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Step One some mars terrain, in the making

Red Skull

preparing for our Historicon Game "The Red Skull -VS- The Haunted Tank" in addition to finishing the varied camo schemes on some Assault Rifle and Panzer Faust wielding FOW minis that got shelved in varying stages of paint, i'm creating a Red Skull. Actually 2 Red Skulls. This is my first attempt at skulpting anything so small. My attempts at skulpting 28mm were failures so I expect the worst. I was pretty happy -w- these until it came to putting the heads that were made to "the same size" as FOW germans on OG Command Decision bodies.
Meh... they'll do.

Hammer's Slammers etc etc++

Last update for a little, got more painted, but will drop that other shoe when the time is ripe. This time we have everything i've painted for my Hammer's Slammers unit so far, still have a plat of blowers and combat cars as well as a dozen GZG HS on skimmers to do. First - visors up. as you can see I changed basing between the first and second batches. I was doing 15mmx15mm squares, and now i'm doing #10 washers. Also changed basing material and colors somewhat. The #10 ones are a lighter uniform and armor, and use this water base wood putty elmers makes. the squares are darker and use sand for the flocking. In these pictures I like the older (square base) uniform scheme better, but in person the #10 uniforms look better to me. Jury is still out on the flock. The elmers dried up some, so I had to reconstitute it an it became a little more smooth than it used to be. ..and Visors Down ok so here are the auxillery troops, REMFs if you will, sans clamshell and helmet. They will also see duty as Non HammerSlammers REMFs as well. First we have the GZG cap troopers. followed by FOW German bailed tank crews and a couple old RAFM guys i got in a trade. Really like the RAFM guys for supply SGTs next should be the rebel mini earth force marines and QRF alpha and bravo squads...and at some point my collection of 15mm zombies.

QC PLO and Various "east Germans"

What more pictures??? yea well there are at least 2 more updates after this Hammer's Slammers, Rebel mini earth force marines and QRF SCI FI alpha and bravo teams...
Here we have the low tech element to the Islamic Republic Forces.
First up Quality Castings PLO Followed by QC, Irregular and some other mfg ""modern" "soviets"" or as i like to call them East Germans. They fit well -w- the GZG IF due to the elongated helmet, and doubly so because the QC ones are the same figures as the PLO except with different heads. I got all of the "modern soviets" at one of the HGMSE con fleamarkets. when i started deflashing them i got disgusted at the mostly poor quality and set them aside a few times. They are a prime example of minimalist painting,
1. prime in uniform color - grey
2. flesh - moccasin brown and flesh
3. helmets boots and "wood" - moccasin brown
4. web gear -Basil
5. weapon metal -black.

wash with my unpatented slurry of clear accrylic floor polish, black india ink, earth brown acrylic paint, and water.
tah dah.
problem is I still have as many more to paint, mostly support weapons for the "east Germans" oh and i did paint a lot more of them than pictured here this is just a smattering for flavor. Another "funny" thing (or not) as i was sorting through the bag to figure out what i wanted to use, it became apparent that this bag of figures were the cast offs of someone else putting together a "modern soviet" force. When I was finished with them I gave them to a friend who sorted through the cast off cast offs to put together his own "modern soviet" force. Now the cast off, cast off, cast offs or 3x++ refused figures are a sorry lot and if i used casualty figures instead of Star Grunt II skull chits they would be hammered into those.

buy the ticket take the ride.

Yet More...

Ok the last of the pics i took today. That natural sunlight really blasts the gama. first up QRF air assault FOW bailed german tank crews and QRF scifi civilians these were painted up in these colors to represent
Pilots- orange and red
and crew - yellow and blue
other colors are non technical civilians
Martian Metals

"stuff" i neglected to add to my "blog"

Yea so i've neglected to add a bunch of stuff i've painted, so here goes a shotgun approach to adding things. First up 15mmUK greys and automons I've made up rules for StarGrunt for the different Grey Units if you want them, just email and ask. Grey HQ

Grey Teleportation unit

Grey Mind Control unit

Grey Head Hunters

Automons

So yea that MACRO really shows some flaws that I totally miss -w- eyeball. Oh well such is life, they are done. The Automons were painted using the strictly washes over bare metal -w- red daubs for eyes.
...as always click for a larger view.
Coming Soon Martian Metals, QRF, Rebel Minis and Quality Castings.

BIO warfare ZoMBiE Killers

Inspired by the movie "The Crazies" and http://www.rebelminis.com/ 15MM SAS packs I present the BIO warfare ZoMBiE Killers noticed I didn't paint the view ports on the APCs while editing the pics. DOH

chukoVTOL

The CHUKov VanTraktor werks proudly presents the chukoVTOL The first chukoVTOLs have hovered off the CHUKov VanTraktor Werks assembly lines. Using lessons learned in the manufacturing of the successful CHukov Truk or APC model one. popular for it's ruggedness and no nonsense modular reality , put to wings. features a hover skirt, rectangular rear drop gate, Vertical Take Off / Landing capabilities.

CHuKoV VTOL craft prototype Mk1

CHuKoV VTOL craft prototype Mk1 Straight off of the CHUKOVvanTRAKToR WeRKs assembly lines we have the first prototype of the CHuKOV VTOL technology craft.

Note the Hover skirt allowing an air cushion landing. The final model will feature a type drop gate door. Each square is 5mm. the CHuKoV VTOL craft prototype Mk1

MGs made from disposable razor covers

Here are some MGs made from disposable razor covers. One of the hopper hinges is missing due to them having been in a box for a while; yet another project on the backburner heating the tar to pave the superhighway to hell of my good intentions.

"sovietesque" SMG platoon

GPT gave me some of his Command Decision Soviet extras so i painted them up to be a platoon of low tech militia or security forces or some such for StarGrunt, Metal Storm whatever. Note the non traditional uniform color. The spray can cap looked much more less red more brown sort of like the color the smg stocks are, but hey i wasn't about to strip them and start over. ... and now they are done, and that is what is important. Command Squad Squad 1 Squad 2 Squad 3 ---The command squad has a LMG -w- assistant, ATR team, 2 sappers, the CO and 2 more guys. Every other squad has a LMG, ATR team, 4 SMG troopers and a leader. Figure i can use the ATRs as snipers or... ------------------------------------- AS ALWAYS CLICK THE IMAGES FOR A LARGER VIEW.

GZG scale creep

Got the new GZG packs, and was disappointed to see how much larger teh figures have gotten. Sure the detail is better, but come on! the new kneeling figure is as tall as the old standing figure.

Rebel Mini Spetnaz

Picked up some Rebel Mini 15mm's at Cold Wars. The red ops 5 battle box and a couple packs of spetnaz. I wanted the spetnaz to add support weapons to a 50 bag of OG guys -w- M16s and berets. The Spetz come 12 to a pack for $6.50 3 ea of 3 poses 2-w- AK's, 1 -w- RPK. Also 2 rocket launchers and a guy -w- a pistol, (i'll probably paint a red cross n his bag and make him a medic)
Since i'm planning on using these for Star Grunt 2 they are painted -w- a generic black uniform -w- a "urban cammo"smock and a red beret. The idea being the red beret guys are like the red shirts in Star Trek. Generic support troopers -w- no extra gear to help them survive such as body armor.
Over all i'm happy -w- them, a couple of the minis were poor casts but salvageable, the worst is pictured below separate from the group shot. They are a little tall, closer to 18 than 15mm as are the zombies however the special forces figures from the Red Ops 5 battle box look to be true 15mm's???
I noticed on the Rebel Minis site, http://www.rebelminis.com that the zombies are sculpted by Rodrick Campbell who also did the ATZ zombies that i also have and are 18mm. The 18mmish Spetz are credited to Tony Aldrich, but the 15mm Special Forces have no credit listed.
Whats the point of all this verbiage? None really, wanted to post the pics, thought it needed some sort of descriptive text to accompany same.
Would i buy more rebel minis? Sure why not, they are a little tall, but they are doing stuff no one else is, that i know of, and at a good price. AND AS ALWAYS click the image for a larger view.

CHUKov VANTRAKTOR werks 03

1st prototypes off the production line

CHUKov VANTRAKTOR werks 002

Labor continues at the CHUKov VANTRAKTOR werks

GPTs GZG NSL part 3 "completed"

here they are in all their 7 colors of craft paint glory

1. base -lawn furniture green "satin"
2. flesh
3. light grey
4. basil
5. yellow + 2nd coat of glow in the dark orange -visor
6. slurry of brown + left over above that mixed together when i dropped my "wet pallet"
7. dark blue grey

of course that doesn't count the clipboard which would also add color 8 white. or the brown black blue wash.

• and as always click the images for bigger views.

CHUKov VANTRAKTOR werks 001

the CHUKov VANTRAKTOR werks have been running overtime preparing prototypes for the HoverVehicle CHUKov VANTRAKTOR werks or HVCVW.