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Author Topic: 6mm VSF (Rifles+artillery)  (Read 12279 times)

Offline von Lucky

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Re: 6mm VSF (More Red Martian)
« Reply #45 on: October 25, 2016, 09:26:19 PM »
Simple and effective conversions. Keep it going.
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Offline Stroezie

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Re: 6mm VSF (More Red Martian)
« Reply #46 on: October 29, 2016, 10:11:46 PM »
And yet more red martian troops.
This time its two units of imperial guards,



The melee unit armed with shield and spear



And a ranged unit armed with pavise and radium rifles




Here's a pic with the donor figure so you can all marvel at my converting skills ;-)




The left over pieces of the pikes were used to arm a unit of regular rifles,
here's a sneek peek at that unit




More pics when they are decent and have some more paint on them.
Probably in a week or two as I'll be going camping with the kids next week so no painting then.

Cheers,
Stroezie.

Offline The_Beast

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Re: 6mm VSF (Imperial guards)
« Reply #47 on: October 30, 2016, 12:20:37 PM »
Two questions a quick run through an entire year of 6mm goodness didn't yield:

Did you explain what you used for the furrowed fields, and,

do you have opponents to share this with?

Doug

Offline 6milPhil

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Re: 6mm VSF (Imperial guards)
« Reply #48 on: October 30, 2016, 03:39:43 PM »
Top notch work.  8)

Offline Stroezie

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Re: 6mm VSF (Imperial guards)
« Reply #49 on: October 30, 2016, 09:11:54 PM »
Oh my it has been a year already hasn't it, how time flies... :D

The fields are simply corrugated cardboard painted with PVA and sprinkled with fine sand and then painted a few different shades of brown.It has been glued to a piece of plastic sheet to avoid warping.

As for opponents, sadly none so far. I have found a local club who play mostly Flames Of War. My plan is to join them under the guise of an early war French army and then to try and subvert some of them to VSF / Scifi lol lol lol

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Re: 6mm VSF (Imperial guards)
« Reply #50 on: October 31, 2016, 12:47:37 PM »
The fields are simply corrugated cardboard painted with PVA and sprinkled with fine sand and then painted a few different shades of brown.It has been glued to a piece of plastic sheet to avoid warping.

Would have been my first guess, though I'd have thought the 'mounds' would have been even larger. Other, other hand, I have seen some small corrugations in some cardboards.

Quote from: Stroezie
As for opponents, sadly none so far. I have found a local club who play mostly Flames Of War. My plan is to join them under the guise of an early war French army and then to try and subvert some of them to VSF / Scifi lol lol lol

How ungentlemanly! How devious! How delicious! ;->=

I have seen solo gamers going to this effort, but that seemed too sad for words.  ;)

Doug

Offline Stroezie

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Re: 6mm VSF (Imperial guards)
« Reply #51 on: December 13, 2016, 12:50:49 PM »
Well, I guess it's been a bit longer than 2 weeks but anyhoo...

Finally managed to take some crappy smartphone pictures of my 2 latest red martian units

A unit of rifelmen




and some float platform artillary





I popped 2 stands into the lightbox in an attempt to get you a better look





Here's a shot of the red martian host so far




And now I'll leave you with a small preview of the last unit of red martians which I'll be doing for now...

the thoat cavalry



I still need to sculpt on all of the features but you can at least see the basic concept.

Btw. anybody have a good idea what to do with a dozen or so 6mm decapitated horse heads? 

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Re: 6mm VSF (Rifles+artillery)
« Reply #52 on: December 13, 2016, 01:15:10 PM »
That's becoming quite the force  8)

No idea about the extra horse heads though  lol

cheers

James
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Offline von Lucky

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Re: 6mm VSF (Rifles+artillery)
« Reply #53 on: December 13, 2016, 08:29:23 PM »
Lovely additions.

I too can't think what to do with the heads. There's not many uses for horse trailers with two heads sticking out. (Unless you design some sort of racing game to get to the racecourse.)

Offline DivisMal

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Re: 6mm VSF (Rifles+artillery)
« Reply #54 on: December 14, 2016, 07:16:25 AM »
Dude, you're making serious progress! I really like it!

Offline The_Beast

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Re: 6mm VSF (Rifles+artillery)
« Reply #55 on: December 14, 2016, 09:10:00 PM »

No idea about the extra horse heads though  lol


I must be rapidly losing it, failing to hit 'post.' I had the solution, recalling The Godfather series of movies.

Leave them in 6mm beds as 'offers they can't refuse...'  ;)

Doug

 

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