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High above the waves the Illustrious Class Sky Fortress gracefully glides into battle, held aloft by six gigantic manoeuvring rotors and the Royal Engineering Corps’ most advanced Sturginium Gravitation Generators.
The model itself comes in a blister. It mainly comprises one large piece of resin.
In addition to the engine pylons, you get an ‘island’ and aircraft flyer tokens.
Next stage after washing the resin will be putting the model together.
Cybermen were a “race” of cybernetically augmented humanoid. They varied greatly in design, with different factions throughout time and space. The two major groups, from which all other known versions derived, were the Mondasian Cybermen, which originated on the planet Mondas – Earth’s twin planet in the Doctor’s Universe – and the Cybermen created by Cybus Industries, which originated on Earth in an alternate universe.
They attacked Earth on many occassions, providing a lot of potential for gaming scenarios.
Back in the 1990s Harlequin Miniatures produced a licensed range of 28mm metal miniatures and I have three Cybermen. They are Mondasian Cybermen from the original series rathe than the new versions that arrived on our screens in 2006.
The first thing I did was to “cement” the models to their bases using some Green Stuff.
The Eagle Class War Rotor is a marvel of Her Majesty’s Flying Corps and the pride of any pilot that is granted the honour of captaining one. Years of engineering have gone into the development of this flying behemoth, and the utilisation of hybrid rotor driven propulsion and Sturginium-enhanced Anti-Gravitation generators allows thousands of tonnes of British steel to glide into the sky above the battlefield, much to the horror of its foes.
The model itself comes in a blister. There are three main resin pieces and some other parts in metal.
Really nice concept for the model and something that I will enjoy painting.
I’ve mentioned some 1/200th or 10mm Hovels Ruins on the blog before. I found the other day the church that I bought at the same time.
This has been undercoated black, and partly painted grey.
I will now take the opportunity to repaint it for Flames of War. Though obviously smaller than the 15mm or 1/100th scale of Flames of War, I think it will work fine as a background piece of scenery.
Having finished painting the Robot from Doctor Who I started painting the base using a dark green.
Get Robot
Though I was quite pleased how Emmet Gates turned out, I was less pleased with his base.
I first gave it a basecoat of Citadel Texture: Armageddon Dust. Once the paint was dry, I drybrushed with Citadel Layer: Ushabti Bone and then used some Citadel Mordheim Turf.
What I did note was that it didn’t quite cover the coin as well as I thought it would. So for my other Foundry models I decided to use a bit of green stuff to texture the base.
This will combined with the Citadel Texture make the base look more like a base and less like a coin.
Here is a photographs of all the ships from the Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group.
Look at the workbench feature.
Tally Ho! has been an idea of mine for many years now, and sadly hasn’t got very far.
The concept was based around the 1930s pulp fiction, combined with the best of the Indiana Jones films, a smattering of Darkest Africa and potentially some steampunk in there too.
Having finished my Victorian Science Fiction Steam Tank and Emmet Gates, I knew that I did need some more figures. Though I was still painting my Foundry Gunfighters, sorting through some boxes I found some Foundry Darkest Africa figures that I must have bought in the 1990s at some point.
I decided that I would try and paint these up, mainly for use with the Old West rules, but also to inspire me to revisit and think about the Tally Ho! rules and background.
After drybrushing the Battleship and the Cruisers, the next lots of ships to be drybrushed and weathered from the Dystopian Wars Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group were the small Attacker Class Frigates.
These are very tiny in comparison to their sister ships.
I think I could have added more details, but key for me was getting them finished to get them on the table.
I mentioned the armoured locomotive a week ago, well here is the rolling stock to go with my Flames of War German Armoured Train.
I got an Artillery Car and an Anti-Aircraft Car (or should that be a Flak Car?).
Like the locomotive the main parts of the model are resin with metal wheels and components.
I know I really should have gone for an Infantry Car, but to be honest the thought of trying to glue together the radio aerials put me off, so I didn’t.