Author Topic: 6mm VSF (Rifles+artillery) (Read 12268 times)

Stroezie · « **on:** October 23, 2015, 07:15:18 AM »

Hi all,

I'm just starting out in VSF, looking to game it in my favourite scale 6mm.
I'd like to do some space 1889, martian empires with some venutian dino hunting on the side.

While scouting around for suitable figures I've begun building some vehicles already.

I thought I would share them with you.

A Brittish steam walker

A Prussian Machinen Krieger

A wheeled steamtank for my Belgian forces

And finally a small aeroneff

I'll start with some "nekkid" pictures for those who like to guess what parts were used ;-)

Here is a picture of Lt. Rockbottom and two troops inspecting the new ship to give you a sense of scale

But whats that, the paint is not even dry yet and those dastardly Prussians have hijacked the ship...

I still have to make a magnetised deckgun, gatling and nordfeldt gun to put on the ring up front and then I'll have to think of a name for this beauty.

Thats it for now, I hope to have more to show you all soon.
Cheers,
Stroezie.

Conquistador · « **Reply #1 on:** October 23, 2015, 01:53:08 PM »

You are my new idol!

So fantastic looking!

The_Beast · « **Reply #2 on:** October 23, 2015, 02:26:00 PM »

Wait, Glenn, I thought 15's were the one true scale?

Is delightful, Stroezie. Thanks for sharing, especially the 'nef, though for those of us who like to guess, the WIP should always be at the end.

Wait, dastardly? Prussians are stalwart, loyal, traditional, cunning, devious... Now cut that out!

Doug

Rhoderic · « **Reply #3 on:** October 23, 2015, 04:33:51 PM »

Cool stuff! I've been thinking of making 6mm VSF/sword-and-planet airships myself lately, so this is very inspirational. Love the steam walker as well.

Vermis · « **Reply #4 on:** October 23, 2015, 04:44:42 PM »

I've been considering something similar in 6mm, down to the British walkers! (Awful kind of those martian johnnies to pop their clogs and leave their mechano-ambulatory tech lying around the home counties) But I agree that aeroneff is the pick of the bunch.

Whose infantry figures are you using?

Stroezie · « **Reply #5 on:** October 23, 2015, 06:05:00 PM »

Thanks for the compliments.

@ Vermis
The figures in the pictures are test figures I ordered from Irregular miniatures to see how they would paint up.
They are nice enough figs for big formations but lack the detail for the kind of individually based skirmish games I ptefer. I'll be getting some new figures from Baccus at Crisis 2015 in a few weeks time. They're a bit bigger and chunky but have loads more individual character imo.

Vermis · « **Reply #6 on:** October 24, 2015, 04:54:49 PM »

Thanks Stroezie.

Captain Darling · « **Reply #7 on:** November 18, 2015, 05:34:54 AM »

Hey Stroezie,

Very nice work and individually based 6mm figures I like it, great minds think alike I am slowly building a 1/285 scale force of Martian Tripods!

Cheers

Stroezie · « **Reply #8 on:** November 20, 2015, 07:15:14 AM »

Well, Captain Darling sir,

The great minds thing must be true, I have two partially built alien tripods sitting on my desk right now, just need to find the time to finally finish them ;-)

Toodels.

Stroezie · « **Reply #9 on:** December 29, 2015, 05:11:09 PM »

Now that I have some more spare time during the holidays I've begun building a new cephalod force.

As I couldn't find anyone selling 6mm cephalopod figures I decided to try and sculpt them myself.
So far I've made a leader and some grunts...

Next I'd like to try some flying cephalopods and some kind of king or general type figure.

I also made some vehicles as I never seem to be able to start a new force without them and to be honest what are cephalods without tripods

So far I've made two tripods, one armed with a heatray and the other with a black smoke projector

Lastly I made a Handler also armed with a heatray

Sadly I once again forgot to take fotos during production so this is the only shot I have for the bits junkies amongst you

And lastly I'll leave you with a shot all the completed models so far

Thats all for now, I'll post some more pics once I finish the flying cephalopods

Shaved Dwarf · « **Reply #10 on:** December 29, 2015, 05:15:49 PM »

I like your squid force!

Froggy the Great · « **Reply #11 on:** December 29, 2015, 10:51:09 PM »

I /love/ those tripods.

Stroezie · « **Reply #12 on:** January 01, 2016, 09:37:40 AM »

I finished the first of the flying cephalods

This one is still a bit of a testrun but I think I've got the process for making the wings hammered out now and I'm hoping the next ones will be a bit more even, still I'm happy enough with how this one turned out. Hopefully I'll be able to get some paint on it later today.

A quick question, I've been thinking of getting the Martian Empires rules from Black Hat, how many and what kind of figures would I be looking at for a starting force of cephalods?

Stroezie · « **Reply #13 on:** January 01, 2016, 01:26:38 PM »

Caution: wet paint

black hat miniatures · « **Reply #14 on:** January 01, 2016, 02:14:07 PM »

Quote from: Stroezie on January 01, 2016, 09:37:40 AM

A quick question, I've been thinking of getting the Martian Empires rules from Black Hat, how many and what kind of figures would I be looking at for a starting force of cephalods?

Nice looking sculpts...

The starter force for the cephalods is:

2 units of infantry
1 flying ceph unit
1 smoke projector unit
1 heatray unit
1 tripod
1 handling machine
3 commanders

Each infantry and flying unit is 4 bases, smoke projector and heatray units are 2 bases and it is up to you how many figures you put on a base. For a normal 15mm force you would need:

24 infantry
4 flying cephs
2 smoke projectors
4 heatrays
1 tripod
1 handling machine
3 commanders

Hope that helps

Mike

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