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Warmachine

ixminis — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:17:25 +0000

A few of the local gamers are playing Privateer Presses’ Warmachine and Hordes tabletop games. Seeing as how I already had a few Cryx ferreted away in the closet, I purchased a little bit more and now have the following sets/figures. Wish me luck in getting these assembled and painted so I can lose due to poor army composition!

LAMI Squad completed

ixminis — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:25:02 +0000

My first Light Armored Mobile Infantry Squad painted to match the movie’s color scheme. Now to complete 2 more so I can field a legal platoon!

Starship Troopers The Miniatures Game: Rippler Paint Scheme

ixminis — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:13:48 +0000

I’m fairly certain this will be the paint scheme for at least one unit of Ripplers. It is not based on anything from the Starship Trooper Chronicles Saturday morning serial, but it’s vaguely reminiscent of what we called “Mud Daubers” when I was younger. No telling how accurate we were with the name, but I’m not too worried about that.

Starship Troopers Miniatures progress report

ixminis — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:29:04 +0000

I’ve just completed my first arachnid warrior milestone of 30 miniatures completely assembled and painted. In celebration I am sacrificing 3 LAMI troopers to the small horde of 30 warriors. nom nom nom! crunchy troopers!

Starship Troopers Chronicles Easter Egg

ixminis — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:22:10 +0000

I found an Easter egg in the made for TV saturday morning Starship Troopers Chronicles. It’s the episode where C.H.A.S. rescues Higgins. Check it out:

Starship Trooper Miniatures

ixminis — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:04:09 +0000

I’ve always meant to collect Starship Troopers Miniatures and finally bit-the-bullet late 2010. Never being one to work on one army at a time I’m working on each of the three published armies. Wish me luck. Yes, I’m interested in some of the more unusual figures, so drop me a line if you have some you want to unload.

Here’s the last moments of existing for a LAMI sarge, a Skinnie advisor, and a roughly painted Power Armour dude:

One of my first miniatures

ixminis — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:11:43 +0000

The first mini I ever painted. At least I *think* he was the first. The character name was Thighter. Don’t ask what I was thinking. If I recall correctly, I bought this one somewhere between 1980 and 1982. He was out of the Heritage Dungeon Dwellers Knight 4-pack (Product Codes 1202 A-D). If you search for this pack you’ll usually find a different figure besides this figure 1202 D. The other packs I bought were the 4 female magic-user/clerics, 6 bandits, and 6 Kobolds.

A little more history: His campaign companions had names like Zelfox, a magic-user/thief, Sam (Straight up fighter… no stat higher than a 12 IIRC… remember the days of “roll-3-dice-and-write-the-stats-down-in-order”??), Roland (Ranger extraordinaire), Zephyr (Druid.. I liked those Z names, eh?), and Alicia (Assassin I believe).

Sculpey Clay Extruder

ixminis — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:57:51 +0000

Also known as the Sculpey Clay Gun (in UK). I recently purchased this extruder with the intent of improved or quicker base preparation. Of course, I have to spend some time learning what does and does not work. Wish me luck!

Front of the package:

Back of the package:

Workbench space saving

ixminis — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:11:13 +0000

Something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but didn’t want to drop serious cash on, was under-shelf lighting. It just seemed excessive to spend $50.00 to $100.00 per 12″ to 18″ of space. Add to that my preference for the ability to adjust the direction of the lighting and it didn’t seem like I’d be able to achieve the desired results with an economic solution. All of that changed when I found the pictured lamp for $5.00 at home depot.

At first I had hoped to figure out a way to move the clamp along the underside of the shelf that’s over the workbench. After some trial and error, I decided that the clamp was too weak and it would end up degrading the overall appearance of the workbench. Appearance… workbench? Yes. The workbench has to perform double duty and it needs to be configured so that it’s easy to maintain AND can be cleaned up to a clean professional workspace. My solution was to remove the clamp and original plug. Drill holes in the shelfs valance/over-hang and mount the gooseneck directly from the shelf. The result is that I’ve cleared space on the desk AND have adjustable lighting available for the workspace. The total cost was about $27.12 for a very well lit 24″ area. If I don’t need as much light I can get the cost down to about half that.

Below is a picture of one of the two that I’ve got mounted already. Once all of the current ones I’ve purchase are mounted, I will install wire channels to conceal the lamp cords.

tinywars wiki on pbwiki

ixminis — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:50:13 +0000

During my routine hunt for site referrers I found something else. Another miniature fan that had chosen the name “tinywars” for his gaming wiki. While we aren’t affiliated, it’s always nice to give folks props for their great work. He’s got some nice 10/12mm WWII stuff on his page(s). check it out: tinywars at pbwiki.com