The Khurasan Miniatures order arrived today and I have to say the casting quality is amazing. There are virtually no visible mold lines on the metal parts and the resin has hardly any flash or distortion. The fit between the resin and metal parts is fantastic as well, with each piece fitting snugly in place.
Now of course comes the question of what I will do with them. Obviously one way or another they will be serving as APCs for my USCMC platoon but, will I leave them as-is or will I do some conversion? If I do any conversion work, what will it be? I'm definitely considering some work on the wheels and wheel wells but should I stop there?
Hopefully I can figure that out this weekend.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
That was fast!
Noble Knight has proven themselves to be fast and efficient. The Sci-Fi Supply (now, unfortunately out of business) buildings and Wild Walls kits were in exactly the condition NK had described and an order placed Sunday afternoon arrived late this morning (a touch under three days which compares favorably to Amazon.UK and the Royal Mail).
The trick now will be to figure out how to deal with the very limited availability of the kits (Fortress Walls, Fortified Towers, control tower) relative to what I will likely need. Unlike a normal resin, pewter or even plastic kit traditional resin casting isn't exactly viable for the unassembled kit (as it is formed styrene sheet) and I'm not sure how well the assembled kit would hold it's shape under normal casting methods. Very tricky.
The trick now will be to figure out how to deal with the very limited availability of the kits (Fortress Walls, Fortified Towers, control tower) relative to what I will likely need. Unlike a normal resin, pewter or even plastic kit traditional resin casting isn't exactly viable for the unassembled kit (as it is formed styrene sheet) and I'm not sure how well the assembled kit would hold it's shape under normal casting methods. Very tricky.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Hopefully I can keep this up
First off, I have to say thanks to Panzerfaust 150 for giving me the idea for the project that got me started on this and for giving me the idea to try starting a gaming blog.
Thanks to a chance mention on PF150's blog a couple weeks ago, followed by a couple email exchanges and phone calls I decided to start working on a unit of Colonial Marines (naturally there have to be some nasty Xenos and a Predator or two to give them something to alternately shoot at/wet them selves at the thought of). Eventually I will likely use Ambush Alley's upcoming Sci-Fi system (if PF150's comments are accurate it should be very good) but in the mean time I have been contenting myself with using Stargrunt II with some house rules from derelict websites and half finished mailing list threads.
Of course at the moment I don't have much in the way of pretty pictures of the project, that will have to wait for QRF and Khurasan to get my orders to me, unless someone really wants to see a couple sheets of insulation and hardboard sitting in my basement. What I do have though, once I find somewhere to store web accessible versions of the documents, is about ten pages of carefully formatted (but, so far, untested) unit data cards for Stargrunt II. So far it looks like the initial terrain orders and materials will get here much sooner than the miniatures themselves. At least that will give me some encouragement to get working on the table rather than getting wrapped up in conversions and painting.
Hopefully By this time next week I'll have the first batch of minis in my hands so I can start measuring out terrain features and have something to try to show off. Maybe this time I'll be able to keep a blog going on a semi-regular basis this time.
Thanks to a chance mention on PF150's blog a couple weeks ago, followed by a couple email exchanges and phone calls I decided to start working on a unit of Colonial Marines (naturally there have to be some nasty Xenos and a Predator or two to give them something to alternately shoot at/wet them selves at the thought of). Eventually I will likely use Ambush Alley's upcoming Sci-Fi system (if PF150's comments are accurate it should be very good) but in the mean time I have been contenting myself with using Stargrunt II with some house rules from derelict websites and half finished mailing list threads.
Of course at the moment I don't have much in the way of pretty pictures of the project, that will have to wait for QRF and Khurasan to get my orders to me, unless someone really wants to see a couple sheets of insulation and hardboard sitting in my basement. What I do have though, once I find somewhere to store web accessible versions of the documents, is about ten pages of carefully formatted (but, so far, untested) unit data cards for Stargrunt II. So far it looks like the initial terrain orders and materials will get here much sooner than the miniatures themselves. At least that will give me some encouragement to get working on the table rather than getting wrapped up in conversions and painting.
Hopefully By this time next week I'll have the first batch of minis in my hands so I can start measuring out terrain features and have something to try to show off. Maybe this time I'll be able to keep a blog going on a semi-regular basis this time.
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