15mm Scifi Update - Khurasan Corsair, AT-43 TacArms and Rebel Minis Vipers

This red fellow is a Khurasan Corsair Suit from their Earthdoom range. Magnificient miniature with two different weapon options, two weapons for the backpack plus three different backpacks. I used the plasma thrower, because it is described as a "ultra flamethrower" (google Game of Thrones wildfire to get the image I have in my head). I used the new GW Mephiston Red and a really like it. I washed the miniature with Leviathan Purple and then highlighted it again with the base colour. This guy is my new commander for my Mech Battalion.

Three finished AT-43 TacArms (still one of the best mech/power armour designs I know). These are the medium assault elements of my Mech Battalion. When I'm done, I will have three with heavy anti-tank weapons and three infantry-killers.

Here you can see a comparision picture to show the size of the different mechs (left to right: Rebel Minis Marine, Khurasan Corsair, AT-43 TacArm and Rebel Minis Viper).

 

Some new stuff I found at an Africa Festival in my city. Perfect for alien plant live!

Finally I bought three Rebel Minis Viper mechs. Great value-for-money! You get a lot of bits (several weapon options with each one) and a nice design. Of course they don't have the same casting quality as e.g. Khurasan, but the quality is good enough (especially for the price!). Some minor conversions on the two mechs in the bottom pictures. These will be my scout/light mechs. So in the end I will have 9 Mechs, 1 Commander in Corsair Armour plus some other stuff.

Dystopian Wars freighters and troop carriers

I finally bought the Tamiya 1:700 scale Tugger set, that included all the ships you see on the picture plus some smaller ones.

I think they are big enough to be objectives in an Escort/Convoy game, but small enough not to take up too much board space.

Khurasan Ogre beetle finished

Somehow I'm not satisfied with how my miniatures turn out these days, but I'm really satisfied with this Khurasan Ogre beetle that I finished:

 

The base colour for the "yellow" bugs is Tausept Ochre from GW and the drybrushing is done with a mix of the base coulour and Bleached Bone.

15mm Scifi progress

 Mecha Action! Someone on TMP recommended these Armored Core models. 7$ for this beauty shipping included was a great bargain. I will change or convert the weapons, as they look to anime-like and don't fit to the rest of my 15mm stuff.

 Rackham sold the last of their stock so several retailers and I hat to buy those TAC Arms suits. Perfect little assault mechas for my Galactic Alliance forces. They are pre-painted, but I'll try a different paint scheme.

 Finally my bug horde got a big bruiser to storm those human fortresses. Truly beautiful kit from Khurasan.

A Star Wars model from Revell, that turned out to be too small for a real dropship, so I will use it as crashed recon ship.

Start of a possible 15mm Post Apocalypse Project

From my grandfather I got a lot of railway buildings (some still in box and scale H0) and a lot of them could fit into a postapocalyptic world (Fallout 3 style). So I decided to build a small table.

Miniaturewise I'll go for Khurasan (as always), Ground Zero Games and Thescene.

Imagine these two burger/snack stands dust filled, with bullet holes, broken glass and washed out colours. The glass will be added after the paintjob.

Picture update - Bug horde and Felids, stuff

This is the Space Pals Bounty Hunter from Highlander Studios. I just love this minature and so I tried to make a better picture.

BUUGGGS! (never gets old). I painted 16 Khurasan bugs and added some old and some new Tyranid rippers plus a Dark Realm Skyths. I'm experimenting with picture manager software and the colour correction is working fine on some pics and bad on others.

Watching and reading too much "Power armour versus bugs" stuff, I'm assembling a bug horde plus power armoured troops.

These abore are my Felid power armour conversions. I bought three more so I have a full squad.

More soldiers for my "cat people" army.

Had these crystals lying around for a while and I'm quite satisfied with the result.

Althought the colours are a little bit "overdone", I present you an overview of my alien world table so far.

Brigade Games - 15mm Scifi models

I recently bought both packs of Brigade Games' new 15mm Scifi miniatures:

Pictures taken from the Brigade Games Hompage without permission. I finished one alien (first picture, on the far right) and I really enjoy painting this miniatures as they are gorgeous sculpts. At the moment I'm painting the middle on in the first picture in fleshy tones (I call him the "fatso rat"). I can honestly recommend buying those! Brigades fast delivery was, as always, a deligth.