SST: Morgan's Mavericks

I picked up one of my orders from eBay, hand-delivered 'cause the seller and I live in the same general area. They were already basecoated a desert brown with a brick red/forest green/black tigerstripe camouflage pattern on one of them.


By spschnepp2 at 2010-10-30

As you can tell, I haven't done a whole lot to 'em yet. I touched up the visors, making them a paler blue (I'll probably wind up redoing them in an attempt at doing that jewel painting technique I've never gotten down, and like as not I'll get some gloss varnish in there just to see how it works out) and drybrushed Bleached Bone over 'em. Painting the corporal's stripes on went surprisingly well, but the sergeant's stripes, not so much. I'm either going to do 'em up in the chocolate chip desert pattern or have 'em all be in the same camouflage as the sergeant, not sure which. They're also going to get some 'battle damage' painted on, mostly in the form of scratched paint (mithril silver for the shiny). I'll get around to writing up some fluff for their squad eventually.

And Now for Something Completely Different

As it turns out, I have interests beyond randomly spewing about the goings-on in the world. One of these interests includes science fiction, both producing and ingesting. I'm currently fiddling with some of the old Mongoose Publishing Starship Troopers minis. They're... really lackluster compared to GW's plastics, as a lot of the kits don't seem to fit together quite right. Once they're together, though, they're not too bad. I'd have liked to see a better grade of detail on 'em and more variation of pose, but it's not bad. I've only basecoated one PAMI as a test dummy, but I've assembled several more and an Ape Marauder. The Arachnids have about eight warriors put together and most of a tanker bug. The tanker bug will be a lot of work, as the default pose it's in is pretty dull.