Halo: A 28mm wargaming project: covenant troops cast finally.

[uti long smile]

Looks lovely mate

[Michka]

Beautiful. I love the courtyard set you've created here. Every time I see it I want to go build more terrain.

[Commander Vyper]

Beautiful. I love the courtyard set you've created here. Every time I see it I want to go build more terrain.

Still not finished mate, very much a work in progress, expect a more tactical board with slipways and walkways and more in keeping with the courtyard flavour. As soon as I've finished building my study, this will rock!

[myincubliss]

 

going to get masters made and get them cast for my own personal use, (with a few helmet and weapons options to boot)

I assume that when you say this you actually meant to type 'and a grunt for myincubliss if he asks reeeeeally nicely'? 

[Mr.J]

Yes I hope you might be thinking about selling a few, there is DEFINITELY a market for them...

[supervike]

Excellent stuff Commander!! That terrain really looks the part. 

[Commander Vyper]

Had a good old kitbashing session last night, 18 or so done.  Pictures later.

[myincubliss]

Pictures later.

Tease 

[Commander Vyper]

Always.

Basically as you know I love Si's System Trooper concepts, but sometimes for me the sculpts are a little too static and limited in respect to weapon choice, (Nothing I've not said to his face).

As Si gave me a stack of trooper dollies, (armless body master casts in a number of the latest poses), add to that separate arms, my own sculpted helmet casts and the Abberant games parts order of CSO Peacekeeper arms and a smattering of Heresy weapons and even a Eysian jump packs, (thanks Dwartist) and the odd GW rocket launcher or two I've been able to create what I reckon are a little more animated 'spartans' for my own purposes.

This one I did a while back and is currently with Dwartist for a little rumblepit Spartan paintjob as are my ODST squad, can't wait to get them back.  





A few pics from last night:



A number of crouching troopers (dolly bodies) armed with well abberrant arms and various helmets.


(Main pic back row middle four): Although the plan is to have magnetic backpacks to signify different weapon and armour loadouts, (including jumppacks) I've gone for a number of dedicated jump pack spartan poses too, hopefully I'll do enough to field two teams of four for a real death from above, firebird Red vs Blue match. (More pics of these are they progress).



Arm/weapon swop for the forearm, (still to GS etc..) custom helmet sculpt  (scout).





Sniper using abberant arm, heresy sniper rifle, my custom sculpt helmet, kneeling dolly and leader waving arm.



Missile launcher using kneeling body dolly, aberrant arm with GW missile launcher added and pointing leader arm. Final one, simple weapon and supporting hand swop.



And finally:

Started the tracked Warthog:



Just took the wheels off and mocked up, will need to bulk out the rears of the units so they sit right in the arches but hey it's a start.

Thanks for looking.

The Commander

[Mr.J]

Very nice conversions there Commander. The new poses are a lot more dynamic.

[zemjw]

Some pictures of the Micro Ops scenery over at the Dulce et Decorum Est blog - which isn't mine, which is why I'm not posting any photos from it

[Mr.J]

They look pretty good, but from what I've seen the minis don't really scale up well with standard 15mm, I'd love someone to correct me though. The scenery and some of the vehicles would be very useable though.

[Dentatus]

Those are ingenious conversions.

Very well done, sir.

[CyberAlien312]

Brilliant project, Commander Vyper!
Until today I had never seen this thread before, but I'm glad I found it! I'm not a big fan of Halo, but I have played Halo: Reach and I know enough about it to know you captured the atmosphere of the game(s) perfectly. I also admire your perseverance!

[Commander Vyper]

They look pretty good, but from what I've seen the minis don't really scale up well with standard 15mm, I'd love someone to correct me though. The scenery and some of the vehicles would be very useable though.

I have some. Vehicles and troopers more like 20mm tbh rather than 15mm.