Small Soldiers

So recently while getting familiar with Shapeways and all its goodness I came across this
http://www.shapeways.com/shops/exodigital
Soldiers from the Robotech, sorry, Mospeada anime. Basically space soldiers in armour. Which is cool in and of itself but even cooler was that they are available in any scale. So I had some 1/60 figures printed cause maybe Id want to do a Battletech city scene diorama someday and Im NOT using the oversized figures out there that pass for 1/60.
A true 1/60 scale figure is 28mm tall.  Most of those tabletop gaming figures, and you know the ones Im talking about, stand like 32-35 mm. Way too big.
But when I got the 1/60 ones, wouldnt you know it, they were 34 mm tall.
So what to do? I ordered his 1/72 figures and they came today.
Heres a pic.

Shapeways does nice work.
And a size it up pic with a TRUE 1/60 figure.

Note that the ground crew guy is a little taller because of his base.
Heres you can see,  28 mm.  And remember this is what was labeled as a 1/72 figure. A 1/72 figure is 25mm.

and another size it up pic.

Im a little pissed about having to pay twice to get what I want but Ill just put the bigger ones on ebay to recoup my costs.

Oh and by the way, the real reason I wanted these is because Ive been looking for a figure standing with binoculars for ever so I could make this scene.

And now Im one step closer.

And now for something completly different

Hi all, as the title says I just wanted to show you a little something Ive wanted for years.
 What is it?  The Deep Sleep(flame gun) from Logan's Run.

2 parts are finished and the rest well under way. Another day and it should be ready for primer. I made the main body and grip by simply laminating about 12 layers of styrene and sanded it to shape.
 I know there are existing resin kits out there but because its such a basic design I felt it would be more fun to do it from scratch.
It doesnt spout flame but the trigger does work.

Later in the day I got to this point so I added a few new pics.

 Next, primer. Then lots of coats of gloss black.
Not bad for a one day build. Very satisfying.




And finally, black coats are on and Im calling it done.
Started friday morning, finished Sunday afternoon. If only all projects were this easy.

 Oh and Spider news, the parts are on the way to me so pics coming soon.

Christmas joy

Hello all and Merrymerry if you celebrate.
Thanx to a wee bit of time off Ive been able to finish painting a few of the new additions to my collection.
First up my Commando COM -2D named "Sgt. Cupcake". As he appears in the game, named and colour scheme from my daughter.
























This is how he appears in the game hence no decals, symbols or units numbers as yet.








 Next up "Lenore", my Raven RVN-3L. It just seemed wrong to me to paint my stealthy bird anything other than black.

 These mechs also mark my first real effort at cockpit and lense jeweling effect. Not bad, Ill get better with practice.

 And finally my Dragon DRG-1N as he appears in the game named "Cherrybomb". Again named by one of my daughters.  Hes painted in the PCGamer skin that was released a year ago. Even with all the other paint options I see no reason to change.

 

Hes equipped with a Gauss and 2 large lasers hence the blue lense effect.

And finally a group shot.

Later all.

Spider peak

Just a quick post to show you where we are on this little project.

I wanted to scratch this but I know my limitations and I cant expect Simon at Leg Destroyed to get to every mech I want. 
 I chose the Spider simply because I love playing with it in the game. Ive logged more time with it than any other mech. Mainly because of its speed,its  ECM and its survivability.
There something very satisfying to me to harass and piss off the big boys by running amongst them and stinging them with my lasers. Granted I dont get a ton of kills with it  but I do my fair share of the damages and I do my job as a light.
Anyhow, as you can see we're trying to get all the option bits covered, vectoring wings out or pulled back, anti-missile system,  flamer and machine guns( for both arms) and the torso laser, 1 or 2. Unfortunately, at this time, the game files has the flamer standing in for medium lasers on the arm, so no lens effect.
Oh Im giddy.

On hold

So while the most votes were for the Urbanmech only 5 people committed to the actual purchase, which says to me, not a good time to run a kit. Maybe in the spring we'll revisit the Urbie. But for now a sneak peak of whats in the future.









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a little further

Next kit

Its the pre-Christmas season all and Id like to get a new kit in the rubber before the end of the year and Id like to run a small kit before the big Atlas goes into the rubber I think.
Right now I have 2 kits that are ready to go so Id like your opinion as to which little guys gets the rubber treatment.

The Urbanmech?About 14.5 cm tall











Or the Vulcan? About 17 cm tall.



Either would need at least 15 pre-orders to get the ball rolling.

Give me a shout at scott.murphy@telus.net

Beautiful!

Id like to post a couple of pics of a Catapault in progress.


This is from the desk of Scott Christian, who has been at work for some time amassing a large collection of 1/60 scale bad-assery to have the ultimate tabletop game.

 I absolutely  love the cockpit glazing effect he did. Wish I could get mine to look that good.

Have a look here at some more of his work.
http://wingnutscockpit.blogspot.ca/
 Awesome stuff must be acknowledged.