Traveller's Imperial Army

Okay we all know that Ground Zero Games http://shop.groundzerogames.net/index.php  has great figures for Traveller's Imperial Marines

 

 

But what about the Imperial Army in Traveller? There are stats for generating a character with an Army background, so what miniatures would you have for an Imperial Army in Traveller, myself I'm going to go with these guys the New Israeli also from Ground Zero Games

 

 

They have lots of different poses and weapon systems

Of course it's all in one's taste as to what figures one would want to use as for their Imperial Army. Yes the Imperial Marines are great for doing ship to ship fighting and the initial ground assault or to quickly crush a revolt of some miners on some forgotten asteroid but for your longer ground campaigns or for an outpost in the middle of nowhere your going to need an Army.

Now go out and have your players look for work in a bar half full of Imperial Marines and the other half with Imperial Army with nothing but time on their hands and their brains half polluted, toss in some locals and remember everyone is carrying a loaded weapon! Oh yes it's going to be a good time at "O-Mally's" tonight! Then in time someone is going to call the local police.

 

Dropship Build

http://www.mil-net.net/hercules.cfm

Well I have printed off a few sets of templates and the instructions for this dropship project I have the foamboard as well. My plan is to first make the basic dropship, but I want to modify it a little, to a larger Cargo ship for my Traveller Crew, so in order to do this like I had said I need to construct the basic one first. I want to make it longer, taller and wider, the lower cargo area I feel can be deck out and I'm hoping that I can make the top lift off to reveal an upper deck layout as well.

The original model is said to be 2 feet long! that fairly big for 15mm

Of course the first ship built will not go to waste it will be a combat dropship for My Imperial Marines, plus I'm thinking of building a third one as a crashed site table piece.

"Mail Call"

Guess what came in the mail today!

That's right my Mega Minis "Small War-bots" from Mega Minis http://freeboardgamesnow.com/ they look great (some assembly required) and my plans are slowly moving forward, I believe I will use these as heavy combat robots for 15mm "Heavy Combat Support Battle Buddy" they will carry the bigger weapons systems the real "Door Knockers" so to speak. Now I have to come up with a paint scheme and a means of adding weapons too them.