Last week I read a Blog (sorry forget from who) about building armies for 15mm, and this got me thinking about my armies, and what I have been doing about building them. You all know of my Space Orcs, and my Praetorian guard, and my Mid tech from Khurasan, but I also have some Peter Pig scifi guys. I am not sure they sell the range any more. I have had these for some years, and never cared to much for them. See the minis are fine, it just the guns, they suck!!!!!!! It is like the hole army is armed with search light guns..... So going back and forth I decided to use them as TAU like race. Maybe an earlier TAU, one not so advanced, but still has very good tech. So I pulled them out of the old Army transporter case and set to finishing them off. Mostly they needed their bases done. I did finish painting about 10 of them, then finished the bases. I started with Rock putty, then paint, and then flock/static grass.
The elite.
Fire Warriors
Tau-ri regulars
Drone, and battle suit
OK now I have worked on this army, I still have two of the tanks (one above) to finish, as well as three APC. Then I decided to take a photo of how I have the laid out in the army line up.
KNight in background Marx Golden knight, and a Roman I got from Small Blue Planet with real metal bitz like swords, ans helm.
Gray is more 15mm to be painted. The wooden tray is a printer drawer. Hung on the wall it holds my 28mm stuff. I have 4 of these trays in my home office. The other two have all my GorkaMorka stuff.
So I spent time with an old army this weekend, but I did not get to play Tribes.
Noel
Monday, February 18, 2013
Miniature Monday post......
I did not get too much done on the minis this weekend. I had to work Saturday, and was getting frustrated with the update tool we use Call BigFix (IBM tools suck). They updated it, and now it crashes every time I create a update project in it. So a wasted day of work, and no minis to show for it.
So no Play time Saturday, but Sunday I got some good Play time in. Before Church I was able to get mug shots of most of my minis for card creation. Photo Album
And then ended up with a hole bunch of 1.25" mug shots. Small Images Photo Album These photos do not look so hot untill you view then in the slide show, as they will be at their normal size. I created the mug shots in this size for two reasons, 1 is for the new Gruntz army builder, and 2 is for the power point template I use for my USE ME cards. The power point requires the photo be 1.25" square to fit in a box section.
I took the photos using my old Blackberry (image of model below), then ran them through Picasa to clean them up.
Next to make them small, and place a border around them I used Irfanview a free fast photo viewer, editor. Irfanview has a batch editor so I was able to resize all the photo in less than 1 minute, then add the border in the same time.
This ends the miniature part of my Sunday.
Then comes a new PC game. I remember getting the very first Tribes release back in 98, and could not put it down. With out a doubt my favorite PC game ever. In 2001 Tribes 2 was released, a bit darker but still great. In 2004 Tribes Vengeance was released, and it SUCKED!!!!!! What a waste of a game. There was a free game like Tribes, I think it was called legends or some thing like that. It was an ok game but did not have much of a following. Also two of the guys that were behind the first Tribes created a free web based game, again not many followers. Now last year Tribes Ascend came out and it was very good, till I had to buy items to stay alive, so I dropped it. Yesterday I got an email from Steam stating they are releasing a game of the year edition. I picked it up as it was on sale for $29.00. I should only have to level up to get addons now.
I know there are other great FPS but I can not run them on my computer as I need a new video card. I want BF3, but the will have to wait, and I am now very happy with Tribes.
I wish I could run Tribes 1 under win 8, but it will not run. T1 is a great lan party game, and is free to download. You can get Tribes from Tribesone.com and they do have a patch for Tribes to run on win7 so I may try that on my win 8 machine.
This weekend started with a Snow storm, that left use with 10" of wet heavy snow. So what better time to hit the paint desk. I first worked on my Squats, then quickly move to the forward outpost building. I am also trying to get used to using a real camera, and some of the shots are just blah.
All miniatures are by.
Khurasan: Mid Tech troops.
15mm UK: Space Pirates (Squats)
Orc: MJ miniatures
Praetorian Guard: Old Glory 15s
GZG: Trikes, and heads.
First up here is the outpost. I am very happy with this, but I need to touch up the dry brushing as it is a bit heavy in places. The Squats are blurry, sorry better photos of them later in the post.
Next up are the GZG trikes. I painted these up last week, but finished the bases this weekend.
Here are my first two head swaps. I used GZG heads and they a tad big, but I think they worked great. Also a crewed weapon.
As dawn breaks over the outpost, with Khurasan troops.
The outpost maned by Praetorian Guard, on the look out for the green skins.
Here the squats have found the green skins or the green skins found them. Better shot of the Squats.
I spent the day tinkering around, I needed to fix up the molding for my windows, and I wanted to do some minis as well. So I started to paint up the GZG trikes. In the back you can see my Orc Boyz on their bikes, looking for a fight.
Then I got the idea of working on some terrain, and want to copy others with the electrical box buildings. The only problem is I have no bitz to attach to them. So I was off to make me some building bitz.
First I needed a door, so I made a door, then a mold, then a copy of the door in the mold. I used plastic card and made the door in three layers. The door is in two parts, I did that to make it look more real!
Then I needed more bitz, and got to work on them. So I took a turret hatch put some screen in it and I have a vent. I also did the same for a shield. The last bit is a hatch cover, I am just going to use as is. I did not make molds of these yet, but will. I have one more hatch cover that I forgot to take a photo of.
So Next I got to work on a building. I placed the door on, a left over radar thingy, some card stock around for texture (yes it is crooked), a drinking straw for a vent pipe. You can not see in the photo but I put some screening over one of the wire inlets in the back. Also the light blue circle on top of the photo, is a water bottle cap. I put some putty in the center, then pressed screen in it for texture. I want to cut it out for another grid cover.
That is it for now.
Noel.
PS, I filled the holes, sanded and primed my window molding too. They are ready to be re-installed on the windows.
