Spacecows Random Warband Challenge: Farpoint Salvage

Hi!

Well its taken a bit longer than promised, but here's my progress on my random warband in 15mm scale thus far!

 Farpoint Salvage Crew

Ironically, they took me more time to prepare, clean and convert than the same number of figures in 28mm scale! The infantry are all from 15mm.co.uk and have been extensively converted. Most have had their hands resculpted as they had shapeless flippers with three fingers the size of bananas and the female medic had to have her right arm resculpted entirely as it was noticeably shorter than her left. I also sculpted a bit of a bosom on her and reworked her hair as she looked a bit too manly previously. Similarly, the guy with the impressive gun on the left originally had what looked like giant wellington boots so I carved it all back and rebuilt it to look like he has scraps of power armour. His gun also has been extensively reworked so it doesn't look like its melted...

 The Mystery Machine

The Mystery Machine was a 10mm scale Mechwarrior Darkage repaint and only needed minimal work done in the form of adding a turret weapon (I think it looks a bit like a dalek!) and a fresh coat of paint.

 Tac Armour

The Dream Pod 9 Heavy Gear was an absolute nightmare to put together, it had mold lines galore and far too many pieces and even required pinning. It looks great once finished but I am fairly sure I should have removed the weird bumpy things at the shoulder connections but I really can't be bothered redoing it!

Human Specialists 

I put an extra bit of effort into the bases of each figure as well, mirroring the effect I go for on my 28mm scale stuff and must admit it looks really rather nice in smaller scales too! I also went a bit further with the painting than I usually would in 15mm by using a number of washes and inks to make the detail (such as it is with these figures!) pop.

The best thing about painting 15mm scale is that you can exaggerate your highlights to get a good effect, paint on detail and get away with it and hide poor sculpts with a good coat of paint far more easily than you can in larger scales!

Salvage Droids

I still have a couple of gun hands to add from The Scene and the old Laserburn ranges which are far more nicely sculpted but haven't finished them yet! In the meantime, I plan on using these fellows for playing games of Star Mogul which pits teams of salvage crews against each other on the abandoned frontier of space and is really rather good!

Having almost completed this warband, I find myself getting ideas for other warbands in both 15mm and 28mm scale for both fantasy and sci-fi settings so may have to crack on with putting more small groups of figures together and seeing what I can come up with. 

For example, my Space Pirates need another couple of crew members, my Catachans need completing and I have a host of bits and bobs for fantasy related goodness to work on and best yet, it is also meaning that I have avoided buying any miniatures and am continuing to work through my leadpile at a respectable rate!

I may even be tempted back to my old Aeroth fantasy project as I have been perusing my notes and figures available so watch this space!

All the best!