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So there I was wanting some real 6mm (1/300th) scale alien type vehicles for wargaming with and I couldn't find anything. So I thought I'd make my own. I wanted some aliens that used organic technology to create tanks, planes and weapons. The design I came up with was to have vehicles that had a slug/fleshy membrane to move on with a hard shell for the main body. I also needed a name so I went for "Cimexian" (I found it in a book about insects).


Pic 1

For the first miniatures I sculpted the whole thing in one go. The fleshy slug like foot as well as the shell top. This lead to an un-uniform shaped to the miniatures but that soon became part of their charm and fitted in well with the concept that the vehicle might well have been grown rather than made in a factory. Pic 1 shows the medium tank. I also didn't want the weapons to just look like normal gun barrels. So in the case of the meduim tank I made a turret with two openings which would act to fire out whatever organic aliens would use as projectiles.


Pic 2

After making several vehicles in this style I decided for the bit artillery type vehicles that I needed to make the slug foot and wait for that to cure before starting work on the shell. Pic 2 shows the artillery vehicle using this approach. It meant that I could mak it look like the foot was more under the body than with the tanks.


Pic 3

Moving onto a bug walker seemed the next thing to tackle. I made this model (pic 3) in three parts. First I made the legs sculpting around a simple arch shaped wire armature. The body came next with me leaving part of the underneath of the body for the arms to fit. The arms were made the same way as the legs with a wire armature . Again the shell body style remains with the legs as more of an unprotected flesh.


Pic 4

At this point I had put up a few pictures on the web and offered to a few manufacturers the model for production. Brigade Models stepped up to produce them at this point and also asked if I would do some infantry to go with the models. So I came up with the infantry in Pic 4. In the end I made two sizes one for normal infantry and a larger size to act as powered armour troopers.

I did start work on a different style for organic vehicles but didn't get beyond my initial greens as you can see in picture5.


Pic 5

The entire range of Organic 6mm aliens is available at Brigade Models.

Jeremey (AKA Germy)