TRAVELLERcon Miniatures Update Part II

So I'm thinking "Why not break the update into two posts and kick up the bandwidth usage a bit?"  Hey?  Clever boy, that.

Mark Klambo preparing to run his Ashanti High Lightning scenario...

...as written by Marc Miller, circa 1979.  We are nothing if not Staunchly Traditional...and lazy.
 

Apparantly, this boardgame qualifies as a minaiture games, because it has miniatures.  I know that I certainly feel better knowing that, and I expect Mark does, too...
 
Here's a game being run by Harry B.  They played all day - it must have been riveting.

10:00 A.M.

 

10:00 PM

 One of the interesting this about Traveller players is the range of technology:














Laptops and ethernet...














...to paper and pizza.

Coffee stains are traditional.

And even a few women... how times have changed.

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TRAVELLERcon Miniatures Round Up

It's amazing what you'll find when you go through the pictures folder on your laptop.  Here are some piccies I snapped at TravellerCon-USA this past October.

 This is Bill P.'s Snapshot Game, where Vargr salvage team battles human salvage team aboard the Kinunir.

I had something of an advantage, as having played in a Traveller Campaign set aboard an active duty Kinunir-class colonial cruiser, I knew the ship plans pretty well.

 A word to the wise - despite the glowing patina the years may have added to your memories of Snap Shot - the rules kinda suck...a lot.

My StarGrunt/Striker Game "Vland in the Can".  I had forgot to bring my Terran Troops, so Mark Clambo of Daddy's Little Men loaned me some of his figs.  What a champ.

Kinda neat pic as the Vilani Recon sleds roll on.

Viliani Imperium denies the enemy cover by blasting everything in site. 

Bill P. sez "Could be worse...could be raining."

Imperials test climbing the Jersey Barriers.

Mark Klambo looking well pleased with himself - he's just managed to break my scenario - what a muppet. (That's not my camera blurring - that's Mark's normal slightly-out-of-phase nature, captured by the miracle of digital imaging...)

Imperial recon sled - drawing fire.

A Vilani tank that has been Earth-pwned

That's me taking a picture of Mark taking a picture.  I think we were trying to create a tesseract, or something.

Any miniature game that ends looking like a scene from "Kelly's Heroes" is a good miniature game.
"No smoking! Ve haff petrol..."

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15mm Desert Dwellings from The Scene

 Here are a couple of 15mm Desert Dwellings from "The Scene".  These are made of a sturdy polymer resin - lighter than urethane resin, but more resiliant.

 They are pimped-out with some bits from GZG's 15mm building accessories line, though you could also use the building accessories provided by The Scene. Roofs lift of and the interior is hollow.

Painted on light cocoa brown with pale yellow drybrush.

These are really very nice and I'm looking forward to new releases from The Scene...Ω

Comm Terrs

It's been quite a delay, but here are my insurgents for the Rhodesian Brush War.  Figures are from Peter Pig.

These have been finished for several months. I don't have a very good excuse, either, aside that find it a task to paint civilians - the mix of denims and t-shirts is depressing. I think one fellow is wearing chinos, just for a change ; )

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The Burning Sands of Syrtis Major

After about a 12 year break, I’ve found myself drawn back into 19^th century colonial wargaming.  This was my first love, having watched as a youngster the exploits of the 24^th Foot in the film Zulu Dawn.  Rather than shoe-horn a new era and scale (I liked 25mm back in those days) into this blog, I’m decided to launch this companion blog.

There's not much there now, but new blog will cover British Colonial as well as Victorian Science Fiction – there also won’t be much "Steampunk", as I’m not a big fan of dystopia. The notion that our own worst enemy is ourselves may well be true, but that’s not what I’m looking for in Victorian Sci-Fi.

I will continue to update this blog, as I'm not giving up Sci-Fi miniature wargames.   

Masodja!

Finally! I finished my British South African Police and Insurgents for Rhodesia. My initial inspiration came from Mark K. of  the "Daddly's Little Men" Blog.

Going a slightly different route, I decided to start with the British South African Police - famed throughout the Crown Colony as the "Black Boots", since they eschewed the standard brown footgear that was normally issued to Her Majesty's African forces.

 The Rhodesian Bush Pattern camo isn't easy to paint, but the result is well worth the effort. I painted two sections of BASP for the starter scenario "Black Boots on the Trail" from Two Fat Lardies' African expansion "B'Maso".  They're mounted individually for StarGrunt II, though I'm experimenting with magnetic bases for larger-scaled games.

Also needed was some transport:

Two Unimogs and a Landrover. Just the thing for getting mired down country. No fancy Alouette III's for my blokes (since I'm having one devil of a time finding them in the right scale...)

Next, I'll post pics of the SeeTees, that's "C.T." for "Communist Terrorists"...Ω

Sarah Jane - Gone But Not Forgotten

She was my favourite companion and Who Fandom's sweetheart.

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/elisabeth-sladen-remembered-by-doctor-who-stars_1214143