Heartbreaker Hobbies Starship Marines

I had these six Starship Marines lying around for a couple of years. They used to be Heartbreaker Hobbies, but are now sold at Black Tree Designs. Too bad they currently only have six poses available, but let's face it, I probably won't need more anyway.

I actually got started on these in a kind of random way. They had been standing prepped and basecoated for more than a year, but I could never decide for a colour scheme for them. So standing there collecting dust I found them while looking for something completely different and I decided to give them some paint.

 Ready to explore the Deathworlds.

I remember how I originally wanted to paint them green, but since I painted so much green lately I ended up giving the first one a white/red scheme. It ended up looking pretty good and so I wanted to paint them all this way, but I wanted to keep one in different colours, so he could be a leader of sorts. In the end I gave them three different paintjobs in pair of twos.

This will work well for skirmish settings, having them prance about in pairs as guards or explore barren wastes in their powered armour.

A bit different angle.

Scaleshot with Ork and Terminator.

Medieval Squat Army Project (WIP)

OK, so I haven't been much active on the picture posting front lately and I have had a hard time keeping track on what is really going on on the internets.... 

But it doesn't mean I haven't been up to anything. I have been working on several miniature project, but I have also been working on a lot of stuff not related to this hobby and at the same time my computers have been failing me and I ended up deleting my Windows XP and I now run on Linux.

All in all the last couple of months have been pretty stressfull for me, but I still wanted to show some of the stuff I have been working on.

One project I have been working on for several years now (and getting nowhere with) is my Medieval Squat Army. At first I just wanted to buy a few models, paint those before buying more and so forth, but I ended up with a rather huge army and I quickly stalled when I found out that it was just too much and I didn't enjoy painting units in huge batches at a time. 

So I finally decided to just paint single models or only a few at the same time. So now I am actually getting somewhere with the project and I really enjoy painting these models.

Non of the miniatures are 100% finished yet, but on the picture below you are able to see a batch of the ones which are closest being to done.

Mix og old Citadel, Black Tree Design and White Knight miniatures.

Some other projects I have been working on, but don't have any pictures of at the moment, is: Female Corporation Dreadball team, Acheson Creations Sci-Fi Saurians, random Fantasy miniatures and painting a bit for a friend too. I hope to have more of all this to show soon.

Fishmen and Ferro Beasts

Some time ago I took some quick photos of my Fishmen I got from Wargames Foundry and I promised to take some better photos at a later point. As things turned out I never got around to do so, but now I found some other sci-fi Fishmen from Wargames Supply Dump and I thought it would be a good time to take out the two old Fishmen again.

And lately it seems that Rogue Trader Ferro Beasts have been the big thing in the Oldhammer community and of course I needed some of my own too. So after Christmas I put in an order with Black Tree Design and added a couple of their Rust Monsters to my order. 

 A couple of Marines get ambushed on a swampy Death World.

I found some old mushroom terrain from Scotia Grendel.

I think the Wargames Supply Dump Fishmen look a bit dated compared to the ones from Foundry, but they are good enough for me. I am thinking of using them as Lesser Fishmen, kind of a lower state of evolution to the more advanced Foundry Fishmen who are clever enough to use more equipment.

Wargames Supply Dmp Fishmen left and right, Foundry in the middle.

And a closer look at the Ferro Beasts together with a RT Medic.

The medic is not all finished yet, I need to add a Blood Angels logo to the red circle on the banner. I think I want to paint it on myself rather than use a transfer, but my free hand is not so good yet, so I want to practise some more before I give it a go.

Luckily these Ferro Beasts don't eat power armour.