Merlon's not quite 40K SF thread

[anevilgiraffe]

Colony 87 minis are really cool, shame I missed the kickstarter.

They?re available from Crooked Dice??

[Merlon]

Colony 87 minis are really cool, shame I missed the kickstarter.

They're available from Crooked Dice??

Yes all the Colony 87 figures are available from Crooked Dice, I think there are another batch of releases coming soon.
https://crooked-dice.co.uk/collections/colony-87?page=1

[anevilgiraffe]

yeah the double ? (not the current formatting error) was more for Freddy... missing out on the KS doesn't mean missing out on the minis... 

[Freddy]

yeah the double ? (not the current formatting error) was more for Freddy... missing out on the KS doesn't mean missing out on the minis... 

Yeah, but the KS was cheaper.

[Merlon]

One project I have on the back burner is the Greenhaven auxilia, the PDF.
Thirty years ago this would have been an aspiration for many Imperial guard players.
Here we see a large portion of the heavy weapons company of the Greenhaven auxilia. The mortar and missile teams exist in part, but Cadian mortar and missile teams were always like hens teeth. As yet I have not decided the colour scheme for the troop.

At one time a career in the Royal Engineers nearly beckoned, but a training injury meant it was not to be. But Hobarts Funnies and other military engineering have always interested me. Cyclops demolition vehicles have been unavailable for a while, so I decided to scratch build a variant. It does help to have an extensive bits box and a seemingly vast supply of Panzer I track links

A quick coat of bronze green will do for now. Decals will follow when I find something suitable.

Onwards and upwards.

[voltan]

Excellent work on the Cyclops', do we dare ask why you've so many track links?

[Merlon]

Excellent work on the Cyclops', do we dare ask why you've so many track links?

Thank you. I have been a military modeller from time to time, probably  have about five Panzer I's worth of 1/35 scale track links. Bought years ago in a model shop closing down sale, on the "it might come in useful one day" philosophy.

[Freddy]

Great job on them!

[snitcythedog]

So much great work on this thread
Missed this question.

The eternal question of course, how many trees is enough?

The eternal answer is that you build some more every year around the same time.  I add to my forests every year around the Christmas break.

[Merlon]

Thank you both for the kind words.
The quest for more vegetation and trees will continue.

So while tidying out a wardrobe. It appears I bought a Repressor from Forgeworld back in 2004, which -I have to be honest- came as a complete surprise to me.
Will come in useful for my Adeptus Arbites forces.
In due course will need to scratch build a heavy webber for Arbites use . Sorely tempted to figure out a blue and yellow Battenberg colour scheme.

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Brilliant stuff, what a find - the small line of hard(er) sci-fi 40k stuff from that period of Forgeworld is excellent (especially compared to such awful creations as the flying 1’s & 2’s or the rhino with church organ hat  ).

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain

[Rick]

Wow - that's the kind of lucky find that I keep hoping to find amongst my wargaming figures.
Are you sure you don't have the kind of Narnia-like wardrobe that opens into a Forgeworld stockroom, by any chance? 

[voltan]

Amazing find, it's always good to turn up something you've forgotten you had.

I do miss the days when Forgeworld produced all the conversion kits that just added to the modelling experience and expanded the background.

[Ragsta]

Love the kitbashing on the Cyclops mate. Enjoy the Repressor! I have def found projects I’ve forgotten I bought!

[Merlon]

Thank you.
Yes, back in the day FW kits were definitely inspirational, only key point you had to buy in their early life before the moulds wore out.

Are you sure you don't have the kind of Narnia-like wardrobe that opens into a Forgeworld stockroom, by any chance? 

Sadly not a Narnia capable wardrobe. But the box still contained the Techpriest, Inquisition purity seals & servo skulls and the Tarantula emplacement. I only wish I knew where the Sentinel Power lifter has gone to. Imperial Armour Volume two is sitting on the bookshelf with all the other volumes.


I made my own Tarantulas in resin some years ago, so I will probably sell the FW emplacement in due course. But the other bits will come in useful.

Had a play around in an art package and I think the Battenberg paint scheme for the Repressor has promise. Now whether my painting skills can deliver it is another matter.