Category: 15mm sci-fi

Khurasan’s tentacles star beasts are on the menu today.  Those arms look really wormy, so I painted them worm brown.  Instead of a green slime beast, I also went with a white hairy thing with brightly colored feathers.  Those feathers make it look like these guys are wearing bright...

The big rocket served us well, and will continue to do so in the days to come.  But it’s been a project almost 4 months in the making, and I’m getting a little eager to move on to something more traditional.  S’okay, though, because it’s done enough for government...

This past weekend I finally had everything in place to introduce my son to the glories of Necromunda by way of 15mm figures and the great big ISS Major Tom.  The process was fairly painless as the boy has a firm grounding in the basics of the GW game...

More starship crew members today.  Ran out of heads so the twins on the left have to stay that way.  The guy with the big gun…that started life as a GW pistol in a holster.  The guy in the trenchcoat is the only one not from the ‘Law Officers’...

The starship is a bit retro, so the crew should also be a bit retro.  Hydra Miniatures makes a great line of figures that would be perfect, if they were 15mm.  This calls for a bit of conversion. The guys publishing  Laserburn figures make some great sort-of-Judge-Dreddish-but-not-really sorts that have...

I honestly can’t think of a use for these little guys (from Ground Zero Games), but had to pick them up and paint them for no other reason than they look like fun. My daughters claimed the other !Wall-e and !Artoo unit to paint for themselves.  Yes, my little...

December 21, 2012.  Time to throw out your old Mayan calendar and get a new one.  Let’s skip all the obvious jokes, okay?  If you want those, just read Twitter for five minutes – you’ll get every single one of them a few dozen times. On the spaceship front...

Here’s a nice open space for a shoot-out.  The ship’s gym comes complete with a futureball court and target, and a sparring/wrestling mat.  I’d hoped to do without the Necromunda style yellow and black striped caution marks, but darn it those patterns just plain work.  The boys at GW...

Tell me this bridge doesn’t evoke a TARDIS feeling.  That’s a basic hex base for a 28mm figure with cereal packet painted with dials, screens, and other controls.  I took the same style syringe cap used for the engines and stuffed it full of green and unpainted toothpicks.  The...

Every little detail added makes the rocket come alive just a little more.  This shot shows some successes in that department.  The engines are starting to look the part with bright green glowy cores surrounded by plastic casements. (Those are the tops of big syringes over a painted bamboo...