As promised in my last post, these are the plastic Ghar battlesuits from the recently released starter set 'Strike Vector One - The Xilos Horizon' for Beyond the Gates of Antares from Warlord Games:
I managed to acquire these as pre-production sprues at the Derby show after I had finished demoing the game all weekend, so that I could carry on demoing the contents of the new starter set without having to borrow anything from the guys at Warlord.
These are the six battlesuits that come in the starter set (3x Battle Suit, 3x Assault Suit) and were the first Ghar models to be released... add these to all the plastic Concord shown in the my last post and you can see you get quite a lot of miniatures for your money in the starter set, as well as all the other bits that you need to start playing.
These took considerably longer to paint than the Concord, but a mixture of spray can malfunction, no specific deadline and less confidence in what the finished paint job would look like all contributed... however I'm pleased with the result and again would like to go back and add more detail, mainly the 'plasma' effect which should end up quite strong on these as the battlesuits are powered by rather unstable plasma reactors - hence the many areas of turquoise which is my chosen colour for plasma.
Unfortunately I have been less productive since the rush to get these Antares models painted, but have been working on several different projects - hopefully something will actually get finished soon so I can update the blog again... this time with something of a more historical bent!
