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      I painted each of these on a different day of the convention.   KublaCon had a very nice paint and take set up in a big room with display areas along a couple of walls, plenty of seats and supplies (notably Vallejo and other paint brands in similar bottles), and helpful staff and volunteers.  I brought my own Opti-visor.  A n extra light would have been helpful, too.  It wasn't dark, but it could have been more bright of this kind of work.  The blue and brown miniatures are 35mm and the orange one is 28mm.  The brown one appears to be a Reaper Bones miniature from the same set as the tall miniature in my post "More Science Fiction Operators."  I don't know who the manufacturers of the others are, nor from which games the miniatures originate.   The orange one reminded me of the comic art of Moebius, so I gave him a color scheme appropriate to that body of work.  Actually, the blue one would probably look at home in Heavy Metal magazine, too.  Shot outdoors with

 Asteroids from Dollar Tree (and Home Depot or Lowe's).  I bought (1) a set of 4 white styrofoam balls and (2) 2 sort of twigs with black and orange balls.  The unused black and orange balls, no longer taped together as a twig, are in foreground.   I used the wire that formed the twig to mount each ball to a heavy metal washer.  I mounted the white styrofoam balls on flight stands that I had glued to heavy metal washers long ago (and used for Full Thrust).  Then I put them in cardboard box and hit them with shots of gray primer and black primer until I thought they looked OK. 

  Bunkermeister's blog entry today has light aircraft to be used for Pussy Galore's Fllying Circus from the movie Goldfinger.  I thought it was amusing that the internet chose to show me the ad above when I went to the blog.

2018 - Traveller game.   2018 - same Traveller game - close-up.   2016 Traveller game.

Today's pictures are all Zhodani military vehicles and troopers.  Camouflage is for regions of planets habitable by humans, where photosynthesizing plant life, native or imported, flourishes. First is a general purpose grav vehicle (gGPV), shown above and below with a trooper for scale.  The vehicle was originally a pencil sharpener from a dollar store.  Trooper is a 25mm Denizen Ventauran.  Above is a light gAFV with a trooper for scale.  The vehicle was originally a Belkin wired mouse without a scroll wheel.  Trooper is a Denizen Ventauran.  He is standing at the back of the vehicle. These are two medium gAFVs or gcarriers.  They were originally soap dishes of the same type as in my 11 June 2020 post, Zhodani gCarriers (from Daiso, a Japanese dollar store). Paint for all was Rustoleum Ultra Matte Perfect Gray Paint & Primer ("Ultra Matte"), Rustoleum Camouflage Sand, and Krylon Camouflage Olive.  It's not visible in the pictures, but the undersides of the vehic

Here are two medium grav armored fighting vehicles.  I haven't done a Striker or StarGrunt design for them yet, but I'm imagining them in the multi-purpose role: carrying small teams or critical supplies, insertions and extractions, etc. They can be used by any faction that uses Arabic numerals -- Third Imperium, Sword Worlds, Solomani Confederation, etc.  I may try my hand at an Imperial sunburst stencil with future vehicles.  These are essentially identical wired mice, one by HP and one by Compaq.  I primed in Rustoleum flat black primer and added Rustoleum flat brown and Krylon flat river rock.  Masks were strips of very old, thin, distressed cotton from handerchiefs that had finally gone to the rag pile.  This kind of material is woven with threads at right angles.  It gives a nice soft edge, but tends towards straight lines.  Greeblies are from various sources.  Identification alphanumerics are from an old a sheet of vinyl (I think) letters. Shot with iPhone 6, no flash, w