Frostgrave, Halo Ground Command and other tabletop minis

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by Tornado

Dope.

Thanks!

Back to Legion stuff now and working on my squad of Rebel Fleet Troopers. These guys are really easy to paint after messing with Infinity models for awhile. I hope to have them done tomorrow or Monday. Will be interesting seeing them and their goofy helmets running around the board with regular rebel troops.

[Tornado]

What are the stone buildings with the dome roof?

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by Tornado

What are the stone buildings with the dome roof?

They are supposed to be buildings on Tatooine for Star Wars. They are from Galeforce 9. The doorways are a little small for the 35mm Legion models, but then again, some people on the Star Wars Legion Facebook page showed that the buildings are mostly underground and that there was a walkway that was dug out leading down to the door. Some people freak out about not perfect scale, but I don't. These could also work for Infinity, which are 28mm and more realistic thickness as opposed to a lot of systems that have chunkier models.

[Tornado]

Cool. I like them.

[TREX]

I like those ladders and bridges. I like how you encorporated the ruins in.

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by Tornado

Cool. I like them.

And the best part, is that they were pre-painted.

Originally Posted by TREX

I like those ladders and bridges. I like how you encorporated the ruins in.

Thanks! I have a lot more of those ruins and good sized ones that I had used for Frostgrave. But for this setup, I had kind of wanted to keep it simple and have a better chance of blending in with the other buildings, rather than be some big ruined castle. Then again, at some point I may do the bigger setup. I just realized that thematically, perhaps the Tattoine buildings could have been built near a ruins of earlier civilizations. I don't know how that would play with the real Star Wars nuts out there

And I can't wait to get the rest of my Warsenal Comanche set built, as there are more walkways and neat buildings. The ladders from my Impudent Mortal set will come in handy in a lot of ways. The square little building isn't exciting, but once I get the other 3 square ones, the 2 bigger rectangular ones and the 2 big L-Shaped ones done, then it will fill a nice bit of table, and these can stack in many different configurations.


Speaking of Star Wars, I finished my Fleet Trooper squad.

[TREX]

Those guys look great. I havent got to paint any minis lately. I had been making and painting prizes for the heroscape tourney. I had so much fun playing at that down there that I have been printing a bunch of HS custom terrain. I did have a chance to paint a mountain of 3d prints though.

[Tornado]

May I ask what you paid for your 3D printer TREX?
A friend of mine is considering getting one. Can you buy what you have on the open market or was that Kickstarter only?

[TREX]

Originally Posted by Tornado

May I ask what you paid for your 3D printer TREX?
A friend of mine is considering getting one. Can you buy what you have on the open market or was that Kickstarter only?

I bought ine for about 425 dollars on kickstarter that included a 3d printing head module, a cnc head module, and a laser engraving module. I imagine the price is a bit more now. Check out snapmaker.com. It has a smaller work bed area but the detail is pretty solid. You can print miniatures pretty good but I really like the terrain it kicks out. Its a solid machine. I may buy another one when they get a larger print area available.

[Tornado]

Cool, thanks.

He just sold his Heroscape collection for five grand and is looking to recreate some of it.

[Hahma]

After painting Infinity models for a while and then the Legion Fleet Troopers squad, I wanted a break from painting today. I already had one of the 4x4 inch buildings, all the ladders and barricades assembled from the order I got from Impudent Mortal, so I figured I'd spend the morning assembling the other seven buildings. I even assembled two of the 6 shipping containers, also from Impudent Mortal.

The shipping containers are part of their Rust line of near future/post apocalyptic stuff. These kits are MDF, and have adhesive transfers that you apply over the MDF. There are a few more steps during the assembly, in order to apply the transfers at key steps, but when you are done, they don't require painting and only need a couple coats of matte varnish to protect them. There are 2 of each, yellow, red and blue.

The buildings were pretty easy to assemble. That said, the roofs fit on pretty snugly, so before painting them, I will need to sand the outside or the top of the walls and the inside of the roof connection. That way the connections will be looser to account for the paint and varnish, and not mess up the paint up there.

The other areas of the buildings that I'm going to have to sand, is the inner sides of the roof walls and around the outside bottom of the builds. The buildings are meant to be very modular and stack in many configurations, but as they are now, they are too tight to stack. Shouldn't be a big deal to do, and it will really add to the utility of the buildings. They are designed for Infinity scale of 28mm, but will be fine for Legion and other systems, as well as Infinity.

With all 8 buildings put out as single story units, they do cover a nice bit of table, and on a 4x4 or 3x3 setup, they will add a lot of cover options.

[Tornado]

Awesome!

Love those shipping containers.