[Robey Jenkins]

So after much deliberation, I decided to continue the splinter-style urban camo from the airframes onto the armoured battlegroup for consistency’s sake.  I also decided to add the lighting effect to the hover modules.  Thus far, I’ve finished one troop (although the one on the right of picture needs some more highlighting, I realized after taking the photo):

Also, here’re the two pics of the airframes that I moved from their original sites:

[Robey Jenkins]

I don’t know. Mike, am I allowed to promote Horizon Wars on here?

 

Sand stripe is a great idea. I might do that. I also want to do some OSL around the antigrav pods. Tactically silly, but should look quite cool.

 

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[Robey Jenkins]

I’m always conscious that anything I post, you’ll end up seeing half a dozen times on the various boards, FB groups and other places we hang out, Mike. I’m trying not to seem “spammy”.

 

Forums like this one, though, are a good place to share a record of collections on a specific theme. I should probably count up how many different armies I now have at 6mm. It must be closing on double figures, now…

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[Robey Jenkins]

And a fairly hastily-painted armoured company+ from Brigade Models:

I’m probably still going to add camouflage to this force, but haven’t yet decided what form it will take.

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[Robey Jenkins]

If you’re prepared to go up-scale slightly to the now-mainstream 28mm, you should check out Reaper’s Bones series of plastic minis at low, low prices.

Or for a more up-market product for classic dungeon crawl games, but still reasonably-priced, look at Otherworld Miniatures.

 

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[Robey Jenkins]

A trio of flyers:

The ones left and right are from Brigade Models.  The middle one is from Wargames Emporium.

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[Robey Jenkins]

Here’s a 9-point mech force for MechaWar.  These mechs are all Era2, from the “Maul” (mech combat sports) setting:

This is a more organized force of indeterminate era, but clearly of Middle Eastern origin from the numerical indicators:

Here are some Wargames Emporium (formerly Baccus 6mm SF) Command Horizon minis:

And some infantry from 15mm.co.uk (which are sold as 6mm but which are more like 10mm):

And here’s the stuff from Brigade that I chopped out of the posts above:

A better shot of the Soviet heavy infantry:

And a scale shot showing the Brigade light infantry (left), 15mm.co.uk fleet-scale mechs (make great 6mm heavy infantry) and 15mm.co.uk “6mm” heavy infantry:

And no photo log would be complete without a shot of the lovely command utility vehicle from Angel Barracks:

And for people wondering about Horizon Wars and what an “army” will look like, here’s a quick shot of a 25-point Battlegroup, no mechs:

I consider this to be a “large” force, representing a company+: a platoon of light infantry, a platoon of mobile infantry (in the IFVs), a platoon of heavy infantry, a special forces unit, a heavy cavalry troop and a Command HQ (heavy cavalry).  A battle fought with forces of this size on either side will last about two hours.

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[Robey Jenkins]

I’m reorganizing my Photobucket albums, so some of the images above are going to be broken.  If I could edit the posts, I’d update the links, but… [glances at Mike]

I’ll post the missing images, and lots more 6mm stuff here as soon as I’ve finished the re-org.

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[Robey Jenkins]

 

Lovely stuff, there. I’ve never really felt the appeal of Warzone, although the new stuff is definitely jolly cool. But your Trenchers are certainly playing my song.

[Robey Jenkins]

I have an utterly enormous 6mm collection. One day, I’ll take a picture of it all. One day I may even have it all painted!

[Robey Jenkins]

No, just careful brushwork.

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[Robey Jenkins]

And speaking of Microworld, here are a couple of Dragonfly gunships which I just adore.  These will be running top-cover for the dinosaurs:

 

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[Robey Jenkins]

Just remove “Microworld” from the title, I guess.

 

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[Robey Jenkins]

I can’t rename this thread, but I thought it would be sensible to put all of my 6mm sci-fi stuff in one place instead of dotting it all over the place depending upon the manufacturer.

 

So with that in mind, here’s some Brigade Models stuff:

And some units:

I have a bunch more on my desk, all primed and ready to paint!

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[Robey Jenkins]

A wip shot of my Father-Knight for the PanOceania army:

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[Robey Jenkins]

I do love the new CA stuff. Initially,I had zero interest in the alien forces, but the new Morats, Sygmas and others are definitely masking the faction seem more appealing.

I might have to post an analysis and review for the board.

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[Robey Jenkins]

I don’t want to give the impression that TWW is anti-Infinity! But before I started this thread, I did a search on the forum and all relevant comments were either statements of antipathy or of uninterest.

 

 

I’d like to think that perhaps there is an untapped enthusiasm for the game that just hasn’t revealed itself yet.

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[Robey Jenkins]

And with that encouragement, here’s another: the Mobile Brigada for the Nomads faction:

[Robey Jenkins]

Any chance of a penny for scale or something?

[Robey Jenkins]

I wrote a setting for HorizonWars that stretches across several centuries from a near-future setting (nominally from 2116), via the colonization of the Solar System to a distant time of superluminal travel.  It was written to allow players to use as broad a range of miniatures as possible, from modern up to E:A and its various clones.

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[Robey Jenkins]

Lovely work!  Are those decals or freehand?

[Robey Jenkins]

Ooh, really?  I’ve always love the retro style of Aeronef, but never fancied the game that much, and Dystopian Wars is a bit OTT for my tastes (didn’t stop me buying some, but only with a hefty discount!).  So if Gruntz 15mm is coming up with a new smaller-scale VSF air naval combat game, I’d be very interested.

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[Robey Jenkins]

I’m mostly familiar with it through the Mongoose edition of the rules and actually use it to play a VSF space adventure setting of my own devising.  However, I think the main attraction to the “proper” setting is the vast depth and breadth of the history and cosmography of the game.  Traveller is almost as extensive and complex a setting as Warhammer 40,000 and, being nominally “hard” SF (or, at least, being space pulp adventure) lacks the dystopian myopia of the 40kverse that puts off some from exploring the Dark Millennium.

It’s a bit like Battletech in that respect, I guess.

[Robey Jenkins]

Why not have a crack at writing your own set of rules to really capture the flavour you want and the style you think would attract your fellow club members?

 

 

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