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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Torradas on October 25, 2007, 12:26:06 PM

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: Torradas on October 25, 2007, 12:26:06 PM

These are some grey aliens I bought on impulse from 15mm.co.uk.

I´ve been playing Flames of War for a some time now, and when I read Dan Masseys article (http://www.danmassey.com/?postid=20) in which he fleshed out a Grey Alien list to be used with the FoW rules, I couldn't help myself thinking "Alien Invasion in WW2" :)

I immediately ordered the Aliens from 15mm.co.uk (excellent service by the way) and some days later I had them based and ready for priming (enter the "before shots"):

Group view:
(http://lh3.google.com/torradas/Rtx9eybXyfI/AAAAAAAADqk/zV875IShmQQ/s800/DSCF1290.JPG)

Detail of the command stands:
(http://lh5.google.com/torradas/Rtx9mSbXyhI/AAAAAAAADq0/qRQ0S0OwHg4/s800/DSCF1292.JPG)

On to the painted "after shots" (these were fun to paint :)):

Group shot of the Landing Party:
(http://lh3.google.com/torradas/Rw8_CVca9UI/AAAAAAAADwM/1oRcJWjm5_Y/s800/DSCF1316.JPG)

Science team (left), Commander team (right), with Giant Golden Robots and UFO on the background:
(http://lh5.google.com/torradas/Rw8-91ca9SI/AAAAAAAADv8/nO5X3J8KuiY/s800/DSCF1314.JPG)

Detail of UFO (cupola is removable):
(http://lh5.google.com/torradas/Rw8_D1ca9VI/AAAAAAAADwU/KJw7aC4gK1U/s800/DSCF1317.JPG)

All good fun to paint, and awaiting the chance to face some Soviets or Germans on the table :)

Cheers,
Torradas

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: revford on October 25, 2007, 03:22:43 PM

They look like huge fun, nicely done, the weird devices on the science team are great.

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: PeteMurray on October 25, 2007, 03:36:55 PM

Well done! Clever to do this Flames of War style. They're painted very nicely.

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: Plynkes on October 25, 2007, 04:07:01 PM

An army of Gorts! Cool! Where's Michael Rennie?




(Edited for not being able to spell 'army')

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: Torradas on October 25, 2007, 04:32:12 PM

:D

Yep. The robots "could" (should?) look more like this:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_1951.jpg)

But I couldn´t resist doing them golden. More "Flash Gordiny" so to speak. :)

Thanks for the comments guys :)

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: pnweerar on October 25, 2007, 05:24:51 PM

Thanks for posting. These are lovely.

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: Plynkes on October 25, 2007, 05:49:11 PM

That film was in black and white, I always imagined him as golden anyway, so it don't matter.

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: Agis on October 26, 2007, 07:23:48 AM

WHAT a coincidence, I read the same article, thought the same and ordered mine too!
They just did not arrive so far.  :(
After seeing yours I am really looking forward to these minis!

Great job!

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: Ginger on October 27, 2007, 11:21:57 AM

These look fantastic - even followed the link, downloaded the rules and had to stop myself from ordering the range of figures. will do eventualy have to finish my FOW para's first

Have you played with them yet

how did you find the rules - if you reed the comments on the web site he says that he is working on some changes

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: Agis on October 27, 2007, 04:32:35 PM

Recieved my minis today! :)

And Boy did I love  :love: them, very good minis, highly recommended!

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: Torradas on October 28, 2007, 12:32:43 AM

Yes, the detail on the minis is excellent: and mind you that they are quite a bit smaller than a 15mm "human" (they are about the same size as an Old Glory Napoleon sitting with his feet up in a drum, but I would imagine that reference will only make sense to a very limited number of people :)).

They are yet to be played, unfortunately :P

Hope that changes over this month. If I do get the chance to play them and I manage to take some pics, I´ll write up a report and post it here :)

Thanks for the comments guys :)

Cheers,
Torradas

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on October 30, 2007, 09:32:34 AM

Those little grey chaps are great  :love:

I can imagine using them in 28mm games  - after all how tall is a grey?  :lol:

Cheers,
Ian

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: Chairface on October 31, 2007, 02:10:55 AM

Those are awesome! I love them.

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: matsouloulou on November 03, 2007, 11:59:17 AM

excellent! it's a very great job...
this figures are compatible for the rule "flames of war"... :D  
i imagine my italian bersaglieri company with his funny tanks fights against this alien menace  :lol:

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: chrisv on November 15, 2007, 03:27:34 PM

My friends ran a War of the Worlds game at the Fall In convention this past weekend (for which I helped make the table).  I took a lot of photos of it.

http://chrisvmd.fotki.com/ in the Miniatures section.

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: Torradas on November 15, 2007, 03:50:07 PM

Quote from: "chrisv"

My friends ran a War of the Worlds game at the Fall In convention this past weekend (for which I helped make the table).  I took a lot of photos of it.

http://chrisvmd.fotki.com/ in the Miniatures section.

Those are excellent :)

Grover´s Mill Building is very appropriate :D

Did you use the FoW rules for the game? How did it turn out? I´ve been meaning to take up some challenges on my yet to be tested greys, but other projects keep getting in the way...

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: chrisv on November 15, 2007, 04:36:45 PM

My friends Shawn and Jimmy ran the Battle of Grovers Mill.  They used basic Flames of War rules and Dan Massey's rules for the aliens.  Shawn played lots of test games with the aliens in the months leading up to the con, so he has a pretty good feel for how they play.  I'll see if I can get him to come on here and talk about it.

Everyone had a good time and they're planning on doing it again for Cold Wars and then also doing a new Alien Invasion table set 15 years later in Vietnam.  They're hooked now.  :)

Chris

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: poulppy on November 16, 2007, 07:12:15 AM

It's a really funny army. Do you think it will be accepted in fow comptetition ?

Title: 15mm Grey Aliens
Post by: Torradas on November 16, 2007, 10:28:15 AM

Quote from: "poulppy"

It's a really funny army. Do you think it will be accepted in fow comptetition ?

Hmmm, I´m almost absolutely sure it won´t... :)