Monday, November 25, 2013

"Look out it's loose! It'll tear us all apart!"

Yup. Managed to wrangle some down time to clear my flayed brain cells and snap some photos of a few things finished or WIP:


A bit of Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader nostalgia inspired by the lines of this otherwise useless clothes brush passed on to me by my old friend Paul Ryan…


So it was useless for keeping one's clothing lint free, but it made a good anti-gravity Predator analogue...


Cheap, cheerful, and ever son handy are the original Space Battleship Yamato mini kits available once again from HobbyLink Japan...


At 180 yen a pop -less than $2.00 US!- these are a great way to build up a space fleet very fast and on a budget...


And they make perfect escort vessels for Silent Death: The Next Millennium (just add Litko double hex flight bases)…



More 15mm anti-gravity AFV madness, the first of a small brigade's worth of  AFVs and such for my Tomorrow's War Japanese Special Naval Landing Force...



You'll recall, my loyal minions, that the turret on this fetching AAA vehicle was a plastic *spork*... 


Combat Wombat turned brass gun barrels, some rhinestones… you know the drill by now!


DIY drones made by stacking plastic rhinestones, adding some plastic beads and a couple of nails for gun barrels...


A batch of three plus a one-off... 



A diecast toy tank from a candy tube, some added Lego bits and whatsits...


An old 1/87 scale plastic Soviet T-54 chassis, a Listerine breath strips container, a nail for the main gun... 



Rear via of this handy one-off tank completed with some left over Airfix decals for a 1/76 scale Matilda II infantry tank…



A light tank destroyer from a tooth cleaner container, plastic sample spoon, a few rhinestones, and a nail for the main gun...


A rear view of the latest 15mm anti-grav panzerknacker... 


The engine exhausts were made from Lego bits with a half round rhinestone glued into the opening...


Blue Moon/Old Glory 15mm Post Human Command squad; gotta get me a few more of these!


At last, a decent small group closeup of some of my Khurasan Miniatures Garn!


Oh, yeah, they're both done now… Mwahahahahahaaaa!!!


I kept the finish straightforward, the markings simple so as not to risk losing too much of the detail of the construction of these two monster battle tanks...


A stern view of one of these beasts...


Side view with main gun turret rotated to the left. The main armament is a 220mm high velocity advanced propellant projectile rifle, backed up by a 330mm fusion plasma shell bombard and a Mk. 100 Googlewatt multi-spectrum laser beam projector...


These beasts also sport two Terawatt multi-spectrum lasers in the hull sponsons, and two Gigawatt point defense lasers on the turret roof. A pair of 28mm Infinite Repeaters in a power driven armored cupola on the roof completes the weapons fit of these brutal machines.


A shot of the two brutes supported by Imperial Terran Marines (classic 15mm Laserburn figures)...



Another shot with some of the Imperial Terran Marines in support...


And a final group shot of one of the monster battle tanks with a classic RAFM Miniatures Heavy Gear mech and three of the Blue Moon/Old Glory 15mm Post Human Command troopers...

10 comments:

  1. More amazing builds. Your work is very inspiring.

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    1. Thank you! Now get thee to thy recycle bin, and make something! ;)

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  2. Beautiful work, love the camo...

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    1. Thanks! I often steal historical camp specs outright for my sci-fi projects, or use an historical pattern but change the colors up on a whim. "Talents create; geniuses steal!" >;)

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  3. My Zamazonian engineers are working feverishly to figure out what mental prowess you possess that enables you devise such devious and delicious weapons of terror and domination. Great work. We will uncover your genius!

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  4. You know that I have FIVE turretless metal T-54 lying around in my toybox?????
    It seems we will have another deal in the making...

    ...by the way I hope you have noticed the PayPal transfer for the models you have sent me; the re-shipping service took care of them along with some other goodies I had entrusted them and the whole package is now in San Francisco waiting to be sent across the US, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean to its rightful owner...:D

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    1. Got it, got it, and send me pix of those T-54s with a ruler in the photo so I can gauge the size of the turrets! And you'd better share pix of those new grav tanks of yours once you get 'em painted, Signore! >;)

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  5. Is that one of the original RAFM Heavy Gears?

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    1. Yup. One of two in my collection in fact. IMHO they were the best size for use in a variety of scales and roles, from 15mm light mechs to 28mm robots.

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