Saturday, August 16, 2025

XCOM is back!

After playing XCOM2 a bunch recently I decided to revisit this as a wargame set.  Last time I tried it in 15mm, now I have a 3d printer I went for my favourite skirmish scale, 20mm.

Here's a taste of some of the figs I'm working on, ideally I'll cover terrain later.

XCOM team.  Reference figs: grey is 1/72 Revell US ground crew, green jumpsuit is 20mm Elheim Planner/Survivor

XCOM team is from Panthera Warforge.  They are originally scaled at 8mm.  My printer is an Elegoo Saturn 2, using water washable Elegoo resin.  My scaling for these to 20mm is x:325, y:325, z:350.  They are a bit chunky, but deliberately so that the small/thin bits don't become too fragile.

Skyranger inbound, XCOM team ready for pick up

Advent, from the blue site, these are pulled from the game.  They are lower on details.  Scaled to match the XCOM troops.  same ref figs

Advent on patrol.  This droid isn't in the game but it was too cool to pass up.

Advent reinforcements called

XCOM secure Advent resources

XCOM with heavy body armour

XCOM heavies with ref figs.  These are from the purple site, they are called Talon troops, I think they are from some video game.  The drone in previous pic is from the blue site, a random find

VOTOMS, I made this from the original file I used to make the VOTOMs game.  Its native scale is about 25mm.  Its been sat on my desk, I thought I'd paint it to use as a XCOM mech.


 Cool scuttlers found on the blue site.  The STL is terrible, the legs fall off when printed.  All bases are grey, urban themed fitting the predominantly urban nature of the XCOM games.



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