Bugs in the Reactor

Now I've got enough aliens, I've been getting ready to play the Bugs in the Reactor scenario in Tomorrow's War.

Here's the miniatures for the scenario all lined up quite in quite a friendly manner, blissfully unaware of the carnage yet to come.

The civilians who built their reactor on top of an alien burial ground. Although some of them carry weapons they will be ineffective in combat.

The Bugs. Justifiably upset with the colonists, they seek to gain their revenge by taking out a no win, no fee legal damages claim in the local courts. Failing a successful result they will resort to eating the colonists.

Eight groups of 5 aliens each, armed to the with teeth.

The King and Queen, not sure which is which. These are old Citidal miniatures.

The legionnaires. Three squads of bad ass trooper types. All they are missing is a nuke to take off and bomb the aliens with from orbit. Which is a shame as they are probably going to need one.

The local patrol force. Two fireteams of lightly armed victims. Plus their patrol vehicle.




While reading through the scenario I realised they needed a converted tractor type vehicle with tracks, which I didn't have. I was going to substitute a wheeled Old Crow APC when I also realised I had 4 sets of spare tracks that came with my Khurasan Heavy Tank which has the anti-grav modification... so a bit of work with plasticard, milliput, spare plastic model parts and one of the spare autocannons from a Khurasan DIMOG armoured suit (Khurasan do put a lot of spare parts in some their models) and I came up with this tracked monster future Bren Gun Carrier.


The vehicle is crewed with a spare half man (Khurasan again), and a crouching heavy machine gunner (Oddzial Osmy's New Vistula Legion).

I could do with a seated vehicle commander as it is supposed to have a crew of 3 but I may not have anything suitable. Have to paint 3 more patrol types also for when their vehicle gets eaten and they have to dismount



Next task, make up a few more road sections to cover the length and width of the 6' x 4' table. The colonists buildings may very well start out as ruins - building on alien burial grounds is terrible for subsidence.


Easter Bank Holiday Carnage Ahoy!!!

More New Stuff

Arriving almost simultaneously with my order from Khurasan was a couple of packs of Creatures from Pendraken.

These are nominally 10mm figures, but these are aliens, so what's a few millimetres here and there.

In the £12 pack you get 1 Queen (22mm high), 20 Medium creatures (15mm high for the more upright ones) and 10 Small creatures (about 8mm high) and a bunch of egg clusters and face huggers.

These photos are from some I've had and painted from quite some time ago, not the most recent packs.

Here is a bunch of small aliens menacing a pair of GZG's UNSC troopers. Also an open egg case and face hugger lurking ready to strike.

Here is a collection of the medium sized creatures, these are about the same size in height as the GZG 15mm UNSC figures.

"Maybe they don't show up on infra-red at all"

 "That's it man, game over man, game over!"









And finally the large aliens, these tower over the UNSC figures as they come forward with a terrifying "I'm a little teapot" pose.

 "What are we supposed to use, harsh language?"

 These are some of the new lot being painted up. I'm using a mix of red and black ink (3 to 1 ratio red to back) with a drop or two of flow enhancer painting over bare metal. I'm building up a lacquer effect with multiple layers and will probably stick in a layer or two of plain black ink wash to darken and pick out the details a bit. Then I'll pick out the odd bit of more fleshly like detail with dark red paint to get a contrast in shininess and maybe try a bit of slime modelling with acrylic gel. The only problem with the ink on bare metal is it's a bit fragile and prone to flaking off if you clumsily knock the entire lot on the floor while you take photos of them! I'll have to touch up the odd spot on some of these.

When these are done I'll have more than enough aliens to do the Bugs in the Reactor scenario in Tomorrow's War. Watch out Colonial Marines! Insert Aliens quote here!