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Here's my Ventauran army. These are figs from Denizen Miniatures. Observe the fine detail (where not obscured by my base-block-dip-spray paintjob) and marvel that these sculpts are 25 years old, and may predate Rogue Trader!

Ventaurans
Armored Aliens, proabably based/influenced on Traveler Zhodani.
I have two squads of 8 troopers.

Squad with Laser rifles


Sgt


Heavy Laser rifle


Missile Launcher


Coms Officer. I can't figure out how they got the indent for the head-in helmet so precise. This is the kind of detail that usually destroy's molds and mars figures.


Officer. That's not a boogey, I forgot to check for dust and some of the flock from the FLGS table ended up on the minis. Sorry.


All Ventaurans have separate backpacks. They are about the size of a Space Marine holster


Khiff
These Dog/Croc men were intended as opponents for the Ventaurans, but I've included them as lower-tech scout mercenaries. Sort of like the relationship between Tau and Kroot.

Group with Carbines and Grendade Launcher


Sniper, Leader and Missile Launcher


Khiff with Grendade Launcher and Shotgun

Rear of same


Khiff with Carbine

Rear of Same


Khiff with long rifle


Battlemech!
This is a Gasaraki Shinden Armor 1/35 kit from Bandi. I picked it up a couple years back in Chinatown and have finally found just the right project for it. It is completely articulated at all joints except for the hands which I shortened and glued in place.


Matching isignia from shoulders to back of hand


Asside from the cockpit, here's the other deviation from stock. I modified and reversed the RPG'ish weapon in his left hand to be an underslung Anti-Tank Cannon.


Cockpit opens at front and back. I'm going to order a Federation (Denizen's Human armored faction) grav bike rider and do a head swap to make a Driver, but for now the cockpit is empty.



The whole force together


About the figs.
These figures are True Scale (not heroic in proportion) and measure 27mm from sole to eye. They are still avaialble from Denizen Minaitures http://www.denizenminiatures.co.uk/ and Stone Mountain http://www.historicalminiatures.com/denizen.htmlminiatures and are only $1.50 each!

Here's how they compare to a Ground Zero games trooper and a GW Guardsman. (Ventaurans are on the far right and left)

Thanks to Saxon dog who posted this for me along with some other Ventauran pics and comparisons
http://saxondogwarband.blogspot.com/2011/03/denizens-25mm-venturans-size-comparison.html
and convinced me to buy the Ventaurans.

Process
The figs have thin integral octagon bases. These were left on to add a touch of height and glued to slottas with the join disguised with drywall spackle.

painting process for the figs was:
-Prime/basecoat with Krylon ultra flat camo green, touched up with Polyscale german green
-Block colors
-Brush on "dip" of Minwax Polyshades Tudor Satin
-Base with Magic Mud (My mix of heavily textured brown paint), drybrush tan and a bit of foiliage.
-Spray with Matte sealer

Mech Was primed black, brush painted, washed with black and slightly dry brushed with grey in a few places.

Final Thoughts
This entire force (26 figs and a mech) took me about 3 weeks to finish and only about 55-60 bucks invested including shipping! It was quite a depature from the heroic 30-32mm figs by GW and others that make up most of my painting. A few mm shorter and more "true" proportions results in a much smaller figure. Also, the detailing is alot smaller and finer than I'm used to, yet even with a bit of overspray maring some of the khiff details, I'm pleased with the results. My only regret is that there aren't more Khiff and Ventaurans to collect.

Hope you enjoyed them, questions, feedback, etc are appreciated.

wooooh...

it's amazing. i love the doggy ones.

the mecha is cool.

greets

Thanks! It was a toss up whether to paint to kiff as dog'ish or lizard'ish, but I'm glad I went with the fleshtone. Green skin with the green coats would have been a bit much.

Those are really nicely done. I've been using 3 of my old Denizen minis (which I originally bought in the 80s as player character minis for use with the Cyberpunk RPG) as Posthumans in my Infinity Aleph army. They aren't *quite* as beautifully detailed as the Infinity minis, but they're like 1/6 the price! I am tempted to get some of the Khiff to use as counts-as Jokaero in my Inquisitorial army for 40K too...

If you've got some pics, I'd like to see your Denizen figs. I'm on a vintage-figure buzz right now.

Those models are sick.

Wow those last few guys look an awful lot like Master Chief!!!