Miniatures pt111 – Slayers
Here are six out of 10 of the Blue Moon Slayers from Old Glory. I did a very gradient priming and used transparent paints of just one coat to have a strong highlighting and shadows.
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Miniatures pt106 – Not Mandalorians
Continuing on my Star Wars in 15mm, here’s 10 Idirion Legion miniatures from Blue Moon Aliens range, that I’ve converted to look like Mandalorians by cutting the crest of their helmet.
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Mandalorian 
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Miniatures pt105 – Not-Stormtroopers
For a miniatures gamer at heroic 15mm without a 3d printer, getting Star Wars themed miniatures is a challenge. There are no official miniatures, and the unofficial ones are either true 15mm or almost 20mm.
As seen here the big dudes are towering over the 18mm mens: https://penpaperanddice.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/0ca35-sw2b005_fotor.jpg
And the true 15mm would fit perfectly with Khurasan, Rebel minis, Critical Mass, Onslaught minis and Laserburn, but not with my HOF, GZG or Ion Age ranges.
Some time ago, I decided to sell away any true 15mm minis I had as I could not support another scale, so close to my core scale of 18mm.
So back to my initial point, what to do? I decided to proxy Star Wars stormtroopers with the Blue Moons Galactica Mercenaries from their Aliens range. I was a tad bit disappointed that they were smaller than the rest of the Blue Moon range, but thankfully bigger than true 15mm. I also decided to attempt to do some greenstuff sculpting to create stormtroopers helmets, as I’d need only to do the visor and mask. I added some height on top by extending the helmet up by a millimetre or so. It’s my first time attempting something so detailed with greenstuff, and so please excuse some helmets that don’t look as good. But some are quite nice, and all will look fine at table distance.
As to the paint job, I did a slap chop priming (the term stuck even if I was using the technique before it was established, so I might as well adopt it) with heavy white overbrush. I then used a 000 brush with black acrylic ink to black line the joints according to the stormtroopers armor. Then I did a pass with Titanium white (opaque) followed by Zinc white (semi transparent), and painted the guns with Paynes Gray and Graphite. Finally I wanted to tie everything together with a wash, but I was scared that it would darken everything too much. So I used a black wash I had DIYed for terrain some time ago. It has a lot of flow aid (dish soap) so it won’t stick to larger surfaces and only go to the nook and crevices.
I’ve talked a lot, here’s the pictures.
Stormtrooper 
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Wow, they look very good! For my sci-fi collection, I use all kinds of 15mm-18mm figures – I don’t mind the size difference. It can easily be explained by assuming that the larger guys come from a planet with lower gravity or vice versa 🙂
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Thank you! ☺️
Yes, I know, I could easily field them together and it wouldn’t be unrealistic. There’s even some WW2 photos showing real size difference between real humans in a unit, and it’s unreal.
However smaller figures also mean smaller guns etc, and immersion breaks for me there. It took me a while to find out which miniatures ranges are what size, and some manufacturers have different ranges with different sizes (some also have different sizes in the same range!), so I do look the other way sometimes, especially with regards to aliens!LikeLike
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Miniatures pt72 – Assorted Fantasy (3)
Here’s several random fantasy miniatures I’ve painted to complement my collection. I chose a few command packs from Battle Valor as they would be nice samplers. I didn’t use the banner bearers -except for the Amazonian below which I could turn into a spearwoman- and didn’t do the musicians either. They could find some use in KPS, but I don’t feel the need to do it right now.
I also mixed and matched the shields provided according to what I felt fit my desires better. So I used the Stygian shields on the Barbarians and the Amazonian shields on the Legians.
I went with a similar green colour scheme on the Stygian and Barbarians so that they look like they’re a unit, and a Hellenistic look on the Legians and Amazonians, for a similar purpose if required.
In addition to those there are a couple free samplers, one is a Falconian that I intend to use as a bird man in the coming 5L3e. I didn’t glue the wings on him as I didn’t feel like it would fit the theme I had in mind. The other is a Rhinocerian.
I painted also a ballista captain from a Museum Miniatures set. The dude is really big, like towering, but won’t feel off scale.
Then, there’s a couple of travelling Monks from Battle Valor. Big dudes as well for 15mm, but Battle Valor is known to have big miniatures. I’m not entirely with my paint scheme, for two reasons. The Naples Yellow Red colour that I used to paint their tunics is very close to the colour I used for their skin. Also after using the Army Painter Strong Tone and Soft Tone, I feel like my homemade washes give results that I like more.
Finally, I painted a couple of monster Slayers from Blue Moon Horror range. I chose a couple that are armed with crossbows and would fit the medieval fantasy theme despite their tight clothes.
Stygian Captain
Stygian warrior
Barbarian warrior
Barbarian captain
Amazonian banner bearer
Amazonian warrior
Amazonian captain
Legian Warrior
Legian Captain
Falconian
Rhinocerian
Ballista captain
Travelling Monk
Travelling Monk
Slayer with crossbow
Slayer with crossbow
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