More Movement On The Martian Front

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?  😈

Call Out The Guards!

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,
hese'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.

More Red Martians

Ok,

I've finally managed to base all of my cephalods and I have started on my red martians.

All units are/will be based on  either 3x3 or 1.5 x3 cm 2mm thick MDF

Ok already! pictures or it didn't happen.

The Cephalods

The red martians

These are the first 2 units of swordsmen, they are a mixture of Rapier miniature codes SEA001, SEA002 and IND002.

I started with these as they didn't need much by way of conversions, just cut down the spears of the SEA002's and filed them flat and pointy so I could paint them as swords. I also filed down some of the feathered headdresses so I could paint them as helmets, all in all I'm quite happy with how they turned out.

Here's a piccie of everything so far

Thats it for now, if you liked this, stay tuned for more.

Next up will be a unit of Imperial guards armed with pole arms/spears (ASR001 no conversion), a unit of Imperial guards armed with rifles and pavises/shields (TRJ002 cut back the long spears and bent and filed them down to resemble a kind of musket) and a unit of regular riflemen(ASR001 and TRJ004 trimmed down and bent the bows to look like handguns or cut away the bows completely and rearmed with muskets made from the leftovers of the spears of TRJ002)

When these are finished I'm going to try to convert ASR005 Assyrian cavalry to Thoat mounted cavalry( oh boy, how do I keep getting myself into these things?)

Cheers,

Stroezie.

What have I been Up to?

Ok, so I'm still waiting for the rest of the miniatures to arrive before I can do any more work on my red martians but I did manage to do 3 hero/leader figures

I redid their weapons and added a cape and gold choker to two of them and thats about it.
The minis are all from Rapier miniatures 2 sea people and a greek hoplite.

I kept thinking the flyers would also be great for someting like Flash Gordon so I cooked up some figures to try it out

Hmm, I think I smell yet another project coming.... ;D ;)

Btw. here are a few pictures of the new flyers now that they have some paint on them

I've decided to build one more flyer of each type but with a few small changes so that I can try to cast them in resin ( this will be a first for me so we'll see how it goes)

And last but by no means least I've painted some figures sent to me by Chris Hudson from the exelent Dispatches from the front blog( do check him out if you havn't already, lots of great stuff there) Thanks Chris!!

That's it for now, hopefully my figures will show up soon and I'll have more to show you.

Cheers,
Stroezie.

Another Martian Flyer.

While waiting for my Rapier miniatures "red martians" to arrive I decided to build myself another martian flyer.

In the Martian Empires rules there are two types of small martian flyers.
I had already made some scout flyers which are the smallest kind and have no onboard armament.
So now it was time to build the larger armed flyer.

Since I used a milk karton lid for the first kind of flyer I figured why not use another kind of lid for this build. I made the engines, control panel and fueltanks the same to tie the two kinds of flyers together.

But enough prattle on to the pictures

Together with the scout flyers

And some different angle shots for those of you who like to guess at the components used.

I'll even flip it over for you so you can look at it's belly button :-))

Thats it for now,

I'll post some more pictuses if I manage to put some paint on it later this week.

Cheers,

Stroezie

Red Martians Test

Basically what it says in the title.
I did a test piece to see if my idea of using Rapier miniatures Sea People as red martians for my 6mm Martian Empires project would work.



Its a very simple conversion, I snipped of their feathered headdress and slapped on a quick and dirty greenstuf helmet and then painted them like red martians, that's it.

Personally, I like them! What do you think?

Up close you can see how quick and dirty the helmets really are 

Oh well now that I know it works I may take a little more care with the following ones.



I've already ordered some more packs from Rapier's classical and chariot wars ranges which I think will work and I have bases coming in from Warbases so you can expect to see more pictures in the (hopefully) near future.

Cheers,
Stroezie.

Cephalod Invasion!!!

My Cephalod starter force for martian empires is finally finished!

All of these were sculpted and/or scratch built by me. For the past year I've been using these as dump sculpts meaning that I always have some dollies on my desk in various stages of being finished and then when I have some putty left over from sculpting other things I use it to work a little more on these. This way I don't burn out on making so many of the same sculpts and I also dont waste any green stuff, double win! ;-)

But enough chit chat, pics or it didn't happen!

I'll start with a picture of the whole force

 And now some close ups

The glorious leadership

The lowly grunts

A bunch of flyboys

The heatray artillary

The dreaded black smoke projectors

And a shot with a little bit of every thing for size/scale comparison

Ok, I hope you enjoy them as much as I do :-))

Now I can get started on the Green Martians and who knows maybe next year I might be able to actually play my first game of 6mm Martian Empires.

Cheers,

Stroezie.

More martian buildings.

An other quick update.

As I'm in danger of getting to "to many projects at once overload" I've decided to finish all the stuff thats been cluttering my workspace first before tackeling anything new so there will likely be a few more of these short posts in the near future.

So after getting side tracked by my 6mm Space Hulk build and the start of a 6mm greek fantasy project I finally got round to finishing the next 5 buildings for my village, I also made some more grain silos and a well.

Next I'd like to build some market stalls and add some scatter terrain.( but I'll have to finish some other bits 'n bobs first ;-)

Cheers,
Stroezie.

First Aeroneff.

Just a quick, small post.

I haven't had much time for hobby related stuff lately, work and my 2 little daughters have been keeping me busy.

I did manage to (almost) finish the first of 2 small Aeroneff patrol boats I plan on building, so I thought I would share it with you.

I'll start with some "nekkid" pictures for those who like to guess what parts were used ;-)

Here is a picture of Lt. Rockbottom and two troops inspecting the new ship to give you a sense of scale

But whats that, the paint is not even dry yet and those dastardly Prussians have hijacked the ship...

I still have to make a magnetised deckgun, gatling and nordfeldt gun to put on the ring up front and then I'll have to think of a name for this beauty.

Thats it for now, I hope to have more to show you all soon.

Cheers,

Stroezie.

Space 1889 here I come !!!

While waiting for my order from Iregular miniatures to arrive I started building a few vehicles for my  new Space 1889 adventures.

Now that my order has arrived and I've got some minis to go along with them I thought I'd share them with you.

The english force,

Can't have Victorian scifi without some of Vicky's own now can we?

The pinacle of British engineering, this huge walker is armed with a 4.7 inch naval gun and can carry upto 4 extra troopers who can shoot from the safety of  their firing platforms.

Ze nefarious Germans

The Machienen krieger is a modified GZG Fat boy infantry walker

I removed the optics and gave him a pickelhaube...

rebuilt his machine gun into a gatling gun...

added a boiler and smoke stack...

and replaced his left hand with a drill. 

here's a pic of all the VSF figures I have painted so far, should be enough for a few test games as I start hunting for a set of VSF rules I like.

And, as a taste of more things to come, Lt. Rockbottom was kind enough to show us a vehicle captured from yet another colonial power.

Built in the new Minerva factory in Antwerp these wheeled tanks are armed with either a gatling gun or the French made Reffye 85 mm cannon.

So what else can you expect to see in the (hopefully near) future?

Well for the colonial powers I'm looking to start with English, German, Belgian, French and Italians.

Each faction will have a core of: an officer, between 6 to 9 troopers, an artillery piece (gun,gatling or machine gun) and 1 or 2 vehicles. After that they'll get whatever I think would be cool for that particular nation.

For the Martians I bought a bunch of Mahdist and some renaisance sword and buckler and matchlock men to serve as Hill and Canal Martians respectively.

For Venus I havn't bought any indigenous peoples yet, but I have my eye on Microworlds exelent fantasy lizard men and maybe Onslaught Miniatures Avians for parrotmen.

And of course terrain, lots and lots of terrain ideas...         ...but then, knowing me, you knew that already didn't you. 

I'm still looking for a good set of VSF rules so if you have any recomendations please fire away in the comments.

Well time to start up the old aether propeller and be of,

cheers,

Stroezie.