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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:

New Gallery and Contact Form

ixminis — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:44:41 +0000

After alot of fiddling, I’ve opted to install a gallery that opens in a new window. Please look for the gallery link above. I’ve also added a contact form so you can contact me, suggest content for the site, or ask questions.

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).

Whack-em by Gene Van Horne

ixminis — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:11:24 +0000

A very special person that goes by the handle of “Cute but Psycho” did a very nice thing for a friend a while back. Part of that nice thing was getting two talented sculptors (Gene Van Horne and Jason Wiebe) to donate time & effort for a cause. I purchased the two special edition miniatures to help the cause with the intention of also painting ‘em up and donating them for auction. Life got in the way so I instead donated a few already painted minis and decided that when I got the special editions painted I’d throw ‘em to the sculptors that generously donated their time and talent for the project. Gene did Whack-em (The demented goblinoid jester and pig) below. The jester really looked like someone that couldn’t stop with just one…. so I borrowed some Reaper miniatures familiars, ground ‘em down a little bit flatter than before & sprayed ‘em with “blood”. I’ll get more than the one picture added so you can see the toad familiar that is attempting to hop off the back of the base. Enjoy!

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: