A spaceship and shuttle

 

I've been trying to work out what to do about reasonable looking spacecraft when my eyes lit on a couple of 'dead' mice. Just the simple act of removing the mouse wheel and replacing it with a fin made a good shuttle craft...

We also had to replace our kitchen scales. Here it has a different mouse stuck on top of it to make a canopy.

I kept this one 'clean' but the design would appreciate some spaceshippy detailing...

The back few shows the tops of a couple of used superglue lids to hide the worn out buttons on the mouse. The 'probably needs more detail' shows up on this view...

The shuttle was a very successful change of use. Don't think I could really call it a conversion! Originally I was thinking about painting it red and black to match thecrew figures but decided on plain grey so it would also be useful for other races.

Daleks, for instance. The shuttle is a bit small for Daleks - too low - but I'm not going to let that put me off!

 

Last early Persian cavalry unit

The last of my three line early Persian cavalry completed. At some stage I must do a minor Review of the early army - far too long since I've had a good Review.

 

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...