Hostile Enviroment Exploration Unit (HEEU), Korstanti Rim

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The crew, and exploration vehicles, of the USN Survey Ship 'Tindalos', currently on station surveying planets along the Korstanti Rim on the edge of current known space.

The Hostile Enviroment Exploration Unit (HEEU) are equipped here with both light and heavy VAC-Suits, for various duties outside the protected enviroment of the ship and hab-domes.



Personnel in Heavy VAC-Suits (nicknamed 'hard-suits' or 'hard-ass' by USN Personnel) for various duties requiring less mobility, but enhanced protection.




Personnel in Light VAC-Suits (nicknamed 'squishys' by USN crews) ready to conduct operations of limited duration on a hostile planet surface.




USN Marines in Heavy VAC-Suits armed with 10mm M11 ACRs. These act as mission security for the research teams and provide protection from any hostile encounters.




USN Ratings in light VAC-Suits, armed with M11 ACRs, are able to conduct security operations or assist the research teams as required.




'Trojan' Combat Security Droid Section, able to provide heavy firepower should it be required. These are often left on ship in stand-by mode and rarely used.




The first vehicle in the unit is from the Magellan series of exploration vehicles. The tracked chassis comes in a number of variants and can even be modified by the HEEU teams onboard their exploration vessel in response to conditions they encounter. The Magellan series has been widely adopted by HEEU teams due to its reliability and ease of maintenance. This particular vehicle is known as the 'Marconi' pattern and is the main command and control vehicle, housing all the HEEU communication equipment and remote control systems.




The second Magellan is configured in the standard carrier variant. This vehicle carries eight personnel in heavy vacsuits for prolonged operations outside the vehicle. The vehicle itself is equipped with a simple comms system for relay to the command module but does have a simple remote guidance system linked to the exploration ship in case of emergency.




The final Magellan in use with this HEEU is in the 'Darwin' configuration. This is the primary research and analysis vehicle, and is once again fitted with light comms in order to carry an array of testing and sampling equipment





All 15mm models from GZG Games.

[Hauptgefreiter]

Great work!

[Commander Vyper]

Agreed, lovely paintjobs, GZG stuff never fails to please, just wish Jon would move into the 21st century with a decent website with good pictures of product.

The Commander

[Westfalia Chris]

I love how your work on those manages to blend the "Space: 1999" flair with a military look. Great work on the tanks in particular.

[Commander Vyper]

I love how your work on those manages to blend the "Space: 1999" flair with a military look. Great work on the tanks in particular.

Now if he just did the orange suits with yello helmets that would work soooooo well.

Moon Base alpha next?

[Calimero]

Lovely work. I like the bright colors… and those whites are pretty amazing too

[dwartist]

Excellent!

[Mr.J]

Wow! Very nice.

[bandit86]

Very, very nice!

[Wirelizard]

Those are great!

I really have to get our local gaming group back into 15mm SF, we had a good run a few years ago but there's so much cool stuff out there now for it.

[clanmac]

Now those are ace. Love the crisp colours, and the vehicles especially.

[Haarken]

Absolutely gorgeous, the colours are just so bright and crisp and the whole force just looks so coherent.

[gamer Mac]

they are lovely
Th colours are great but the white on the vehicles is great

[Doomsdave]

Wonderful work.  What ruleset are these to be used with?

[Simlasa]

so very nice!
Pulling me several steps farther towards starting up some 15mm... but I must resist...