Finish it! - Bombshell Miniatures Minebots

 Started - Well, bought in this case, June 2015. When shipping from the USA was still affordable and not a spare (tariffed) kidney.

Thats 2 moves ago and 10 years of my life. Was about bloody time I painted these.

"IIyama-Kevill SH-17S are affordable small size service robots for all of your needs for your Interstellar craft. Equipped with 2 dexterious manipulators no small task is too great for them. Directly connected to your ships computers they will not shy away from any service issues that arise and handle these in a swift manner"

IIyama-Kevill commercial add

Kevin kicked the now smoking little droid, the 10-gauge slug having removed the large central eye and most of the upper part of the little body. Its shiny black casing went flying and crumpled into a corner with a bang. He looked over to Fran who was taping up the puncture in the left leg of her suit, where the droid has sliced right through the suit but missing her leg. While that was going on, the scanner started pinging again. 3 more little lights came running around the corner. Kevin racked in another round for a aimed shot at the nearest little shit. This was costing too much time.....

I tried to make them as multi use as possible. 28mm or 15mm, Pulp, Sci-Fi or Cyberpunk. 

White basecoat, several washes of Vallejo Dark Grey Wash and for the eyes I used 3 thinned Speedpaints (Blue, green and red). Decal from the Vo'Tann decalsheet from GW. Multiple coats of gloss varnish. 20mm magnetised round base. No damage.

I can't find the original models in the Bombshell Miniatures metal line, but you can get these as STL's now: Minebots

On one of them the antenna had snapped so I removed it from all 3. 

For now they will get blasted apart in Scrapjacks :)

Finish it! - 2nd Stargrave Pirate finished

 Started: September 2023 for the painting, unknown when I built it.

Another one down thx to the impetus from Scrapjacks.

Stargrave Soldier body, grenades and flashlight on the helmet are from Space Marines or Guard. Drilled out the face and put in a Necron lower chin. Oxygen backpack is a Adeptus Mechanicus piece, shoulder guard is a old Chaos Warrior something part? The rest is stock Stargrave. Decals: Star is from 1-94, Screaming Eagle from Warlord and the marking on the front of the redcap is a fuel filler marking from a German aircraft kit. 

Background is that these are Pirates from The Numberd, they all carry a yellow shoulderpad with a number on it and they only refer to themselves as a number. Unknown is how many there are, and if it is just a ruse to appear more powerful. And the why, who knows....dead men don't talk. 

And together with his buddy, finished in 2021.

First crew for Scrapjacks done!

 And Team Skittles is done!

 Stargrave bodies, Anvil heads and GW bases and Votann decals. 

 

PATCH

 

RIGGER

TORCH

 

YARD DOG

 

 

2nd Crew for Scrapjacks, number 5 and 6 WIP

 Number 5 is a generic Spacer with knife and pistol.

Number 6 is a Yarddog....but I feel he might need more gear on his belt. Pose is a bit lame but this makes it easier to paint him. 

 Need to go over all of them, add magnets to their bases, and run them through their (coloured) primer. 

2nd Crew for Scrapjacks - also sidehustling as Baddies? WIP

 Right, the Flu is hitting me hard, all my joints hurt like a MF. Breathing is like mud. But staying in bed all day is making me feel even more miserable, so....

(I tried painting to finish the first team but that just doesn't work when coughing a lot and wielding a small tip brush. Now, a scalpel, much easier.... /s)

I made another Torch, this time with a overly agressive cutting saw and prepping a Det-Charge. The saw is a cut down Stargrave Rifle, with a saw like handweapon glued against and on it. After that I removed the ribbed part of the handle and slotted in a Warlord PIAT trigger to be used as the second handgrip for the saw. Anyone who ever used a disc sander or cutter knows you don't do that single handed unless you are going for a Darwin award. 

Another Rigger, also with a tech gizmo in her hand and on her belt, and a pistol at the ready. The ....lightpole(?)... is the gun of a really old 1/76 Airfix Saracen. Recycle kids!

Either a Generic or a Patch, that will depend on the paintjob I guess. All tooled up with plenty of pouches etc, and a pistol.

A Generic, hauling around tools, ammo and what not in the various pouches? Pistol in hand.

I need to make 2 more, and these guys will get a more unified colorscheme compared to my current team that I have dubbed the Power Rangers. 

I found some robots that are useful too, even if they might look a bit too cute. We will blast them anyway just to be sure. 

And somethimes it just doesn't work.

Multi part in 15mm and 28mm are coming out fine, the 15mm with a loss of detail but nothing terrible.

Starship engine printed at 15mm and ready for cleanup.

Scifi trams at 28mm and 15mm, ready for cleanup

Scifi train reay for assembly and cleanup, for the Stargrave scenario the Heist. Might add a passengercar to the list, the flatcars end up too thin on the sides to print safely so I will need to mod those a bit. 

But then I try one of the WoW files again and it fails (again) at the 2nd layer. 

Oh well, such is life 
 

Repainting Buzz Light-year Fighters - Decals done

 Added a sampling of decals from various sources for that Fighter Jock look. Now to dry, varnish tomorrow and then weathering. 

Edit: Can't find the bleeding varnish anywhere so bought new. My pots were plus 10 years old anyway. Stay tuned...

Repainting Buzz Light-year fighters

 After watching Peachys excellent tutorial on repainting his 2 BuzzLightyear Zerg fighters, I decided to prime 2 of mine and give it a go. Aka the "remove thumb from backside" maneuver

2 hours of work today, tomorrow give both a coat of gloss so I can do decals and some weathering later this week.

 

 

Hard Sci-fi civilian vehicle WIP

 Saw this basemodel early October as a sci-fi vehicle and thought, I can do that. So found one on sale and made it my own with some old (and very old) GW and other parts. Basemodel is a 1/48 Tamiya 7ton Armoured Car MK. IV

Went with a abandoned Redneck in space look. Plenty of scope for weathering. Minor cleanup tomorrow then primer.

Will work for any hard Sci-fi I suppose.Alien, Rogue Trader, Stargrave

Crisis 2024 loot

 Took a trip to Crisis 2024, together with the girls. They managed to keep themselves going for over 3 hours, colour me impressed. They each got a Primaris Marine so we will paint that the next weekend they are over. Emma even bought a blister of Dolphins....cause she likes Dolphins. Best reason I'd say.

It was nice to talk to the old guard, people I had not seen in a long time. The new place looks great, spacious. Plenty of vendors, even if there were a few cancellations that dropped the entry fee down from 12 to 10 Euros. Quite a bit of choice but not nearly as much as the old Crisis, but I wasn't expecting that. A lot of gaming tables but not crowded at all. Nice variety too.

My purchase goal for the day was 28mm scenery for Stalker, 28mm trees and nothing 15mm. Well.....that dind't quite pan out. 

• Scavengers II for Stargrave/Stalker, had my eye on this one for a while. 

• Silver Bayonet Carpathia and vampires, the Forest Witch and a blister of Cultists. These were from a pre order I made, on the show I saw hardly any SB stuff.  Only 1 seller had a few warbands that I could see, and he had no sales/discount. Saw quite a few plastic army boxes suitable for them but buying a 30 euro box with 40 troops of which you need just a few.... (says the man who routinely buys boxes for just that reason)
•  Gravestones....as I can't find my bag
• Tents....for a Stalker camp. 
• Large scrap piles from Kraken Wargames at 50% off.  For my Postapoc collection. They had some nice bags of barricades as well, but even at 50% off these were expensive....and I think I prefer to make my own anyway. Eventually.
  

I found no 28mm scenery for Stalker that I liked. Some printed stuff, but with (for me) too prominent lines. The MDF choices were limited to mostly Western and what I already have. Foam I can make my own. Trees, I only saw the same stuff. Plastic stem, reindeer moss for the shape and coated with flock. Not my thing. 

Well, 15mm then.

• 40% off on PSC kits if I'd buy 5 kits. You always need trucks, more AT guns are always useful, if only for the towed versions and a box of 38(t) for my future. Pity that yet again, no Russian trucks to be found anywhere.
• 40% discount on all Nam stuff at one shop, seller was kind enough to discount it even more to 5 euros per blister when I took his entire stock of T-34M's....cause I love the T-34 with starfish roadwheels. I want a small stash so I can build them for Iraq, the PLO, AK-47 etc. I doubt Battlefront will ever release these in plastic.....but a man can dream

No where near my usual amount, half of it is just for stock now, the other half I can get working on next week.

After that a quick trip to a Delhaize supermarket to get the kids some Eclairs (not for me, I got pickled flavoured crisps and a big bottle of French herbes cause I'm weird like that - crisps for eating and harbs as forest floor scatter) and then gassed up the car with some much needed and much cheaper Belgian gas and went home again. Spent almost 4 hours driving back and forth, including the traffic jams due to work on the Belgian roads. Like war, that also never changes.

Kids are beat, I'm beat, and a lovely day of nothing tomorrow.

A WIP here, a WIP there

 Had a pleasant night of painting after having a week of coughing fits, always fun. WHile being sick I started to drag boxes of old stuff, tossing out the unneeded crap and picking up a few half finished models.

Finally sytarted work on the 2nd Pirate for Stargrave to make sure I can have a game before 2100 AD. Also trying a new scheme from Mediocre Hobbies with a toutch of me to get a Kill Team done. Should be a evening or 2 to get these done.

And made a sign to go with the Airport COntrol Tower (or anywhere really) doe my 15mm AK-47. Needs some bushes, crap but other than that pretty much done.

And my desk is a mess again. Need to fix that.

WIP Walls (Killteam, Stargrave, Post Apoc, anything 28mm)

 Had a hobby night lastnight that was cancelled at the last moment, so donned the painting apron and went ahead with a quick (turned out to be not that quick) drybrush of all the walls I made, painted the metal parts and did the rust on everything. Next up is detailing, rubble, posters, and some more weathering. I'm really trying to get this all done in another 1-2 painting sessions. 

All made from foam, MDF bases and cocktailsticks for rebar, with some lights made and printed by Modhail tossed in. Nothing too fancy, base, some bits with a highlight color to break up all the grey, and detailing. Get it done man, get it done.....