Moongrunt - prepping forces

Remember the moonbuggy, this one:

It got me thinking about what Moongrunt could be, so I used my GZG voucher from Xmas and bought a bunch of toys.  I then spent an age gluing all the little fiddly bits, plus my fingers, together.

So now I have two Moongrunt forces:

Both sides, they are essentially equal.  I will probably multi-base the figs so I can use them with Hammer's Slammers rules.

All those moon-jeeps and jet-trucks were a pain to assemble...

 

Force One, with mechs and Command at the back

Force Two, same order, different armour and mechs.  Both forces have a bunch of infantry too

Generic buggies, robots and base-type staff

For scenery I managed to pick up an old UFO-moonbase kit and modded it up a bit.  Base personnel and Infantry in the wire baskets at the top.

A module as a stand-alone structure.  It turned out these scale well for 15mm.  I also bought a moonscape base-mat and will probably try to get stuff like a Space 1999 Eagle or two. 

Next, once the humidity scales back a bit, an awful lot of white primer and paint!

Time for the annual "what have I been up to" post

Ah, summer at last.  Been a while since blogging, as spring sets in and early summer beckons other hobbies and interests pick up.

So, instead of a blog post, here's a montage!

The Veggie patch got a big reno, these are three of the new raised beds, there are three more behind me in this shot.  I made these early spring from cedar.  There's a new garden bench made from the cedar off cuts too, but its not in shot.  Forgive the wonky path, mini-me major relaid that one.

 Mini-me Major and Minor's hiking season kicked into gear

 With some of this

 Up there...

"This way", says mini-me minor

Ahh, made it...

I've been keeping up the road riding over winter, but its now full-on MTB season.  Its nearly time to start building up training for this years big trip, a week's biking in the Pyrenees!

There's not a lot of time left for soldiers (at least as long as I can keep awake, yup, I'm heading down old-farts lane, falling asleep in front of the TV on an evening!).  However, remember this little convert, well it got me thinking about Moongrunt, so I got me some more soldiers to build up.  More next post.