Vac Suits And Some Odds And Sods

Another quick post. I have another 15mm character figure to put on. It has been sat on the bench foe a few weeks so thought I should put a picture on here. This is supposed to be a US marine officer figure. I'm not sure it's as good as the Navy Officer I did a few weeks ago but it's not too bad. I think it's a GZG figure mainly because it's on a round base.
 
These are some very old 25mm Grenadier Traveller miniatures. They were painted when I got them and I didn't fancy going to the efoort of stripping as the pait job was ok. So I have really only tarted them up. This meant ink, some bits of colour and a few bits of highlighting.  They are a little short but with the base don't look out of scale. I'll have to make sure whatever I use as flocking covers up all the sins.

Space 1889 RPG

Space 1889 is one of the few RPG games where being British is what it's all about. Which I think is pretty cool. The racial stereotypes that surface in the game are perhaps a little out of date (two worlds wars and one world cup, no mustn't say that in these enlightened times). These are just a few pics from the game the other day. I have to admit when the tripod arrived I was a little bit twitchy but we fought through and overcame. 

The bad guy still managed to get away at the end though.

Just in case anyone is interested, I have no idea who makes any of the figures and apart from the my character (I showed a few weeks ago) none of the figures belong to me.

Fallout Falls In

About half the figures I had planned for the fallout game are now done. Mostly I am pretty okay with them (that's impressed by my standards). Not sure about the one with the cowboy hat as she doesn't seem to have much of a mouth. I've had a look at the the one in the pack and I am fairly sure that the face is not my fault. There's also a female security guard in a cap that's face doesn't look that great but it is better in reality.

The NAC figures were at the time the game started a bit of an accommodation. I had a few left over from a NAC force project a while ago and they were close enough to the look I wanted. Towards the end of the last game the players acquired a big rocket launcher. In savage worlds I play with an adventure deck. This deck grants some advantages in certain situations. One of the players burnt a load of cards to get a big rocket launcher to kill a big monster. Sadly, another player got a really lucky shot that killed it just as the rocket launcher got into position. Anyway, they now have a big rocket launcher (something like a Milan) so i thought I had better do some figures for it.

Phalanx Show

Phalanx is my local show and pretty good despite being in St Helens (where they make glass and terrible rugby league teams (for the Americans out there rugby league is like American football but you don't get a rest (time out to catch your breath in the middle of a game, only in American :-) ), helmets and body armor because we're hard). It is a good little show and I go just about every year. They support the charity Combat Stress who help former soldiers with mental health problems so can't be all bad.

I am planning a new RPG game in the near future so I got some minis for that. So expect to see some 28mm stuff arriving over the next days and weeks. Most of the stuff was brought from Ainsty Castings and also sell some Crooked Dice stuff too.








For the first time in a while I didn't buy anything for 15mm. This was not through lack of trying just that there wasn't much there that I fancied. I think that this might pass as 15mm. I'm thinking they might make alien ants nests of something like that. I have no idea who sold me this so if anyone recognises it please let me know. The same goes for the wind turbine below.
So keen to get on with things was I that I found that I was well into the basing and painting process before I had even started. So here are some pictures. These figures are kind of inspired by a 1970s TV series called Space 1999. This was Gerry Anderson (Thunderbirds etc) at his best. The suits are pretty close to the ones n the show and have been used elsewhere. The scientists are not really from Space 1999 but the heads

really are. One of them has just a hint of Martin Landau.

These are some scenic bits from Ainsty castings. I have a fair bit
of their stuff now. They also sold me the Crooked Dice stuff.








The last couple of pictures are Federated Security Troopers also from Crooked Dice. These are so closely based on the Federation Troopers from Blake's 7 it is untrue. I was figuring on using these for internal security troopers in an upcoming RPG I have pending.

WIP Some Falloutish Figures

As part of the ongoing desktop mopping up campaign I found that I had a load of GZG figures that had painted hands and faces. These were started when the Fallout game was in full swing which was much earlier in the year. This is just the first stage. On top of these, there are some more to do. I've added a few more poses. The good guys ended up with some heavy weapons so I've started some of those two. I'll put some pics up when they are done.

Wolves

I've just piled these back in a draw. They have been on the workbench shelf for a while so I thought I'd better stop them gathering dust.  I'm not sure about the basing as they were done a while ago and I think my painting has improved a bit since then too. A dozen wolves seems like a lot for most games. It stems from a game several years ago where the party were attacked by a pack of ten

wolves. A quick look in the box of figures found two wolves, sort sort of dog, a skeletal dog, a couple of lizards and that was about it. Stand ins for the other wolves were some oldhammer goblins. These goblins usually do most of the standing in as they were the only figures we had in any number. So I decided to go on a bit of a crusade and got these guys. Oh well, back in the box they go.

200 Posts

200 posts in just a little over a year. Most of it seemed to make some sort of sense although I'm sure my dad would not see it. I admit to enjoying it.

So what's going to come in the next hundred posts. I am hoping to do some XCOM stuff in the near future and continue with the Fallout theme. I am running a scifi RPG soon so there might be some 28mm miniatures and terrain for the game. I will eventually get back to running a zombie game. I also have plans to get some more modern game figures. Specifically some Afghan and Brits. I am probably going to get some 28mm  A Very British Civil War force or maybe two and I can feel the nagging desire to get back into some Spanish Civil War miniatures in 15mm or 28mm. Not to mention the ongoing desk top clear up. I will of course keep up with the other stuff as well.

Thanks for reading let me know if you have any requests.