The Dare Sisters

A slightly closer look at the recently released Dare Sisters from Crooked Dice.

Technical

A Technical is normally defined as an improvised fighting vehicle based on a non combat vehicle.

The classic Technical is a Toyota pick up. Imprint Moderns (through Empress Miniatures) do a range of Toyota Technicals armed with a range of weapons (ZSU-23 twin flak cannon, point fifty HMG and recoiless rifle).

The Dare Sisters neutralise a threat to Dare Plane Delta.

Agents Blue and Red investigate a suspicious vehicle.

Sky Pirates advance, with their technical support.

The model is simple to assemble (body, four wheels,grill to protect the back of the cab plus the multi part Zsu-23) and looks the part. It could do with a set of wing mirrors and windscreen wipers.

I will be buying some more of these.

The Man From 2000

Tonight - The Man With The New Glasses.

New glasses this week, so I thought I would see if I can make a better job of painting miniatures.

So, I dug out the undercoated Man From 2000 figure from Crooked Dice and finished painting him.

I still have problems resolving down to the pupil size, but it is a notable improvement. Now I need to get some new paint brushes.

The body is painted Vallejo Buff, shaded with Vallejo English Uniform. Shoes are Vallejo Black Grey, hair Vallejo Desert Sand  with a GW Gryphonne Sepia wash. Face is Vallejo Flesh Base shaded with GW Scorched brown.

Saurians

Well the good weather continues, but I did get a lot stuff undercoated and the wombles received a coat of Army Painter Ultramarine Blue.

Here are the nearly finished Crooked Dice Saurians:

The Saurian Head Sprue has three different heads, a very alien one,a more human one and a very alien one with a face shield. I  used two Armed Minion bodies and the nearly ubiquitous MF3K body.

The Armed Minion's guns were modified by removing the end of the gun and pinning the dish from the Envoy's 'gun' on the end to give a more Sonic style weapon.

The fit of the feet to the base needs looking at.

Ultra Vanilla Marines

The weather over the weekend was not good, so I did not get a chance to undercoat anything, but it did mean that I managed to assemble a number of figures.

At Salute I picked up two sets of Forge World Womble Marines (10 figures) plus a pack of the box magazine bolt guns. They may be expensive compared to a Tactical Marine box set, but the box set only builds two Wombles.

The figures are nicely cast, there was a bit of flash, but being resin they clean up easily. The feed on the torso is on the socket joint on the bottom part, a nice sharp knife is required to remove the excess resin.
I pinned the arms to the torso and the torso to the legs with plastic rod.

Having assembled five Wombles, I was inspired to build a Captain to command them.

Starting with a Space Marine Commander, I used a chest piece from a Tactical Marine and a Womble head from the same source. I smoothed off the centre of the chest piece and added a etched brass Ultramarine logo. The right handed  power sword from the assault marine set and a left handed pistol arm provided arms, the Storm Bolter replaced the pistol for that extra firepower. The commander backpack was topped with the Ultramarine icon. A set of pouches and a purity seal finished off the figure.

So I have a set of figures ready for spraying.

It was not just Games Workshop figures over the weekend, two Crooked Dice armed minions were topped with Saurian head, and as you might note on the above picture, an Ainsty Mechanot was also assembled.

Empress Modern British Infantry

Earlier I posted a single Empress Miniatures Modern British Infantry man, here is the rest of the pack.

At Salute, I picked up some more infantry and the new Operation Squad Modern Warfare rules, eventually they should appear on the blog.

Plastic Soldier Company - 28mm Russians

The Plastic Soldier Company have three box sets of World War II Russian soldiers: Infantry; Heavy Weapons and Anti Tank Guns.

For scale purposes Pandora King is about to calm East -  West relations...

Most of the figures are one/two piece. The best way of imagining them are as Airfix figures we all played with as kids scaled up to 28mm. They are good value when you need to build up an army quickly.

An Operation Squad WWII Russian Infantry Squad.

They are not quite as detailed as Warlord Games multi part plastic figures, though they are of similar proportions

There is always the hope that they will bring out some matching vehicles. They do them in 15mm and 1/72 scale.