Full Throttle Comics - BACK TO LIFE!

I am happy to announce that my abandoned project of adapting famous Lucas Arts game "Full Throttle" into graphic novel is back to life! Page Ten in available here and SIXTEEN more pages are awaiting for the upload!

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.

North Korean vehicles!

Sharing photos of of North Korean tank and APC. I painted these vehicles a mouth ago, and only now I decided to share some photos. Judging from photos and youtube clips of military parades, North Korean vehicle and uniform colour is brownish, so I decided to paint them in Vallejo Brown Violet. 

 From 2002 North Korea use Pokpung-ho as its Main Battle Tank, but it still have huge fleet of older Chonma-ho MBT - a modified version of Soviet T-62. Unfortunately, no one make Pokpung-ho in 15mm. So I decide to stick with Chonma-ho in 15mm. I bought 15mm T-62 from QRF and painted it as early version of Chonma-ho. Korean APC in 15mm was also a bit tricky. As its APC, North Korea use VTT-323 and M-2010 (modified VTT-323 with longer chassis and improved optic). But again, no one makes these vehicles in 15mm. The only solution is to buy Chinese Type 62 APC from QRF and use it as very early version of VTT-323, before Koreans added turret and ATGM on it. 

To make my North Korean Vehicles more interesting I decided to sculpt some stowage from green-stuff. But in case with VTT-323 I think I sculpted to much stowage :) I also added one wooden ammo box from Plastic Soldier Company 25mm gun battery.

QRF M113 with original gunners head

This is how QRF M113 looks with original gunners head. The head is smaller than Peter Pig modern Marines, so I decided to make a head swap for my other vehicles. But it works OK with Vietnam era Peter Pig Americans, because they have similar head size, and modern era Marines have much bigger heads.

Pazner 28(t) and Sd.Kfz. 251

Before painting A7V, I decide to practice on smaller German vehicles. 

Here is Panzer 38 (t) from Zvezda. Hull was painted in Army Painter Uniform Grey and highlights were made by Citadel  Fortress Grey. And don't forget to use Testors Dullcoat :) ! 

Another angle of Panzer 38(t)

Sd.Kfz. 251 from Zvezda

Real world vehicles that may inspire Star Wars walkers

Maybe I am wrong, but I found that Sd.Kfz. 251 and A7V may inspire Star Wars designers when creating famous AT-ST and AT-AT walkers.

Compare AT-ST and  front part of Sd.Kfz. 251 :)

Compare AT-AT hull and A7V Hull :). They also have similar performance: slow unstoppable machines 

Started painting A7V

I started painting one of my all time favorites tanks - A7V tank in 15mm scale. I got the model from QRF and its really nice huge model with sharp details.I already primed the model and will share photos of finished model really soon. Now I need some Late WW1 Germans :)