From ChrisW 15mm Sci-fi New Anglian Confederation (NAC) [176 points]

 

Surprise, surprise more 15mm sci-fi figures!(rarely have I been this fixated on any one subject) This time some NAC vehicles, mostly Ground Zero Games miniatures but also some Brigade models and two Bradley Miniatures armoured cars.  

They started off primed in Vallejo brown leather rattle can, which came out kind of orange/brown, then they sat on a shelf while I awaited inspiration. I decided to go for progressively lighter shades aiming at a desert yellow end shade. It was only after I had been painting them a while that I realized that I was painting them as if they were WWII Afrika Corps...go figure.

So no stripes on these, basically just shades of yellow. I did experiment with a blotch style of  green/brown camo but I did not like the look of it and I lacked confidence that it would work out. So I decided to dirty up the wheels and lower parts of the vehicles to try an add a bit of extra something to the overall appearance. Speaking of wheels, 136 wheels seemed to me to be too many wheels, the initial excitement wore off rather quickly.

Paladin HEL armed tanks

Phalanx APC

Medium APCs

Recon light vehicles

Heavy tanks (Brigade Models)

Two Armoured cars (Bradley miniatures)

This AC comes with a choice of interchangeable turrets

 AA and Slam artillery (the Slam is by Brigade Models)

So the totals

• 176 points for 22x 15mm vehicles (8 points each)
  

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• Hammers Slammers
• Ikwen alien infantry
• Hanuman (Alien) vehicles 
• New Swabian league armoured vehicles 
• Rats
• Scarabs 
• Mercenary Sci-fi vehicle
• NAC Sci-fi vehicles

Chris, your production and level of quality here is impressive! You can't go far wrong with emulating the DAK colourway and these vehicles look very cool. All they need are little palm tree decals. Excellent work and another good points haul for you.

Dallas

From ChrisW: Still more 15mm Mercenary Sci-fi vehicles [104 points]

So, something of a SNAFU in this weeks painting plans. I had primed up 30 some odd vehicles for this week, but, I am guessing that I somehow failed to wash all of them. So after I had spray primed them I sat down to get started and as I picked up one of the APCs, the primer started to flake off. Now thankfully it did not happen to all of them (13 kept their primer)  but it happened to enough of them to hamper my weekly production.

So, I spent some time this week stripping the affected vehicles and possibly some vehicles that were not impacted, better safe than sorry. The end result is that I only have the 13 vehicles pictured here ready for this Saturday.

These are mostly Brigade Model vehicles. The two APCs are from Alternative Armies. The big APC was the test subject for the camo pattern, but when it came to painting the rest of the vehicles I flipped the streaks to run lengthwise along the vehicles. The colours were inspired by some classic GW camo styles, I just went a little brighter/lighter with the green.

 The heavies

Medium tanks

Support/HQ

APC command vehicles

Alternative armies APCs

So the totals

• 104 points for 13x 15mm vehicles (8 points each)
  

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• Hammers Slammers
• Ikwen alien infantry
• Hanuman (Alien) vehicles 
• New Swabian league armoured vehicles 
• Rats
• Scarabs 
• Mercenary Sci-fi vehicles

Chris, these 15mm AFVs look absolutely fantastic! I love the camo scheme you've done on them, looks really cool.

104 points for you!

Dallas

From ChrisW - Ground Zero Games & Brigade Models 15mm hover vehicles [233 points]

 

I plan to use these vehicles with some New Swabian League (NSL) troops from GZG. Most of these vehicles are from GZG with a few Brigade Models tanks and one converted tank (the big ugly one, lower left, that looks like an American tank) I have drafted up a T.O.E. for the NSL based on what I currently own. As I look at my collection I am not really certain why I bought what I bought. At any rate instead of ordering any more stuff I made up a list of what will get deployed in the APCs.

So, I was inspired by WWII early war German armour. In part this was because of the NSL figures I have, have a German quality to them. I remembered that I had watched a good video by Sonic Sledgehammer all about painting an early war tank. So I leveraged it, added some brown camo and modified a few other bits to come up with this paint scheme.

I am really not certain about the antennas as I keep knocking them causing the vehicles to flip or the antenna to detach! 

Up first the APCs:

So, there are three APCs in each unit with two light support tanks. Each APC can carry 10-12 troops but the command APC only carries 5-6 troops. As it stands, each squad will have 25 or so troops (to be painted)

 

 The veteran APCs:

These will carry the veteran squad, the Jaeger troops.  At some point I bought some troops that looked a little different from the regular rank and file. The number of troop figures I have has dictated how I divide up my vehicles. In this case I have just slightly more troops than can fit in these vehicles.

I have given the veterans two guided missile equipped APCs as befits a higher quality (and smaller) unit.

The main battle tanks

High Energy Laser (HEL) front center

Brigade models and one modified toy

Medium tanks with tank hunter

Support vehicles

 Recon and Mobile Autonomous Weapons Platforms - Hover (MAWP-H)

The MAWP-H were freebies from the Christmas sale at GZG

Edit

So, I was glancing at my post when I spotted something kind of odd.

 

Somehow a weapon pod got wedge in under the gun. How is it that I do not spot these things in real life but only in the photos. Also with me moving these figures around so much how did it not fall out on its own? (it was not glued in)

So the totals

• 208 points for 26x 15mm vehicles (8 per)
•     5 points for 5x 15mm 1/2 body crew. (1 per) 
•   20 points for 5x 15mm MAWP-H (4 per) [Treating them like 1/2 vehicles each]
  

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• Ikwen alien infantry
• Hanuman (Alien) vehicles 
• New Swabian league armoured vehicles
  

Great stuff here Chris, I like the camo you've done on the vehicles. I share your frustration with the antennae. I used to use wire antennae too (liked the look) but I also tired of them snapping off the vehicle chassis. So I switched to using synthetic broom bristles. They're flexible and don't break off. That's 233 points for you!

Dallas