Vigilantism Is Illegal

Sometimes someone says, enough is enough and takes the law into their own hands.

Does that make them any better than the criminals they fight?

Hasslefree's Aaron roams the streets of his hometown, attempting to bring justice to criminals.

Reach Out and Touch Them

A while back Crooked Dice brought out a new batch of Minion Specialists, including a two man bazooka team.

The two man team engage heavier targets while defending their temporary HQ.

Both figures use the Fighting Men heads, the loader has an added pack for additional rounds. There is an empty container at his feet while he prepares the next round.

T90

Back in September 2011 I bought a T90 MBT by Imprint Models (available from Empress Miniatures).

The mouldings are very good, there was only some work needed under the turret bustle where a piece of the  feed needed filing away.

With the exception of the combination of overenthusiastic superglue and minor incompetence (the first track unit is placed incorrectly, the resin just loves superglue - forming a bond stronger than the resin - it looks like it has just performed a crash stop), it went together very easily.

I then undercoated it with the traditional Citadel Chaos Black aerosol.

And then I got distracted.

It sat on the top of the computer desk, only receiving some paint when I was painting anything else in Vallejo Russian Uniform Green. Eventually it had its green basecoat.

And then we had the cold weather, meaning no more spray painting, so a reduction in distractions.

A while back I had bought the Main Battle Tank T80 (ISBN(13) 978 0 071 10 3238 5) published by Ian Allan. Though the T90 is derived from the T72 family, I thought that the green-sand-black brown camo pattern shown in a number of the colour pictures would be suitable.

The base green is Vallejo Russian Uniform green, Vallejo Desert Sand provides the sand tone and Vallejo German Cam Black Brown provides the border colour. The material covering of the mantlet was Leather Brown.

 Vision blocks are always  difficult to paint. I tend to use Citadel Mechrite red for my modern British, but decided on Citadel Ice Blue (mainly because of the picture on page 83 of the T80 book showing the Shtora laser detector showed blue lenses - the Osprey modelling guides show a number of different interpretations of vision blocks, some quite garish).

Weathering and mud is a combination of Citadel Stirland Mud, Vallejo Burnt Umber and Leather Brown, lightened with some Vallejo Old wood with a final dry brush of Desert Sand. Citadel washes (two flavours of sepia and one of earthshade) overall plus Citadel Nuln Oil provided exhaust and fume shading.

Overall, it is a very nice and easy to build model.

Now, to finish the BMP3 (and Warrior, and another technical, then to order another Scimitar and convince them to do some more CVR(T) family vehicles).

Jason vs The Argonaut

Private Jason Fleming wished he had not volunteered to test Darius' prototype glue projector...

Ullyses Argo's latest Argonaut advances.

The Argonauts are a signature feature of the evil mastermind Ullyses Argo's appearances in 7TV series such as The Man From 2000 and Department X.

The Argonaut is a Crooked Dice resin figure and is about 45mm tall. It is supplied in four pieces (body, two arms and a head). Crooked Dice make two different bodies and arms allowing a number of combinations to be assembled.

I should have some more completed shortly, together with the towering Talos, Argo's most fearsome creation.

Light My Fire (Two)

Here are two more members of the UNIT.

The Major, armed with his trusty Automatic Pistol directs the 'fire' of the Flamethrower specialist.

Both are Crooked Dice figures, Flame Thrower Specialist Minion and Minion armed with Pistol. They both use the Crooked Dice Fighting Men heads.

At this time, Health and Safety did not require the use of masks when combatting alien threats with flamethrowers...

British Expeditionary Force 1940, part one

Here is a slightly clearer picture of the Warlord Games BEF section.

They still need a bit more work and the final basing. I will wait for warmer weather before using some spray varnish to tone down the shine of the washes.

Tank Crew

The continuing saga of my tank crew, part two.

The gunner (with the tank commander).

Both are Crooked Dice minions, the commander is a Pistol armed minion using the Man From 3000 pistol hand and a Fighting Men head. The new gunner figure is a Minion with SMG, the existing M3 greasegun SMG being replaced with a Hasslefree Miniatures Thompson SMG.  The head is from the Fighting Men set of heads.

Next the Loader and the driver...