Jagannath's 15mm Sci Fi (More additions to the space opera cast! 7/4/20)

[Ockman]

He certainly blazed a trail - between him and the work over on Tales from Farpoint (before the majority was deleted) I find a huge chunk of my inspiration.

Yeah, Tales from Farpoint sure has been a huge inspiration as well. I think Richard still has a backup blog.

http://talesfromfarpointbackupblog.blogspot.se/2015/02/thats-lot-of-lead_16.html

[spacecowsmith]

Thanks for the mention!

I've actually just moved all the content back onto my original Tales From Farpoint blog!

All the best!

[Jagannath]

Boss - just heading over to check it out. One of my favs.

[Jagannath]

Hiya folks - gosh, can't believe it's been that long since I updated this thread! I feel like I've been painting as much Sci-fi as fantasy, but obviously I haven't finished as much. Here's a wee bit of terrain I knocked up with a GW Kastellan robot I got on eBay



Nothing too exciting - I've definitely gone overboard on the moss pads! - but he was quick and easy, nice bit of scatter terrain.

[Andym]

Wow! That GW Robot really fits the bill of an archaic, rusty robot! Good call!

I don’t know how flat the face plate/visor is, but have you tried gluing cut up clear plastic, like the stuff you get from blister packets, in there. You just score the hell out of it with a knife in all different directions then just cut it to fit and glue it in.



Or even just cut wee bits of it off and glue it in the corners....

[Ockman]

I love repurposing, this is awesome!

On using 40K in 15mm, I'm thinking about getting some Tyranid Rippers and Hormagaunts to use as alien horror, a Necron flyer (Doom Schyte?) as a 15mm dropship and loads of other things (like an imperial knight as a titan).

Still, I have more minis and terrain to build and paint before I can even ponder buying GW's plastic crack.

[Jagannath]

Thanks gents

@Andy - those wrecked bits are a HUGE inspiration for me, I need to go BIGGER for my next wreck robot (wish I could afford a Forgeworld titan to wreck!)

I'll try that blister pack method, that's a good idea.

@Ockman - thanks. The Kastellan is a really nice (but expensive!) kit, works really well in 15mm too.

I often look at the Necron flyer, flipped over and scrapped it would make a great buried, crashed starships of the ancients. Crashed ancient stuff is the best - I really like it for fantasy too!

I've been thinking recently of branching my sci-fi into two strands - one much more science-fantasy, inspired by stuff like Hyperlight Drifter







So ancient, massive, ruined stuff is high on my agenda...

[Andym]

Is that a big robot sword/hand/stuff hidden by jungle? That be cool! you’ve soooo got to do that!

What about getting a toy Iron Man hand or even mask and covering it in foliage? They’d be HUGE compared to 15mm stuff. Even those cheap Poundland toy swords would work for that!

Man! The possibilities!......

Would you do the water part of those pictures too?

[Ockman]

Wow, those screenshots are great, they really tell a story. I really have to recommend Horizon Zero Dawn, it shares a lot of the techno-fantasy feeling with high-tech remains littering the landscape.

[Jagannath]

Yeah it's really great Hyperliht Drifter

@Andym - I'd love to to make a terrain board like that , funnily enough I've been looking at costume masks and helmets trying to find something. I'd love to make the it part submerged - I think that would look ace.

@Ockman - I did play it actually, but didn't love the game that much. It's a very cool setting though - the giant crawly mech you see up on the mountain range is ace.

[Ockman]

I wasn't fully into it until I'd played about a third of the game, but after that I got obsessed! Then again I loved the storytelling and the main character. In my opinion it was the best game of 2017.

On my current campaign world (Golgotha Prime) I'm playing with the idea of multiple ancients and catastrophic events. Something like an old alien race finding ancient high-tech remains long ago, shielding the world by cloaking the entire system. Something happened that erradicated that alien race which also disrupted the cloaking field intermittently, until it finally failed.
Unity (or whatever the human-alien federation will be called) sent a scientific mission to this "appearing/disappearing star", shortly followed by a larger colonization fleet. Due to other events around that time, FTL-travel ceased to work for multiple centuries and no communication came through. When FTL became available again, new missions were sent to Golgotha Prime, only to find ruins of a technologically advanced human civilization (the remnants of the scientific mission and colonization effort), probably destroyed in some kind of civil war.

[zrunelord]

Nice work as always Jagg,
You remind me of a rogue trader era GW model which they did when 40k came out, consisting of a group of  beaky plastic Marines clambering up a destroyed titans leg and a pic I saw once of the head of the statue of liberty up to its chin in  sand  in a desert like earth.
Easter Island heads but with Star Trek Borg parts would be interesting to do also.

Keep it
Z

[Jagannath]

Thanks mate - I know the diorama you're talking about, it's great!

I'm going to buy a few Antares Ghar battle suits I think and have another crack at this with 6mm in mind though (I've got big 6mm plans this year!)...

[Reed]

(I've got big 6mm plans this year!)...

I'd rather prefer you'd stay focused on 15mm, please  I don't wanna be tempted by another scale

[Jagannath]

I'd rather prefer you'd stay focused on 15mm, please  I don't wanna be tempted by another scale

Haha - well the 15mm sci-fi is sort of a never ending project, but I want to try some really alien stuff (weird colour groundwork, science-fantasy, ancient wreckage) and I think 6mm might be the way to go so I can make some 'epic' terrain (not 6mm skirmish mind, more like low element count mass battle.... we'll see).