The Zhodani Commando: September 2021

Blog discription

What will you find here? Ramblings from an aging gamer-miniature painter. When I first started out in this hobby computers were in their infancy and finding other gamers could only be done by going to conventions or as in my case bumping into somebody who happened to see me reading "Panzer Leader" on the school bus. Look how far we have come! The internet has allowed our small community to be able to connect on a level I never dreamed of when I was but a small lad. What I do hope you will find here is something interesting from one wargamer/miniature painter to another. I paint miniatures somewhat decently, so I will be posting some pictures of my work, and perhaps a review or two of games and/or miniatures. Most of all this is just about having fun and anything I post here is meant to be for that reason.

Thursday, September 30, 2021

MA.K Maschinen Krieger (SF3D) AFS Mk2’s for the Mercenaries

Howdy there Cowboys and Cowgirls! Ma. K super fan here, aka "Zhodani Commando ". Bringing you some Super Armored Fighting Suit goodness!

I've completed painting up a company of AFS Mk2's for my upcoming game this Saturday using the rules "Gruntz". I've pretty much settled on these rules as my ruleset of choice after some long hard thought. It crosses the T's and dots the I's of all my needs. One of the things I am creating beside stats, is an OOB. Tank platoons are on average 5 vehicles. So I am going with the Gruntz rules of 6 figures for a unit and call that my platoon. So I have 18 figures done (or three platoons to a company).

I've color coded the backs of the stands as my over 60 decals placed on these bad boyz will not be easily seen by us old men. So the platoons are color coded, and the Sergeant has an added S to the color code for command purposes.

The following pictures are of 15mm metal scifi from Slave2Game miniatures. The Ma. K universe started way, way back in the late 70's I believe and were 1:20 scale plastic kits. It had a hardcore small fan base, and still does. Slave2game finally brought these wonderful designs to the game table.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Thursday, September 9, 2021

MA.K Maschinen Krieger (SF3D) 15mm

Finished my first company for my Super Armored Fighting Suits science fiction genre miniature game, and I have called the unit the 79th Sundowners. I also painted up a platoon of walkers and I have named them the 1st Top hat Death Bringers. I believe that these bad boyz are remote driven or have AI on board, I can't remember.

This feat gets me to a point where I have enough troops to play for one side. My intent now is to paint the opposition up and I already have some good ideas for the paint schemes.

In the meantime please enjoy the following pictures. The powered Armor suits are called Gustavs and have a laser (I always picture doctor Evils face when I say "laser") in their left arm. The giant walkers have a Gatling canon in their turrets.