15mm Sci-Fi Brigade Models NSF Power Armoured Troops.....

......part of my growing sci-fi Neo-Stalin Federation forces and lots more to come. The models weren't too bad (separate arms that need drilling, I went with angry bodging!) and are the NSF's answer to the colonial marines.

Did a size picture with a Khurasan 15mm figure (the figure plus lots more form the bulk of the forces)......

Games Workshop WH40K Stormraven Gunship or how Valentines Day came early.

Being looking at this model on some other blogs and have seen a tutorial on how it goes together and been thinking about getting one, the one stumbling block being the price and justifying it to myself but that happens with other companies products aswell and not just limited to Games Workshop.

So out shopping with the other half the weekend just gone I picked her up a few things for Valentines day she wanted (which she is now wearing and eaten??????), she asked me what I wanted so I thought some money towards this Stormraven Gunship and hey presto I have a bright large shiny box.

The point I'm trying to make is that Games Workshop is expensive at times (some people will say all the time) but it makes a quality product and I will be using the gunship for somehing not Games Workshop WH40K related as I have done before and I have posted some pictues to show how I use them for other periods.The bottom line is if I can't afford it I won't get it or if I believe its essential I save for it, if you don't but a companies product then don't be surprised when they are no longer around.

I haven't opened the box yet as I'm trying to make a futile point to the other half as she munches her way through several packets of Hotel Chocolat product and says how comfortable her new footwear are..........and what is she really getting for Valentines Day?

The bright shiny box in my possession.

Neo Soviet Games workshop Valkyrie.

Neo Soviet Games Workshop Usarkar Creed as a Soviet General.

Neo Soviet Games Workshop Dreadnought.

A finished Stormraven Gunship, mine will not be red or probably this well made.

 

28mm Old Crow Models Neo Soviet Armour.

Finally finishing off my 28mm neo soviet forces with some armour from Old Crow Models (problems with getting the colour), the models are a Sabre Heavy Tank and 2 Claymore Heavy APCs and I have 4 more smaller vehicles to finish this weekend and we are done.I love armour and vehicles in games but I focus more on the infantry element so I don't go overboard on vehicles (finances also come into it) and armour usually become scenery in modern or future wargaming especially in urban fighting.

Good models from Old Crow and the figures for scale and size comparison are 28mm figures from Four A Miniatures (very nice figures).

Pictures as usual are a bit of hit and miss.

28mm Painted Snow Troopers by Four A Miniatures (Picture Heavy)

Now I call them snow troopers and that is how they are named and sold by Four A Miniatures who sold me a pack before they went on general release and gave me a free figure aswell but I wanted them for my Neo Soviet forces as a special forces unit and so painted them in Vallejo russian green to tie in with everything else I have painted in the army.They were a pleasure to paint and my painting skills which I describe as wargaming standard do not look too bad on them,I try to keep the uniform to one main colour and not make them too colourful as they are supposed to be soldiers and not clowns.I hope you like them painted this way as it gives them more options to be used in different climate zones and possibly the unit comes from a hotter part of the new soviet empire(somewhere south?) and they cannot stand the cold.I have a new camera as I said before and the pictures could be a lot better but anger got the better of me after a lot of pictures taken and discarded but definitely not taken at work no matter what some other blog owners say who happen to be work colleagues. 

28mm Snow Troopers delivered.

The figures from Four A miniatures i pre ordered yesterday arrived  today because he must have had a pack left from the trial castings i believe, for them only to be taken off me until my birthday.So the mood was similair to the face on the gorilla but top marks to Four A miniatures.

28mm Neo Soviets (Picture Heavy)

The force in progress.

Stalin Mark I and Mark II Dreadnoughts

Mark II "Stalin"Close Assault Dreadnought

M-92 Raptor Gunship.

The Boss

Airpower.

A mixture of GW, Copplestone Castings and West Wind Incursion figures. 

Command Group.

Mostly GW steel legion figures and Copplestone Castings.

Some pictures of my 28mm Neo Soviets for my future wars gaming I intend to do eventually,the basecoat is Vallejo Russian Green inked with a brown wash and drybrushed with Vallejo Deck Tan and bits and pieces picked out with other colours (webbing,guns visors,insignia etc.....).The force still needs armour( which is on order from Old Crow) and special forces(I will use the the winter troops from Four A Miniatures when they are released you can see previews of them on the Lead Adventure Forums).
                                                                                                                  The enemy will be Pig Iron Miniatures Heavy infantry posing as USE Marines(United States of Earth) which will also use drop pods to enter the fight.I am also going to do a Hellghast earth invasion type of force using Pig Iron Miniatures Kolony troopers.
             Got a game(15mm Napoleonic) with the gang this weekend and I will probably end up with the conscripts again but we will try and get a group shot of the group and decide on our name(the latest is the Twongos???).Any questions just leave a comment.

Sniper One

Finished this book a couple of days ago(my toilet book) and I know its been out a while but it was one of the best books I have read in a while and I heartily recommend it as a great read about the conflict in Iraq and the lives of the soldiers in that unit in the thick of combat.Will not bore you with the details but you will not be disappointed if you have any interest in the period.

Will have some pictures up tomorrow of my 28mm Neo Soviet forces.