4 years!

Although its been pretty quiet for the last few years (!) I haven't stopped the project completely.

Spurred on by the excellent Dredd Kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1990654819/judge-dredd-miniatures-game-block-war and by the fact my kids are at a prime gaming age I've started to pull together a lot of the things I have been collecting.

Whilst stuck at an airport I used the free Wi-Fi to browse the web and ended up with 300+ more Heroclix figures (pre-painted collectible miniatures) that make great Mega City cits.

I have rebased them (and all my other figures) on clear plastic bases from Fenris Games. 

Heroclix is also a good source for villains. I once had the misfortune to sit through 'Faust' and the devil was played by someone who looked just like this guy:

Will be using him as one of the gang bosses.

SiPegg Citi-Def

SiPegg block is less than a decade old and the block Citi-Def Unit was formed largely from the unit of the nearby demolished Mary Ellen Ellen Mary (Ellen) block.

This leaves an interesting legacy as the Mary Ellen Ellen Mary (Ellen) Citi-Def fought one of the crucial battles of the Apocalypse war. It was a battle in which a heroic band of brothers fought off a numerically superior but incompetently led foe leaving them broken and vanquished on the field of battle.

The fact that said band of brothers were a company of Sov judges who cut a bloody swath through the meekly bowelled Mary Ellen Ellen Mary (Ellen) blockers whilst the later ran screaming in terror has thankfully been largely forgotten and the Citi-Def have been raised to the peak of mediocrity expected of firepower obsessed nuts with an overdeveloped sense of self.

Below is a work in progress, its a mishmash of Mongoose Publishing Starship Troopers and Gangs plastics combined with Games Workshop Imperial Guard heads.

Bases are go.

Have finally decided on basing, buying some 25mm display bases from Fenris games with inserts cut from World Works Games floor tiles. Not a perfect solution but I like the look so am busily rebasing all the figures including the various Heroclix ones. Think I'm going to paint the Heroclix figures with a wash or maybe I'll trying dipping to bring out the detail.

Droids

A selection of Clix and Star wars plastic droids. Still playing about with alternate basing - have been experimenting with pasting World Works games graphics on bases - really need to decide and get started.

'Golden Gordon' personal security droid alongside a Mk VII Medium lifter droid.

Erectoet Mk 6 heavy construction droid.

'Sam the soak' firemek

Selection of General Purpose and Domodroids.

'Fred' Mk 57 Jacktrade, EP200 Litter droid, Robodoc

Have made a start on the new World Works Megamall, should have pics up soon.

Cits

A few of Si Peggs inhabitants. I use mainly Mongoose's own GoMC1 miniatures of which the plastic gang set is excellent but for various reasons (chief amongst which - I'm pretty lazy when it comes to painting and most are with a miniature painter getting repainted whilst I continually change my mind over colour schemes...) here are some of EM4's excellent prepainted gang members. These are pretty fantastic for pre-paints and they have 2 sets (each of 5 miniatures) that are suitable for gangs as well as one that is useful for citi-def/pri-sec members.

For extra 'cover' and just to add scope to scenarios we use rebased Heroclix and Star Wars miniatures for civilians and robots. All these figures, along with the rest, will be rebased to 23mm washers. Having flirted with the 30mm display type bases I've found even the standard 25mm plastic bases too big for use inside buildings as well as adding a little too much height to the figure.

Most of the Heroclix figures are pretty.... 'imaginatively' dressed and there is a definate gender imbalance in favour of the ladies. To demonstrate, this particular figure:

was the one that prompted my wife, upon viewing it, to label wargamers as perverse stating 'no-one would wear THAT.' Actually the exact term she used was pervert wierdo freaks (hey shes known me a long time) but as I have experienced Sunderland on a Saturday night I would probably beg to differ on the availability of women to dress in such a way.

Anyway, they work well with most 28mm figures and their clothing on the whole suits the Mega-City style.