Sunday, March 17, 2024

Ready to pack for the GZG ECC

 Figs painted (OK, the Frigate needs decals, but I have to get new ones), and ready to pack

VOTOMs ready to go
Scopedogs, power armour snatch team, command and transports
Opposition commander (with photonic Katana) and personal retinue (retinue are Peter Pig, leaders, Kremilin Miniatures)
Frigate Crew (some VSF, Armchair General?), bots (GZG), repair techs (15mmco.uk)
Standing Turtles ready!
Gundam game
Asteriod complex, blown up Full Thrust terrain, forgot whose
Earthforce (CEGA)
Jovian

Mini-me-Minor's fav mecha, a stormrider.  Why?  Big guns, goes fast, of course...

And off to pack we go!  GZG ECC this weekend coming, can't wait.


Is it even a miniature, revisited

 A hover ship, but why?  My interest in mecha really kicked off hard with the Heavy Gear Line.  I thought their backstory was pretty good too, but the part I really loved was the badlands landships, I soooo badly wanted one.  Then I saw my chance, this is a Hardwar hover frigate blown up 250% and printed on an FDM printer, it should be 6mm on a resin printer.  FDM loses some resolution and my home printer struggled to print this (it took 7 days).  but still, its a 15mm hover frigate ready for any badland I can find, except...

...its big, really big

next to 15mm figures (Khurasan command group)

Really big

Zoomed in, I cant wait to see it in action!



Sci-PBI ?

 Scifi PBI

Straight up Pete Pig PBI with SciFi toys.  I played this a while ago, few words, more pics

Attack and hold the town
Hardsuits attacking

go

mid-tech defending

DOH!, lost pics.  In the end v.few mid-techs left defending the town, hardsuits failed to gain a toehold.

same view, zoomed out.

PBI is fun, works for SciFi as long as its all SciFi.


Wednesday, March 13, 2024

2024, A Springening?

 Weather's improving, time to varnish some of winters projects.

Scopedogs!

Some heavy powered armour


Standing Turtles (OK, first they need lining and bases finished off), all to be done in time for this year's GZG ECC (https://gzgecc.com/gzgecc26/)


Friday, February 2, 2024

Its Comming! GZG ECC 2024 is soon!

Time to prep.  

This year I'm running two games. The first is a a homebrew rules Gundam game, cheekily called Gundamit!  Actually, more Jovian Chronicles/Wars rather than Gundam, but mini-me-minor is a huge Gundam fan, so Gundam it is...

Gundams, two forces.  The blue and white are Jovians, the green are Earthforce (CEGA).  These are the Dream Pod 9 1/100 figs.  I prefer these to the 1/144s as they are easy to paint and we can fit a ton on a 2x2 foot space.

Some new terrain, asteroid stations in ~1/100, printed out on my FDM printer.

more asteroids, these are from NASA's STL collection of real-space objects, Kewl!

My second game will be a Votoms game, painting in progress...

Beginnings of a test-paint.


FYI, GZG ECC 26! : https://gzgecc.com/gzgecc26/


Tuesday, October 24, 2023

15mm Scopedog and a Standing Turtle

"How big are my VOTOMs?" Ashely asked, Blooger's not letting me reply, so here's a post instead with pics



My GoogleFu tells me the Scopedogs should be around 3m tall. Although when I watch VOTOMs that seems a little variable in the animation, but no biggie, I'm sticking with it,  so they are approx 32mm to the top of the dome.


By way of comparison, here's a GZG NAC (newer sculpt), standing next to a Scopedog.  The AT is approx 2x man height so it looks sort of the right scale to me.  PS, both 'dog and NAC are in the paintshop...

The Scopedogs were sourced from Cults, here: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/scopedog-mecha-miniatures-bundle
The backpack came from another file, here: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/art/3-robots-3d-printable-40mm-dextraguy
Both are originally scaled larger, 75mm and 40mm.  Scale reduction hasn't been too bad.

The first file is multipart, this is the file I used, the second is in two parts and the proportions for the two don't match, so I have not used the AT from this file.

I did use the Standing Turtle from this file, it is also in two parts, unfortunate legs-akimbo posing means it will produce less pose variety.


Turtle with HUGE missile gun.  Fortunately, its easily snipped off for replacement.  This sculpt is a real pain to print.  The plates are all hung off the 'body' and there is way too much fine detail for a small fig so there are a bajillion supports to remove.  Oh well, three down, 27 more to go...




Tuesday, October 10, 2023

VOTOMS, 15mm Scopedogs

 GZG ECC Scopedog build done

All so far...

Support weapons

Heavy Assault (heavy mass drivers)

Assault ATs

General purpose ATs

Alternative weapon ATs (command/security for support etc)

Specialist support ATs, ADA and light artillery

and again showing recoil support

All ready for priming!

All ATs were build from a couple of STLs, fortunately they were split up enough to make a bit of pose variety.  Almost all add-ons (everything in dark plastic) were spares left over from from the Heavy Gear Kickstarter. The only exception was the metal rotary cannon on the ADA AT, no idea where that's from other than the spares box.

Next, the other side, some Standing Turtles.  Fatties would have been better, but I couldn't find a file for them.