Sunspoke Security and Rebasing

I have some updates.

The Sunspoke Mining Company has a system where it transplants an entire semi self-sustaining colony onto a planet in order to save costs with having to deliver as many supplies across the vast expanse. Sometimes, however, the venture can prove unsuccessful and the company pulls out, taking with it as many people as want to go. 

These people are members of Sunspoke security, or were until the company pulled off this rock. They decided to remain to help provide law enforcement to the other settlers who decided to remain. Many of those settlers were farmers, who provided the nourishment element of the self sustaining colony. 

Below are other miniatures who I have spent the weekend re-basing. I used a cheap craft paint from The Works, I guess it is beige. I then used Agrax Earth wash quite heavily and as it stands I am very pleased with them. They are generic enough that they will fit in many settings, and don't just look like I couldn't be bothered to finish painting after texturing the base.

I have re-based every single individually based 6mm Sci Fi miniature that I own, and have also begun painting a lot of civilians, some "jedi" type figures, and some individually based New Vesta Security.

Pleased to be getting back on track.

UCS Marines and NVD Forces flocked and loaded.

What a difference some static grass makes. I love these now and cannot wait to get them to table. Then next challenge will be to base up and paint some individual infantry for use with Starport Scum.

Seven infantry elements of the UCS Marine corps. These guys are the highest trained infantry in the Commonwealth, and possibly in known space.

Colonial Defence Force.

There exist some solar systems where colonization has taken a firm hold. If you are lucky enough to have the financial backing and find a system with a couple of planets in the Goldilocks zone, you stood a chance at finding your colonies booming due to resource trade, tourism, or even wealthy expats wanting to live in luxury and being willing to pay for it.

Here are some photographs of squads of the New Vesta Defence Force. I will be flocking the bases this week and will post pictures when done. New Vesta is a small group of moderately wealthy independent colonies who have found that they can support themselves very well and have no need for outside trade. This trade still happens, but if necessary they can cut themselves off from the surrounding systems.

The populations range from the mega-rich to the agrarian workers. Defence forces are necessary to keep peace and show that these colonies are not to be messed with. 

I have also finally finished the command stand for my UCS Marine detachment. Still needs to be flocked though.

CinC Solar Empire Marines Miniatures

 I ordered a selection of CinC Solar Empire Marines miniatures, and others from that range. Unfortunately on their website they don't have pictures of all the miniatures so a couple of the packets were a bit of a gamble. I am now posting photos of the miniatures so they are available.

The first photo is the Command strip. You will get these with most packets of actual Solar Empire Marines. They are awesome.






These are the three poses of riflemen in the standard infantry pack. 15 of each and some commanders. 51 miniatures in total. Lovely.











SEM Light Infantry Support Weapons. Fantastic miniatures, with various weapons. Also include some commanders.

 SEM 43 Marines in action packet 2. There are some great poses here, but there was no picture online. This pack has 51 miniatures and quite a lot of them are the kneeling pose.

 Civilians. These are brilliant. I have a couple of gunslingers and random people to populate my worlds. I may base a few of these together to make refugee stands for Horizon Wars.

 Imperial Guard. Inspired by the Star Wars Legacy comics? Either way, useful for me. None of these will be based for Horizon Wars, these are all Starport Scum.

 I feel like the militia are who I was mostly interested in getting. These support weapons will be very nice.

And finally the milita. Good for security in planetary orbital platforms, or just generally anywhere.