Blacksmith's sci-fi 15mm. A Tavshar Prime from Loud Ninja.

[blacksmith]

Cheers Jagannath. Yes those are loverly tiny guys and I specially like those helmets as well.

[Battle Brush Sigur]

Lovely, lovely, lovely. These are the Khurasan Greys, right? Did you get crabmen/snakemen from their range as well?

[blacksmith]

Lovely, lovely, lovely. These are the Khurasan Greys, right? Did you get crabmen/snakemen from their range as well?

Yes they are. For snakamen I bought some from Critical Mass now owned by Ral Parth Europe.
Cheers,

[Oldben1]

Great work Blacksmith.  I love all the 15mm miniatures on your blog.

[blacksmith]

Great work Blacksmith.  I love all the 15mm miniatures on your blog.

I appreciate it Oldben1! I've just uploaded some more pics with the in action in my blog:









BTW, I know other fora where pictures are shrinked automatically. I suppose that would be very easy to do by the forum managers and it would help a lot to users like me who are totally dumb with computers.

[Oldben1]

Nice work!

[Ockman]

Man, that is so cool!
Is it supposed to be XCOM?

[blacksmith]

Man, that is so cool!
Is it supposed to be XCOM?

It is! And it's all the in my wardrobe already, miniatures, terrain, rules.... but regretfully the project will need to almost stop until summer because of real time issues (job mainly).
Cheers,

[blacksmith]

I put all my miniatures together and played the Laserburn scenario Assault on buker 17. Full report on my blog: https://javieratwar.blogspot.com.es/2018/03/assault-on-bunker-17.html

Few pics:






Cheers,

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nice write up.

That brings back memories.

[blacksmith]

I have finished a few more minis for my X-Como project. This time Mutons and Chrysalids.
Mutons


Size comparative with an X-Com trooper


Chrysalids with their victims


X-Com soldiers next to a Heavy Weapon Platform or unmanned tank


More pics and comments at my blog: https://javieratwar.blogspot.com/2018/10/mutons-and-more.html

[Daeothar]

Ah... X-com. One of my all-time favourite PC games. I played through the original game dozens of times back in the nineties. At first I even used a special save disk, saving each tactical and geoscape turn, so I could always pick up there when things went south during a mission. later on, I found more enjoyment playing through a campaign 'Iron Man', with no intermediate saves at all.

I managed to get my original copy to play on my present day PC using a shell program, but I could not get into it anymore. The tedium of having to allocate each and every item for each and every mission, the glitchy controls (probably because of the virtual environment I was running the game in), and lack of the original music really put me off.

Some memories should probably just not be revisited, but they do remain fond!

For the longest time, I've thought about recreating the game on the tabletop; the setting lends itself perfectly after all. But as with so many projects, it never left the planning stage, even though I did acquire some miniatures for it (Heresy Scifi Troopers for the X-Com operatives and some Griffin(?) Greys as Sectoids).

But your choice of miniatures seems pretty spot on too! 15mm does give one much more flexibility, especially in terrain, and your table there, is very reminiscent of the PC graphics, especially the fields in the upper right corner, and the house too. The Droid Tri-fighter is suitably alien to work as a UFO, and the Terminator flyer is a really good stand-in for an X-Com Avenger.

Great work; please keep it up!

[blacksmith]

Deothar many thanks for all your kind comments.
I think the latest version of PC game X-Com gives you all that old vibe in the game but without the hassle of unfriendly controls and such.

I played it last year and enjoyed it a lot. Actually, I played and finished for two and half times ;-)

[Ockman]

Wow.

Wow, wow, wow!

As a huge fan of both XCOM and 15mm, I am brutally impressed!

[blacksmith]

Wow.

Wow, wow, wow!

As a huge fan of both XCOM and 15mm, I am brutally impressed!

Thank you!