Starship Troopers

 

I took a brave pill and attempted to carry on and paint my 6mm starship troopers . The bugs weren't to complicated, I used some yellow and green speed paint. I know they have more distinctive markings but I don't have the skill or patience for that. The troopers, I used a dab off flesh coloured speed paint and then a dark grey contrast for the armour and a light grey on the guns. Not sure yet on the guns might have to try different colours. The bases I didn't dip in sand next time Indo more troopers I will dip their bases in the basing material. The the base edges inside colour code so I know difference between troopers, support weaponry  and officers. Still got the outpost base to paint up .

 Gonna have a try playing them using xenos rampant rules . See how that plays

A new Project is started......

 While I was browsing Etsy (Always a dangerous game) I discovered starship troopers!! 

I mean 6mm starship troopers but starship troopers none the less. But 6mm means I can have a bug horde that takes up very little space

For starters I purchased a set of 50 odd mobile infantry, 10 bugs and some outpost walls. They all came still with the 3D print supports attached so I spent a few evenings getting them off. I only managed to damage a few models (it's my first time having to do this ) bit nothing major. 

Now they are all off their supports I can look at priming and painting. I need more bugs for that truly swarm type game. 

Xenos Rampant Project

 

I love starship troopers and Aliens so I want to do a Xenos rampant aliens vs colonial marines (Can't do starship troopers as I can't find the right arachnid models) . Handily Pendraken do the miniatures I require in 10mm. Being 10mm I thought this would be a good opportunity to make slightly larger forces. In Xenos Rampant units have strength points usually either 10 or 5. In a 28mm game most of the time you would represent one strength point with 1 model, so lose a point 1 model removed. With 10mm I thought about removing a stand to represent 1  strength point. At the moment it's either 2 models to a stand or 5. I'm leaving towards 2 as that will be a bit cheaper and you still will get the larger unit sense. A standard Colonial infantry unit would be 10 strength points this would equate to 5 stands with 2 models on each. I think this would look cool and hopefully not to crowded. 

These guys would be my standard heavy infantry. 

And here is the enemy the Xenomorph. There is a Xenomorph profile in Xenos Rampant so will be using that. There are a few more options for each side also. The classic APC

And the fearsome Queen 

There are a few other things like turrets and face huggers so plenty of other options aswell. All from Pendraken miniatures which is handy!! 

What's everyone think? I think it could be cool