15mm "Kilrathi" walker, hoverbike, VTOL and terrain

[Agis]

Thanks folks!

Awesome, Nice colour scheme as well. I used to love wing commander. So how tall are these Kilrathi. In the game I recall them towering over humans, possibly 18mm to a humans 15mm.

The minis are indeed on the bigger side. I will post some scale comparison pics over the weekend!

[Khurasan Miniatures]

Thanks folks!

The minis are indeed on the bigger side. I will post some scale comparison pics over the weekend!

Actually they are exactly the same size as other newish 15mm figures.  For intance here's a picture that Mark posted when he was still running Dropship Horizon (Felid is on the right):

[Agis]

Just measured the average Felid: 16,5mm.

Pics as promised over the weekend (actually A LOT of pics) 

[Agis]

OK, more on the soon finished Kilrathi themed 15mm SF army.


Shapeway "Dreamfoundry" upscaled kitty pointy fighter; used as a Light Attack VTOL


Kilrathi ground forces with Drahlti MkIV. (upscaled version by Dreamfoundry)


Scale shot from left to right: Peter Pig modern IDF, Khurasan Felid, FoW WWII Germans

more: http://www.adpublishing.de/html/wing_commander.html

[Grimmnar]

Agis,

Looking fantabulous as always. Always nice to look over a great line of minis when they have an equally matching paint job done to them.
About the fighter though. The Shapeway's seller shows several ships for sale. Which one did you get and which material? And how much of a pain was it to prep for painting?
http://www.shapeways.com/model/314192/upscaled-kitty-pointy-fighter-g3.html?li=shop-results&materialId=60
http://www.shapeways.com/model/314200/upscaled-kitty-fighter-g4-x-9.html?li=shop-results&materialId=60

Grimm

[Agis]

Thnaks!

I had frosted detail.
Not sure which kitty however, at the time I ordered there was only one big Drahlti.

The material is a real pain, you have to wash it very thouroughly, after that some additional sanding to get the print lines away.

[Grimmnar]

Thnaks!

I had frosted detail.
Not sure which kitty however, at the time I ordered there was only one big Drahlti.

The material is a real pain, you have to wash it very thouroughly, after that some additional sanding to get the print lines away.

Size would tell the kitty. I think the only difference i see on his site is a slight size increase and the other doesn't have a certain material option.
Baring how they look with the 15mm, how does it scale in the WC world? Spot on for 15mm or would it work better with another scale? Afraid my WC knowledge is shaky at best.

Grimm

[MrHarold]

That looks awesome man! Love that VTOL!!

[Agis]

Baring how they look with the 15mm, how does it scale in the WC world? Spot on for 15mm or would it work better with another scale? Afraid my WC knowledge is shaky at best.

A Drahlti from WC III is 30m long:
http://www.wcnews.com/ships/wc3dralthi.shtml

My model is 8cm long, so way to small (30cm in 1/100). But bearing in mind that most flyer look too big when in the right scale, I am perfectly happy.

BTW - my model is the "upscaled kitty pointy fighter g3". 

[Grimmnar]

A Drahlti from WC III is 30m long:
http://www.wcnews.com/ships/wc3dralthi.shtml

My model is 8cm long, so way to small (30cm in 1/100). But bearing in mind that most flyer look too big when in the right scale, I am perfectly happy.

BTW - my model is the "upscaled kitty pointy fighter g3". 

So you got the bigger model. It puts it in the 8 to 9cm range. Your saying to scale it right in the 15mm range that model would have to be at least 3 1/2 times bigger?
Looking back at your pics it looks near good now. A bit on the small side to the 15mm minis that are posing with it.
I would agree that a model 3 to 4x bigger would look too big in that scale then. Strange aint it how that works? :-)

Grimm

[YPU]

I find that with flying aircraft, especially ones on reasonably high stands such as these you get a really wonky reverse perspective effect. We are used to aircraft in the sky being tiny things to our eyes. However since we look down on the board the aircraft are closer and thus appear relatively larger then the miniatures. When fielding relatively small aircraft with 6mm miniatures I find they look perfectly OK as they are flying high, they should look small, or so my brain figures I think.

[Agis]

I am very happy with the size it has right now, its SF, who cares about correct scale anyway...
 

[Agis]

Kilrathi landing pad (resin building from Critical Mass games with printed roof) with Drahlti MkIV (upscaled version by Dreamfoundry). The printed roof is from Dave Graffam Paper terrain, I simply added the Kilrathi symbol with Photoshop and faded it in. It was then printed, laminated and glued to a sheet of plasticard. After that some weathering here and there and a matt varnish.


and in more detail:


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[underfirewargaming]

That is some really inspiring stuff you have done their!, keep up the great work man!

[MrHarold]

Wow... beautiful and amazing idea with the printed roof!

Would you mind elaborating a bit?  How did you laminate the paper?  How about gluing to the plasticard?

Thanks!