Hydra Miniatures Hoverbot

Hydra Miniatures produce some fabulous miniatures for Pulp Sci-fi but these hoverbots are versatile for many Sci-fi settings outside of the pulp era.

I'll admit I'm using this one in a game of Fantastic Worlds by Rattrap Productions but he's also seeing service in a couple of home brew Sci-fi board games I've been tinkering with too.

And I've been toying with writing some rules for using rudimentary robots and droids in Necromunda - just so I can get this little fella and a few others I've got onto the gaming table more often.

Hasslefree Lab Technician

I've had a variety of Hasslefree Miniatures scattered about my painting table for some time now and finally got the Lab Technician finished.

I'm taking part in a Play by Email game of Fantastic Worlds by Rattrap Productions, a great game by the way, and I needed a pic of my character for the game.

I'm using him as a Grade 2 Scientist and he's accompanied by a Grade 1 Analysis Robot - I'm using a Hoverbot from Hydra Miniatures for that (see other post for pics).

The base is a resin base from Fenris Games.

My first completed miniature sculpt!

I've finally got a photo of my first completed mini sculpt - it's one of a bunch of alien critters I started a while ago. He's about 13mm-15mm 'tall'.

I've entered him into the Black Scorpion sculpting 'sculpt an alien critter' competition so we'll see how he does in a week or so. :-D

I had many initial thumbnail concepts and the final thing has changed quite a bit from my original ideas but I'm quite happy with how he's turned out.

It's been a great experience building a mini from scratch and I think I may have caught the bug for it. For the moment I'm going to stick to doing unusual critters and keep the scale small so that I can practice and improve putty working and accuracy at a reasonably small scale.

Although saying that I'm very tempted to have a go at a humanoid just to get a feel for the difficulties involved in that kind of work.

Here's the pics (click to see bigger pic):

Updates incoming!

I'm going to be updating this blog over the next week with some photos (finally) and a few other bits and bobs of info about my current hobby gaming.

One major decision that I've had to make recently is to stop spending for a month or so and sell off some more of my mountain of miniatures. Although I'll be taking a trip to the the UK Games Expo in June so will need to allow myself a small budget there.

This decision is based mainly because we've a few home improvement projects that need sorting out first and foremost and also I've got quite a few painting projects on the go and need to do a bit of 'completing' before buying new stuff.

The only thing I'm going to allow myself to buy are cases/storage for miniatures as I finish painting them. I don't fancy stuffing my 40k armies into a random pile in a plastic tub after I've spent ages painting them.

:-)

New 3 column layout

I finally had a few minutes to alter the layout to make room for a few extra features I've wanted to add to the site.

You're now looking at the result - I cheated too.

If you run a blogger blog and want to know how to switch to a three column grid take a look here.

I took a look at the source code and figured that someone else must have done a blogger variant before and they had.

:)

I know, lazy - but it got the job done.

Anyway, I've added a couple of new lists to the right hand column which includes miniatures I've painted this year and miniatures I've bought or sold this year.

It's going to act as my barometer on whether I'm getting through my mini mountain or not.

I'll be getting some photos of my recently painted stuff up soon as I've not added any piccies for a while now.