Must have chaps for a small but challenging skirmish force. I’m a sucker for tie-ins. Predator-like hunters from Khurasan Miniatures.
Category Archives: Sci Fi
In honor of the new Doctor
First lot of pics of my recent efforts of taking photos of miniatures. Despite researching this I still can’t get a decent field of depth.
As to the new Doctor. Out on a limb here – because I don’t know what folk are saying because of my hermit like existence – but IMHO – it’s rubbish! We are about 5 or 6 episodes in and there has been one ‘not bad’ episode. The rest range from pretty poor to rubbish.
Don’t get me wrong – I think Peter Capaldi makes a great Doctor (potentially anyway) but the story-lines and some of the writing are terrible. Some of the dialogue can be sharp but come on, the rest is pretty pants.
Anyway, 15mm Doctor Who and assistant here. Obviously my take on a ‘future’ Doctor with smoking jacket (how un-pc) and hat. He’s from Bluemoon Manufacturing’s range of Vampire Hunters. The assistant (we’ll call her Amy) is a not-Walking Dead survivor from Khurasan Miniatures. The Tardis is a thrown together papercraft thing (with caved in roof because the thing was so fiddly).
Well, if your gonna mess with the good Doctor, why not a new disguise for the Tardis. The privé disguise could work both ways – “No way am I going in there!” or “My God I’m bursting”.
15mm Automated baddies
Everyone needs some mindless yet lethal robot-types to face up to. These guys from 15mm.co.uk are clearly that. I’ve had some for a while and put off painting them because, well, they looked too much like skeletons for my tastes. Forget a cream coloured scheme for these or they might as well join the undead army.
Anyhow, I thought a blue metallic finish might combat this but the skulls were still too skull like. They needed more. So these baddies are now from the good old USofA. (Sorry cousins but the over-kill on some of the support weapons screamed American OTTness.)
15mm Sci Fi bonanza ommission. Jasmine Throne Foreign Battalions
Took too many shots at the same time and forgot to post these boys from Khurasan. They are from the Jasmine Throne Foreign Battalions range which is inspired – a host of assorted aliens joined together in a united cause. I’ve not gone down the uniform route with these so I can happily mix and match with other ragtag bounty crews and forces.
Compared to the Critical Mass alien crews they are pretty large – but then, they are all aliens, and who is to say what’s right and what’s wrong?
15mm sci fi Bonanza follow up
When I took a batch of shots for the Sci Fi Bonanza some simply did not come out well at all. Far too blurry. If anyone can point me in the right direction for setting up a Canon G2 Powershot for taking miniature photos I’d be grateful. Get a bit bored of tinkering with all the setting variables.
These are re-shots of some of the post apocalyptic warriors from Khurasan Miniatures. Great figures for their scale and full of character. Love’em.
15mm sci-fi bonanza. Some oldies.
Loyalty is my middle name. And it pained me to find these poor forgotten souls mixed up with some 20mm Dark Future miniatures. I’ve had them for well over 20 years. Traveler figures. I’m sure the chap on the far right was a special limited edition that came with a Traveller rule box set.
Well now they are a group of mid-tech, upstanding (as opposed to untrust-worthy), adventurers. Couple more to follow. Transport is a Tango’ed Hotwheels (could be Matchbox – when I say one or the other is could be either).
