Something to whet your appertite

Just got a few samples, which Ive painted up


Reinforcements

And finally a new head swap. Ive simply cut away the old head, drilled and glued. Lick of paint and bobs your uncle

More to follow, just as soon as I get the time!

comments welcome

AA

Sorry...back soon

Hi everyone

Ive not been abducted, well I have in a way, however its been by work. The one that pays the bills. Hopefully will finish a rather major project by Tuesday and I can get back to producing some minis. I have all minis mastered now and just need to create some production molds and then get them up for sale on the website. Once Ive worked out what figures go in which mold Ill get some pre orders up.

I will also catch up with conversions. Ive a head swap set to do and a weapons swap. All heads are now mastered and I can now create the conversions. Weapons upgrades just need to be master and production molded.

not alot to do then....

A little bit closer....

Ok

Some work completed on the weapons upgrade troops. Let me know what you think. Still need a little work on stocks and tidying figure. I also need to add nozzle to the gun barrel once I cut them. This will be the last piece before I mold them for masters and production. Some need backpacks to do


The pack/group will consist of two 5 man fire teams.

team 1 - troop leader -rifle, 2 x rifle man 1 x  Heavy rifle/plasma launcher 1 gatling gun

team 2  - 3 x rifle man 1 x Heavy rifle/plasma launcher 1 Heavy plasma gunner

Team commander. He has side arm, rifle , wrist comms unit and backpack

Heavy Rifle with fusion G/L

 Rifle man

 more rifleman

2 Heavy rifles with Plasma Launcher

Heavy Plasma Gunner and Heavy MG - Galing gun

Here are more individual pictures

comments welcome
thanks
AA

Some rifle tests

let me know what you think

Left hand rifle to go on lower militia heads.

Either of the middle or right to go on sci fi helmet. I might try others


 EDIT*


A little off with the scalpel

thanks

AA
 

Web site - changes :)

Just to let you know, this page is under construction. With the immenent arrival of new figures, I thought id take the chance to make it a little easier to follow. Normal service will assume very soon :)

thanks

Keith

AA

weapons mods

Hi all

Ive been playing a little more with the weapon sculpts and to be honest I'm finding them very difficult to use. I'm really not sure I will be distributing them. You need to do a lot of work to get them to fit into correct positions and then green work. I know I wouldn't be arsed to use them so I'm not sure others will. Please feel free to tell me otherwise.

Alternatively, Ive been playing with wire and green stuff instead. Ive come up with a couple of modifications and will play a little more today.

Let us know what you think

Quite like this one

Kept the banana clip. The rear needs smoothing. Ill strip it off and do it again. However you get the idea

Lazer rifle

Poor picture, however its basically got a squared charge pack on the side. For some reason you cant pick it out that well on the angle of the pick

 You can see it better here

more to come

Quick and dirty head bashing

I thought Id give the heads a quick swap to see if they fit....

Heres the results. Very quick and dirty. Cut head off, drill hole and replace head. Ive added some ink to highight it better, but thats about it. I did have to trim the head scarve a little to fit, however Ill address this on the production copies.

With a little more care and green stuff, Id think they look really really cool:) Then I would. I made em :)

Im just working on the helmeted and gas mask options, so they will be next. Im then onto some weapon conversions.

comments welcome

thanks

AA

Keith

All at once.....

Good day all

just another update as things are about to start coming thick and fast!


So here are some sample pics of the next releases. The master molds are almost done, just need to touch up the medic and the grenade launcher. The missing commissioner and ATR/ sniper have been redone and await a master mould. Once I have these all ready, then Ill be casting the production moulds and ready for orders! Hopefully a few....

In no particular order and Ive still not decided on the whats in what pack, here are some samples.

On a second note, Ive also been playing with gun conversions so any comments would be really welcome. Ive another, which looks more like a FAMAS I am working on and another you can see on the next head swap photos. Yep, head swaps are also done...or nearly done

The head swaps are for the militia style trooper and lower class troops. No helmet optics for these guys, just a tin hat if they are lucky and nothing but cloth if they are not! They still have the trusty AK weapon, a tried and tested weapon if not the latest on the market! You can also see one concept weapon. Again comments welcome.

The helmeted head swaps will also have a gas mask version also.


As always comments welcome and suggestions gratefully received! In the next few weeks, I shall be releasing sneaky snippets and photos about a new force on the block. In the race for space colonisation, it was sure that the rusks would eventually pee someone off!

Thanks all

AA

Into the Master

Good Day all

Just a quick update

As Ive been to see my mould maker today to take a look at the master mould for my next release of figures!  A little bit of magic is being completed on them, however so far everything looks great! Ill post some pics this week, when Ive some metal ready. Once I get these , Ive a little bit of conversion work on a couple of figures and then its into the production molds.

I will have a 5 man HQ
A support weapons squad 2 gat guns and loaders, 1 plasma gun and loader
Heavy weapons squad - AT rail/gauss gun, HMG, Grenade launcher plus 2 man crew. These will come with a deploy-able weapons pod or wheeled gun carriage.

I have also cast a new weapon and head swaps. Its quite likely Ill do the conversions and then release the figures, as opposed to selling weapons and heads. I may do, if I have enough requests for them:) For the heads, if you think Militia then you wont be far off ! For the weapons, its a more futuristic concept then the AK47, however wont go to amiss in the same forces


Also Ive been working on another two lines. Some sculpts have started and Ill keep you updated. More information to follow this evening when Ive had my tea and the kids are in bed! One is a human force and the other more alien! Aliens are still concept work and humanoid in nature. I know this is far from 'different', however as a small time producer I need to cover my costs and I'm still away off from this! Despite that, I think they are a little different and pretty cool

more to come

AA

Into Production

Right

a little delay and a little bit of drama later, well a lot of drama later I am ready to start the master mould and production.  The drama? Well , I'll not start, as Ill go on, however I used a new company for a one off sculpt. Well two sculpts. It was before I knew my normal mould expert (who is brilliant) could do a shared mould. I wanted just a couple of copies of each figure for conversions. Very cheap as I only paid for share.  Anyhow, after several excuses about delays it turns out they lost the two sculpts!....see I did start...its really got me annoyed!

In fairness it looks like the company I used, were messed about by a third party company and have offered to replace both miniatures and costs. So I hope to have these re sculpted soon


The lesson.....I should ask my mentor at Black Hat Miniatures before jumping in with something else!

Anyhow, back to my production. I have in the process of production

Light weapons support

4 gun teams. 2 x 2 man squads. One has plasma launcher, two have mini Gatling gun, one has shoulder launched multi purpose missile.

HQ team

1 Comms/Grid
1 Medic
3 Officers


Heavy Gun Team

2 man crew with Grenade Launcher
2 man crew with Heavy Machine Gun
2 man crew with Heavy Gauss/Rail Anti Tank gun



I also have in the production mould some new weapons for the conversions I talked about a while back. These will be used for converting my current troops.The rifles will provide a more futuristic gun.

I also have some new heads for conversions. Again Ill use these for converting the troops. It will give them a more militia feel with a variation of mixed lower tech headgear

So whats missing....well the two sculpts for starts.  First is the Commissioner and second was the ATG rail gunner /sniper.   I'm annoyed as I may have to delay production release as I want a big one off release with full platoons etc on offer

ho hummmmmm

nearly but not quite

A little bit more...

ATM launcher

HMG dShk 900

 Auto Grenade Launcher

New Weapons Support Greens

As promised ,some pics

The weapons support team

Gatling gun team 1

 Plasma Gun team

 Gatling gun team 2

 The gun crew. They can be remote gun crew or manned

Next up will be the manned/remote HMG and Grenade Launcher guns. You may see something a little bit ww2ish :)

Hope you like them as much as I do 

Update....whats coming soon

Hi all

It's been a little while and things have ran a little slower than I hoped, however I can say that in the next few weeks I shall be providing my little Sov RUSKS the support it really needs.

So soon to be released will be

HQ - 3 commanders, 1 medic , 1 Comms/Grid trooper
Support weapons - 2 Gatling guns and 2 ammo/loaders. 1 Plasma gunner
1 Commissioner
1 Sniper
Anti Armour Team - 1 heavy AT missile launcher , 1 Anti Tank Rifle
Heavy Gun Team - 4 crew - 1 Grenade Launcher, 1 Heavy Machine Gun

I will have platoon/company options for purchase as well as individual packs. I may still change the makeup of  the packs, depending upon the molding and casting process. Sadly got to think about the budget and how each fits into the moulds.

Ill be adding some pictures very soon.

thanks

AA