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The Steam Tunnels
Here's a primed TAG SWAT trooper I threw in there to show scale.
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Barrels
Here are the Renedra barrels that came with my Perry houses. I meant to paint the bands metallic but forgot. Oh well, they're wooden barrel bands then...
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The Steam Tunnels
The second batch of tiles is ready.
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The Steam Tunnels
Another sample setup.
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The Steam Tunnels
I made one tile too many, as you can see.
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The Steam Tunnels
The thing that makes this work is that you don't even try to model all the walls. This wouldn't work as part of a larger setup, but if the entire game is in the maze it doesn't matter.
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The Steam Tunnels
I used discarded blister foams quite a bit for painting this. Worked pretty well to create the dirty stained look.
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The Steam Tunnels
I glued random bits or cardboard to the wall to make them more interesting.
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The Steam Tunnels
The British are engaging some pirates in the chaotic service tunnels below X-dishu docks.
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The Steam Tunnels
Covering the approach.
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Vietnamese Civilians
Here are some civilians I got from Peter Pig. They're actually nicer than my crappy paintjob suggests...
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The Steam Tunnels
On my mark...
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The Steam Tunnels
The opposition.
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The Steam Tunnels
Yes, bring EVERYBODY!
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The Steam Tunnels
They went thataway!
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The Steam Tunnels
Guess who's coming to dinner?
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The Steam Tunnels
The obligatory overhead view.
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Pipe stack
I made this from random junk.
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SWAT
Here are the new SWAT figures, plus some extras. These are all from TAG.
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SWAT
Except the stretcher. It's from a toy set.
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SWAT
The obligatory overhead view.
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Vietnamese Civilians
The obligatory overhead view.
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Hostages
These hostages are from TAG.
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Hostages
I could use more, but TAG has only a single pack and no females.
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The Operative
Snake, Snaaaake!
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The Stretcher
This came with a police toy set.
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SWAT
Here are my TAG SWAT guys. I gave them blue clothes to break the monotony of the black gear a bit.
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SWAT
The gas mask guys.
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SWAT
Heavily armed SWAT.
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SWAT
Another SWAT group. These are actually identical to the gas mask guys except for the heads.
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Vietnamese Civilians
I got two packs, male and female civilians and mixed them on the bases. There's 3 or 4 poses per pack.
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Skirmishers
Wargames Factory Numidians. Despite the title, these figures can be used for pretty much all classsical period light troops around the med.
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Skirmishers
Parts waiting for assembly.
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Skirmishers
The sprues, one for bodies/arms, the other for weapons and heads.
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Skirmishers
Using the GW scraping tool. It worked pretty well for the bodies, not so well for the smaller parts.
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Skirmishers
By comparison, this my trusty old scraper: an old dull x-acto blade. Being dull, it doesn't accidentally cut into the mini (or my fingers) like a sharp blade would.
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Skirmishers
I assembled the initial batch as poor javelineers with minimal equipment, because I happen to need some for my Greek army.
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Stacks in the works
Following the success of the prototype, I'm making more of these.
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Vietnamese Civilians
As you can see, it's getting hard to avoid repeated poses.
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Vietnamese Civilians
The poses could be a bit more dynamic, IMHO.
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The Steam Tunnels
Here's the very first batch of terrain tiles I made. I happened to have a big pile of unused 12cm x 6cm tiles and decided to find a use for them.
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The Steam Tunnels
This is a small example setup I threw together for the photo shoot.
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The Steam Tunnels
The idea is that you can slap the tiles down in almost any order and create some sort of mazelike environment.
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The Steam Tunnels
The walls are made from foamboard and the flooring is plasticard but the rest of it is just bits of cardboard and recycled junk.
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