Tales of a hobby butterfly

All the tiles and tokens are in the box but over the years the models have moved on to other projects or been lost in the pots of doom that are my bits boxes.

the plan is to 3d print and convert from parts i have  to create the miniatures i need to complete the game. I want to paint the models as bright as possable as i have nostalgia memorys of this game always looking far to bright compared to the silver and grey corridors in normal space crusade.

some of the models have been painted some from back when i was at school in the early 90s i want to keep these as they are but rebase them to fit in with the hive fleets bright colours.

the main game came with two squads of marine scouts and four tyranid warriors. I dont have these any more but with the help of my 3d printer i now have the warriors and with the help of the bits box i have a squad  of scouts i just need to decide on which chapter of marines they belong to im thinking either ultramarines as i quite fancy painting blue or as good old howling griffons so i can add them to my 2nd edition marine force.

This project is going to hopefully allow me to paint and play a game i have been meaning to finish for a long time. This game always came across as a cool half way house between a table top war game and a futuristic dungeon crawler with some roleplay elements. plus you get to play as super human marine dudes sent smashing in to a living space craft that was minding its own business in space, to destroy its vital organs including its sphincter whilst fighting off different organisms that are trying to eat your dudes or lay eggs in them, as well as trying to escape before it all goes pop destroying you all. The origional game came with limited models to use in the campaigns. but did include rules for using lots of other types of units in your games some of the models you come across in the hive ship are even useable as units that help the imperial players such as a squar or eldar prisoners that you can help to escape. My plan is to fill out as many units as possible using my bits box, and then play through a campaign of brave imperial forces attempting to flush away the foul xenos hive ships that are invading the Stercus system.

The game came with two squads of five scouts for the marine player. These have been lost many moons ago so i consulted the bits box of doom and found an old squad of scions i was converting using old catachan, marine scout  and mechanicus bits. I managed to cobble together a single squad and painted them up as ultramarine scouts.

I guess i need some more marines, i have terminators from space hulk that i can use but i fancied some good old school marines.

so i booted up my 3d printer and made two squads of five one squad has a rocket launcher the other has s las connon but will be used as a plasma gun.

i painted these with scale 75 artists paints which are awesome.

i also had a go at making a wet pallet from a food tub kitchen roll and baking parchment which worked surprisingly well