Happy New Year folks, quick post from me today – I painted some stuff!! First up, the grandmother of all Land Speeders, painted quick and dirty to use as scatter terrain. This model is an absolute pig to assemble, tedious to paint, and it weighs a ton… That said, it is 27 years old and is a bit of a classic, so I’m glad to have done one to add to the collection:
I also got my hands on three ‘Alarm Posts’ from Taban Miniatures, again, to use for scatter terrain. These were great fun to paint, (quick & dirty again), and have a load of narrative potential with the cameras, speakers, etc. I can imagine trying to silence a guard before he can make it to the post to raise the alarm, all Metal Gear Solid and ting… cool stuff :-)
I’ve also mostly painted a ‘Promethium Relay Pipe’ and a Battlefield Accessories set from GeeDub, and the pipe kit is really rather good! It goes together nicely, and makes for a very attractive and useful piece of terrain. I’ve taken my usual scruffy, rusty, shitty approach, and I just need to finish off some of the details like dials and lights, but it’s finished enough for you to get the idea:
I’ve got a load of other GeeDub buildings waiting to be put together & painted, (a ‘Merry Christmas’ present to myself), and I feel a whole lot more positive about taking them on after working on this little kit.
In other news, I played a cool little game of Rogue Trader the other night – Salvage crew vs. Beastmen! I’ll need to do a proper write-up at some point, but here are some pics to give you the idea:
So that’s it for now, – it has all been a bit ‘scenic’ so far this year, which isn’t my preferred subject, but I’m aiming to get back on to painting some actual figures next week. I have a bunch of mixed RT imperial guard dudes in their undercoats, plus some serious conversion fodder to get involved with…
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I agree totally about the speeder. They do look cool though don’t they!
Lovely terrain additions. Is that pipeline from GW pricey? Looks the goods!
Lovely battle preview. They do take a while to write up batrep’s unfortunately :(
Cheers.
Thanks dude, they are fun – the legendary flying sofa! That pipe kit is pretty sensible money – £22 or something like that, so you actually get quite a bit for your money!
Stop! Listen! Obey! Nice touch mate, it’s all looking rather nice. The landspeeder has quite the post-apocalyptic vibe that you don’t really see with the modern Imperium.
Very true – it is such an impractical design! To be fair, I think that it is right at the limit of what they could do with metal back in the day, so worth celebrating for that reason alone :-)
The grandmother of all speeders … ain’t that the old deo-stick speeder?
Excellent work on the promethium pipes.
Nah, the deo-stick was a grav tank mate, not a speeder ;-)
Great looking terrain Alex :) That speeder sure is something, so scifi!
Thanks dude, scenery isn’t something I enjoy as a rule, but this lot was kind of fun and the speeder is a nice thing to have in the collection :-)
Speeder is very cool – it works nicely as a terrain piece.
Good stuff :)
Thanks mate, yeah, I’m hoping it works out well – it can sit there and look pretty while providing cover, or it can easily be a plot piece… I like it when things are multi-purpose ;-)
Pretty nice work there! I didn’t know of the existence of those alarm posts, hmmm, interesting discovery…
;-) they’re are pretty cool, right? Glad you like mate, thanks for the kind words
Awesome work dude! Having seen the pipes and alarm posts up close, I know just how brilliant they are. Now I’d also best get to writing up some words about our little skirmish hadn’t I??
Aye, and some pictures :-)
That landspeeder is wicked man. Rough and ready. I like pipes too. Great job fella. What’s GeeDub then?
Thanks man, glad you like. oh, and GeeDub? Gee double-you, GW… :-)
Ahhh lingo down with the kids. Hehe
Oh, I’m so street… ;-)
Hehe.
Nice work Alex.
I assembled some prmethium pipes myself over Xmas, they are great kits.
I’m undecided as how I will paint them, but yours look great.
Cool! They certainly are a fun & useful kit… and surprisingly good value I thought! Glad you like mate, looking forward to seeing what you do with yours :-)