Spacehulk - painted so far

So I have made a start on the painting. The first batch of Aliens were done in January:

And I did the Marines over Xmas. There need a few little details completing. But they should look better on the board than the plain red.

Some undercoat

I have always thought that Aliens should be green....

More 15mm Space Hulk

I managed to paint a few more marines.

These are some more Khurasan Miniatures. Really nice figures...

15mm Space Hulk

Well, it's starting to look like it's coming together; Operation 15mm Space Hulk.

As you can see, there is a bit of work to do on the bases still. But these Khurasan Miniatures are fantastic. Enough detail to make painting them fun, but at 15mm can still be completed quickly.

I feel a bit happier about painting red armour now, so I am looking forward to painting some official Games Workshop Terminators. More images soon.

Space Hulk update

Over the last week or so, I did some more work on my SPACE HULK project. There are two threads to this; 15mm and 32mm.

15mm Update:
I have been planning a 15mm version of the game for ages. I am using Khurasan Space Demons for the Alien force. So far I have two bags. The quality of one bag was fantastic, the other had few duff mis-casts. So I’ve ended up with 23 of them (only 1 I couldn't save). The below picture is a little blurred and the bases still need some work, but here you go…

Forgetting that one bag of Space Demons wasn’t perfect, I am very happy with the figures from Khurasan Miniatures. Next painting project: 10 x Puritan figures. These will be my terminator figures for the 15mm SPACE HULK. Highly recommended figures.

As for tiles for the 15mm game, I am working on some basic templates:

32mm Update:

My only real problem with SPACE HULK is that the Marines are all in Terminator armour. That means the scale of the Terminator becomes meaningless. I think I’ll need some house rules that sees the Terminators mixed with Imperial Guard.  

Most the figures I’ve collected for the 32mm project are waiting to be assembled. I am very torn regards what Chapter to paint them. I hate painting red, but in my heart of hearts I know these figures should really be Blood Angles. I may review the Chapter Approved pages of my WH40k first edition.

I watched the Ultramarines movie during the week. The film it’s self left me wanting more as it really felt like a video game where my joypad had lost connection. BUT: it did make me think perhaps I should paint my termies blue. We’ll see….   

Space Hulk

Space Hulk: what have I got so far?

• Complete box set of the second edition (including the rules)
• The Space Hulk Bible (I think is the first edition rules)
• 3rd edition rules
• 3rd edition counters
• 3rd edition tiles
• 3rd edition Genestealers (I think all of them except for the Brood Lord)
• A stack of plastic Terminators (a combination of Black Reach Termies and the current Space Marine Terminator Squad)
• One box of the current WH40k Genestealer Brood

So there are only a handful of miniatures on my to buy list to complete my Space Hulk collection. 

I painted this squad up two years ago (my take on Deathwing). Since then they’ve brought out some fantastic miniatures. The biggest problem I see with them is that the bases are a little large for the normal Space Hulk tiles.