6mm VSF (Rifles+artillery)

[Stroezie]

So after getting side tracked by a 6mm Space Hulk build and the start of a 6mm greek fantasy project I finally got round to finishing the next 5 buildings for my village, I also made some more grain silos and a well.







Next I'd like to build some market stalls and add some scatter terrain.

[Bullshott]

Great looking project. Full marks for originality

[Stroezie]

My Cephalod starter force for martian empires is finally finished!

All of these were sculpted and/or scratch built by me. For the past year I've been using these as dump sculpts meaning that I always have some dollies on my desk in various stages of being finished and then when I have some putty left over from sculpting other things I use it to work a little more on these. This way I don't burn out on making so many of the same sculpts and I also dont waste any green stuff, double win! 

But enough chit chat, pics or it didn't happen!

I'll start with a picture of the whole force



And now some close ups

The glorious leadership



The lowly grunts



A bunch of flyboys



The heatray artillary



The dreaded black smoke projectors



And a shot with a little bit of every thing for size/scale comparison



Ok, I hope you enjoy them as much as I do 

Now I can get started on the Green Martians and who knows maybe next year I might be able to actually play my first game of 6mm Martian Empires.

Cheers,
Stroezie.

[von Lucky]

Lovely - they really look fun. Thanks for sharing.

[Steam Flunky]

Always a fan of the smaller scales. Luv what you are doing.

[OSHIROmodels]

Great little thread 

cheers

James

[Stroezie]

I did a test piece to see if my idea of using Rapier miniatures Sea People as red martians  would work.

Its a very simple conversion, I snipped of their feathered headdress and slapped on a quick and dirty greenstuf helmet and then painted them like red martians, that's it.



Personally, I like them! What do you think?

Up close you can see how quick and dirty the helmets really are



Oh well now that I know it works I may take a little more care with the following ones.

I've already ordered some more packs from Rapier's classical and chariot wars ranges which I think will work and I have bases coming in from Warbases so you can expect to see more pictures in the (hopefully) near future.

[Conquistador]

I look forward on your progress in this project!

[Stroezie]

While waiting for my Rapier miniatures "red martians" to arrive I decided to build myself another martian flyer.

In the Martian Empires rules there are two types of small martian flyers.
I had already made some scout flyers which are the smallest kind and have no onboard armament.
So now it was time to build the larger armed flyer.

Since I used a milk karton lid for the first kind of flyer I figured why not use another kind of lid for this build. I made the engines, control panel and fueltanks the same to tie the two kinds of flyers together.

But enough prattle on to the pictures

Together with the scout flyers



And some different angle shots for those of you who like to guess at the components










I'll even flip it over for you so you can look at it's belly button :-))



Thats it for now,
I'll post some more pictuses if I manage to put some paint on it later this week.

Cheers,
Stroezie

[Stroezie]

And now they are painted







Comments and critiques always welcome.
Cheers,
Stroezie.

[von Lucky]

These are super cute; some innovative scratch building.

[Stroezie]

Ok, so I'm still waiting for the rest of the miniatures to arrive before I can do any more work on my red martians but I did manage to do 3 hero/leader figures

I redid their weapons and added a cape and gold choker to two of them and thats about it.
The minis are all from Rapier miniatures 2 sea people and a greek hoplite.





I kept thinking the flyers would also be great for someting like Flash Gordon so I cooked up some figures to try it out



Hmm, I think I smell yet another project coming....

I've also decided to build one more flyer of each type but with a few small changes so that I can try to cast them in resin ( this will be a first for me so we'll see how it goes)

That's it for now, hopefully my figures will show up soon and I'll have more to show you.

Cheers,
Stroezie.

[Supercollider]

Great stuff

[Stroezie]

Ok,

I've finally managed to base all of my cephalods and I have started on my red martians.

All units are/will be based on  either 3x3 or 1.5 x3 cm 2mm thick MDF

Ok already! pictures or it didn't happen.

The Cephalods





The red martians





These are the first 2 units of swordsmen, they are a mixture of Rapier miniature codes SEA001, SEA002 and IND002.

I started with these as they didn't need much by way of conversions, just cut down the spears of the SEA002's and filed them flat and pointy so I could paint them as swords. I also filed down some of the feathered headdresses so I could paint them as helmets, all in all I'm quite happy with how they turned out.

Here's a piccie of everything so far



Thats it for now, if you liked this, stay tuned for more.

Next up will be a unit of Imperial guards armed with pole arms/spears (ASR001 no conversion), a unit of Imperial guards armed with rifles and pavises/shields (TRJ002 cut back the long spears and bent and filed them down to resemble a kind of musket) and a unit of regular riflemen(ASR001 and TRJ004 trimmed down and bent the bows to look like handguns or cut away the bows completely and rearmed with muskets made from the leftovers of the spears of TRJ002)

When these are finished I'm going to try to convert ASR005 Assyrian cavalry to Thoat mounted cavalry( oh boy, how do I keep getting myself into these things?)

Cheers,

Stroezie.

[OSHIROmodels]

Some continuing good stuff in this thread 

cheers

James