Its been a while... ...time to roll the cubes of randomness

This summer has been busy.  More on that later.  For now its time for a bunch of pics with very few words.  Let It Begin!

UNSC base about to be attacked

 Marines have to escort scientists off the bottom base edge

 Yup

 That's them

 Going here...

 However, the Collective may disagree...

 BLAMMO, BLAMMO, the collective not doing so well this time

 Marines kicking Bum and Taking Names!

 Mmmm, things not going the Collective's way

 Still not

 Chaaarge!

 Ker-Splat!

 Ouch

 Run away?

 Yup

 Ooops

 Mega reinforcements!

 Maybe not

 He's mine!

 Braaaaap!, no he's not

 Run Run Run

 Huzzah! the Marines made it. 

This was using one of the pre-canned Ambush alley scenarios, in this case the Marines were pretty decent troops while the insurgents were pretty much cannon fodder.  It kind of played out that way too.

This was a quick game I managed to fit in between stuff, I ran it a while ago and forgot to blog it.  I thought I'd post it up to reming myself to do this in a more timely manner next time.

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.

Moonbuggy

I'm building Moongrunt forces, hopefully I will get them done in time for next year's ECC GZG Con.

While building I had a flash of inspiration, those NAC 6-wheeler buggies look an awful lot like Silent-Running-type Moon buggies.

So, with a quick snip of a driver's backrest and a trim of the space-suited driver's legs we have a moon buggy

Whats neat about this is that the larger buggies come with two drivers, so I'm using a driver one for each buggy and using an armed passenger fig to ride shotgun in the larger buggy.

I've made a bunch of these armed with light weapons as a skirmish/recon vehicle force.