Hamilton's Forces

[hamilton]

I decided to move out of 15mm Friday to put my completed force (and future projects) here.

Manth force is now complete. I took the advice I got here and elsewhere and left the Manth carapaces shiny while dulling equipment, etc.



Here's the commander. I gave him a bigger gun and a commo pack.


A closeup of an engineer. The drone is the head from a HaloClix Marine


A heavy plasma support gun. The gun and base are from SFB hex stands.


The recent posts on the hexbug larva made me seek these guys out. I got a nice deal on a lot of 4 on ebay.


Sniper team - just extended the barrel.


Gunsled painted up, components mentioned previously.


I have a bunch of Mechwarrior stuff, now happily ready to be repurposed for 15mm! I chose 3 Locust mechs for my Manth force.


Supposed to be a pic of the command team and the heavy vehicles, but the command team came out pretty blurry.


Finally, an image of the 4 squads, their specialists, and their rides!


This has been a great way to break into 15mm - easy painting and really nice minis - kudos to Rebel Minis.
My oldest daughter and two nephews have been busy painting up some Rebel EF droptroopers, and my middle daughter is working on a robot army made of Risk battledroids and some Shalur, so we hope to have some games this weekend!

[Mr. Harold]

Such an awesome force.... great APCs too!

I have my Manth somewhere, someday I need to paint them up!

Great conversions and painting!

Made any unit cards yet?

Thanks for posting all the pictures

[stroezie]

+1 on the APC's.
Really nice find.
I like your colorcoded bases to.

[hamilton]

@mr. Harold - I have not, I will start making cards tonight. I'm sure my first attempt will be too expensive! Your minis are always an inspiration. Even though mine are more journeyman work, I like to show people that anyone can play with painted minis instead of naked lead!
By the way, using a magnifying headband has been a lifesaver for my aging eyes. I highly recommend to anyone trying to paint 15mm.

stroezie - thanks, I saw some other minis that had color-coded bases and thought that would help when viewing forces from across the table. Here's my breakdown:


I have decided my Manth (still haven't come up with my own racial name yet) will use an octal system with numerals constructed on an equilateral triangle with binary coding (to explain the markings on the vehicles):

[vince]

That's pretty ingenious. I should stea- err adopt this for my forces.
Also +1 for one of the few alien forces

[lordnth]

Very cool. Looks great. Love the octal system. I may use that.

[armiesarmy]

impressive!

[pakwagon]

hese keep getting better and better. A simple, yet beautifully applied colour scheme. Well done sir!

I may have to make use of those Hexbugs as well

[hamilton]

Second force is done (except for their air and transport of course!)

This is a mix of Rebel Shalur, Risk Clone Wars battledroids, a gumball prize robot, a HeroClix drone, and some Star Wars minis droids.

My middle daughter came up with the color scheme and helped paint them up. Primed grey, then sprayed silver. Gunmetal on the guns, red on the face/helm area, some blue highlights on knobs and such, and then dipped. This didn't take long in terms of actual invested time, but was stretched out over a long period as she lost interest

I have some cool stuff for them for air and transport - some Matchbox Dark Knight Bats that I'm adding struts and magnets to in order to carry battle pods containing the androids, but still in construction phase.

Here's the whole ground force:


The rifle platoon (Rebel Shalur):


The assault platoon (SW Risk pieces):


The command section:


The force commander (added a drone and a backpack):


The assault subcommander (one of those gumball prize toys):


Flamethrower mod to an assault cannon:


Heavy assault android (SW mini):


Medic (or at least, small-systems engineer!) - just repositioned arms and added a bag:


Missile team:


Sniper (extended barrel):


A fun force to paint, even easier than the Manth were. Now if my nephews and oldest daughter will just finish their darn stuff!

[stroezie]

That flamethrower rocks!
Another great looking force.
Now start chopping up those Manth with it! :-))

[Mr. Harold]

Great Shular force!

[freelancer]

Oooh those are great.....must seek out Hex Bug larvae!

[twogunsblazing]

Wow, fantastic looking mini's!!! I really like the flame thrower effect

[Octal Inheritor]

Jul 12, 2013 15:51:13 GMT -5 hamilton said:

@mr. Harold - I have not, I will start making cards tonight. I'm sure my first attempt will be too expensive! Your minis are always an inspiration. Even though mine are more journeyman work, I like to show people that anyone can play with painted minis instead of naked lead!
By the way, using a magnifying headband has been a lifesaver for my aging eyes. I highly recommend to anyone trying to paint 15mm.

stroezie - thanks, I saw some other minis that had color-coded bases and thought that would help when viewing forces from across the table. Here's my breakdown:


I have decided my Manth (still haven't come up with my own racial name yet) will use an octal system with numerals constructed on an equilateral triangle with binary coding (to explain the markings on the vehicles):


nice try, but you are doing it backwards and you still have to count your zeros.   \ = 1  / = 4    \  .\  = 8   (ex. \ /. = 80000)
what, you thought it would be \ . . . . ?
if you are actually interested in octal, you will be happy to know i am working on solving multiplication using 3D pyramids.