More bits and pieces

 In one of those doing lots of things at the same time moods

OK, The castle is not really a bit or piece... got it ages ago but never used it because gateway is in mid air. The bit is the ramp I quickly threw together to make it useable... Then perhaps see if I can have a laugh converting 1/87th-HO figures as Dracula and 'friends'

Spotted a couple of 6mm bridges lying around partly finished. Obviously didn't fit the back one together very well. Now done, again to a very much gaming rather than competition standard! Reminder to self: There's a 25mm bridge that also needs finishing...

While thinking about using Chelonians as 6mm monsters and finishing off the 6mm bridges I thought I'd see how things were with my stock of unpainted 6mm buildings. Found this lot to do, gave them all a grey undercoat to act as roofs, intention mass painting sessions to finish them to (again) a very basic standard.

My trees are not in good condition as far as bases go, decided to start getting those sorted as well. Still need the whole base area to be covered over with pva glue to hold them in place, then follow that with flocking.

Still working on a viable spaceship to use. As you can see from the scales they were well past their use-by date. Likewise, found a long dead mouse. Computer mouse, not the type I find down the garden on a regular basis. At the moment, working on putting them together for the next spaceship attempt.

Meanwhile, still working my way through the aliens v humans.

 Oh yes, nearly finished that unit of early Persian cavalry I mentioned a while back...

Doing lots of other things but...

 

... Still working on the second batch of aliens...

Epilogue

'The humans have left the planet.'

 

'Were they tracked tracked to their home planet?'

 

'Yes. They have been tracked to a planet they call 'Earth'.

 

'Excellent. Analyse the action and upgrade all Daleks according to lessons learned. Perhaps a flight module to over come obstacles should be considered. Prepare for war...'

 

Retreat

The retreat is covered by a Protector driving in reverse as the other Protector carries the body of the dead Captain.

The Master Bot advances to cut off the white Daleks...

Dalek firepower overwhelms him...

And he falls, partially blocking the corridor.

Meanwhile the crew continue their retreat, the Protector destroying one of the pursurers.

While the Daleks continue their pursuit.

The main party arrives at the main corridor just as the first white Dalek forces it's way past the fallen Master Bot

The lead Protector drops the dead captain and forces it's way into combat with the white Daleks, blocking them. It falls to concentrated fire from the Daleks.

Meanwhile the other Protector blocks the doorway as it also falls...

As the crew make their escape carrying the body of the Captain.

 As a point of interest this is another game that took on a life of it's own - I hadn't considered the blocking defence until I placed the first white Dalek! Then it seemed obvious... Likewise, the simple graphic representation of weapons fire wasn't something I'd thought of before the game - then again it just seemed to be the right thing to do.

'You are not Thals'

The Captain advanced to greet the advancing creature. 'You are not Thalls.What manner of human are you' it asked in a mechanical tone.

 

'It doesn't matter. You are inferior. You will be destroyed'. The Dalek fired and missed, as did the Protector and soldier

As the combatants continued firing the PsychOps tried to throw a protective screen around everyone. It failed and the Captain fell to the ground dying. The soldier hit the Dalek but his shot bounced off - got 4 or more for the hit, but to penetrate a Dalek's armour needed a 6!

The Proector rushed forward and physically destroyed the Dalek!

At this point Number One and her team arrived...

Just as more Daleks appeared on the scene.

As the Daleks entered the room the crew retreated back out of it. No sense taking on an unknown number of armoured battlecars!

It was around this time that the Master Bot discovered that all the apparent blockages were actually the tops of lift shafts...

First Contact

As the two parties separate they leave behind the MasterBot in a fall back position.

Both teams include a security officer and a Protector. Number one's team meets a few dead ends and starts back towards the original corridor.

The Captain's force seems to be making good progress.

As Number One gets back to the MasterBot...

The Captain and his team pass through a number of moss and algae filled ruins and corridors.

To find what looked liked a metal robot entering the room from another entrance...

The Lost City

The tower faced  the ruins of what seemed to be a deserted city...

The entrances were raised above ground level... the robots solved the entry problem by quickly building a ramp to the first step.

The Master Bot takes station in the main corridor as a fall back position while the rest of the party check the side corridors...

 

Number one, cadet and security guard with one Protector to the right... pretty much a dead end...

The Captain leads his team down the left corridor.

But the Protector couldn't get past a broken floor...

As the Captain and PsychOps continue the exploration... until stopped by a locked door. Time to go back to the main corridor.

As an aside, did a bit of casting once everyone had cleared the forest. Quite useful really - turn on the melting pot and do a few moves on the game while it's heating up!

Jungle Planet

Peaceful herbivores grazing in the trees are suddenly scared by movement...

The planet had been long abandoned after the collapse of humanity's stellar empire. But now mankind was spreading back into it's old haunts.

A watch tower in the jungle. Who made it? How long ago had it been abandoned? Who or what was it watching out for?

The expedition slowly approached.

Ahead of them... beyond the tower...

This part of the pulp armies is finished...

Just got back from a break in Yarmouth. Naturally I took the opportunity to provide the 28mm+ armies with some modern tanks.

 

Meanwhile the 40-50mm bazookas and machine guns are finished.

This is a size comparision between the 35mm Crooked Dice size figures (not, I hasten to add, actually Crooked Dice figures...) and the roughly 45-50mm larger scale figures that fit all those cheap figures I've been painting recently.

Although the 50mm figures are a bit over scale for the new tanks they still fit OK.

However, the tanks do fit better with the 35mm figures.

 That pretty much gives me as much as I should need in the way of 'human' soldiers in the larger scales. Next question - what to do next? Options include a mass paint of the new pack of Aliens to get them out of the way, do the 3rd unit of early Persian cavalry, or possibly do another unit of Sassanid Clibinarii. Or, of course, finish off some of the dozens of other figures already on the painting desk.