I spent the weekend working, to allow me to take a 3 week Spring break later in the month, so whilst I was watching paint dry, I completed the vehicles for the second of my 15mm 'hard' sci-fi forces. This time it's the Unified Systems Military Command in their slate grey 'Adder' family of vehicles, supplied by Alternative Armies . All of the models are standard castings, with the Medevac 'can' having it's weapon removed and the CHQ vehicle having a different radar array and side-mounted ground surveillance radar added from GZG. The whip antennae are of course courtesy of a scrubbing brush. Decals are a mix of manufacturers including Fighting Piranha Graphics, Hobby Meio and Alpha Hobby . Again, this is a personal project, so lacks the due care and attention I'd use in my day job. This is all about me rediscovering the enjoyment I experienced in the early to mid 80s.  I am not a fan of the whole grim and dark or Elves in space thing. It's each to...

 A very good day to you, and thanks for stopping by. You may recall, when we chatted recently, that I have fond memories of playing Laserburn in the early 80s, albeit at a scale which, even then, was in the realm of 'go big or go home' and beyond the scope of the standard Laserburn rules. We would regularly construct a spaceport with 'buildings' made from the foam inserts of Citadel figure boxes, using haberdashers pins to hold them together, once we'd unpacked all the Traveller models from them. Terrain was limited, and of course there were no starships on the table, we had to use silhouett, very simple silhouettes it has to be said, to represent where starships were located. We assumed that the defenders were freedom fighters, terrorists or alien invaders who would usually take control of the buildings around the spaceport and dig in, having to be rooted out by 'The Military', who would advance across the Synth-Mac under murderous fire and try to do some d...