Author Topic: Steamship Troopers 6mm! (Read 30586 times)

OSHIROmodels · « **Reply #60 on:** January 11, 2015, 11:24:14 AM »

Quote from: Dr. The Viking on January 11, 2015, 11:13:33 AM

Yes, come on - if anyone could do it, it would be you! ;-)

Well, I'd start it for sure

cheers

James

Argonor · « **Reply #61 on:** January 11, 2015, 01:19:37 PM »

Quote from: Dr. The Viking on January 06, 2015, 04:03:08 PM

And so the slightly painful but necessary debasing has begun. If anyone has a really good suggestion as to how this could be done in a way that is easy and salvages both the figures and the bases, please do speak up!

I'm probably too late on this, but whenever I want to remove a mini from a base, I apply two pliers (tænger) and twist the base slightly to make the mini snap from the surface of the base. Sometimes the base breaks, but I never damage the minis.

Given the shape of the integral bases on these, the method might work (if you are willing to risk the bases, though)?

Dr. The Viking · « **Reply #62 on:** January 11, 2015, 08:09:30 PM »

Bob the brain bug is done:

And then I found this:

I think it is ideal as a steam powered automaton!

The_Baron · « **Reply #63 on:** January 11, 2015, 08:29:39 PM »

Brain bug is disgusting! In the nicest way possible. This log keeps getting better! I think some Dystopian Wars tanks may fit in well too

von Lucky · « **Reply #64 on:** January 11, 2015, 08:32:18 PM »

Lovely stuff!

Jonas · « **Reply #65 on:** January 11, 2015, 09:01:43 PM »

Great stuff!!!

Dr. The Viking · « **Reply #66 on:** January 12, 2015, 05:02:57 PM »

Quote from: The_Baron on January 11, 2015, 08:29:39 PM

Brain bug is disgusting! In the nicest way possible. This log keeps getting better! I think some Dystopian Wars tanks may fit in well too

Hmmm. I have my reservations about Dysppotiona Wars. I don't like the very square computer style nor the diesalpunkish feel to some of the pieces.

Also, buying stuff that is specifically aimed at VSF feels wrong in stead of adapting something else or converting stuff. To me VSF has to be historical infantry with scratchbuilt/co opted stuff on the side.

Ah well, we're all feinschmeckers I guess.

Quote from: Jonas on January 11, 2015, 09:01:43 PM

Great stuff!!!

Thanks. You will be my guinea pig.

Dr. Zombie · « **Reply #67 on:** January 14, 2015, 02:25:59 PM »

Is this still alive or did we kill it last night?

I hope we didn't.

Dr. The Viking · « **Reply #68 on:** January 14, 2015, 05:20:06 PM »

Quote from: Dr. Zombie on January 14, 2015, 02:25:59 PM

Is this still alive or did we kill it last night?

I hope we didn't.

Alive and well. But not going to use future war commander. Working on a two page rules set myself.

Dr. The Viking · « **Reply #69 on:** January 17, 2015, 07:34:19 PM »

It's 'the weekend' so now I got some painting done.. didn't entirely finish anything but the way of 6 mm is not such that you finish single models. Rather you finish lots of models in one go as the whole thing is sort of factory assembly Ford style.

But! It is now 2015. To my mind the years have now started to have an almost science fictive ring to them.

2015 - a grim and dark account of survival in the nightmare hive world. Ah well, it's getting closer.

But. As custom has it, often times when entering a new year you make 'vows' or resolutions to do this and that, I don't know. I normally never lower myself to such things and didn't think I would this year (same as every year, James!) but since then I have decidedly done so anyway.

Indeed I have decided that my resolution for the Year 2015 will be that every project/miniature I paint will have a place to live when not in use.

This may not sound like much, but to me it is quite a change. I usually just dump my newly painted stuff in drawer or somewhere in the muck on my desktop and forget about them. So! How to start?

Well, seing that this is my first project of 2015 I was pleased to discover that some of our lab equipment comes in boxes that are perfectly suited for storage of my 6 mm VSF.

I bring you the Merck silica box. 20 cm x 20 cm. Accommodates 50 bases of VSF. I have done one for the British and one for the bugs.

Also I have had a new camera, but I haven't quite figured out how to use it. It was very cheap, but apparently still an improvement over my old camera, which was very old (10 years! Who'd have thought!).

Other than that I am at it painting. The desk top is overflowing with camel:

Enjoy life!

Prof.Witchheimer · « **Reply #70 on:** January 18, 2015, 10:34:11 AM »

Very unusual resolution

But I feel with you, it's not that easy to find a home for projects.

The bugs are looking very nice, looking forward to some action shots!

von Lucky · « **Reply #71 on:** January 18, 2015, 07:57:40 PM »

Nice painting.

There's nothing more annoying than spending all that time painting and then having miniatures chip and break because they were carried around in a sack.

Dr. The Viking · « **Reply #72 on:** January 18, 2015, 10:58:10 PM »

And there we have it - some camel and some garden guns. Gardner guns. Oh well.

British Camel Corps - used for surgical strikes against the bug menace.

British Gardner guns. Especially adapted to kill lots of bugs!

This means that my project has almost come to an end!

All I need to paint is a few more bugs, two cannon and a few Turks.

I suppose I could always just add more... now that I got my spirits up.

Mason · « **Reply #73 on:** January 18, 2015, 11:04:14 PM »

Those little fellas look bloody brilliant, mate!

But.....

Quote from: Dr. The Viking on January 18, 2015, 10:58:10 PM

This means that my project has almost come to an end!

....there you go, making the rest of us look bad again, you B@@tard!

6milPhil · « **Reply #74 on:** January 18, 2015, 11:11:16 PM »

Stunningly good... who makes them?

It's got to make more sense than hunting down OOP mongoose figs at mad prices, and you can have piles of them.

What are you doing for scenics? I quite like the look of some of the angel barracks pieces: http://angelbarracks.co.uk/generic.html

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