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Friday, November 22, 2019

Gallery: Stargrunt 15mm New Anglian Coalition, Drones, and Grav-Sled Miniatures

Today's post is a gallery showcase of some of Ground Zero Games' NAC light infantry alongside their early grav-sled style vehicles.
 
 
These are all available on the GZG web store here:
 
 
and here:
 

 
The paint jobs and photography date back to 2012, but they should still show the quality of the sculpts adequately.

 
There are also a few drones in the mix, which can be bought here:
 

 
The grav-sleds are all supported on roofing nails, which have been embedded in masses of Magicsculpt putty, both on the base and within the vehicle hulls.

 
These are all-metal models so they call for a pretty sturdy flight post.

 
These days I'd probably use the Hawk/TTC flight widgets and flight posts, but they didn't exist back then.

 
As usual for GZG vehicles these come with multiple main weapon options. 

 
I've been slowly tapping the spare guns for conversions and kitbashes for years now.

 
Getting low at last, but still not quite out.

 
Still getting close to time for another big grav vehicle order, methinks.

 
Really like the casualty and medic figures in this range.

 
The NAC got a better selection of those than most, which may indicate they weren't the biggest sellers ever. 

 
Think I had to glue the turrets in place on these due to barrel weight, but I might be misremembering.

 
Seven or eight years is a long time even at my age. 

 
These sculpts still hold up well IMO, although I suspect they'll get a 3D-mastered revision at some point.

 
Some more drones and a team of Cyclops battle suits here.
 
 
These guys could be manned light mecha or wholly robotic.

 
At one point the spider drones were one of the best selling 15mm figs GZG made.

 
Might still be the case, they're certainly quite versatile.

 
The Cyclops walkers can also scale jump to 28mm power armor pretty easily.

 
They're mounted here on 1" washers IIRC.

 
They're three-piece models with separate arms.

 

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Repurposing Pegasus Hobbies' Alpha Centauri Saucer Kit


A few years ago I stumbled across Pegasus Hobbies "Alpha Centauri UFO" kit, an extremely affordable model set containing three small saucers with a  rather cartoony style.  The kit is still on sale over at their site here:
 
 
After taking a look at the components, I quickly decided that they'd serve my purposes much better with non-standard builds, letting me use them as 15mm scale scout saucers with a small crew onboard rather than the single-man designs they were intended for.  This basically called for leaving out the cockpit components, including the pilot, and assembling the domed canopy so it pokes up from within the hull rather than being stuck on top like a Jetsons car.  It's a fairly simple job and leaves you with a variety of interesting bits for other jobs, but it does call for painting in subassemblies before sticking everything together.
 
I did about fifteen of these over a couple of years, mostly landed versions with crews of various 15mm aliens, or as command post/objective models for larger invasion forces.  You could build them as in flight models with the legs retracted, but I don't seem to have any photos of those.
 
This was the prototype, seen here with a bunch of Blue Moon aliens and robots.
 
 
Here's a rusted out hulk from a long-ago crash, surrounded by a slew of Fortress Figures brain worms and parked in a plastic crater - old GW piece, IIRC..



 
A more intact model with Rebel Miniatures Grays.




 
Assembling landed saucers gives you a iris door piece as a leftover bit, which is nice as an entrance to an underground base or opening for a missile silo.  Again, I think that's a GW crater.


 
You also wind up with an unused pilot figure, which makes a fine 28mm not-so-little green man.  Little tall for a traditional Gray, unless you're doing 40mm scale Inquistor or something.  This one's had a trivial conversion adding a coil of psychic energy and a slight re-pose to improve the levitating pose.  Can't expect superior alien life forms to actually walk anywhere, can you?
 
The levitating Martians here are the only figures here I haven't sold off yet.  $10 each and US shipping from US zip 12159 if anyone's interested, first come, first serve as always.  Contact me at impoverishedlackey@gmail.com
 



 
Another more recent crash, with some power still running as you can see from the dulled glowing bits.


 
Scale shot with 15mm and 28mm figs.

 
Some of the cockpit detail parts can be bashed together to make your generic glowing alien artifact. 


 
More Fortress Figures brain wyrms, which are either quite large 15mm or smallish 28mm as you desire.

 
Old Glory/Blue Moon Aquans for crew this time around.  These saucers must be the Model T Ford of the galaxy judging by how many species use them.  Or maybe they're Pintos, given the number of wrecked ones I've done.

 
Pegasus also has a larger "Area 51 Suacer" kit, which makes a good 15mm invasion ship once the little guys are done scouting and probing and whatnot.  Only one in a box for these guys, and no leftover parts worth mentioning.  Seen here with Old Glory/Blue Moon Betelgeusans and Old Glory/Superfigs Alien Host robots. 


 

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

2019 Retrospective Gallery: Day 1

End of the year is coming up, so let's do another annual retrospective.  Bit less to show off this year, mostly because I've been much better about blogging regularly as I finished projects.  Still some stuff that hasn't been up yet though.
 
Some 15mm scifi - a mechanized grav infantry platoon composed of Ground Zero Games' new-sculpt NSL infantry and Brigade Models' Lynx grav APCs.
 
 
The decals on these things are impossibly ancient.  Some are from military model kits from my childhood, while the heraldic icon came off old Armoury decal sheets.

 
Worked surprisingly well for ~40 year old decals.
 
 
A selection of 15mm undead from Splintered Light minis.
 
Wraiths, phantoms, ghosts and the like.

 
Skeletal archers.

 
Skeletal dire wolves.

 
Ghouls and a ghast.

 
Miscellaneous leader & bodyguard types.

 
Angry undead treant and overfed ghoul shaman.

 
28mm scale Mortal Arrow troll mutant.
 
 
Heavily converted using spare parts from other kits.

 
What's got two heads, four hands, and a bad attitude?

 
"Graaarrrr!  We hate riddles!!!"

 
15mm Ground Zero Games ESU power armor.
 
 
My favorite of their power armor sculpts to date.

 
That's it for today, folks.  Have a happy holiday.