BLKOUT commission for a friend

My buddy who lacks painting skills commissioned me to paint some BLKOUT miniatures up for him. We started this venture back in late 2024? Anyways this will add to his growing force. 

The following are Badlands Elite Mercenaries. 

4 Szabla Units – Two disciplined riflemen armed with FB-M3B battle rifles for long-range engagements, supported by an EWAR operative to counter data attacks and a heavy marksman wielding the AM-190 Linear Gauss Rifle for high-impact strikes.

4 Banak Dust Elements – Two Banak Grunts with PM50 subguns and disposable launchers for long-distance disruption, backed by a data Specialist and a near-inorganic Djinn equipped with the armor-piercing MASX-101 rifle.

Data Handler

The following are mixture (I got them mixed up in photos) of a Manticor Bratva Team - Manticor Insertion Team - Manticor Cyka (the big dude)

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

 

Aristeia! hEXx3r Nomad Witch

More than any other hacker in the brief stretch that the discipline has been applied to Aristeia! hEXx3r has changed the face of the game forever. In record time, she has proven capable of turning the tide of a match by sending her opponents into disarray at the worst possible moment. Armed with nothing but software, hEXx3r gives the heavyweights a run for their money. She freezes them, exposes them and then throws them into ambuscades choreographed at the speed of thought. The words “that Nomad witch” are often muttered by players as they’re carted out of the HexaDome.

hEXx3r the Nomad Witch is one of my favorite models for the miniature board game of futuristic gladiator combat. Aristeia! is my favorite miniature Boardgame that I have been playing with a friend. We have both collected all of the expansions and have a blast playing it. 

A new version of the game will be released by Corvus Belli soon called Hexadome. My friend and I are both looking forward to that. Hopefully they will incorporate all our current owned models, but if not we will still play the older version as it’s a blast.

I painted up the Nomad Witch for my friend and below is the original model I painted.

The following photos are of my model I painted this week. This is a new skin, same character just a fantasy look.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Battletech: Dawn Guard

 It's been almost a year since I expressed interest in painting up a new Battletech unit for Alpha Strike called the Dawn Guard. A House Davion unit. The color combination really grabbed me.

So I have painted up a whole company this past week and I did them in a quick slap dash dirty look. Just wanted to get them on the table. They turned out better than I thought so I can't wait to get them on the table.

I had a little trouble taking the pictures as my light setup caused the yellow and white to reflect back and made it hard to focus. I muddled through and got them pretty decent. 

Twelve units done for the company, plus the awesome Rifleman below!!!

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

BLKOUT UN Raid Force Alpha but this time for a friend

 A buddy of mine who doesn't have the skills had me paint these up for him. I didn't mind since it was a small group of figures, plus the fact I told him he had to play this game with me;)

So I painted these up a bit different from the ones I painted for myself, but I think they still do the job.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin

BLKOUT: Manticor Borz Group

 It's been about four or five months since I painted any BLKOUT models. So it was refreshing to come back and do something a little different from my last few projects. BLKOUT is an Ultra Modern, Science Fiction type of game. 

These models have been painted for me, just me. That always feels satisfying to say that. Not for this person, not for that person, just me. 

Here's a little extract about them.

"Manticor prides itself on physical strength, and their combat tactics mirror this. Implacable in their attack, layers of ballistic armor let the soldiers of the Manticor Borz Force shrug off hits that would incapacitate any other force. Practical and methodical, Manticor Borz may not be flashy, but they'll put you in the ground nonetheless."

You can see why I chose to paint these lads, they are my kind of boyz!!!

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Star Wars: The Spectre Project

 So the last few weeks have not been the greatest. Family events caused me to not feel the painting vibe and that's okay. Then May 4th came along and I decided to let the Force take me away from the real world events in my family and drift off into brush land. It's incredible how soothing painting can be.

So I've had these Star Wars Legion models, like forever, and decided to finally paint them up. Not using the rules Star Wars Legion, but instead Spectre. Will see how that works. I've quite a bit more to do but I'll get to them one day as I say I will... hopefully.

I present my first ever Storm Troopers, Some Rebel Pathfinders done in US Army ACU colors, and lastly Rebel Troopers in Jungle camo. 

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

SF3D/Maschinen Krieger/Robot Battle V: Ammo Knights

Inspiration and information for my project was taken from Lincoln Wright book MK.44.

To quote from his book "The 3rd Company MK44 consists of elite pilots organized into "Playing Card" squadrons."

2nd Armored Regiment 3rd MK Company "Card Soldiers" are shown here. The AMMOKNIGHTS shown here are heavy armored fighting suits equipped with handgrip smart guns that automatically tracks the target. The suits were designed by human kind to fight an A.I. opponent. 

I tried to replicate his paint scheme on page 60 for his AXEKNIGHT using his idea that these ground pounders were operating in a toxic environment. Like acid rain and such. Now this wasn't an easy project because of scale. Trying to replicate this work in 15mm was not easy for me, and I wasn't totally satisfied with my end results, It just felt messy. First I am not a Model painter, I am a miniature painter. My technique being more three layer approach, between the lines, with maybe a little dusty dry brushing. 

When working in smaller scale you need to make things brighter to make them pop and catch the audiences eye. But I got to the point in the project, do I dare try adding a little bit more in and risk the destruction of how far I've come. Sometimes you got to know when to stop throwing good money after bad. My last mistake I made, and I could kick myself over it, was I used a number 1 decal. In the card deck their is no number 1... ooops. My military brain was thinking traditional numbering. 

Anyways that's what I got. I hope you like the 15mm version of what Lincoln came up with for a paint scheme. 

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Lunar: Blacksite Studio's Commonwealth Astronauts

So Blacksite studios released some more astronauts for their game Lunar. These are Commonwealth Astro’s from different parts of the old empire. I saw this paint scheme from Facebook group and really liked it so I copied it. My friend Mark (I guess he’s my friend) will make fun of these in some way and can’t wait to hear what he thinks of these boyz (this is a test to see if he really reads the blog).

Here are a few snaps each picture is how they are packaged when sold. 

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

BLKOUT: Harlow 1st Reaction Force

The strong right arm of "The Authority", the Harlow 1st Reaction Force are the elite mercenaries of Harlow Kinetic Solutions. Equipped with jump jets, smart weapons, and combat inorganics (AI robots), the 1st Reaction Force hits hard, and they hit fast.

The above is the quick snippet for this formation for the Science Fiction game called BLKOUT. Skirmish level, which hits my sweet spot for sci-fi action game played on a 2 X 2 with lots of terrain and a couple teams on each side.

The following I have painted up for a friend who lacks the skill or interest in painting. So now I have an opponent vested at least into the figures to game with. 

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

Blacksite Studios: Lunar

 Well I knocked out three more Astronauts for the Soviets, and three for NASA. This is for a game called Lunar by Blacksite Studios, and is based on the idea that the Russians beat the US to the Moon. If you watch Apple TV's "For all Man Kind" you'll get the gist. Oh and if you haven't watched it, why not? It's an awesome show.

I also had this Soviet Lunar Lander since April of 2023 and decided to put it together and paint it up. Had to really clean it up. There were parts broken, and I had to re-drill out holes for components to fit. But I've had it for almost two years now so I can't do much about it now, plus it's out of print and only available as an STL. Kevin don't do STL's. The shield on top that protects the cameras had a good size chunk broken off, and it was missing. Probably not broken off, just a misprint. I fixed that with some plastic strut. Not perfect, but it suits my gaming needs. I've painted the base coat metal and could leave it like that, but I will give it a heavy black wash, followed up with some highlighting of main color, and then on to picking out some other components and placing some color on those. It's majority metal color. So it shouldn't take me to long to complete. I ordered one of those eight inch across Christmas project wooden disc's to place it on as the model is rather fragile. 

Here are a few snaps.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers
Kevin