Road to Scouring Sands - Jade Falcon Hovertanks

 After half a year of owning them in a grey sorry state i decided to bring my Fulctrums from Scouring Sands up to their Mech brethren (base dark green color).

Scouring Sands are one of the most exciting thing happening to Battletech lately. Its story driven ladder campaign for solo/coop play with predefined Opfor in form of my fav Jade Falcons - so I had to get it.

As a player you fight against them a Mercenary company, one of the core concept of Battletech gaming. I personally prefer House/Clan line units but Mercs are fun too.

As I started to base coat the rest came naturally, and then more...

Now I am in the proces of tabletoping them all. Slowly but Inevitably Scouring Sands will happen.

But big guys are to go... and finishing/decals/bases later...

Gellerpox Mutants

 Long overdue finished rest of the Gellerpox Infected (big guys and some gribbles left. I hope to finish whole group soon as they were gathering dust in semi colored state since I got them in 2018...

With kiddies from previous post

And some in action shots with models lying around

Lars Croft ambushed

Van Saars cleanup operation

Restart 24 some Munda

 Lets put some photos here for 2024 reactivation attempt.

I've finished some Van Saar models lately

More photos in next post but here is leader as a teaser. I am quite happy how he ended.

And some Gellerpox finished long time ago but photographed to motivate me to finish some more

Squid just want to Squidgame you!

Battletech in 2023

 After 30 years (yup, Ive got my Battletech starter with plastic miniatures in 1993) I bought me some Mechs again... (ok thats not technically true as Ive got mmetal Sagittaire around 2008 (?) and some Czech made bootleg metal Marauder around 2001 but this was my second Battletech starter after 1993 one).
And Catalyst did wonders with them! I love each new mechs - event Phoenix hawk - my least fav of the old set! I am not a fan of the game, but I love the world and the minis. And I plan to try Alpha strike - Battletech light.

And started to have some fun. Meet my awesome friend: The Awesome. 1st Marik Militia.

Waiting for decals and was testing with random ex GW decals I had at home.

His Family

And early WIP of OPFOR no 1: The Davion Guards

Not sure I will finish these soon as they were test mini when I waited for ordered modern Catalyst minis. Expect Then and now 30 years of plastic casting post soon.

And modern OPFORno2: Jade falcon early wips - Always wanted iconic MadCat since playing Mechwarrior 3 and Vulture is one of my top 3 favorite Mechs ever.

Grimdarkish terrain

 I like to get Kill team boxes when I can. As they are quite expensive I am buying those boxes that I want to play with both warbands. Mix of small warbands (my favorite project type lately) and great multi purpose terrain is a perfect mix. and if you want all of the contenta thanks to terrain value ts not that prohibitive. I've finished my Kill team: Moroch box terrain ahead of the miniatures. Funnily I am yet to finish any Kill Team warband out of the box (I am closest with beautiful Ork Kommando team from second edition Opening set Ostarius. So here are my Moroch pieces which consist of Imperial bunker, landing pad, radar station, radio antena (hardly visible) and walls, plus some random pipes (GW pipes fit most of their sci fi terrain) to spice things up and look more natural (I love my terrain to look like it has a purpose - not standing randomly)

First batch is with (almost) finished Ork Kommandos I have with various stages of WIP but those two are almost ready to be called finished.

The terrain itself is very fun and easy to paint project. Easy to paint paint, not many skull ornaments so very universal and easy to put together. ANd most importantly sturdy. Highly recommend if you can pay the price.

Second batch is really first photo shot of my Kill team type cultists - but those guys are really from Blackstone Fortress (that explain the bases). Only some of them are usable in Kill Team as a basic lasgun cultist plus grenadier, sergeant and Commisar.. Ive build all specialist types but they are still grey plastic. 13 more plus beastmen. Only Ogre is almost finished. They will return when I finaly will finish him.

Yay - Comm tower in the background.!

I really like this terrain pieces- Will show you Bunker next time - That will be  frontier outpost in my games of any sci fi  type. SO far they served as a base of Necromunda gaming.

Chicken's 9

 Last week was a really bad time, so Ive decided to make post to take my mind of the outgoing hell and photograph some miniatures at last.

Meet  Chicken's 9 my first finished Stargrave crew (I am yet to play as I write this lines). Its obviously starting crew and crew that started strangely. I wanted to make some kind of Trailer Park Boys characters for NPC and low level scum. And these boys were born!

They are quite different builds made from Frostgrave plastics joined together by common element of substance abuse.

First came Rick and Julian 

Gnoll based Ricky was fun and easy build with armour added for a full blown Trooper character with heavy drinking problem

Accompanying him is Julian character that was random star biker  type that was meant to be random starport thug till I made them a Bubbles by accident after finally (damn brexit) getting Stargrave plastics. As both of his larger friends had an alcoholic beverages adding him a six pack of star beer seems natural. I looked at those guys and knew that they were good!

In gaming terms they are three Troopers/Sentries with automatic weapon and a some kind of armor but without fancy equipment.

 And I liked them so much that I decided to make full blown crew of shady characters

. Ive decided to give them boys some extra with drug dealer styling and this guy was born, pistol armed ratty rogue with mysterious suitcase.. he may be a cracker or a hacker or just plain runner.. lets say he is as expendable as multi purpose :> Model is Ghost archipelago crewmen with skaven head and Stargrave arms.

Rest of the crew is more random and not abusing (I might went with full 8 abusers in the future and repurpose them to a full blown band but for now they are accompanied by strange alien twins

Stargrave crew (at least at the beginning of its career) needs a ligher armed troopers  with some degree of specialization so here are Hacker specialising in Windows :) and chiseller. Some say they are bunch of thieves but nobody catched them so doesn't count! Pair is practically vanilla SG crew models - those box are very cool.

But I needed more competent and elite specialist so by having fun with components. So meet ashigarish alien mysterious machinegunslinger with no name. He is made from Frostgrave deamon infantry and Stragrave arms (everything can be made sci fi with those arms and there are plenty spares in the box.

And he is accompanied by Doggo commando 

I wanted him to have a tie in with Trailer Park boys so I made him space gopnik in sports trouser..

So this is Chickens 8th but he need second in commend. 

Sinister Dr Monkey was build by pure accident but this space archeologist/tomb robber works well with an unsavory crew. He was built by combining Wargames atlantic halfing I got for making wargaming survey and Frostgrave arms with Necromunda Arbites silly giant gun. I love him. He might lead his own rougish crew in the future.

And finally, The Man (chicken) himself. Captain Sinister Chicken.

Much more heroic character than his fellow crewmen but in hard times one have to recruit based on availability not on a merit and great cv..

Truly a band of brothers :>