Science fiction tanks and APCs

I painted up some 15mm armor to accompany my science fiction foot troops.  These are Khurasan tanks and RAFM wheeled APCs.  I have 2 more of the APCs to do, plus extra turrets to make them fire support vehicles.  I’ve included some fluff descriptions in the captions, for my scifi setting, and a description at the end of how I painted them.  Thanks for looking!

Two MBT-45 “Wolf” tanks and two APC-22F “Puma” APCs, seen here during United Nations of Earth and Mars occupation of Kyushu

Bug Hunt---15mm sci fi AAR

We played a great game of No Stars in Sight today, with human troops (of the United Nations of Earth and Mars Army) on a bug hunt.  The humans have to eliminate several bug nests, while the bugs must defend these nests and try to destroy the human attackers.  The game was ultimately a narrow human victory, with 2 of 3 bug nests knocked out.  Human losses were 6 dead; bug losses were 40+.

US Marines in 15mm

I'm embarking on wargaming the Pacific Theater in WWII.  First painted for this project is a platoon of late war US Marines.  All figures are by Resistant Roosters.

ClearHorizons 15mm elite infantry

I just painted up a small batch of the Hell Diver special forces infantry by ClearHorizon Miniatures.  These are beautiful sculpts, very clean, with a wide variety of poses.  I intend to use them as slick corporate mercenaries---hence the variety of colors.  These guys will be working for the Tokoto Corporation in a scenario book I'm working on for No Stars in Sight.  Thanks for looking!

20mm Modern Insurgents and Iraqi Police

I recently finished a commission for a force of modern insurgents, in 20mm scale.  They are a mix of Elhiem, Liberation, Stan Johansen Miniatures, and Caesar Miniatures (which are soft plastic).  They're based on US pennies and painted in a varied mix of civilian clothing and generic military camo.  Thanks for looking!

Kursk assault---6mm Eastern Front playtest of A Sergeant's War

I played through another test of my rules, A Sergeant's War.  Today's game was a German assault on a prepared Soviet position during the Battle of Kursk, July '43.  The result was a costly German victory.

Deployment--2x2 table (4x4 in "game inches")

Eastern front tank action---A Sergeant's War playtest

I ran another playtest of A Sergeant’s War, my WWII rules-in-development.  Today’s game was a test of the armor/vehicle rules.  We played 2 games in about 90 minutes, each one with about 16 vehicles in total, Germans vs. Soviets, in 6mm scale.

In the first game, a company of T-34s advanced on 3 Pz IV-Hs and a single Tiger.  The Germans gave one half of the company a shellacking—knocking out 4 of 6 tanks—but on the other flank, the T-34s got in close and made mincemeat of the Germans at close range.  The Germans withdrew, with one Pz IV knocked out, one abandoned, the Tiger damaged and abandoned, and the remaining Pz IV retreating.