 Tony Francis  | 16 Mar 2016 2:50 a.m. PST |
I've just finished another large force for Hammer's Slammers:The Crucible and thought I'd put up a few photos. My Alaudae Legion is made up of three eight element detachments, 21 vehicles and three infantry elements in total all ready for action at the weekend. More photos and a bit more of a write-up on the blog:
wp.me/p26BWy-1Eo
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| Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 16 Mar 2016 4:07 a.m. PST |
Great job! Those are very nice. |
| AVAMANGO | 16 Mar 2016 4:59 a.m. PST |
They really do look amazing and im not just saying that, your camera work makes them pop even more these pics should be in a 15mm rule book somewhere… |
Frederick  | 16 Mar 2016 6:03 a.m. PST |
Agreed – great minis and photos that should be published |
| McWong73 | 16 Mar 2016 6:20 a.m. PST |
Outstanding. Out of interest, do you thin the matt varnish when airbrushing? |
| Tony Francis | 16 Mar 2016 6:36 a.m. PST |
@McWong – yes, but not much, something like 4:1 varnish:thinner. Too much and it tends not to dry properly and stays shiny (which defeats the purpose!). I have an inexpensive but very forgiving airbrush  . |
| Darkest Star Games | 16 Mar 2016 6:48 a.m. PST |
Agree with all above, they look great! |
| Darkest Star Games | 16 Mar 2016 6:49 a.m. PST |
Just realized how you're denoting command units, very clever! |
 Legion 4  | 16 Mar 2016 7:59 a.m. PST |
Very Nice !!!!  |
| Allen57 | 16 Mar 2016 8:57 a.m. PST |
Great but not 6mm. I am a 3/6mm guy. Too much invested in other scales to start 15mm |
| Pattus Magnus | 16 Mar 2016 9:09 a.m. PST |
Allen57, I'm also a 6mm sci-fi (and ancients, and napoleonics) guy. IMO, 6mm is the way to go for bigger battles. As for the force pictured, all of the hulls and turrets shown are also available from Brigade Models in 6mm through the EuroFed and Mercs lines. Some of the turrets would have to be swapped between vehicles to get an exact replica of the force, but it IS possible! Brigade Models is pretty amazing that way, with almost complete coverage of their lines in 6mm and 15mm. |
| jsans73 | 16 Mar 2016 9:25 a.m. PST |
I cant seem to find those infantry on the Brigade site can anyone point them out for me? |
| Tony Francis | 16 Mar 2016 9:27 a.m. PST |
@jsans73 – they're our PacFed Armoured Infantry:
link |
| jsans73 | 16 Mar 2016 11:54 a.m. PST |
many thanks, they look awesome! |
| Patrick Sexton | 16 Mar 2016 3:12 p.m. PST |
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| Twoball Cane | 16 Mar 2016 7:55 p.m. PST |
Tony those are great…. What airbrush do you use….I'm convinced I need one now? |
| Stealth1000 | 17 Mar 2016 6:39 a.m. PST |
I love Brigades stuff. They can do no wrong in my eyes. They get a good chunk of my gaming budget. |
| darebear | 17 Mar 2016 1:19 p.m. PST |
Very nice. Can you tell us which paints you used? |
| Tony Francis | 18 Mar 2016 2:39 a.m. PST |
@Twoball – it's just an inexpensive one I picked up on eBay – just like this one auction @darebear – mostly Tamiya and Citadel (if you follow the link to the blog it's all detailed there). I like Tamiya paints for their range of military colours and they airbrush nicely. Citadel paints probably aren't quite as nice as Vallejo, but (and this is very important) if I run out of a colour, I can pop down to Games Workshop and pick up a new pot in half-an-hour. If I want to use Vallejo colours, I have to get them by post which takes several days. |
| Twoball Cane | 18 Mar 2016 4:31 p.m. PST |
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BlackWidowPilot  | 18 Mar 2016 9:45 p.m. PST |
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| Trojan Points | 19 Mar 2016 5:03 a.m. PST |
Great job!!! Where do the small SATCOM domes come from? |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 19 Mar 2016 11:13 p.m. PST |
Beautiful work and pictures. |
| Tony Francis | 20 Mar 2016 10:36 a.m. PST |
@Trojan – they're from our Chinese command unit, they form part of the command drones:
link |
| John Treadaway | 20 Mar 2016 2:39 p.m. PST |
Tony and I game them a spin on Saturday at my new Wargames Cabin in The Woods. They ran into some very tough nuts: late Slammers (one detachment) and two of the New Ukrainians. It was an interesting result: at the end we neither of us had very much left and were both teetering on the edge of morale checks. Tony suggested that the Slammers probably had it just on account of still having one functional blower tank left but it was a very close run thing. Tony has done a lovely job with those Alaudae, both in the painting and, of course, the design work (the heaviest tanks needed a new hull). I'll post some pics when I have them off of my camera. Interestingly enough, the subject of 1/300th came up in the post game debrief and, of course, Brigade do an excellent job of reproducing everything they do in both scales. I mentioned that I'd done a lot of the play testing for the rules in 6mm and if I were to use them again I'd use either the Imperial Option (swap measurements into inches rather than cm's) or just using the 15mm/1/100th sheets. John T PS: Tony did some of the worst dice rolling I have ever seen! |
| John Treadaway | 21 Mar 2016 11:20 a.m. PST |
I've just posted a new topic on the bug infested boards!
See here TMP link for some stuff on Tony's Alaudae, Patrick Sexton's Chicago group and some other completely unrelated stuff… John T |
| Tony Francis | 22 Mar 2016 6:22 a.m. PST |
That's a very nice photo, John – just like real-life, wargames action shots are usually better than anything that you try to do when posing models. |
