Some famous Scottish blokey wrote thus…
The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft a-gley,
So if you remember yesterday’s post, where I waxed lyrical about how I was going to (and I quote)…
“My plan therefore is to try and keep to one thing at a time. As I am not doing a One Ring for a while my Patreon models will keep as will my Neolithic hunter models (that haven’t been printed yet). So here goes. I will endeavour to get all of my samurai 6mm terrain painted and sorted ready for some games. I have a 6mm army so then I can use them in that.
After that get The Khmer army painted and based so that the Samurai have someone historical to fight. After this get the 15mm Samurai miniatures and terrain finished, then move back to get the 6mm Baccus army painted. This way I am not getting bogged down on one project, but I need stuff done. A few people have been doing a tray at a time. I really think that I am going to need to do that to keep me focused. Wish me luck!”
So how am I doing so far? Well have a guess!
Knackers here totally forgot that he was supplying the Arachnids for the Starship Troopers game tomorrow. So instead of painting fences or teeny tiny Samurai, I have been building giant bugs, what makes it worse is that I am building the things that will cause my character’s demise. How crap is that!

So far I have five warriors here, plus two more in the shed, these are the first two hopper bugs out of the six I have. I also have a Tanker and a Plasma bug and half a dose Firefries. We are going to die! For tomorrow these are going to have to be bare plastic, I will try and get them painted over the weekend. I still have another ten warriors to make in this box, I honestly doubt I will need the two boxes still in plastic.
Funnily enough I nearly sold these off a few months ago as I never thought that I would ever get around to using them.. silly me!
Today however I was shared some images of some Lego Bugs, , Troopers and a troop dropship… might just have a peek at them…no painting required! 😉
It’s just a temporary glitch in the plan! 😉
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Oh, very cool – love those SST bugs!
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Cheers,I have far too many 🥴
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Lucky you – I missed out on the range entirely! 😦
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They look like sweet sculpts. Do they go on bases? It looks like those spindly legs would be hard to attach to anything.
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The two on the left are hoppers so go on a flying base the rest are as you see them.
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Those look great- fan of the book and film here (but for different reasons).
Cheers,
Pete.
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The book is good as are the films (well some of them) my favourite is Traitor of Mars
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Will have to look those up- I’ve yet to explore the expanded universe.
Cheers,
Pete.
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The animated series is great too, there are a couple (maybe 3 .. brain dead here) CGI ones Traitor f Mars is the latest… plenty of clips on YouTube.
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Those bugs look great and keeping your hobby focus is truly tough. I don’t think many people can stick to just one game or era and I certainly count myself as part of that 🙂
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Brilliant mate ! just love those bugs! Cant wait to see how you paint them!
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Cheers Pat… that is my conundrum indeed
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