Low Class Option

After seeing Spacejacker's Life and Packing Post today, I felt compelled to share my own miniature transport solution.

Step 1: Find a box manly enough to contain the might of my Space Nazi army.

Yep. That'll do.

Step 2: Cardstock, duct tape, and love.

And there you have my Low Class Option. All the figs are dipped and matte sprayed so I'm not overly worried about them. I will confess that I drive a little more carefully when the minis are in the car than when it's just my daughters. Does that make me a horrible person?

Space Nazis!

I haven't come up with a back story for these guys yet, because, well--they're space Nazis. That kind of sums them up, doesn't it. Eureka's Sci Fi Germans. Decent sculpts. Wish they're were some mortars only because my buddy's Khurasan Federals have them ans they kick my butt.

The paint scheme is super simple. In retrospect, too simple. But that's okay. What I really wanted to do with my first 15mm sci fi army was complete it. Which made me a little overzealous. I wish I would have painted some of the armor plates a different color. I wish I wouldn't have dipped them. But you know what? They're done and they look great on the table.

Enough preamble.

This army is designed for speed so all four squads and the commander arrive in Grav transports (or if google translate is to be believed "Antischwerkraft Träger" which sounds pretty cool). These started life as Plastic Soldier Company's SdKfz 251 Ausf D Halftrack. What a great deal! 5 models for around $30. It really has spoiled me when I go to look at other 15mm vehicle offerings. Anyway, WIP:

Just a little plastic tube for the anti-grav pontoons, some plasticard to cover the open top, and a lasgun from the GW Chimera kit along with other bits of course.

Again, not thrilled with the paint job, but good enough.

The scariest model in the army flanked by his little walker brethren:

A pic for scale:

Last but not least, the whole shebang:

After playing wargames off and on for about twenty years, this is my first "finished" army. This is why I love 15mm so much. The army cost me around $70. Even if I never played a game with them I've already gotten $70 worth of entertainment out of them. But I've already played a few games with them. It's almost like I'm making money at this point. At least that's what I tell my wife.

Some terrain

I've had these sitting on my table for a while and just last night I got down to putting paint on them (I'll post the pics when they're done).

Super simple construction. Just four pieces of foamcore, corrugated plasticard for the roof, and some plasticard for the doors. I threw some junk and assorted doodads around to make them looked lived in. (Eureka 15mm Sci Fi German for scale.) I textured the walls with some light weight putty and they've since been sanded a little. The bases are all destroyed CDs and DVDs, one small benefit of working at a library.

I'm going to be trying some new weathering techniques on these little shanties. I've been reading about using pastels and think these are a perfect place to start. I really want them rundown and sad looking. All those poor settlers have to live somewhere, after all.