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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: Menelduir on October 12, 2016, 03:36:28 AM
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Longtime lurker :) now getting into this whole posting thing.
I am seeking inspiration to continue this project, and I hope that by becoming more active on this site, I will find the impetus that I require.
http://menelduir.blogspot.ca/2016/10/well-here-we-go-with-my-vsf-images-of.html#more
Thank you for visiting
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Welcome on board. Enjoy the inspiration you will hopefully find amongst the many threads here. Nice work on those Paroom figures.
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Cool forces, will we be seeing red and/or green martians to?
Always glad to see another mars project.
Seeing other people's projects and sharing your own is indead one of the best ways to keep the creative juices flowing imo.
I look forward to seeing more of your work.
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Welcome. Just about to go out the door to work but I will check out your blog later.
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Just had a look. Nice collection. I wasn't familiar with hardly any of your miniatures though. Are the Highlanders Old Glory perhaps? And what is the story behind the female figure, in your story?
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Welcome aboard!
Some good looking figures and vehicles in your collection!
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Hello
Thank you for the kind words!
Most of my regular rank and file, non VSF troops are indeed Old Glory. Some good castings some not so good.
The lady in question is from Rafm 1889.
The Martians are yellowish (ala Space 1889), with four armed Green warriors thrown in to the mix (pictures soon)
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Hello
Thank you for the kind words!
Most of my regular rank and file, non VSF troops are indeed Old Glory. Some good castings some not so good.
The lady in question is from Rafm 1889.
The Martians are yellowish (ala Space 1889), with four armed Green warriors thrown in to the mix (pictures soon)
I had completely forgotten about the old RAFM range. Are they still available? I don't know much about the Rice-Burroughs Mars world to be honest. Your yellow martians look fine to me
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Yes the range is still available, the female model is part of a civilian set.
My red coated British are from the same line as are the yellow Martians.
The Earthers are more like 25mm but work well enough with 28mm.
Question, apart from Rafm does anyone else make similar style Martians?
With Paroom Station gone, I am unaware of any other similar line or suitable figures.
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Nice minis. Where are the lizardmen from, can't quite place them.
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They too are from RAFM, Space 1889, 'Lizard infantry". I believe they came with firearms, though that might have been the martian cavalry, that I have not got around to attaching.
I have chosen to believe that they have chameleon like qualities, hence the red/orange hue while on Martian service.
This posting of stuff is having the desired effect, I have begun assessing what I have, and I am getting ready to dive back in. For good or bad I have discovered nigh upon 120 almost completed Martians...I was so close to being done. There are 80 or so that have been primed desert yellow waiting in the wings and 30 to 40 cavalry.
Thankfully I keep a record of the paints I use so hopefully I can start off from were I left off.
One final note, today, my painting log is dated 2007, boy when I get distracted, I get distracted!
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I had completely forgotten about the old RAFM range. Are they still available? I don't know much about the Rice-Burroughs Mars world to be honest. Your yellow martians look fine to me
Though you'd think not by the prices some of the folk on eBay are asking... ;)
Question, apart from Rafm does anyone else make similar style Martians?
With Paroom Station gone, I am unaware of any other similar line or suitable figures.
Allow me to say 'welcome back' as well.
When I was trying to come up with 15mm Martians for VSF in 15, I remember hearing the Space 1889 sculptor was known for his D&D Elves, and that his work showed it, I considered some old Battlesystem 15's.
One might have a look through old sculpt Elves for something useful, though I can't point you in a particular direction.
Doug
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Lovely to see.
I believe that any 'Lizard Infantry' for the Space 1889 setting might have been intended for Venus settings? But it's VSF - you can use whatever you want for whatever you need for your campaign.
I'm trying to remember who here has posted up his own work, but the old Grenadier UK Fantasy Elves make really good Canal Martian forces and Hill/Steppes Martian warbands. I've been steadily collecting and painting these myself (ochre skin-tones) for the past 5 years. There's a few figures that literally leap off the front covers of some of the Space 1889 Adventure books.
Someone else may remember the chap's blog and post it up, and I will try and take some pix of mine for you to see.
To get those figures, see here:
http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/Wood_Elves.html - I use these as Hill/Steppes Martians
http://www.mirliton.it/ - see the Grenadier Fantasy ranges of Elves
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Here's Doug of EM4, in his own words, pointing to Gisby's work.
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=29600.0
I'm not quite seeing Canal Martians, either with or without armor, as done by RAFM, but I don't suppose you have to follow that vision too closely.
Another source of 15's to consider in the Mirliton, I suppose. ;)
Doug
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Thanks Beast - I think Gisby has his own blog where he posts up some of his work.
Those are the Wood Elves figures. I've used High Elves and Dark Elves from the old Grenadier UK ranges recycled from the old 'Fantasy Warrior' rules days so that they are now used as Canal Martians.
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Thanks Beast - I think Gisby has his own blog where he posts up some of his work.
Those are the Wood Elves figures. I've used High Elves and Dark Elves from the old Grenadier UK ranges recycled from the old 'Fantasy Warrior' rules days so that they are now used as Canal Martians.
Right, Doug, the other Doug, put it in his post. I should have just put that link up there. ::)
I was looking at the Mirliton as possible Canal; again, would be a different vision for the lads, but not jarringly so.
Doug
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Lovely to see.
I believe that any 'Lizard Infantry' for the Space 1889 setting might have been intended for Venus settings? But it's VSF - you can use whatever you want for whatever you need for your campaign.
Oh I know they are native to Venus, and these are my Venusian lizards :D, In this case they happen to be in the service of Germany, who have seen fit to transport them to Mars.
Thankfully, as I mentioned but did not explain, the chameleon like aspect of their skin, that normally leans towards a greenish hue, has taken on a more reddish hue due to the new environment.
While the lizard troops seem ill at ease on the dry planet, the German high command appreciate the fact that the mere appearance of their lizard troops on the battlefield, apparently causes a collective chill down the spines of the Martian population.
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They too are from RAFM, Space 1889, 'Lizard infantry". I believe they came with firearms, though that might have been the martian cavalry, that I have not got around to attaching.
I have chosen to believe that they have chameleon like qualities, hence the red/orange hue while on Martian service.
This posting of stuff is having the desired effect, I have begun assessing what I have, and I am getting ready to dive back in. For good or bad I have discovered nigh upon 120 almost completed Martians...I was so close to being done. There are 80 or so that have been primed desert yellow waiting in the wings and 30 to 40 cavalry.
Thankfully I keep a record of the paints I use so hopefully I can start off from were I left off.
One final note, today, my painting log is dated 2007, boy when I get distracted, I get distracted!
Great to see that you have restarted your project and are keen again. Being on here has likewise rekindled my painting and wanting to play games again after 6 years away.
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A couple of new pictures added.
Cavalry need spears, but at least these 10 are essentially done only 40 or so to go.
The last photos some of the 120 just teetering on the brink.
http://menelduir.blogspot.ca/2016/10/well-here-we-go-with-my-vsf-images-of.html#more
Oh did I mention that I now have it in my head to re-base everything onto washers?
So it was not enough that I have so many figures to finish!
There are days I just hate my brain for the 'thoughts' it has... o_o
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Yes I certainly know those sort of "thoughts" they usually end up costing me money lol
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Bravo!Bravo!Bravo! Sir,keep up the good work and the Space 1889 flag flying :D
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I cannot believe it has been almost a year since I last posted, and all I have are these two Martian critters...
But it is a start (restart)
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These beasts are fantastic. Where are they from?
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These beasts are fantastic. Where are they from?
They are void miniatures (maybe Ikor?), picked them up for next to nothing in a dump bin many years ago. They came with a one man howdah/weapon platform, but I wanted them to look more natural/untamed
Occurs to me I did not take a picture with anything to give a sense of scale, I will fix that tomorrow.
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Void Viridian Terrasaurs, to be specific. Just noticed one in box in my office. ::)
Doug
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The beasts looking for a meal.
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Nice thread. I too have those Void dinos lying around, might as well give them the same treatment as you as I am never going to play Void :D
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So I am on something of a roll right now. Plenty of stuff being worked on this stuff just the tip of the completed iceberg (I hope)
Small armoured mechanical conveyors are Spartan Games as is the rocket launcher and Tesla gun.
The electric cannon is GW.
Coming soon, walkers, robots and minions.
Coming a little later Dominion of Canada armoured mechanical conveyors, mobile artillery platforms and infantry.
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French automatons, Dominion of Canada AMC's and Japanese clockwork soldiers.
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Finally worked on some more stuff. This time I have finished off my Dominion of Canada tri-cycle conveyors.
Soon to add some patchwork-clockwork automatons, some more minions and some Japanese walkers.
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Fantastic! Great work. :D
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Masked minions armed with electric rifles!
Also two flamer support troopers.
To go along with this elite unit, I have almost finished 30 regular troopers with automatic rifles, a mix of 20 newly painted and 10 touched up figures. To support them I have two field carriage mounted electro-guns, two Armoured mechanical conveyances with electro-gun turrets, and 2x4 mechanical soldier units.
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More stuff.
I am tackling the easy stuff, which I am running out of, soon I will have to get going on the infantry and cavalry.
more picks of everything on my blog,
https://menelduir.blogspot.ca/ (https://menelduir.blogspot.ca/)
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Lets try this again...
So I posted up pictures of my French juggernauts a while ago only to realize that I had reversed the flag! ::)
Now that was bad of me, but after 50+ views why did someone not politely or even not so politely point out my error? ???
I am just happy to have spotted the error, which is now corrected.
So I have only the three vehicles for the French forces, that will also have mechanical men as back up (previously posted)
Also posted are pics of a civilian explorer walker.
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Nice, who makes those contraptions?
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Nice, who makes those contraptions?
The walker is by Ironclad miniatures.
The armoured conveyances started life as yellow toy dozers. Just visualize the back as the front, with a dozer blade.
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Hahaha, very clever indeed :D
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The walker is by Ironclad miniatures.
The armoured conveyances started life as yellow toy dozers. Just visualize the back as the front, with a dozer blade.
I was thinking those were the Disney Atlantis toys but realized how wrong i was.
Grimm
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I recognized the hexapod immediately, but still impressed on the paintup. REALLY like!
Menelduir , I assumed the armoured tractors were a toy conversion, but not sure from what. Do you have an unconverted one, or link to a store, for an image of the original?
As for the Tricolor, sir, I don't recall seeing it in use elsewhere by you, but if I had, I'm sure mine would have been the same guilt of silence for having just not noticed, or worse, not knowing... ;)
Doug
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Sorry I missed the recent replies, I thought something would ping me to let me know a reply had been posted ::)
Thank you for the comments.
Sadly I do not have any before pictures, but here is my attempt to reconstruct what they were before.
They were bright yellow (like the plow) and had buttons on the top of the cab to activate lights and sound effects. The 'black and white' picture shows the models pretty much as they originally appeared, with the added pipe edited out, and plastic card covering where the buttons were. Think they may have cost around $5-7 maybe got them at Toys r Us or Walmart.
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Really not a whole lot of reworking done. Removal of some stuff, and a stovepipe from my box of stuff, and a gun from some pack of weapon add-ons from some defunct 15mm alternate WWII game.
Next up, and to avoid not having any before pictures I present these pics.
The bigger one is a remarkably ugly dozer that I liked because of how ugly it is.
This will be for the Brits.
The other shovel thing is being converted to a tractor to tow artillery and infantry, while I have special plans for the shovel, plans that have sat around for a few years now...
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Those last couple of conversions really work great.
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Not to worry about the previous 'no before'; you really went to too much work recreating. :D
Much obliged, though!
The bigger one is a remarkably ugly dozer that I liked because of how ugly it is.
That is the way of it, no? SO many times, 'that's hideous; there MUST be a use!' ;D
The other shovel thing is being converted to a tractor to tow artillery and infantry, while I have special plans for the shovel, plans that have sat around for a few years now...
Intrigued by 'special plans', of course, but try not to remind us of the aging pile of 'there MUST be a use!' waiting for us all. ;)
Those last couple of conversions really work great.
Too right!
Doug
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Good creative use of 'toys'...
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Damn fine work!
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Well it has been a while since I last posted (again).
However I now find myself unencumbered with employment and ample time to pursue my hobbies.
First up some 'banth' type creatures. Painted for a pulp adventure in an ancient tomb, but always intended for Mars and VSF adventures.
Ramping up my painting projects, and living up to my self imposed moniker of the unfocused gamer, I am currently working on wild west, VSF, zombies oh and maybe some 15mm ACW. I do have more time due to my semi retired status, and I am determined to max out on my production levels. Stay tuned it new up dates soon.
I mean it cross my heart it will happen (just which LAF board will it be on...)
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Had an epiphany on the smaller two, which turned into deja vu. Went to blog to realize "oh, yeah, I saw piccies of those in 'Valor & Steel & Flesh...'
In both cases, I immediately thought 'Sammael the Destroyer!' ;D
Handsomely done, and your return gives renewed hope to the 'I'll never get anything done...' ;)
Doug
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This week (wouldn't it be great if I could finish stuff on a weekly basis), I have some Dominion of Canada militia ready for service on Mars. They have been partially painted, and might I say badly half painted, for a few years. Finally inspired to finish them. They were bad enough that I think starting fresh would have been a better plan.
On the other positive side I have another dozen Canadian troops, and some artillery on the table that will be done for next week, so yeah maybe I can do a weekly post for a while. Also inspired to tackle my large selection of RAFM Martian, especially the cavalry. Got to say this site is working again to inspire and encourage me to finish off my lead mountain and post the pics.
Oh yeah, I think I really need to develop some photography skills... ::)
More pics at https://menelduir.blogspot.com/ (https://menelduir.blogspot.com/)
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A fine body of men :)
Are they Foundry figures?
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Good eyes (given the focus on the pictures)
Yes they are Foundry ACW figures, really nice figures.
The officers and NCOs are RAFM. Really short figures which is why they are on raised bases.
You remind me I have some Japanese troops that I really need to get onto my painting table. :)
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You remind me I have some Japanese troops that I really need to get onto my painting table. :)
Good man :)
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Hi! I have some Martians on the Combat Zone Chronicles:
http://combatzonechronicles.net/cozoxc/1889.htm
(http://combatzonechronicles.net/cozoxc/images/188913.jpg)
and a bunch on my blog:
https://gisby.wordpress.com/
(https://gisby.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/raptorregstd.jpg)
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Hey Gisby
I am very familiar with your site, I have a link to it on my blog lol
I also have a large number or wood elf/martians in my paint cue courtesy of your earlier posts!
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Some more, hopefully, clearer pictures.
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Lovely work, quite inspiring too.
Those 'banth' creatures - may I ask where you got them from? Been looking for something like that myself.
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I like that they have Havelocks. Makes perfect sense in those desert conditions !
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Lovely work, quite inspiring too.
Those 'banth' creatures - may I ask where you got them from? Been looking for something like that myself.
Thanks
The big guys are by Bronze age miniatures, available through Fenris miniatures in the UK.
The small ones are OOP Paroom Station figures.
FYI since posting these pics I have repainted the manes black to make them stand out more...
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It's alive, it's alive, the thread that would not die!
I debated over starting a new thread or keeping the old one, and well, obviously, I decided to resurrect this thread instead.
This time around I have some pics of three Parroom Station tripods that have languished on my shelf for untold years...
They are currently configured for AQMF, but could easily be deployed in support of my Martian forces on Mars. The cages would really only hold one or two 28mm captives. I was working on my own tripods, but the arrival of AQMF derailed those plans as it was easier to use them for 28mm scale tripods.
In digging through my collection of VSF stuff to find these, old models, I could not ignore the other unpainted VSF figures just sitting there begging to be painted. I think I will start working on small amounts of unfinished stuff between other big projects.
Big unit FFOL would certainly help to get me inspired (just in case a certain Baron is looking at this posting) ;)
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I guess Mars is the one environment where British Redcoats are wearing camouflage !
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I agree!
I have some camel corp troops almost completed, and I have decided to issue them a 'Mars pattern' uniform, in a dark red/maroon colour and not the usual jacket colour.
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June was a good month for me as I finally picked up a paint brush again, and took a stab at my collection. This time around I decided to finally get some Barsoomian natives and wildlife.
The Green Martians are mostly from Tinman miniatures, with some converted Kroots.
The white apes are from Bronze Age.
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I Like those :-* :-* :-*
Can you tell us mor about the conversions?
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Thank you
The conversion are not an original idea of mine, I believe I first saw them done by skrapwelder. They were assembled long before I discovered the Green Martians made by Tinman. Like many items, they sat on my shelf for a few years, not even primed. However once I bought some Martians from Tinman they continued to sit on a shelf... :(
Finally got around to working on all my Green Martians and was very pleased to see how well they all worked together.
As far as the actual conversion, well let me first say I am not an adept sculpture. What I did was to hack away at the two torsos to try and make them fit together. I used Milliput to cover the seams, and, in some cases, I added some scrap plastic as a bit of armour to cover up the seam.
I have attached some pictures of some recent work, inspired by this post. (life imitating art?) In this case I did much better than I did in the earlier conversions, as I managed to carve the two torso in such a way that they require no milliput!
The beaks were filed down, and feathers removed, I would have liked to add tusks, but never got around to it.
Swords were from other GW bits and pieces that I have, and the large sword that one of them carries was made by carving down another weapon, maybe a gun, or maybe even just a sprue. It was so long ago, I have forgotten exactly what I used.
I have 4 of these conversions with maybe two more to do.
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Brill 8)
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Thought I would post these as they really are in progress, and might get done this week, might ::)
Two are scatchbuilt/repurposed bits, and one is a Dystopian Legions tank.
The Legion tank has been sitting on a shelf for some time as it was missing a tread (there should have been 8 sections, only got 7) I solved the problem by cutting 1 of the 7 in half, and arranging the 3 1/2 segments per side so that the gap would appear at the bottom, where I can use scenic material to cover up the gap (I hope)
The two bashed vehicles were, as usual, started some time ago. When I started work on them again I realized that I had not thought to build any way for the crew to view the outside world. The solution to this problem was the use of the slots from slot a bases, trimmed down and attached to the surface, I think they work well enough.
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Support for my Japanese Landships.
Finally painted some old Parroom Station figures!
First up are four Tatsuhiro mechanized infantry. Primed and base coated years ago, but languishing on the shelf with the other Parroom figures.
Over the years I had managed to lose the hip joints for two of these figures, but I was able to create a substitute from a cheap dollar store figure in my parts box.
The small rotund robots had a similar story, in their case I had somehow managed to mislay their heads! So they too sat on a shelf waiting for a solution to their headless state. Thankfully I have used my isolation to clean up my gaming room and to sort through every box of stuff.
The last set of stuff painted this week are my Japanese smoke stalkers. These had had paint on them, but what was on them was not good, so all the colours were redone/refreshed, and the troops were all remounted on washer bases.
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These all look great, especially the small rotund robots and the crazy tanks!
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Splendid VSF :)
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very nice :-* :-* :-*
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Up next some a heavy weapon for the Japanese on Mars, a captured smoke discharger!
This weapon can be used to lob smoke charges designed to blind the enemy to troop movements. The smoke stalkers carry a smaller version, enough to cover a small unit of men. This one has considerably more range, and it's smoke covers a greater area. Troops surrounded by this smoke will require protection in order to breath, the crew demonstrate the latest in protective gear.
The French forces have two cavalry units at their disposal, these Chasseurs D'Afrique and a yet to be mustered Cuirassier troop.
Currently trying to produce a mix of conventional Victorian troops, and some more VSF troops and equipment. So I hope to keep posting a mix of stuff.
Up next...well all depends on mood, could be some of 'The Fraternity' troops, British camel corps, Martian steppe warriors, and/or Martian hill tribe warriors. All of these are near the painting table, just a matter of which one catches my eye.
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Excellent stuff! :-*
I especially like all the conversions. ;D
So you came here for inspiration, eh? ::) :D
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I like the cavalry very much :-*
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Excellent stuff! :-*
I especially like all the conversions. ;D
So you came here for inspiration, eh? ::) :D
Inspiration from the works of others, and inspiration merely by the posting of my finished projects that then encourages me to do more. So many great things posted by so many, I have barely scratched the surface of this forum.
Malamute, thank you for the comments, I feel they are one of my better efforts in cavalry. I am trying to become a better painter, and this is one of my 'new' style paint jobs. Still room to grow.
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Amazingly, for me, I continue to produce stuff for my VSF collection. Normally by now I would have become distracted by some other project.
These are some colonial Martian figures by Parroom Stations. It only took me a few years to decide on which nation they would serve, and what colour to paint their uniforms! ::)
The other figure is General Sternwood, who runs the main corporation in the solar system. He is a man that is barely alive, kept going by the machine that he is integrated with, and by his own driving desire for power.
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Makes me want to pick up VSF again. These are great and the tanks in particular.
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Fixed up my Japanese landships and armoured fighting suits.
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the ball tank is Cracker :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Thank you, here are some more Landships fresh off the assembly line. These are destined for the Cohaagen Corporation, a 'mining' company with extensive interests throughout the solar system, and a major base on Mars.
My question to all, are they better with or without the fancy energy device on the back. At first I was thinking it is too much, but then I realized that that is the essence of VSF conveyances, so now maybe the add on is not enough.
Also little disappointed that I did not add as much brass as I usually try do. Only able to add it to the thing a ma bob on the top of the turret. Not certain what it is, maybe an antennae, or some viewing device.
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Great stuff :)
Personally I think they’d look better without the extra engine gubbins but tend to prefer my tech a little bit simpler :)
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Another couple of great tanks, where are they from?
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Nice work. I like the profile with the energy devices as is.
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Another couple of great tanks, where are they from?
Toy conversions!
Love those dollar store farming toys.
The turrets are from a 15mm alternate WWII Gear Krieg add on blister pack.
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They are a great find :-* :-* :-*
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What I am going to say is heresy, but while I like the vehicles I won't be stealing the idea. I have too many landships as it is.
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Not dead merely sleeping...
Well fresh from the Analogue painting challenge I have the following troops to add to "My armies on Mars"
It has been too long since I last posted an update, sorry. However courtesy of the Analogue Painting challenge I have leapt back into painting stuff and in the forefront of this new found desire to paint things is my VSF troops. I now have a plethora of items to add, including infantry, cavalry and a submarine.. Hopefully it will not be a short lived flurry of activity...
I was able to paint up all 30 of my remaining RAFM Martian cavalry, bringing me to a total of 40 figures to field. I started off thinking that I would try to emulate my old style, however that style was kind of dated. So I went with brighter colours for the riders but more or less the same dull paint job on the mounts.
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I also finished off 10 colonial Martian cavalry, also by RAFM
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Sadly I have a limited selection of photos, I will have take more picture and add them to my system so that I can get more images posted here, but for now these will have to do.
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Splendid :)
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Menelduir
Those Gashants Look really very nice indeed , well done .
Also the quantity looks very impressive and adds to the spectacle .
On a down side ... i now realise I am in a Martian Gashant Arms race lol... gotta talk to Rafm ...
I shall post some pics of mine shortly .
Cheers
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To be fair it was your excellent Space 1889 post that made me revive this ancient thread!! :)
Cracking stuff from you and your mates!
In keeping with this Gashant arms race, here are a few more, they are repurposed mounts.
Sadly I do not have any more to paint...right now... ;)
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Fantastic looking cavalry!
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Menelduir
Those Cav look very nice ..( so jealous .. must order more Gashants )
I am currently working on a Martian Siege Game ...With a patched up General Gordon no less .. sort of a Khartoum on Mars .. stand by .!!
Cheers
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VonAkers
You can do a Parroom Station game. Sort of a Chinese Boxer rebellion. All the earth forces have to hold up in a single location and are attacked by all the various Martian forces. We do that to allow the players to bring all their units ant so what if there are Prussians and English on one side and the Martians come in various "flavors."
All the toys get to be on the table at once.
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Menelduir
Those Cav look very nice ..( so jealous .. must order more Gashants )
I am currently working on a Martian Siege Game ...With a patched up General Gordon no less .. sort of a Khartoum on Mars .. stand by .!!
Cheers
Thanks, they are bright!
Khartoum on Mars sounds good to me! I have several bits of styrofoam that I have been wanting to convert into city walls and some heroscape buildings for towers I shall be following your progress, which will be posted right(?) so as to steal, er borrow ideas.
I have picked up the French Foreign legion fort [from 4ground] and two flyers [from Things from the Basement], so I am planning(?) thinking about a garrison in a desperate defense with ships arriving to save them...Just a bare glimmer of an idea at this point.
I am also building an 18" tall High Martian Kraag which needs to be done for this Tuesday and which will eventually get assaulted by someone.
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Menelduir
Mate now this is getting creepy ...!!! lol lol lol lol lol lol
Guess what I am using for the Walls of the Canal Martian City .... yep 2 x Foreign Legion Forts ..!!! lol lol lol lol
Great minds ... and all that , although mine are not (4 ground ) but old Foam ones Oopnow .. from Old Glory I think ...
The gist of my Scenario , is thus .
Mars 1889 ..( in this rewind to 1882 )a bit earlier ...The British have sent in an Expedition Force to Support a local Canal Prince in the fight for his right full succession with his uncle .
The fact that the new "Ruler " "would just be a mere puppet to to the machinations and aspirations of the British, and give them a perfect foot hold on Mars ..did not come into the equation at all ..its really "Just the right thing to do Old Boy" ... lol
However the Üsurper ( the Uncle ) has recruited numerous allies to help secure his "rightfull"position , including a large force of the Fanatical Deimos"Martian Ground Cleansing Cult " , quite set on eradicating ( Sacrificing or killing ), any or all of the "Red Menace ".. that is um er ...Earthmen ...!! lol lol
The British Commander is sent, in with Very Limited Resources ,against what turns out to be an overwhelming numerically superior enemy , and must use technology and cunning to win the day ..
A full load out of pics coming soon.
Cheers
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Lots to love in this thread! I especially like the converted Kroot and the round ball like Japanese tank.
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Love seeing all those gashants and gashant-proxies.
If there was just one thing I could commission as a plastic range it would be them - the conversion possibilities would be wonderful :)
Inspiring stuff sir, well done!
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And now for something a little different...
Blue Martians
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I tried to do these in the 'traditional' yellow/ochre colours but it just did not gel. I started off with too light a shade of yellow and could not get the ink/wash to work for me. These figures have been primed a few times as I tried different colours, different paints including contrast, none of these worked.
So for good or bad I had to change my plans. I looked at the old Parroom Station pictures, in some of those pictures some very atypical colours were employed from reds to blues to yellows. I asked the missus what colour to use, she suggested the typical green Martians, which I tried. In the end I decided to go with contrast paints as they could provide quick full coverage, well some of them. I tried a couple of paints but not all of them gave me the coverage that I wanted, but contrast Akhelian Green which came out more blue than green did cover well.
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Contrast, at least in my hands, often comes out blotchy, this time was no exception. I used a P3 blue to cover over some of the really dark patches, and well they came out blue, natch. The wings are Contrast Guilliman flesh for the most part, some were done with a 'traditional' GW paint. At any rate, they are blue, but they do stand out in a sea of yellow figures and red sand and rocks.
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I really do find myself wanting to shout both 'Brilliant!' and 'Heresy!' at the same time. lol
'Oh, Doug, don't you realize they are ancient Celt flyers?'
Reminds me of when I found the old Mage Knight not-Tharks, which look to be about the same shade. Tower over 15mm humans quite satisfactorily, though...
"Contrast, at least in my hands, often comes out blotchy, this time was no exception."
Early pre-general release reviews of Army Painter's new line, which may or may not be available now, suggest somewhat less of an issue. I think they will be going by 'Speed Paints' or something similar.
Feel free to drop me a PM of castigation if I've steered you wrong. ;)
Doug
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I really do find myself wanting to shout both 'Brilliant!' and 'Heresy!' at the same time. lol
'Oh, Doug, don't you realize they are ancient Celt flyers?'
"Contrast, at least in my hands, often comes out blotchy, this time was no exception."
Early pre-general release reviews of Army Painter's new line, which may or may not be available now, suggest somewhat less of an issue. I think they will be going by 'Speed Paints' or something similar.
Feel free to drop me a PM of castigation if I've steered you wrong. ;)
Doug
I have already pre-ordered a speed paint set, due in around March 26th, so no fear of castigation from me sir, I will be the author of my own painting fate.
I am torn by the blue High Martians myself, they are growing on me and given the large number of yellow Martians that I will have, once they are all painted, it will be nice to have some variety on the tabletop.
I like the Celtic idea, think I will go with that for any naysayers. lol lol lol
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So, this year I participated in the Analogue painting challenge, this is the 12th such challenge, my first appearance. It is the reason that I have anything to post on the VSF board, or any board really. As the name implies it is intended to inspire the participants to get cracking on projects, to get stuff painted! It lasts all winter that is December 21 to March 21st.
One week, I decided to paint up the High Martians. Naturally I foolishly thought, maybe it would be nice to give them a home. So out to the garage I went in search of the styrofoam that I had cut up a dozen or so years ago for just this project. You know it really should not take this long to do a project :-I At any rate I found the dust encrusted pieces and fleshed them out with some fresh cuttings and, amazingly, went straight to work on the project, finally.
The thing stands 16" tall, with a base that is 14" x 12" followed by a mid section that is roughly 10" x 10" an a top that is 8" x 8".
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Each of the three sections were hollowed out, the lower section in rough rooms, the other two sections into open areas ready for dividing walls. The exterior was a compromise between looking like a vertical rock wall, while still giving places for troops to cling to.
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Very nice! Unique take on the High Martians!
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Again, love being able to say 'beautiful' and 'monstrous' at the same time!
"You know it really should not take this long to do a project"
Oh, that's a sentiment I've NEVER heard voiced on this forum before, including several times by myself. Is there a 'dripping with sarcasm' emoji?
Given the number started, lost, started again, submitted, put in a compost pile... *gag* Now I'm channeling Douglas Adams.
Bask in our admiration for completing SOMETHING, and stunner at that! My High Martians are green and ocher with envy. They had played on some repaint Guns of Navarone Playset peaks at one point, but those are waiting to float to the top of some compost heap... Okay, I'll try not to use that image again.
Leave it at, looks decidedly playable and 'me likee very much.'
Doug
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Wow, that is a very nice spire/fortress.
Great looking stuff in this thread, very inspirational! :-* :-* :-*
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Truly stunning! I really like it.
Dan
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Menelduir
Mate That is the best thing I have seen for ages :o :o :o :-* :-* :-* lol lol :o :o :-* :-* :-* lol lol lol :o :o :o
Including an Internal Cave system ... really ..Genius :o :o :o :o :o
QUITE SIMPLY BRILLIANT, BRAVO OLD BOY
Cheers
Ps the Blue High Martians look quite ok as well ..!! lol lol
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Menelduir
Mate That is the best thing I have seen for ages :o :o :o :-* :-* :-* lol lol :o :o :-* :-* :-* lol lol lol :o :o :o
Including an Internal Cave system ... really ..Genius :o :o :o :o :o
QUITE SIMPLY BRILLIANT, BRAVO OLD BOY
Cheers
Ps the Blue High Martians look quite ok as well ..!! lol lol
Wow, I think you like it better than I do... :D
Thank you for the compliments!
and thank yous go out to The Beast, Easy E, MaleGriffin, Cacique Caribe I appreciate the feedback it keeps me going.
Not necessarily what I will do next, most likely that will be some figures and a big robot but my next big, long put off project, is a series of walls for a city or fort. Again I have had the materials for years consisting of pre-cut plexiglass rectangles for the base and some funky styrofoam packing material. The styrofoam has been with me through a number of moves and has been shifted around, dropped, buried and generally ill used. If I do not use these soon they will get destroyed!
Thanks again everyone!
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Menelduir , and Gang.
I am preparing my Siege game for Space 1889.
Got the walls sorted , and have some very nice TM Terrain Buildings to go with them..
However I am after a bit of Ïnspiration , on how to customise said buildings to give them a "Martian "feel.
Any ideas ??
Let me know when you have a moment.
Cheers
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Menelduir , and Gang.
I am preparing my Siege game for Space 1889.
Got the walls sorted , and have some very nice TM Terrain Buildings to go with them..
However I am after a bit of Ïnspiration , on how to customise said buildings to give them a "Martian "feel.
Any ideas ??
Let me know when you have a moment.
Cheers
Off the top of my head and not knowing the look of the buildings I would suggest
1) Mars coloured ground terrain around the building, Martian plants, vines climbing up the buildings
2) Add-ons, shrines, coral with Gashants, odd shaped wall decorations, odd shaped architectural add-ons
3) Strange markings on the walls, I see circular shapes, spirals, odd looking letters
4) Netting to protect against flying blue High Martians ;)
5) Humans go home signs...either in Earth language or Martian
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"5) Humans go home signs...either in Earth language or Martian"
I'd suggest both, with lovely even squiggles for Martian, crude splashed characters for English, representing some sophont unfamiliar with how to make English NOT appear crude...
Doug
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The Beast:
You mean something like:
"Human sit on own reproductive organ! " Or perhaps "Human reinsert egg!"
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You mean something like:
I was speaking of the image of writing, but your verbiage adds so much. Well done!
Not that anyone HAS to follow our suggestions... lol
Doug
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"Human sit on own reproductive organ! " Or perhaps "Human reinsert egg!"
'Human' can be a positive term. Why not 'Earthers' or, as used in a Star Trek episode,
'Ugly bags of mainly water' lol lol lol
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I was speaking of the image of writing, but your verbiage adds so much. Well done!
Not that anyone HAS to follow our suggestions... lol
Doug
Both work, certainly the 'mark of the resistance' could start appearing on wall. Maybe evidence of some marks having been removed even as newer ones have been added. Anything goes!
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Guys
Good ideas all, thankyou.
I am currently working on 2 units of The Artist Rifles , in their Home Service Grey uniform , using Perry Plastics ..Pics to come .
Cheers
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Recently seeing Amharic in a group of translations for local city notices, I'll say the script suggested useful for Martian. One must be careful of what they are accidentally spelling, of course... :o
As for piccies of the rifles, bated breath, sir.
Doug