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15mm, Infinity, Necromunda, Painting, Rebel Minis, Rogue Stars, Sci Fi, Sculptor PF Collection, SF Skirmish

Pangalatic Legion has Landed: PF sculpts from Rebel Minis

September 4, 2018 Jimboba 4 Comments

Recent painting has primarily been focussed on fantasy and/or ploughing through several of the big miniature boardgames acquired via Kickstarter over the last few years. However my fondness for 15mm sci-fi remains as does my appreciation for the work of PF.

Several years ago I made it a bit of a mission to collect up 15mm sci-fi that PF has sculpted – no mean feat as he has worked for various manufacturers over the years in the US, UK and elsewhere. At the time I managed to hunt down most of the available offerings but have not as yet managed to complete them all.

I did however, spurred on by a fellow 15mm sci-fi fan’s work on the 15mm Sci-Fi Gaming Facebook group, get around to painting these fine examples of PFs work. Amongst my favourites. (If you want to see other PF sculpts that I have painted search with the tag Sculptor PF Collection.)

They are the Pangalactic Legion available here from Rebel Minis in the US. A organised mercenary force made up of numerous (albeit all humanoid) aliens, bursting with fine detail, a lot of character and some great poses.

Painting-wise I was looking for a UN type of colour scheme but I’m not convinced that painting the guns white works or not – they look unfinished at a glance. Anyways.

First Squad

Note: One of the heavy weapons is an interloper from Rebel Minis ‘Scourge’ range – needed him to balance up the squad sizes and still avoid duplicates. Continue reading Pangalatic Legion has Landed: PF sculpts from Rebel Minis →

15mm, Infinity, Necromunda, Oddział Ósmy, Painting, Post Apocalypse, Pulp Adventures, Rogue Stars, Sci Fi, SF Skirmish

Rather Special: 15mm Spec Ops from Oddział Ósmy

July 21, 2016 Jimboba Leave a comment

Back to some 15mm. And sci fi to boot.

I’ve already painted up some miniatures from Oddział Ósmy – namely some 15mm insurgents (sci fi modern) and some rather cool vampires, also modern/sci fi. All from a rather large order from Assault Publishing whilst taking advantage of an attractive special offer a while back.

Below are some of the Special Forces types. Main take-away points;

Brilliant sculpting and casting
Full of character
Scale on the ‘larger’ size but nothing drastic
‘Largish heads’ to body size, but needed to squeeze in that extra character
Pewter of a ‘harder’ than normal quality making cleaning a bit more time consuming and blunt-inducing.

Just finishing off a dozen more of the insurgents. Photos to follow soon.

15mm, 15mm.co.uk, Alternative Armies, Infinity, Ion Age, Necromunda, Painting, Rogue Stars, Sci Fi, SF Skirmish

Mini Update: Sci Fi tech from the 15mm Ion Age

June 21, 2016 Jimboba 1 Comment

Another “in-betweener”. I’d been painting mostly fantasy lately so I slotted in this fellow from the Ion Age range from GBS also of 15mm.co.uk and other great miniature lines. Duxis Pilot, Male, with control unit and Angis Pistol.

A useful and generic enough miniature that could slot in to any sci fi environment. I didn’t paint up the Duxis Drone yet that he comes with as he’s stand-alone (IMHO). He’s related to these fellows who I’ve had for decades but are responsible for sparking off my more recent foray into 15mm Sci Fi over the last few years – so responsible for a lot of money and time and lead!

28mm, Fantasy, Fantasy Skirmish, Frostgrave, Hobby Help, Infinity, Mordheim, Oathsworn Miniatures, Painting, Studio Giraldez

Appealing for Non-Metallic Metal assistance: Oathsworn Haggis

February 11, 2016 Jimboba 5 Comments

I am not happy with the way that my first (proper) attempt at NMM (Non-Metallic Metals) is turning out so I thought I’d appeal to the wider community to any assistance/pointers/comments to help me move on with this.

This is a very nice model from Oathsworn and I wanted to do it justice (maybe NMM isn’t the way to do that but more on that later).

Stage 1: This is the first run. WIP – Conclusion: Okay.

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Infinity, Necromunda, Painting, Sci Fi, SF Skirmish, Terrain, Wargame-Model-Mods

Shedding some light on your terrain (Spiral Out of Control part 2)

January 17, 2016 Jimboba Leave a comment

Not really a ‘new’ topic but my earlier post got a little out of hand so I thought I’d splinter this off on its own with a little more focus.

I mentioned the Wargame-Model-Mods Kickstarter that I modestly jumped on recently and thought that I should post a few photos of my purchases in ‘isolation’ of all the other clutter I have a tendency to flood a table with.

I’m sure the addition of ‘light’ to a game table will appeal to many especially anyone interested in Infinity or Sci Fi stuff. So here is my stash from the afore mentioned KS;

IMG_6650_15mm_miniatures — FYI, floor are titles from the Battle System Sci Fi terrain set.

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15mm, 28mm, Battle Systems, Dropzone Commander, Gaming/Battle Mats/Tiles, Hawk Games, Infinity, Necromunda, Rogue Stars, Sci Fi, SF Skirmish, Terrain

How terrain building can spiral out of control…

January 14, 2016 Jimboba 19 Comments

(I apologise in advance – a much more wordy and pic heavy post than usual.)

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – I’m not in this for terrain building. I’m not that good at it. I do enjoy it but I do get bored and sidetracked easily. And I start resenting it when I realised it has taken me down a rabbit hole and eaten up time I’d rather be using damaging my huge lead pile.

But I do agree with the premise that GOOD TERRAIN IS IMPORTANT. “We spend hours painting detailed miniatures for people to look at, then why not also the terrain the are played on?” More importantly, your little guys need somewhere nice to live…

Thinking aside (who needs that?) I decided I wanted to make some sci fi terrain for some interior skirmish actions. I’ve plenty stuff for sci fi habitations, colony bases, post-apoc shanty towns and the type of stuff you’d use for Infinity (cargo containers galore). Even enough for a small city using, amongst other things, Dropship Commander card terrain which works very well with 15mm btw.

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