Brigade British Fleet for Full Thrust

Inspired by the amazing artwork of Chris Foss, I’m calling these done. They’re hard to photograph so I’ll just post these two for now, the whole fleet and a closeup of the two super-dreadnaughts.  I’m quite pleased as yellow is a pain to paint

Musings about the importance of terrain

Scenery..we always need more.

Despite being a solo gamer for the most part, I find a large part of the appeal of wargaming is the scenery and terrain.  I don't see any reason why, just because you are gaming for yourself, that you shouldn't have great terrain, in fact as you are doing it for yourself it should always be more important.

I've also discovered that I really enjoy painting and building terrain pieces, with that I want to show off one of my fairly recent projects.  I wanted to build an abandoned SciFi settlement kinda inspired by films like Miyazaki's Castles in the Sky.

I used foamcore for the bases and junk from around my desk and wargaming boxes for most of the details, but the basic buildings are from Brigade miniatures Desert domes miniatures

 http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/6mmSF/Desert%20Domes.html

I confess over the last few years, Brigade have been a real go-to company for me, they make some really great minis and I always get tremendous service so I can't recommend them enough

Here is one of the bases with a bit of spray paint, roughly assembled. I wanted a landing pad and the radar thing in the front made from an old aeronef ship tipped up on its side

From the other side while the scatter material and static grass is drying, I've added rust to the landing strip and tried to show staining and overgrowth on the main building

Doorknobs! .. another base with a building and a pair of doorknobs that looked like interesting SciFi machinery of some kind

 The next three pics are groupo shops of the settlement.  I'm glad I put the different pieces on different bases as I think they look good grouped, but also work when they are seperated.

This piece shows an old light fixture that was broken that I've turned into a blown up reactor of some kind (hence the abandonment and destruction)

So that's some of my Sci-Fi scenery, I'm going to have to take this out of the box and try and play a game of solo Future War Commander soon

First new proper post.

I'm going to start this off by posting projects that I've worked on during my looooong blogging hiatus.  While living in the UK I belonged to the Berkeley Vale Wargaming club and we played quite a lot of 6mm Future War Commander so I think I'll start with some pictures of my Space Canadians!  These are Brigade Miniatures South African Confederation miniatures. 

I wanted something that was relatively low tech (hence the wheels vehicles) and decided to be a bit over the top with the colour scheme making them a scifi peacekeeper vibe.

The unpainted miniatures, they look a little crude but the camera is very unforgiving to 6mm if you look to closely

I tend to use cheap paint as my hobby dollars have to go quite a way.  I sprayed white first from a cheap rattle can, then masked with blue-tack and sprayed the red

The biggest chore with these guys is painting all the wheels!.. I don't like painting wheels

I base my 6mm stuff, generally whatever size works, but normally 20x40mm a bit of fine model railroad ballast, washed and fine static grass added for part of the base.  I've always vacillated on basing 6mm vehicles, but it does protect them and it's fun to do little mini-dioramas for command stands.

I wanted to make these guys really stand out on the table, so I added tiny Canadian flags to a bunch of them using fine florists wire and paper flags

The whole crowd in Action at the 2017 Future War Commander boot camp in Slimbridge.

And here's the whole Space Canadian Peacekeeping deployment company