Cheers for the kind words everyone!
I'm going to start on the talos suits now alongside the proteus.
Great stuff 
Is the table to be Earth based or somewhere else?
cheers
James
I'm going to go with a busy industrial space port for small cargo loaders to help send cargo and goods to ships in low orbit.
Planet wise I don't think it'll matter too much!

Looking absolutely awesome Nic-e!!! Definitely looking forward to seeing your brushwork on the Proteus.
As for the rulesets you mentioned, Gruntz is always brought up to be an entertaining game so I'd suggest giving it a once over.
I recently made a bit of a display board for Salute with a piece of our MTU concept art in mind if it's any inspiration for your future game board:
Below photos of the board and my minis shamelessly stole from GMorts Chaotica blog. All the bits on there are from us at WDM
So aye, keep it up Nic-e! Can't wait to see your expanding 15mm force 
Hey overwatch, it was good speaking to you at salute!
(I'm the chap from dark sphere who ran up during pack up to buy a hab block from your van.)
I plan on stealing the dimensions of your display board to use as a nice 15mm skirmish board I can also fit in the wardrobe.