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What I'd really like is to play a game where I could put those anti-zombie troops to use. The Naffatun seem like they would be pretty useful in that role as well.

The Thallax Cohort is now complete! This marks the completion of my first Forgeworld kit!

Here's the leader, because every leader must be posed pointing at something.



and here's the guy that was really the entire reason I chose this set. I really liked the look of the multi-melta dude.



And the Cohort all together.



Up next, the Dark Mariner Close Combat Biomech! And there'll be some more 15mm guys, because I had a bit of free space in my painting queue tonight since the Biomech was being primed and the Thallax were finished.

Nice work Barzam, I have really like these miniatures since they were previewed a fair few months ago. How many pieces were they in and how were they to put together?

I think the flashes of red and the gloss faces set them off really well, lovely stuff.

You're looking at about 13 or so parts per Thallax, give or take a piece or two depending on the pose. In general, you have head, torso (with backpack and shoulder pads molded on), right arm, left arm (weapon holding guys have the weapon attached, pointing guy doesn't), waist, right leg, left leg, thruster nozzles for the back, and a cable that runs from the weapon to the torso. Assembly is pretty straightforward. If you've built a 40k figures before, you can build a Thallax. There's not a lot of posing options though, unfortunately. Limbs are paired, each has a divot sculpted into it and its partner limb has a corresponding number of divots. So, left leg 1 has one divot and right leg 1 has one divot, etc. So, there's not really any worry about mismatching the limbs. Aside from the right hand on the guy aiming his Lightning Rifle not wanting to glue together for some reason, assembly was easy and had no real issues.

Casting was generally good as well with just a couple of air bubbles and some slight mold slip in a couple spots. All of the QC issues were easily dealt with without needing any advanced modeling skill. I did have to heat up and bend one of the cables though, so be aware that that might be an issue. I think the hardest thing was getting them base coated since I decided spraying them would be easier. I had to get at some interesting angles to get the areas under their weapons coated. Overall though, these weren't so bad.

The real challenge is going to be the Domitar.

As I mentioned, I worked on some 15mm figures. I finished 9 new figures, 6 space suit equipped Colonial Marines and 3 zombies.





I thought I'd try a new color on the zombies. I also worked on the Dark Mariner construct tonight. He's nearly done. Just a bit more organic bits to do and his base. I also got several more 15mm figures and a building based tonight. I have more Xin and more space suit equipped Marines to come.

I thought I'd also share a couple of new additions to my desktop at work. Both are 25mm figures from Ground Zero Games and both come from their NSL faction from Stargrunt.

Tidy work with those Thallax there, Barzam

Wait, GZG is doing 25mm? or they did do 25mm a while ago?
Like the Vac suits, the zombies and the GZG guys!

From what I understand, the 25mm sculpts are actually pretty old. But yeah, they still make them. They're listed on their website just below the 15mm Stargrunt section.

Those Colonial Marines are nifty. You put a lot of effort into detailing those 15mm guys.

They actually have really detailed sculpts. It's surprising how detailed they are considering their size. Sometimes I kind of wish they were less detailed, like the zombies so I could just basecoat, slather on a wash, and call them good.

For those interested, I also took a size comparison pic of the GZG figures as compared to a GW Space Marine. It's kind of funny. The Space Marine is more accurately proportioned against the 25mm figures than he is compared to other 28s.

Did not even notice that they were 15mm until you put the Dark Angel in there. Great job on some interesting new sculpts to me, doubly interesting given the detail for their size.

What are those labels from in the background? I see a big Weyland Yutani poster or something there.

 Barzam wrote:
They actually have really detailed sculpts. It's surprising how detailed they are considering their size. Sometimes I kind of wish they were less detailed, like the zombies so I could just basecoat, slather on a wash, and call them good.

For those interested, I also took a size comparison pic of the GZG figures as compared to a GW Space Marine. It's kind of funny. The Space Marine is more accurately proportioned against the 25mm figures than he is compared to other 28s.

Well, the SM were originally to be bigger than 25mm figs, but GW did not make the4 SM relatively larger per the IG as they ought to have done.

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:Did not even notice that they were 15mm until you put the Dark Angel in there. Great job on some interesting new sculpts to me, doubly interesting given the detail for their size.

25mm, actually. I haven't got any 15mm stuff at work... yet. I like finding lesser known lines though. They're fun to share.

highlord tamburlaine wrote:What are those labels from in the background? I see a big Weyland Yutani poster or something there.

Those are actually papercraft cargo containers that Antenociti's Workshop has available on their site. Free, too. They also have Umbrella, Skynet, MNU, Cerberus, and the RDA from Avatar. I'm sure the logos are all totally used with permission, too.

shasolenzabi wrote:
Well, the SM were originally to be bigger than 25mm figs, but GW did not make the4 SM relatively larger per the IG as they ought to have done.

I do wish GW would upscale their Space Marines. The Sigmarines are about the right size. It does seem like they've been slowly creeping upwards in scale of late, though.


Anyway, my next monthly goal is achieved! I completed the Dark Mariner Close Combat Biomech tonight. He's a big'un!



And, I pulled up a size comparison against a "standard" 28mm figure and a "standard" 15mm figure.



He's fairly large, as you can see. Thankfully, Anitmatter had the mercy to make him out of resin instead of metal. If he were metal, he'd probably be considered a deadly weapon. Funny enough, despite towering over the Deathguard, he's actually not that much bigger than the other Dark Mariners. Maybe a head and a couple centimeters taller. Just goes to show that the Dark Mariners are all kind of huge in comparison to everybody else.

Next up, aside from working on more 15mm on the side, I'll be working on my Antipode Assault Pack. Not the current one though. It's the old one! Say what you will about the old sculpts, but I rather like them. I've got most of the set assembled and have even begun priming them already. Hopefully I can get them done as quickly as I got the Biomech done.

Painting fabric color patterns will be interesting to say the least. The original antipodes, they were always reminding me of a K-9 unit for the most part.

Dark diver is huge! next to that plague Marine, he is a dready

you've done loads since i was last on here

all nice but I Love the Thallax and the spec ops troopers from hasslefree (thanks for helping the UK economy too )

The spec ops guys look realistic which makes them look more bad ass.

The thallax just have a grim dark mechanicum beauty to them.

Great job

I've enjoyed painting the Spec Ops guys. There's still one more to go. Someday I'll get to him, even.

I've been kind of procrastinating about painting the Antipodes. I always find it hard to begin painting Infinity models. So, the whole set has been sitting in the garage, primed, waiting for me to bring them up to start painting. I will get them, too. I've been focusing on 15mm figures though and I haven't felt much like doing a lot of painting this weekend, anyway. Hopefully during the week I'll get my drive back.

Here's what I have been working on though. Excuse how rough some might look and remember, these are tiny and I have to make the details stand out in order for them to be visible at tabletop level.

First, we have a Shia Khan Assault Pioneer.



Funky design, right? I just grabbed a few figures from this line to try them out. I find the weird pillbug armor on these guys oddly appealing.

We have a running civvie next.



You've seen that mold before. I'd mentioned before that I was going to do this. This was originally a Rebel Minis zombie. But, there's no damage to the guy anywhere, so he works great as a fleeing civilian.

Next, a USMC Space Marine from Ground Zero Games' Moongrunt line.



I have quite a few of these guys, actually, plus Chinese troops. Expect more space marines in the future.

I painted up a couple more Xin troops.



The guy on the left is the unique commander figure that's included with the platoon packs. The guy on the right is a comms operator. I royally screwed up his face. He actually has a fairly well sculpted face, but, I tried painting eyes, messed that up, tried to clean it up, messed that up, and that all led to him having mush for a face.

I don't recall if I showed this one before. This is a female Prydian Muster Patrol trooper.



She was one of Ion Age's monthly freebie figures.

Last, we have a couple of minis from Micropanzer.



I'd purchased a set of 15mm figures from Brookhurst that Micropanzer had put together as a demo set for Tomorrow's War. I split it with Highlord Tamburlaine and he's already painted most of the alien half of that set. These guys actually fit in surprisingly well with my Prydian Muster and PDF troops from Ion Age.

The dark mariner turned out very well. A very creepy looking mini too.

Yeah that biomech thing is fearsome looking! I like all of the mini soldiers, if I could just find a game or a big enough single line that I liked I'd probably go for some.

If you want a fleshed out line and ruleset, check out Ion Age. It's essentially skirmish level 40k in 15mm. It even has single player rules. There's four playable factions (Prydians, Prang, Shia Khan, and Xin), with the Prydians having three subfactions (The Reatined, Muster, and PDF). The main rulebook just covers the Prydian Civil War while the other factions are covered by free army expansion .pdf files. There's also a recent expansion that covers vehicular and mecha combat.

The 15mm soldiers are looking rather nice.

Thanks for the info

Okay, last 15mm update until I finish the Antipodes. I swear, I'm working on them next.

Anyway, this is another Ion Age vehicle. This is the recently released Afara Strider combat mech. There's currently three options for these available, close combat, laser cannon, and howitzer. I chose the close combat type because it has two hands. The ranged types have gun arms, which aesthetically I don't like as much. I believe that the Afaras operate in groups of three, so I may need to purchase two more at some point.

Wow. So Gundam. Very Okawara. Much Tomino.

That's the one we were discussing undercoats vs washes on, right?

I didn't see it the other day in person- is it at your place?

Yep, that's the one we were talking about. Yeah, it's at my place.

Yeah, he does look very Gundam-y

He looks a little imaginext to me but pretty nice that aside. It's a cool range and that's nice paintwork.

If Imaginext had that nice of mecha I would have been buying that stuff up for my kids when they were little!

You ought to do a scale shot with that thing. I'm curious how big it is.

Ask and ye shall receive. Afara size comparison.



Now, I don't get a Gundam vibe from it at all. For some reason, and it's probably the colors I chose, it reminds me more of the Temjin from Virtual On. The Afara isn't as huge as I'd necessarily like. I'd like it to have been just a smidge taller. It's actually the same size as the Proteus from White Dragon Miniatures. There's a second mecha mentioned in the Callsign Taranis rules called a Magog. Assuming it's the mech pictured in one of the art bits, it should actually be bigger. But, so far, no models of the Magog.

Tonight was actually productive. I hunkered down and got to work on the controller girl that comes with the Antipodes. I actually managed to totally finish her even in the same night!



It's a little hard to see here, but I tried doing a simplified take on multicam on her pants. I'm actually very pleased with how it turned out. I'm thinking I may wind up stripping the Dozer and giving him this pattern.

The first Antipode Warrior is finished.



My own ideas of these guys is that they can still fit in the fluff. The way I see it, these would be likely to be Antipodes from Dawn's southern regions. The drier, more arid areas. I kind of see these Antipodes as a different subspecies. They are to the new Antipodes what a Coyote or Jackal is to a Wolf. Related, but evolved for a different environment and to fill a different niche in the environment. I see these guys as being more like scavengers whereas the new types are hunters. With that in mind, I went with a look more akin to a Jackal. I wanted him to look more like a Golden Jackal, but I wound up with one more like the Black-Backed Jackal. Oh well, I'm happy with how he looks.