"A Transport Ship, No Armaments."

"Tractor beam. Send a squad to the docking port."

This two-piece Kurgan Small Transport vessel is by "Fat Dragon Games" and was created using some "Bambu Lab" Matt White PLA (Polylactic Acid) on an A1 Mini 3D Printer. It can be purchased as an STL (Standard Triangle Language) file as part of the company's Expansion Set Three for "Battlefront Valkyrie", and has been printed using a 0.2mm nozzle, with a 0.1mm layer height in order to minimise any striation lines on the finished model.

As with my previously painted Terran Transport freighters I decided to give this unarmed spacecraft a somewhat different colour scheme to that used on my (not) Klingon starships, so primed the model with a generous, double-helping of "Vallejo" Heavy Khaki. The miniature was then washed using some significantly watered-down "Citadel" Agrax Earthshade, and dry-brushed with (more) "Vallejo" Heavy Khaki to help bring out all its details.

"Crooked Dice Game Design Studio" WIPs - The first of my rifle-carrying Nautican Warriors is almost finished

Lastly, the transport's propulsion unit was 'picked out' using my tried and tested combination of "Scale 75" White Alchemy and "Citadel" Flesh Tearers Red. To be honest I'm actually strongly considering using this propulsion unit - which has to be printed out separately - as a stand-a-lone shuttlecraft; albeit the vessel might look a little odd with the ship bottom piece needed for it to attach to a regular flight stand.

With yet another welcome addition to my Kurgun (not Klingon) fleet 'in the bag' I have started making some serious in-roads on the second Nautican Warrior I own by "Crooked Dice Game Design Studio". This figure will largely follow the 'test piece' I recently pigmented, but has been sculpted by Iain Colwell and Ian Mountain holding an energy rifle rather the sea-dwellers' traditional trident. I aim to pick up a few more of these miniatures from the company at the upcoming "Warfare" wargaming show in November, so am keen to get the quartet I currently own completed as soon as I can.

"Crooked Dice Game Design Studio" WIPs - Three of the Four Lunar Command figures I'm working on

Keeping my eye firmly focused on this month's painting theme, I've also based, gritted and primed all four of the models found in Karl Perrotton's Lunar Command set too. I must confess to being a bit cross with myself over the mix of poses with this particular 'blister', as I stupidly thought there were a few more purple-haired gun-totting ladies in the foursome than there really was.

Now there's no doubt that Wayne Peters has done a first-rate job in capturing the feel of the 1970 British science fiction television series "UFO" with these miniatures. But the majority are (understandably) a bit more 'desk-bound' than I need for my tabletop battles, so ordinarily I'd have simply bought just the one to use as my squad's leader, and then a handful of the sole 'bewigged technician' sporting a hand-weapon - another purchase pencilled in for "Warfare"...