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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Sci-Fi Small Skirmish Games => Topic started by: AxolotlQuestions on April 22, 2021, 08:53:01 PM
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Having gone in on the Stargrave nickstarter, I decided to get a head start on painting up some minis and putting together a table.
I already have a fair amount of cardstock terrain (metromorph and tinkerturf) from playing Necromunda and Kill Team.
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but I wanted to get some slightly less industrial stuff together, so I've started some Tatooine/Logan's World style stuff.
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And I've started painting up some random stuff to use as pirates.
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Though I've pulled something special out of the leadpile for my first warband...
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Love the adobe buildings, that weathered fringe scifi western look is something I really enjoy! Can I ask where the bearded guy with the headscarf is from?
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Thanks!
He's a simple kitbash I did using a Domari Freeborn from warlord's Beyond the Gates of Atlantis and the head from the Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago crewmen kit.
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Thanks!
He's a simple kitbash I did using a Domari Freeborn from warlord's Beyond the Gates of Atlantis and the head from the Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago crewmen kit.
Gates has a ton of very Stargrave-friendly figs in its ranges. Wish they had a few more plastic options just for the ease of conversions, but many of the metals have such a neat aesthetic I wouldn't really want to hack them up anyway.
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It's not something I've ever played, but the recent sprue sale by Warlord gave me an excuse to pick some stuff up for kitbashing.
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It's not something I've ever played, but the recent sprue sale by Warlord gave me an excuse to pick some stuff up for kitbashing.
I tried Gates a couple of times. It's not bad, especially if you like Bolt Action's mechanics. More of a fan of the minis than the game, though.
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Testing colour schemes.
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I also painted up a tiny gretchin.
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Testing colour schemes.
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I also painted up a tiny gretchin.
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This stuff is looking so evocative! Love the colors and figures!
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Great looking terrain and miniatures. I especially like the bold greens. Good stuff! :)
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Well, I've gone very old school today.
My order of the old Copplestone sculpted Future Warriors arrived from Forlorn Hope today, and I wasted no time priming some up and getting some paint on them.
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This guy gave me a strong sense memory of the old Citadel Confrontation tech gang leader. Something about the legs?
I also painted up another grot.
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I love these old Kev Adams sculpts. They were what got me into the hobby back when I was knee high to a grass hopper, and I'm really enjoying returning to them now.
Speaking of returning to old miniatures, I found this poor ork in my lead pile. My best guess is I painted him back in junior school, probably 30+ years ago, and well before I had heard about thinning your paints.
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So, after a bath in biostrip and some scrubbing, I managed to turn him into this:
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Once I work out how I'm basing them, he'll be ready to hit the table again, and I couldn't be happier about that.
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I don't know, man. No shame in the old paint job. I recently found some of my old WH40k stuff and I absolutely don't have the heart to undo a piece of my poorly painted childhood. They probably won't see time on the gaming table, but the memories are worth holding onto.
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I don't think I will be repainting everything, but it'll be good to get some of these boys back on the table.
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Based up the first batch of pirates. Eagerly awaiting the nickstarter delivery now.
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Of course I love the look of RT Orks, but those pirates are really cool too. Copplestone Future Warriors, eh? I'll have to keep those in mind!
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Yeah, they're old sculpts (1991 I believe) but they hold up well. You can get them from EM4 and Forlorn Hope, and they're very reasonably priced.
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Seems like they do! As early 1990s things generally tend to do. Really good figures, and I like the colours you used. Proper sci-fi civilian looking.
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Yeah, very nice work on the Future Warriors. That is absolutely one my favorite lines of miniatures ever. The other ones are great as well, but I never get tired of seeing those Copplestone guys.
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So, the nickstarter arrived and I spared no time getting stuck into the sprues.
Here we have the first two members of the crew.
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Rusty Robertson grew up with engines in his blood. His first word was spanner, and everyone said he was going to be a famous engineer when he grew up. Of course once the pirates came, no one needed famous engineers. Now he keeps the Peregrine's engines going, and helps the Captain when there's some interesting tech that needs busting open.
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Trooper Johansen was still a happy-go-lucky cadet on his first cruise when the pirates came, and his TO shoved him into an escape pod just in time for him to see his ship, his crewmates, and his friends blasted out of the sky. Johansen doesn't smile much now, unless it's the grim smile he gives when he gets a pirate in the sights of his carbine.
Have to say, I was only so so on the minis when I first got them, but they paint up lovely, and I'm having a hard time resisting doing a whole bunch of kitbashing. First though I need to finish this crew.
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Very nice work.
Nice unifying colour scheme.
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Finished my first crew. Captain Rick Callahan, Ex-Star Marshall turned bounty hunter, hunting for the partner that betrayed him, and the crew of the Peregrine.
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Next I think I'm going to do some pirates to act as adversaries, and maybe a crew less concerned with law and order than this one. Of course, I've still plenty of terrain to work on.
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Awesome work!
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Great thread. Love seeing the old skool stuff mixed in with current stuff. Bravo! :-*
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"...grew up with engines in his blood..."
With right nanotech injections that could be literal rather than a euphemism. :)
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inspiring looks so good super model poses! and paint jobs
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So, I decided to start putting together the miniatures needed for the Dead or Alive solo supplement for Stargrave, mainly using the trooper kit. Decided to theme them as a kind of intergalactic Blackwater, ready to hire out as protection for the marks. I figured they could also double up as a back up crew for demo games.
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