt, Boba Fett, 4-Lom, Dengar, Zuckuss, Bossk and IG-88.

I think they make quite a formidable squad!

As I complete the other parts to this collection I will post a few images. Hopefully I should complete my Seperatists squad by the end of the month.

Cheers

Chris

Get away from her you bitch; Painted QRF Alien Queen

2010-03-05T08:49:00.000-08:00

Hi guys just a quick update on my painted QRF Alien Queen.

Hopefully by the end of next month I will have this project completed, just need to order the last of the figures I want from Khurasan and GZG. I was going to order from Khurasan this month but after seeing the awesome APC model they have coming out I thought I would hold fire and order everything at once.

While i'm waiting to order the miniatures I am going to concentrate on painting up one of my two WZ Hurricane walkers. I put one of the walkers together at the same time as the Alien queen so it's primed and ready for painting; just need to decide on a colour scheme so I have been flicking through all the old Target games books I have to get some inspiration.

I've had another distraction this week; The new AVP game for the xbox 360. One word; Awesome. Any fans of the AVP universe from the films and graphic novels etc should definately own this. The back story surrounding the colonial marines missions is panning out well and the game play is fluent. That being said it is quite hard as you need to be sparce with ammo use and it's a very jumpy game! If you ever remember playing the 1990's PC version at night with all the lights out in your room then this game is for you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC8RM1udgiY

Thanks for reading.

Chris

Warzone Imperial Ordnance officer

2010-02-24T07:12:00.000-08:00

Latest blog addition; Painted WZ Imperial Ordnance officer. I was lucky enough to get this miniature from a fellow TMP member who kindly sold it too me and sent it to me all the way from the US. I stripped the paint down so I could paint it to keep in theme with my already painted Trenchers.

I have nearly bought all the miniatures I require for this project; having managed to pick up a rams air cavalry model from ebay last week. So just require one more rams air cav model and 4 Imperial trenchers regulars and all I need do is paint it all!

The picture was taken using my flash as the weather in the UK this last week has been some-what overcast so sadly the Green looks alot brighter than it is in the flesh.

Hope you enjoy the pic.

Chris

Painted QRF Aliens and face huggers

2010-02-18T04:16:00.001-08:00

My latest pics are of my recently painted QRF Aliens and face huggers. I decided to split the force in two even halfs and paint them different shades; the first I painted Midnight Blue then dry brushed them with Enchanted Blue the second I painted Dark angels Green then dry brushed Snot Green. They were then inked with GW black ink, based and varnished. It was a very quick way of painting them and looks quite effective in my opinion.

I split the force in two halfs so that I could play Alien vs Alien games as well as combining the force for AVP or Aliens vs colonial marines scenarios.

The inspiration for the Aliens vs Aliens games came from reading an old Dark horse comic; Aliens Genocide. Essentially a schism forms between two groups of Aliens when the Alien Queen mother is taken from her home planet and killed at the end of the Earth war story ark. This forms two distinct tribes of Aliens that have a civil war for control of the planet. Throw of party of marines landing on the planet to collect the Queens "Royal jelly" in to the mix and you have the basis of a very exciting scenario!

I am going to order more Aliens from Khurasan and GZG at the end of the month and also some Aliens eggs from Pendraken so expect further pictures early next month of the completed project.

Hope you enjoy the pics.

Chris

Painted 15mm QRF Predators

2010-02-11T06:10:00.000-08:00

Hi,

A few pics of my recently painted QRF Predators to share. Am working nights this week so had my days free to get painting and finally make head way on some projects I started last year!

I am now going to start on my Alien horde just as soon as I can figure out a paint scheme. Sadly Aliens seem to come in various colour shemes ranging from dark Blue in the original film (Alien) to a dark Green as seen in Alien 3. May try doing a mix of both colours. Will hopefully have pics of these to share in the next week or so.

Hope you enjoy the pics. Comments welcome.

Chris

WZ Imperial trencher unit

2010-02-08T05:29:00.000-08:00

Hi,

Here are some final pictures of my first fully completed metal trencher unit. I looked long and hard to find the sniper figure and was lucky enough to get hold of a few from prince august quite recently. Still have enough unpainted figures to field a second squad complete with Hero, HMG and sniper. I am still on the look out for some more metal trencher troops so I can make both squads upto 10 men each.

I was also lucky enough to win a bid on a second Imperial walker from ebay a week or two ago so now only need to paint my plastic regulars and locate some rams air cavalry and this army will be complete and just requiring painting.

Due to the hassle getting hold of WZ miniatures now and also due to the quality of the miniatures I have decided to use GW forge world death korps of Kreig figures as proxy Bauhaus to face off against my Imperials. I think the style of figures compliments each other and also leaves me open to use either ultimate WZ rules or 40k for home grown games.

Link: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Imperial%20Guard/Krieg/infantry/standsquad.jpg

Hope you enjoy the pics.

28mm Hasslefree "Alien hunters"

2010-02-08T05:14:00.000-08:00

Hi,

Here are some pictures of my recently finished 28mm Hasslefree "Alien hunters". I really enjoyed painting these figures and will be using them in small scale scenarios against some predators I bought from Copplestone casting and a particularily nice predator figure I picked up from Heresy miniatures.

Links; http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/images/fw25.jpg

http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/images/fw32.jpg

http://www.heresyminiatures.com/images/hsf028_painted_by_wildheart.jpg

I am still looking for suitable 28mm Aliens to use. I have been advised of the Wizkids Aliens which are now quite hard to find in the UK and also the old Leading edge games dedicated Aliens range. I actually own a box of each of the two leading edge Aliens boxed sets but want to leave these unpainted. If anyone can think of any other good quality manufacturers of Aliens (esk) miniatures I'd be keen to hear of them.

Thanks for looking

Chris

Final pics; 15mm QRF Colonial marines, get some....

2010-02-08T04:50:00.000-08:00

Hi,

In a previous post I had taken some WIP pictures of my painted QRF marines. These are the final pictures of the completed figures. Shows two squads plus the casualty figures.

I really rate the QRF miniatures and am now in the process of painting up thier predators for use against my marines and an Alien horde that I will be starting work on once the predators are complete.

Blood bowl oop Star player; Thrud the Barbarian

2009-12-15T10:07:00.000-08:00

Latest addition to my Human Blood bowl team.

Thanks for looking.

Chris

Latest Warzone imperials

2009-12-15T09:56:00.000-08:00

Been a bit slow on the painting front with the lead up to Christmas. Been busy with various Christmas parties and a couple of gigs including Placebo, who rocked BTW. So just a few new painted Warzone imperials to share this time.

Luckily I have managed to located someone willing to sell me the Imperial Ordnance officer and the Trencher LMG so some new Warzone mini's for me to paint in the New year, alongside the Plastic regulars.

Will be adding some decals to the shoulder armour of the Trenchers in the new year. I located someone through TMP who has produced some for me. Just waiting for those to arrive.

Hope you like the pics.

Thanks for looking

Chris

15mm Roundway Medieval pictures

2009-11-30T01:06:00.001-08:00

Hi guys, on Saturday I took a trip up to the Navwar store to check out the Roundway 15mm Medieval range. As there are no pictures of this range online I thought I would share a few images for anyone else that has thought of buying from Roundway but could find example pictures.

The store owner is a nice chap but he hasn’t embraced the technological age having no pictures of his ranges on his website, no Email address for customer queries and only taking orders by fax during the week or by phone on a Saturday afternoon! The shop is only open on Saturday afternoons to boot. All that being said the figures are very nicely sculpted and were well worth the two hour tube journey on a Saturday to see them. Madaxeman has a good review of Roundways figures but no medieval pictures. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking to add variation to their HYW or WOTR armies.

The photos below are not the full range but just a selection of the foot knights, archers and billmen. The photos were taken next to an Essex archer to give you an idea of scale. They are not painted but were inked to bring out the detail a bit more.

In the first image are the two variants in the Dismounted knights pack (RKE6) and the Dismounted man-at-arms (RKE7) to the right of those. The second image shows Halberdier thrusting (RKE11) and Billman advancing (RKE12). The final photo shows (RKE9) Bowman preparing to fire and (RKE8) Bowman firing. These packs are priced at £1.50 per pack and come in the usual 8 foot, 4 mounted.

Hope these photos are of use.

Regards

Chris

Warzone Imperial Trencher Hero and Sergeant

2009-11-22T08:04:00.000-08:00

These are my first painted Imperial Warzone miniatures since the 90's. I actually bought the metal imperial trenchers boxed set back when I was about 14 and recently stripped the paint off them to redo them. The Trencher Hero pictured was bought still in it's blister from ebay a few months ago. Have more metal trenchers, a Hurrican walker and the plastic trenchers to come in the future.

Hope you like them.

Chris

Shadowforge Human cheerleaders

2009-11-16T14:13:00.000-08:00

These are Shadowforge's cheerleaders that I have painted as my latest additons to my human team. Good fun to paint. Think they turned out quite well. As with most of the stuff I have been painting recently they still need to be varnished and based. Have more Blood bowl stuff coming including some great sideline figures and classic star players.

Final QRF colonial marines

2009-11-16T14:10:00.000-08:00

Here are the last of the QRF marines I painted over the weekend. Also includes another character from the Space colonists pack. Next need to get to grips with the Aliens and Hunter Aliens (Preds).

Painted 1st edition metal Blood bowl humans

2009-11-12T09:24:00.000-08:00

After having bought these some time ago from ebay I finally got round to stripping the paint off them and getting a chance to repaint them myself. As with my previous post I have not varnished or based these yet but wanted to get some photo's up for feedback. Hope you like them. Loads more blood bowl to come as this blog builds momentum.

Cheers

Chris

2009-11-07T02:05:00.000-08:00

This is my first blog and first time I have painted 15mm sci fi. These are QRF's colonial marines and the "Ripley" character is from QRF's space colonists pack. Great fun to paint and I think they turned out well. These are not 100% complete as I need to do a final "Bleached bone" drybrush on the bases and then varnish them but as I don't have either at the moment I thought I would post the images anyway to get some feedback. Hope you like them. Comments welcomed. Be gentle with me though it is my first blog!

Coming soon; QRF's Aliens.