Federal Army Armoured Personnel Transports

The Federal Army has a vast selection of vehicles to choose from for each mission, though they are not always at the cutting edge of technology. Anti-grav vehicles are expensive to operate and more costly to replace, so often tried and tested wheeled vehicles are used.

The workhorses of the Federal Army are the Racoon ARV and Grizzly Heavy Transport. Both vehicles have had many variants with field modifications adding to the variety of models availiable.

The larger vehicle has been converted from an old Dinky Stalwart that had been sitting in the garage - in fact, I think I've had this since I was in primary school - and the smaller vehicles are modified Matchbox Armoured Responce Vehicles. So all in all this set of vehicles has cost less than £10. The figures are ARC Recon from Critical Mass Games.

Critical Mass ARC Drop Troops

Wow!! Seriously impressed. I placed an order with Critical Mass for some of their Drop Troops and two days later they've dropped through the letterbox. This will motivate me to get my Dropship moving from the workbench to complete a lot faster.

Now I just need to get my deliveries from Rebel Mini's and Micropanzer. The Rebel Mini's one is taking way too long!

Power Armour Troops Part 2

Here's the finished unit of Power Armoured Troops.

The Scene Battle Robots

I had finished these Battle Robots (not-Terminators) from The Scene a few weeks ago but the more I looked at them in the base metal paint scheme, the more I though they were a bit predictable.
After reading "The Clockwork Traitor", part of the Family D'Alembert series from EE Doc Smith / Stephen Golding, I decided to repaint these as Security Bots with yellow shoulder flashes. The book features a villian obsessed with mechanical perfection who has an army of droids protecting his main facility. This made me think "why have an army of terminators?" when I could do something a little different.
I decided that these will be part of a human led, corporate force. I have some CAT powerarmour/droids enroute from Rebel minis that'll be the heavy hitters of this army, and once those have arrived, I'll order some Earth Force Infiltrators as the human units.

Matchbox Armored Response Vehicle continued (Part 3)

Here's a work in progress update of my up-armoured Matchbox Armored Response Vehicle. I've used some thin plastic sheets to cover the huge windows on the original vehicle. This slight change has altered the whole feel of the vehicle, which I'm pretty happy with. I just need to add some decals and finish the base.

Here's a shot with the original vehicle as comparison...

Power Armour Troops

With last nights painting blitz I was slightly side tracked by some power armored figures I've had sitting around for many years. I can't even remember who made these guys. I was never happy with the paint job they had, but now that they've been repainted I'm really impressed by the sculpt quality.

I think the weaponry looks like a heavy shotgun, a grenade launcher and a heavy plasma weapon. There's only three poses but I have enough for another three 3-man bases which should give a reasonable sized force with some pretty heavy firepower.

As I said, I've no idea who manufactured these so if anybody can shed some light it would be appreciated.

Critical Mass ARC Recon Troops

I've had the ARC Recon squads sitting waiting to be finished for a couple of weeks now, only needing based and their guns painted, so last night I made an effort to get these completed. So here we go. I think it'll either be Drop Troops or Augments next on the shopping list from Critical Mass.

These will be transported by my Matchbox ARVs. The armour style of the ARC infantry match pretty well with the chunky look of these (not so little) vehicles.