Beyond the Gates of Antares - NuHu (Nick)

Another small update from me, this time back to Antares again and a NuHu leader and her Nano drone for my C3 Concord army as seen previously.

Seeing as these have been 80% finished for over 2 years now, I though it was about time I filled in the details and finished them off!

Quite a simple scheme to match my C3 'Tango Division', but with a little more attention as befits her status without going too mad.

The Nuhu herself, directing proceedings:

    

...and her attendant Nano drone:

                                    

Also on the bench is my C3M4 Combat drone for the Concord, yet another model that has been 'nearly finished for over 2 years... hopefully that will be along soon, but in the meantime this brings the year's tally crawling up to 49 minis complete and off the 'lead mountain' even though only 15 of them are mine to keep!

Beyond the Gate of Antares - Starter Set (Nick)

Well seeing as Carl has finally found his way here, I thought it was time I reactivated my own account ...seems I need to fix some missing images if nothing else!

Anyway here is a post I started ages ago but never published, showing the completed contents of the 'The Xilos Horizon' starter box for Beyond the Gates of Antares all together.

...here they are battling over some previously blogged terrain and the pre-release mdf 'Transmat Station' by Sarissa Precision which was kindly donated to me already painted for running demo games:

Next we have the half-size carry case from KR Multicase, specifically chosen for me to carry the complete starter set and a little room to spare:

The templates sit neatly on top until I'm ready to punch them out, as they're not needed for intro games:

Top layer holding all four squads of Concord C3 Strike Troops:

The 2nd layer holding all the 'spotter' drones and the previously blogged 'rogue drones' objectives and polyhedral dice:

The bottom layer with both squads of Ghar, the Concord C3D1 Light Support drones, d10s' Pin Markers and Order Dice:

A few more shots showing it all neatly packed away, ready for travelling to the next game!

That's all from me for now, so not really anything new (bit of a cheat post really) but I also have lots of 'nearly' finished units and models so maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to follow Carl with some new stuff of my own to show?

Beyond the Gates of Antares - Plastic Concord (Nick)

So it's been far too long since that last post, and Carl still hasn't made it here it seems! (some excuse about publishing his own skirmish game 'Open Combat'  as a hardback book).

I left you with promises of much more stuff to come from that Bank Holiday weekend back in May... well various distractions meant a lot of starts but nothing more to show as finished projects, and to be honest, right now I can't even remember what it was I was working on except the start of my jungle terrain which I showed on our sister blog Tale of 2 Gamers.

So without further ado, here is what I have been up most recently...

These are plastic Concord from the just released starter set 'Strike Vector One - The Xilos Horizon' for Beyond the Gates of Antares from Warlord Games:

I actually painted these for the Derby World Wargames show in October, but wasn't allowed to post straight away as they weren't released. - in fact I painted them in just 13hrs from spray hitting bare plastic to how you see them now as they only arrived a few days before they were needed... quite a feat for me, and way more than I've painted for several years now.

I want to go back and add some markings to the unit leaders and special weapons (Plasma Lance) to make them easier to pick out on the table top as well as improving the 'plasma' effects... but they'll certainly do for now.

You get ALL of these (with a few options) in the starter set, as well as their opponents the Ghar which I will feature in my next post - there is a lot of stuff in the box, it's stuffed full of everything needed to play including the full hardback rulebook!

The 'orange' was a bit of a happy accident as I had Games Workshop's 'Fuegan Orange' ink wash on my desk and really wanted to use it, but I actually really quite like the result and will probably expand the army into a bigger force as an example of what to add to the contents of the starter set - but also to give me something very quickly that I can use in club games and possibly tournaments as and when they might happen.

I also knew black and ice blue would work really well with it, so I didn't have to spend valuable time working out a colour scheme I was just able to get my head down and paint!

That's all for this time, but it shouldn't be long until my next post, as the Ghar are already painted for my demo games and ready to blog.