15mm scenery

We have another Build over at the Guild, this time the theme is Building. Plenty of scope in that one.

These are my first entries.

A big, narrow green shed, could house anything, could be for sci-fi and modern alike. Made from the incomplete kit of the Heljan Nuclear Plant, some spare HO scale roofing and 2 ventilation stacks from The Scene, on a 1.5mm plasticcard base. Just for 15mm, doors are too small for anything else.

A building, could be anything, kept it as non-descript as possible cause I'm working on add-on parts that will change the user and look for whatever purpose I want it to be. You'll see. Another building from the Heljan kit, missing parts again, was cut down and most of the front filled in. Badly warped, I managed to unwarp most of it.....sort of. Don't buy Heljan, it can be expensive and is never worth it. Added new roofs, a base and some flock. Uses I have planned for it are a abandoned factory, a Governmental house, just for 15mm, for modern and sci-fi.

Not for the build, but as filler, Old Crow 28mm containers.....

....which make excellent 15mm containers! Can pass for moderns and sci-fi alike. Didin't weather these too much for a change, might do that again with the next lot.

And a group shot (which includes the silo from the previous post)

Onwards to the next lot!

Better Red than Dead, 1 15mm sci-fi test

I've given up waiting for 20mm sci-fi and changed the label on my collection of kit of it to 15mm. A almost daily stream of releases makes it hard for me to keep ignoring it and I want to do sci-fi, dammit. Didn't make the Gunbird just to gather dust in Ireland.

So, a test to see if I can do this. In this case a 15mm droid, RB001 from The Scene.

Goodmorning class, be seated <sound of moving chairs>

Today we will discuss new intell about the Chinese Infantry Droids, and in particular the FA3 model, unofficially called Eggheads  <sounds of muffled laughter from class>. Durasteel outer shell, very efficient battery, packs a medium sized laser weapon and a CHMP-class AI system, these are programmed with a degree of flexibility. The Chinese have been using these as installation and colony guards for quite some time, but recent events have shown they can be used as field expedient combat troops as well. We assume this upgrade to come from the same, as yet unknown,  source as they acquired the specs for this droid from.  We do not have the full details, some claim this to be an upgrade called NV, but be aware that their capabilities have been increased. Rumours are circulating about support weapon variants, as well as comms and NCO’s.  Be wary men, we do not know what other types will be coming online in the future.

Now, I’ve heard chatter about their robots going rogue. Some even speak of a colony ship full of them vanishing , never to be seen again, and alien traders mentioning a colony run exclusively by bots in the Pitts system. Our intelligence is quite clear on this matter, this is all nonsense, FA3’s are not capable of this nor will they ever be as their processors can’t handle such independent thoughts.
And as a refresher, we will go over their weaknesses again <sighs from the students> ….

Excerpt Vidlog recording of Capt. Vandermeer, USA Training Academy, MARS, discussing new intell on the FA3 droid.

I've chosen the PRC as my force for, amongst others, TW.

Real size:

Sides:

PRC decal is the smallest available 1/600 one from Doms Decals in the UK, the numbers are the smallest ones available from I-94 Decals in the US. Base is 1 Eurocent. Base unfinished due to this being a test.
Model was cleancast, minimal mould line, just some excess metal where the "hands" are. Cleaning it took just a minute.