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Well actually “Medium house in the desert” would be more accurate but that just didn’t sound quite as good.<\/p>\n

Its been a long time since I’ve painted any decent amount of 15mm sci-fi models. The majority of what I have done in the past was for Tony’s magnum opus “Blood, Guts ‘n’ Gore in Space”<\/a> a rather scary 25 years ago. Since I fancied painting something fun and different I decided to knock up a test piece for a small desert town.<\/p>\n

So, meet Charles the small blue alien and his house. Charles is a freelance accountant (aliens have to pay taxes as well) living on a remote part of Yenpalo 6.<\/p>\n

\"House<\/p>\n

My aim with the model was to utilise as many items from our ranges as possible since that made my life easier compared with scrabbling around in my spares box.<\/p>\n

The centrepiece of the model, the house itself is the Medium House<\/a>. As we don’t yet make any wall sections I carefully cast just the wall\u00a0from the Villa<\/a>\u00a0to surround the “garden”. The canopy over the front door is the ramp from the Athena VTOL<\/a>\u00a0supported by bits cut from the Colony Base connector frames<\/a>. On the roof of the house is a TV \/ broadband receiver made from the sensor on the rear of the\u00a0Komodo tank turret<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To the left of the front door is a fuel cell unit made from a rocket pod from the Warlock support tank<\/a>. Next to the back door is a geothermal heating and cooling system made from the front of a\u00a0Gr\u00f6mitz class Missile Frigate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"House<\/p>\n

Charles himself is one our Alien civilians<\/a>. His transport is a Raeside pick-up<\/a>\u00a0that he aquired at a bargain price after the XP-38 came out. Helping with daily work is a utility droid<\/a>\u00a0(which is the only model I wasn’t able to source from our own catalogue but was just too good to leave out).<\/p>\n

Filling in the odd gaps are items from the vehicle stowage set<\/a>, a couple of fuel drums from the Soviet Bizon tank<\/a>\u00a0and a small cargo pod<\/a>.\u00a0I also added a couple of cylindrical containers from a yet to be released accessory set.<\/p>\n

The base is a simple piece of MDF covered with sand and small stones. Paints were from Games Workshop, Wargames Foundry and Army Painter. The final touch was a few suitably un-healthy looking tufts of Army Painter grass.<\/p>\n

And a comment from Tony – “Now if you could just replicate that 10-12 times to make an entire desert village\u2026 :-)”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well actually “Medium house in the desert” would be more accurate but that just didn’t sound quite as good. Its been a long time since I’ve painted any decent amount of 15mm sci-fi models. 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