Adventures in 15mm Scifi

[dijit]

I'd written off 15mm after dabbling in Flames of War, as being too small to paint well and too large to paint badly. Plus i had the feeling that God's own scale is 28mm (well really it's 1:1, but thats another story ). Then a friend (Phoenikuz) gave me a 15mm scifi mini from Critical Mass (the guy in the front row centre of the first pic) and on a whim I painted, enjoyed it and felt it painted well. Then I discovered one of my favourite sculptors PF has sculpted loads of 15mm across a range of lines, that didn't help too much either. The nail in the coffin for my objections was realising that the equivalent of 4' by 4' table only takes up half that at 15mm and can easily fit on a coffee table.

So I've spent a while looking at different lines and bought some bits from Brigade Models and CP Models together with a bunch from Wayswatcher. I've spent a month or so painting up these guys and aim to experiment in sci-fi skirmish gaming in 15mm.
Remember these guys are TINY.





The terrain is downscaled ikea huts from topo. Printed out 50% size (ie two pages per A4 sheet)
http://www.toposolitario.es/workshop/index.html

I've also started a little hover car, made out of two plastic spoons:

[smokezombie]

That hover car is super cute. Top work all round for 15mm

[jp1885]

Nice work - I especially like the idea of using spoons for he hover car 

[dijit]

Thanks the hover was one of those things that you think about as your cleaning your teeth on the way to bed and then have to send the next hour working on before you can actually get to bed

[workerBee]

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So I've spent a while looking at different lines and bought some bits from Brigade Models and CP Models together with a bunch from Wayswatcher. I've spent a month or so painting up these guys and aim to experiment in sci-fi skirmish gaming in 15mm.
Remember these guys are TINY.





The terrain is downscaled ikea huts from topo. Printed out 50% size (ie two pages per A4 sheet)
http://www.toposolitario.es/workshop/index.html

I've also started a little hover car, made out of two plastic spoons:

Can't see the images at work... very inconsistent which ones get through firewalls... will have to try again at home.

That said, tiny is when you play around with 6 mm skirmish.  Bingo chips for bases.  As long as you identify base (various methods tried) you can skirmish your heart a way in a cookie/biscuit tin easily.

Gracias,

Glenn

[Gunbird]

Nice to see my old stuff get painted up, and that grav car is a beauty.

[northtroll]

That hovercar is brilliant! I have a small amount of 15mm sci fi figs, mostly very old Traveler stuff. Now I know how to build some vehicles!

[hubbabubba]

I don't know how you dare post this here...

15mm skirmish, heresy!

Thou shalt not tempt me from the one true scale. Be gone with thine temptresses ways!

(lovely figs, great PJs, look forward to seeing more of them )

[Michka]

Those figures look great. I love the air car. What a terrific idea. Now I have to find some large serving spoons to make that in 28mm.

[dijit]

Thanks again all.

I don't know how you dare post this here...

15mm skirmish, heresy!

Thou shalt not tempt me from the one true scale. Be gone with thine temptresses ways!

I was frightened this would be the reaction

If anyone has any other bright ideas to make hover cars then please do share. Unfortunately I've not seen any plastic spoons big enough for 28mm as they'd have to be serving spoons.

[stone-cold-lead]

Nice work on those. The hover car looks great too.

[Conquistador]

Thanks again all.
I was frightened this would be the reaction

If anyone has any other bright ideas to make hover cars then please do share. Unfortunately I've not seen any plastic spoons big enough for 28mm as they'd have to be serving spoons.

Plastic (disposable) serving spoons for picnics?

Gracias,

Glenn

[dijit]

I can't say I've honestly ever seen plastic serving spoons. Perhaps I've just not looked hard enough. Anyway there's some more infantry painted, just needing their bases finishing and pictures taken.

[dijit]

Time for an update.
Here we the Spooner 3000 together with it's one careful ower - Repee.


And here we have a platoon of local Baronet troops:

[Gunbird]

I should have hired you to paint my stuff instead of selling it to you 

Loving that Spooner 3000, that came out really nice