Flak Tower for Gruntz 15mm

 

I wanted a strong point for my Gruntz 15mm games and Dark Castle Terrain has an excellent MDF Flack Tower just right for 15mm. They also produce a larger version suitable for 28mm as well. But you can find the 15mm version here. Just look at their 28mm list of MDF for their larger version.

The 15mm version also works as a smaller outpost for 28mm to 32mm scale. Here you can see a Fallout Wasteland Warfare miniature along with a Khurasan miniatures 15mm scale model. The 15mm model can just look over the crenelation and the 32mm model is covered to its waist.

I added some sandbags to the flack gun positions in order to provide more of a defensive feel to the model and to permit a 15mm model to stand there (this 15mm model is mounted on a 20mm round base)

I also wanted a weatherworn look to the tower and so used Citadel Agrax Earthshade on the MDF.

This model also ended up having one of the inner support strut pieces missing. But the model came together well despite the missing inner strut. I used this to my advantage by adding some thick cardboard to make a door to the model, which otherwise doesn't have an entrance portal. You can just see the door on the left of the model in the photo above.

The stencilled numbers were badly painted on by hand brushing over the stencil. I should have broken out my air brush instead but didn't have the patience for it. However, I didn't think it would matter to much once the model was washed. It turned out well enough for my liking.

I still need to think about how I want to base the model. As such, I haven't washed the full base yet. I may just leave it as is without basing and then finish off the base with the wash. But I want to see what type of walls I can find to complement to tower first.

Anyway, there is plenty of room for 15mm models to hide at the top of the tower and this could probably hold around 12x 28mm models mounted on 25mm round bases as well.

It was a nice MDF kit and easy to put together. There aren't any instructions that come with it. But if you pull all the pieces out and dry fit them first, you can quickly work out how it is constructed.

So given that a certain company's version of strongholds costs a small mortgage and only comes in one size. This option I cannot highly recommend enough. Many of my MDF models you see in this blog have come from Dark Castle Terrain. So highly recommend them.

Cult of Speed Gobbo Zoom Chariot - Gruntz 15mm

 

2024 seemed to fly past and now it's 2025!

All I want to know is where's my jetpack they were promising back in the era of Dan Dare and other sci-fi stuff from the 1920's through to the 1950's? It was before my time, but those comics were still lying around even when I was a kid. Anyway, enough of broken promises. Instead, here's an update on my now finished Gobbo Zoom Chariot for my Gruntz 15mm Cult of Speed force.

Swivel mounted twin machine guns, and a heavy rotary cannon positioned forwards for the driver. Also, the passenger carries an automatic rifle. Speed and lethality. And it's driven by Goblins. What could go wrong?

Cult of Speed for Gruntz 15mm

 Orks is the fastest...

15mm Ork Cult of Speed

Whilst I'm busy painting miniatures for my role-playing group's adventures, I have not been negligent in preparing my Gruntz 15mm armies.

My Space Orks were in need of fast-moving attack vehicles and so here I have coopted a Hotwheels Star Wars landspeeder, a WWII German (a 15mm Flames of War German Sd Kfz 251 half-track) and a dune buggy that comes with one of the Gaslands Implements of Carnage sprues that you can get from North Star Miniatures. All the Orks and gobbos are from Ground Zero Games and Vanguard Miniatures.

The vehicles are decked out with various implements of death from Gaslands Refuelled - Implements of Carnage sprues. The skulls are from Games Workshop and the corrugated iron is my go-to carboard coffee cup holder from my local cafe, lathered in white-glue to make it rock hard.

The little fella below is a Gobbo I have coopted onto the remote-controlled explosive vehicle from the Gaslands Refuelled Implements of Carnage sprue. With some creative work, the gobbo has a controller in his hands and may, or may not, bailout just prior to impact.

The idea being this little blighter hides behind its bigger brethren and then emerges to blow a hole in something. Should be fun to see it on the battlefield.

Halo for Gruntz15mm - Halo Ground Command

I was fortunate enough in the day to have purchased some of the Halo Ground Command miniatures from the now defunct Spartan Games. These are 15mm metal miniatures. But I wasn't a fan of the game system or the multi-bases for the soldiers. I only prefer multi-bases for 10mm and below.

Finding Gruntz 15mm recently has breathed new life into these miniatures. My test squad is finally finished and ready for the tabletop.

Painting was a very simple process.

• carefully cut off the plug that is attached to each miniatures foot that's used for the multi-base.
• Prime in black spray
• drybrush fatigues in light grey
• paint combat armour in a suitable green colour
• paint the skin
• drybrush the weapon with a gun metal metallic paint
• wash in Agrax Earthshade
• do the base...done!

Sarge!

This is the combat medic

Field comms

Fireteam Alpha

One team down. Just a few more to go.

15mm Ork'ish Stormboyz for GRUNTZ 15mm

For my 15mm Space Ork army I wanted some proxy Stormboyz type assault troops who can jetpack (or rocket) ahead of the main force to harass supply lines and quickly take strategic points. Enter my latest hack creation. These lads are from Ground Zero Games, from their 15mm Stargrunt Humans and Misc. Alien infantry line. Specifically, from their SG15-X05 and SG15-X08 miniatures. The look orky enough and that's good enough for me.

Some of the miniatures are wearing goggles in the style of WW1 goggles worn by pilots and motorcyclists. So, they look like they would suit to be the kind of insane ork willing enough to strap a rocket to their back and hope for the best.

The lad with the two guns a blazing is their squad leader and there are two specialists carrying heavy weapons to support the boyz. This permits the group to be split into two smaller teams of four gruntz with an attached specialist and the squad leader. I do have some more of these and will likely make another fully fleshed out squad of ten.

The rockets are from Agents of Gaming and are their miscellaneous missiles and torpedoes items. There are even some plasma torpedo type options there somewhere in their shop and I purchased two of these to see if they could be used as flame coming from the rocket. Hence the dude lying on his back. This last model I intend to have airborne to make a nice visual peace.

Anyway, there you go. I'll get on to painting them and mounting the airborne rocket man er... rocket ork soon so I'll post about that when they are done.

Spoils of MOAB 2024

 

Gale Force 9 Gothic Sector Orbital Relay.

Some of the spoils I purchased at MOAB last weekend were for my Gruntz 15mm games. I purchased them with only the box size and art to go by. But I took the conservative punt that they would be usable at the 15mm scale despite the fact that one item was aimed at the 28mm scale and the other at the Battletech (epic) scale.

The Orbital Relay is a 28mm scale piece of terrain. However, it does work with the 15mm scale as well. As can be seen below. For comparison, the Stalker with the AK is a 28mm miniature I use for Zona Alfa. The smaller figure of the two is a Khurasan 15mm Felid Alien Warrior.

I didn't unwrap the additional parts that go onto the building. But these come with magnets for easy connection and disassembly for storage. Without the additions fitted, the Orbital Relay does look like a futuristic Conning Tower on a submarine.

Gale Force 9 Hextech Power Station Battlefield in a Box.

Hextech is designed with Battletech in mind and makes some very nice scenery. The good news is that you don't have to apply the hex base to the terrain piece if you don't want to. So, this scale can fit nicely with some other scales. Above is the power station from Hextech that I purchased with a view to use it as a power generator at 15mm scale. These generator's tunnels representing power conduits at 15mm rather than elevated walkways at Battletech scale.

I believe that my bet has paid off. These nice terrain pieces would be able to be used as terrain at 15mm scale and I will likely get some more similar terrain in future.