Something random - sci-fi scout

Well the good news is I got loads of painting done this bank holiday weekend the bad news is it was the master bedroom and not my miniatures that got the paint applied.

However I did convert and paint this Old Crow Rebel light utility vehicle as a light scout vehicle. This model was part of an ebay lot from about a year ago that has just sat in my bits box. Totally on a whim the other night with a couple of spare hours (when I should have been painting Celts) I added a few bits from my bits box.

The gun was built from a GW guard auto-cannon with an Old Crow gatling barrel plus varous bits of plastic from my bits box. I also added some stowage from the bits box and some headlights from an old GW Rhino model.

I sprayed the model with green and brown humbrol sprays in a two tone scheme and then dry brushed them up with lighter green and brown. After that I just went mad on the wear and tear and weathering using washes and drybrushing. I then added some spare decals from old model kits and weathered them as well.

I think it came out pretty well I'm tempted to get a few infantry to with it now.

Cheers Jon

6mm West Riding Yemonary for Hammers Slammers

Hi,

for tonight's post I thought I'd post up some picture of my 6mm Hammers Slammers project. While flicking through my Hammers Slammers books I came across the West Riding Yeomanry and thought they looked cool, there are some pictures of some 28mm ones http://www.hammers-slammers.com/images/west_riding/index.htm here.

I couldn't afford to do this in 28mm so I decided to go 6mm. After searching around I found these sci-fi tanks from Garrison Miniatures

http://www.garrisonminiatures.com/catalogue/index.asp?rName=6mm+Micro-armour&rBrand=SciFi

I've converted them by giving some brass rod gun barrels or cutting of the barrels to make stubby gatling guns.

Basically this is a company of

1 platoon AA tanks

1 platoon of Tri barrel tanks

2 platoons of light laser armed tanks

1 Hq of 1 tank and 2 light hover vehicles

I plan to add some infantry and APC to this force and have already started work on some rebels as opposition for the West Riding Yeomanry.

Cheers Jon