Eyetarans have been spotted on Lead Covenant blog!

Eyetarans have been spotted on Lead Covenant blog beautifully painted by Martin Connell!

In this post you can see Eytarans with brown fur on grassy terrain.

Armies Army Hovercraft revamped

Revamped model of Armies Army hovercraft.

Assault landings....Royal Commonwealth Marines......indeedy

I've made a 1:100 scale sci-fi hovercraft!

From ArmiesArmy blog:
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Every Marine needs a good Beach Landing Assault vehicle and here is mine. The light assault hovercraft will come in different varieties due to its modular nature, with both a fully enclosed cabin and a open crewed cabin. Further examples will carry heavier weapon loads, APC's , Power Armor Troops and specialized commando raiders .

Nick Kondratov has done a great job of taking my design and modelling it, all whilst starting his new degree (best of luck Nick:))

I have a bunch of releases to get out of the way over the next month and then Ill have bunch of new items off to printing and casting.

thanks

Keith
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Toy soldiers dance party and new ERA on this blog.

I started rebasing my Lead Mountain Army. All my little lead men were so happy about their new shiny bases, so they decide to have a party on my painting table! Some even brought tanks and cars with them to have a ride around the table :) Its nice to see my little guys happy, and from now on I decided to write short stores about them in my future posts like Jay does. I introduced a new "STORY" label, so if you are interested in life of 15mm World inhabitants, just click on this label.

Zulu War Brits are having a friendly firefight with Great War Brits on a lamp, while their fans from different time period are watching. Remember, that toy soldiers cant harm each other and treat all fights like fun games. Battles and skirmishes on wargame tables are their favorite sport.

Ottoman Turks are watching the fight behind barbed wire barrier. Turks want to become the popular army among other toys soldiers, but they need more training.

Riders preparing for a friendly race. They want to show Americans that their lead horses are better than modern cars. 

T-34 driver having a chat with giant crab. I am wandering what common topics they have :)

Soldiers, civilians, robots and aliens are dancing!

 M113 gunner and Colonial Security (French Foreign Legionaries painted in blue and grey) are watching Lone Wanderer's Futterwacken dance

Laserburn Vehicles in Resin

Sharing great news from 15mm.co.uk

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Classic Laserburn Vehicles Remastered and in Resin now releasing! We have a special new and old release today.  Old because it concerns classic Laserburn 15mm scale vehicle models and new because we have withdrawn the original white metal molds and castings and replaced them with high quality resin castings.   Alternative Armies and by extension 15mm.co.uk now has a functioning resin plant which is producing the first two re-mastered Laserburn vehicles as of this week.  We have given ourselves a little round of applause and a pat on the back as its been a wee trek to get to this point but now on with the show! Here you can see our deep blue tone test castings of the Partizan Wagon, Hover Van and Hover Support Wagon along with a medium lift disc for placing under any of these vehicles.  We use a superior grade of polyurethane resin with a flat grey tone for all production castings.  We will be re-releasing in resin the rest of the re-mastered  Laserburn vehicle range over the coming weeks.  Note there has been a price reduction on these codes due to their new production material and method. On a different note The Ion Age continues apace with the release of the first of many scupted packs of 15mm Shia Khan Legion infantry.  Yes, you read this correctly Legion infantry which are one of the most requested designs ever on 15mm.co.uk.  So once again it proves that I do listen and react to wargamers suggestions and in this case I kept it a little surprise for The Ion Age.  More information below. Thanks for Reading! Gavin Syme

V101 Flit Cars (2 Resin Vehicles) This code contains two high quality clean grey tone polyurethane resin castings of the Laserburn Flit Car along with two small lift discs.  These are one piece models to which the supplied lift discs can be attached if you desire a floating vehicle or left off if you want it parked and inactive.  Dimensions of this vehicle are approx 30mm in length and 15mm wide.  Supplied unpainted and unassembled. Price per pack is 3.00GBP. Follow the link below for more information. RESIN FLIT CARS

V103 Hover Vans (2 Resin Vehicles) This code contains two high quality clean grey tone polyurethane resin castings of the Laserburn Hover Van along with two medium lift discs.  These are one piece models to which the supplied lift discs can be attached if you desire a floating vehicle or left off if you want it parked and inactive.  Dimensions of this vehicle are approx 40mm in length and 20mm wide.  Supplied unpainted and unassembled. Price per pack is 4.00GBP. Click on the link below to learn more. RESIN HOVER VANS

Glyptodon from Mick Yarrow

Just painted 15mm Glyptodon - the giant armadillo of Pleistocene epoch. Like in my previous post I included Merc from Laserburn range for size comparison. With its rounded, bony shell and squat limbs, Glyptodon superficially resembled turtles, and the much earlier dinosaurian ankylosaur, as an example of the convergent evolution of unrelated lineages into similar forms. 

Glyptodon is 30mm long and he is really nice figure. He is available from Mick Yarrow Miniatures Ice Age range.

SHM Range and Litko

I am at the middle of my rebasing progress, and I want to share some results with you :) On the photo above you can see three SHM Range alien creatures: Thing from Abyss, Tentacled Brain Monster and Avarep Cobra. All figures are based on 1.5mm thick Clear Acrylic bases from Litko.

Here you can see Tentacled Brain Monster and Merc with assault rifle from Laserburn range painted in Australian cmouflage. I glued each tentacle to the base using blob of superglue. While glue was wet, I added small amount of sand around tentacles. Merc was based on 15mm wide base and creature on 30mm base.

The same Merc with Avarep Cobra. Looking like a furry Terran snake the Avarep is a dangerous foe indeed. Capable of near flight by coiled jumping, its beak is as hard as iron. Found on many worlds. There are hundreds of Avarep Cobra species, each have its own fur and skin colour.

Thing from Abyss

Sharing photo of painted Thing from Abyss monster from SHM Range. One of my earliest 15mm sculptures :)

New SHM Range alien creatures from 15mm.co.uk

Four new alien creatures are available from 15mm.co.uk! They are part of famous SHM Range for aspiring sculptors who do not afraid to experiment. SHM Range its a place a where you can find very weird and unique miniatures. :)

Three of these little creatures are inhabitants of swamps or or prehistoric worlds and the fourth creature came from horror realm :)

SHM58 Mollusca – A small primitive creature with lots of skin folds. 10mm long.  This small beast can be used as mollusca, larvae or creature from aqua world or can even be a sand-fish. It may inhabit seabed, sea shores or can live in caves. It may be a herbivore or eat small crabs and shells.  Or it attacks the legs of colonists!

SHM59 Swamper - This is creature is from a swamp planet. Its body has a length of 12mm. Swampers have very tasty meat and can be raised as livestock by farmers but they can escape and cause havoc.

SHM60 Armoured Swamper - This is a Swamper subspecies, covered in light scale armour. Body length 10mm. For moving this creature uses its tentacles and muscles on its belly. This is slow creature who eats plants and some small shelled creatures. This creature lives in swamps, and uses its scales for protection from surface creatures. If it is under attack it can dig itself in mud leaving only armoured back above mud level. A Potential foe for colonists.

Here are two Swamper species side by side.

Typical Swamper farm look very close to these rice fields, but with fences, to prevent Swampers from escape.

SHM61 Collective Mind Monster - This is a creature of nightmares lurking in the shadows. Psychic powers and multiple minds sharing one over aweing brain. Controlling a host of drones or the result of radiation and gene wars a real horror! Approx 12mm wide without tentacles.

Started rebasing my Insurgents

Started rebasing my Insurgents on 15mm clear acrylic bases from Litko

Even more Krators!!!

Krators horde! One big and 3 small Krators bases 

All variants of small Krators on one base

The last stand.

Asgard from Stargate universe.

Asgard from Stargate universe. Actually its "Rebel Minis" Grey Alien figure.

Color Code:

Base color: Tallarn Flesh

Wash: Seraphim Sepia for light washing of some areas (like back of the head or skin around the eyes)

            Agrax Earthshade for washing most of the skin areas, like spine and space between fingers.

Highlight 1: Tallarn Flesh over some washed areas like and chest and biseps.

Highlight 2: Karak Stone

Eyes base color: Abaddon Black

Eyes highlight: Stormvermin Fur

Capture this alien!!!

More Krators

Painted 1 group of 3 small Krators in 2 poses. Big and small Krators figures are from from 15mm.co.uk. Peter Pig US modern infantryman for size comparison.

Peter Pig insurgents!

Peter pig insurgents! And one Laserburn range figure in boonie hat.

Ert from 15mm.co.uk

Ert from Laserburn range.

Weird Alien

Just painted very weird 15mm alien creature from Irregular Miniatures (code 5SF23). I really like this insectoid creature. It looks like mix of Reaper from X-Com game and creature from end of the movie Fly 2 (1989). This alien have carapace armor, some sort of plasma or acid gun on its left side and something like energy battery or breathing organ on its right side.

15mm Colonial Militia/Security

Just made test painting of colonial militia/sci-fi police/security figure. Actually this is French Foreign Legion figure from Peter Pig "AK47 Republic", but I thought he will be great for 15mm sci-fi gaming. Soon I will finish a squad of these little chaps. If you are interested I posted photos of other French Foreign Legion figures from Peter Pig store.