More Gray, same shades

 These are the rest of the Diehard Miniatures troopers of this type.

"Hi Mom! I opened my faceplate. Can you see my face?"

Striking some heroic poses.

And now, a group photo of the full troop.

On to some other Diehard Miniatures next.

Painting with Gray

 Assorted troopers from Diehard miniatures by Tim Prow. I'm not totally convinced about the gray color scheme, but it was fairly easy to do, and looks different from other sci-fi armored troops I have. I'm also unsure about leaving the faceplates black or making them some other color.

"I thought we were getting white armor?"
"HQ tried it out and said it was too fiddly and hard to get it clean"
(here is a test figure; I think it did look kind of cool, but, yeah, it was hard to paint in some areas and I didn't want to do bunch of minis this way. I had started on a few more and ended up stripping the paint off of them part way through.)

So I tried the grays.
"These dark gray uniforms look kind of sinister don't they?"
"Does this mean we're the baddies?"
(I guess it might depend on the game/scenario? Or how I use the minis? Or if I put some color on the faceplates; like if I made them red, that might look more sinister? What about a green or a blue or something?)

More Sci-Fi Minis

 More sci-fi minis from Crooked Dice. Vaguely frog-like aliens, of various types.

Doctor or medic

Scribe or scholar

Field scientist or prospector

Merchants

Noble or priest or mystic? It might not be clear in the photo but this figure seems to be floating on their toes.

Retainers, guard and servant?

Sci-fi Minis

 Just a few assorted minis. Mostly from Crooked Dice Minis.

A couple of alien officials. Could be patrons, or NPCs in a scenario.

A couple of potential crew members.

Some traders. The one on the left could be a botanist, the one on the right could be some sort of technician.

This mini is not from Crooked Dice, but has been in my pile of minis for a while. I forget where it came from. I think it fits in with some other figures that could be ground crew or working in a warehouse or some sort of corporate environment.

Some Shenanigans

 I am slowly working on some miniatures. In the meantime, here is a silly drawing I did, pen and ink on paper, of what can happen when goats get up to shenanigans, whether it be fainting goats, screaming goats, or regular goats.

Space Minotaurs (aka Red Bulls?)

 Space Minotaurs from Warblade Miniatures

In my universe, these may be known as red bulls to some people, or greebles in their own language. Though they may look fierce, maybe they are, maybe they aren't. They could be big tough guys, employed by those who want some muscle, good or bad. Or they could be easy-going, soft-hearted sidekick types. Depends on the situation and scenario, and which tropes one wants to lean into.

They were fun to paint. A nice change of pace from the usual sci-fi minis.

Here is a size comparison with an orc, a dwarf, and a human.

Hench Goons and Updated Uniforms

 These are Warblade Minatures Space Enforcers Corps metal minis. I painted them using a similar color scheme to the one they used in the image for the Kickstarter as I didn't have a better one in mind. I think they look good as a squad of hench goons and leader for some evil bad guy or evil organization of some kind. Heavily armored, so they can probably shrug off hits, but probably slow moving and probably not a good range of vision with those silly helmets. ha ha

Space Mage Reaper plastic mini. I tried to paint the sword as a laser sword or power sword of some kind (definitely not a light saber).

I decided to darken up this operative mini for dark ops, with a green wash; previously posted without the dark wash here: https://talesofmirth.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-few-more-sci-fi-minis.html

I've been rebasing some of my sci-fi minis onto smaller bases to be more consistent. At least ones where that's possible. I've left space orcs on larger bases as they tend to fit better on the larger bases. Anyway, while doing that with these troopers I also decided to repaint parts of them. I had originally painted them mostly light gray. I decided to make them a little more colorful and went with a color scheme based on 19th century Colonial British infantry, with red shirts/tunics and blue trousers, with white helmets. I like that color scheme better. You can see how they looked previously in the post here: https://talesofmirth.blogspot.com/2019/07/spaceship-troopers.html