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im getting a bit bored of the whole grim dark thing and am looking for some scifi / near future stuff to paint up ive seen G.O.T and the studio mcvey /infinity stuff im after armoured trooper kinds or robots stuff like that .

so my loverly dakkanaughts do you have any ideas ?

You can just paint your miniatures in happy colours instead of grimdark

I'm working on a few Doctor Who minis right now to break up the monotony. There is lots of stuff out there.

Sticky thread the very top of this page: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/369662.page

Or specifically for your GOT needs: http://darkswordminiatures.com/mainwebsite_html/store2GRRM.htm

Just go 15mm scifi

Grimtuff wrote:Sticky thread the very top of this page: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/369662.page

Or specifically for your GOT needs: http://darkswordminiatures.com/mainwebsite_html/store2GRRM.htm

yeah not worried about the game system i dont play its more the figure design that im looking for..

also by G.O.T as much as i love the setting {read each book and the dunk and egg series more than once} i ment this http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/warthog-adv.html

@navarro the drop zone comander stuff you linked to from salute was what im after but as i normaly only do display peices its the wrong scale {tho i am going to do a ship on ship display when they come out :] }

CURNOW wrote:
also by G.O.T as much as i love the setting {read each book and the dunk and egg series more than once} i ment this http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/warthog-adv.html

Let this be a lesson in telling people what your acronyms mean! FWIW I still do not know what GOT refers to beyond Game of Thrones...

haha yeah lesson lernt :]

Governance of Technology G.O.T

NAVARRO wrote:Just go 15mm scifi

QFT!

If you're looking to break-up monotonous painting on the cheap but looking for armored guys you can't go wrong with something like:

Eurekamini's 15mm Scifi Germans

Khurasan's 15mm Federal Marines

The best part? A 10 model pack of either of those will set you back less than $10.

I switched over to 15mm for my sci-fi as well. Though I'm not doing clean sci-fi, but gritty post-apoc stuff.

Theres a prehistoric/ caveman game out there thats neat looking.

Superfigs, or Pulp City- superheros and aliens and stuff.

Call of Cthuhlu minis from RAFM (UFX Like)

I picked up Golgo Island, followed up by MST3000.

Theres a couple of good ones over at "Megaminis" Star Mogual, and a batch of zombie survivors types that look good for.... these zombie games that are coming out of the woodwork.


I dropped GW's stuff and have been buying up a bunch of other skermish type games out there.

and...

go here for inspiration. He's my hero for finding new games that are old.

http://www.matakishi.com/

this guys cool.

(I'm biased, I'm the company's web guy.)

Have you checked out Heavy Gear? We've got relatively small-scale Mecha (More Dreadnoughts than Titans, in 40k terms) and the setting is, overall a lot more hopeful than the Imperium.

yeah ive had a look at the hvy gear stuff looks quite fun to paint,,

the kind of stuff im looking for is 28mm mass effect style high tech stuff like halo spartan suits and things like that ..havnt found anything yet so have started to sculpt my own ,,,,,

Dude.

Your looking for MERCs or AE Bounty. Then theres the obiquitous Infinity.

THATS the one you want.

MERCS-

http://www.mercsminis.com/play-mercs

AE Bounty-

http://darksondesigns.com/

These games are really cool. Not many minis for them, but thats the beauty. The MERC guys need a good spartan suit paint job, though. Black and OD Green.

Infinity-

http://infinitythegame.com/

THIS is exactly what you sound like your looking for. (and an excellent selection.)

Infinity's true scale always gives me a warm and fuzzy when I'm painting them. The model count is low and games are fast. Only real problem with the game is distribution. It took 5 weeks for some pieces of my army to finally arrive.

ah those mercs minis are bang on ! love them cheers grot 6 :]

wow, wow, WOW!

Grot 6 thanx sooooo much!
I had a look at matakishis website, just out of curiousities sake, and BAM! I had a blast from the past.

I had the tank/spv in the captain scarlet picture (the one with 3 mini's to a base) it was so cool! I never knew what it was from, and now i do all thanx to you. And it was the original version, probably worth alot of money now.
The tracks came down at the back and when you depressed the 3rd wheel a gun popped out of the front. Unfortnunately i destroyed it with childhood enthusiasm.
and now i'm going off to stare at the picture some more!


edit* i had to edit a little to get some form of coherency in my post (i was a little excited by an image from my childhood.).

so grim, so scary!

We aim to please!

He''s a rock legend as far as I'm concerned. His minis and scenery are always top notch, and his games are best served with a six pack and some time to review the site.

I start getting into them, I'm on the darn computer half of the night trying to get into where he got such wonderful toys.

Then the Cpt Scarlet minis...

I'm hooked and I didn't even know anything about them till after I read up AFTER reading about the minis project.


I can never recommend him enough.

http://www.matakishi.com/