Martin Takaichi

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Analogue game designer from Sweden. On here I tend to focus mostly on hobby related things like miniature painting. Working with Free League. He/him.

The undead giant Yardu, from the board game MYTH. A large warrior skeleton, missing his lower jaw. Sculpted in a slightly cartoony style, and painted to match.
Lance of mechs - Locust, Battlemaster, Commando and Wolverine. Again with distressed khaki colour scheme, but these were painted entirely with acrylics which requires more time and attention to "manually" get the shades and hilights right (compared to using enamel wash).
A battlemech lance - Warhammer, Atlas, Blackjack and Archer. In a khaki colour scheme with grey weapons and a _lot_ of wear and tear and dirt.
Classic warhammer skull chucker undead catapult, that's made of bones. Image courtesy of https://azazelx.com/2015/04/19/md8-undead-skull-chuckerscreaming-skull-catapult/
Art from Jovian Chronicles, by Ghislain Barbe. A Flight of CEGA Syreen exo-suits (big honking space robots) are streaking through spce, with some Uller missile cruisers in the background.
Hmm... I can't recall what these are called. Corrupted electro priests or some such, from Blackstone Fortress. Scantily clad men with generators on their backs, cattle prods in their hands and high voltage cables on their heads.
Photo of an urban Infinity table I set up to introduce the game to a friend. I'm using the cardstock terrain that came with the starter set (but reinforced inside), together with some scatter terrain from Zen Terrain (RIP, they made great terrain!). Lots of small details to enhance the feel - planted sakura trees, lots of potted plants, benches and street lights.
The original Guija TAG (mech) painted in a dark blue/grey and white colours, dwarfing a Guilang sniper.
A photo of a pack of toothpicks (sharp on both ends!), a bottle of Mod Podge and a pack of styrofoam balls in a variety of sizes.
A photo of an Oppressor Command walker from Dropzone Commander. Stomping down a downtime street, with smaller, crab like Prowlers scuttling around it. Above them, dropships with more Prowlers are coming in. Painted in purplish and greenish metallics, with glowing red eyes.
Three battlemechs, in tan colours with dark brown accents, and grey weapons. Scuffed and beat up! A Thunderbolt, a catapult and a Shadowhawk.
A top down photo of a game of Dust Warfare in progress. I've added things like arrows to show movement, and little muzzle flashes and explosions to show who is attacking who, and damage done. The table is made up of a crossroads and a number of ruined buildings, surround by trees and hedgerows.
A 15 mm scale powerloader from Ground Zero Games. Big and chunky, with two forklift / claws for hands. Painted in a "caterpillar yellow" to underline that it's a working vehicle. Of course with lots of wear and tear.
Photo of a Dust Tactics (or Dust Warfare if you prefer, which we mostly played) SSU walker. A 1:48 scale, chunky, weird-WW2 style walking tank. Painted in a typical "Russian green" with plenty of wear and tear.
A photo of a mono-pose plastic Space Marines that came with the 2nd edition of Warhammer 40k. Painted as a Blood Angel, so red with an orange tint, yellow aquila on the chest, green eyes and black bolter.
A photo of some rogue trader era metal Eldar miniatures in various stages of assembly and undercoating. Dark Reapers, Striking Scorpions (and Karandras), Swooping Hawks, and some scouts and Warlocks in the background.
12 Eldar Guardians with shuriken catapults organized into two squads of six. They are a mix of Rogue Trader era one-piece sculpts, and the metal body with plastic arms combo. Supporting them is the original Distort Cannon with crew. They're painted as Alaitoc, so clear blue armour and yellow helmets. Since all the non-helmeted Eldar we see in Dave Gallagher's Alaitoc painting have red hair, I thought I'd do the same here.
Photo of four unpainted, industrial looking mecha, about 10 cm tall, with various weapons equipped. A couple more heavily armed with HMGs and two lighter with close range weapons. A couple of 28mm miniatures for scale.
Photo of the painted miniatures for the game. Liara, Tali, MaleShep, Wrex, FemShep and Garrus. Each is in their default/starting gear and colours. I've replaced the moulded bases with clear acrylic ones, to make them match the terrain they're on, and not obscure board details.
A photo of the MC30r frigate model from Star Wars Armada.
The Rocawork faction for TAG Raid. A large TAG (mech) and for support infantry, as well as some terrain pieces. Painted in a bright (some would say classic Nomad) red, with white and grey accents.
A group of metal Nomad miniatures for Infinity by Corvus Belli. Not yet undercoated.
The cover of the original plastic Imperial Guardsmen box.
The Insect enemies from MYTH. Lots of small crawlers, scorpion style captains, a big spider commander and the Terror with 1000 Legs as the boss.
20 smaller Grubbers (green orcs with melee weapons) with four larger Muckers mixed in. In the back a partially painted Orcneas can be seen, towering over his minions.
Collage of my painted minis. Infinity TAG Raid, Aristeia, REM Racers, Homeworld: Fleet Command, Rogue Trader era Eldar and some minis from Descent: Legends of the Dark.
Photo of two Saab 35 Draken fighter jets. Retired in 1999 in Sweden.
Cell shaded style illustration, but slightly broken up digitally, like it's a computer program on the fritz. Blue hair and clothes looking right at the viewer and seemingly doing something with her hands.
Two game boxes: Red Dust Rebellion and Mass Effect the Board Game.
Bipedal mech with two large forklift looking hands. Typical yellow work vehicle paint, but dirty and scratched.
Duplo mecha I built sometime back in 2015 or so. It has a happy green face, a shoulder cannon, a bunny on its right legt (and a bath ball on the other), nad a happy-go-lucky pilot in its torso.
Same cover as the book (see post 1), just with a different title. Chewie still looking gormless.
Original cover to Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire. It is fantastic. Starting with the plain stuff - on a starfueld backdrop Luke, Leia and Han have their blown-up faces in the shot. Han and Leia (with a gun!) basically from RotJ, while Luke looks more like ESB. Behind them three X-wings fly past and three full figure stormtroopers can be seen. On the right side Chewie is just kinda... standing there. No action pose or anything, looks like he's waiting on the space bus. On the left side is some blue dude(!), with a white imperial Grand Admiral's uniform, arms across his chest. He's also just standing, but as an Grand Admiral I guess he tends to stand around more than Chewie does. Wonder who this could be. Now we come to the best part. In the center of the image, framed by the three hero heads and the title of the book, and definitely the BIG focus of the cover, is an old white guy in what looks like a dark brown bathrobe. The bathrobe is open down to his midsection, revealing an absolutely RIPPED body and some kind of amulet that he has around his neck. The rock-hard abs are in contrast with his long white hair, and beard. Hold your hand over the body so you just see the face, and you think "ah, it's an old space wizard, haggard but wise", but no, this space gramps looks like he could put you in a headlock and throw you across the room. He also has a very stern look - like he would kick Ben's ass. Angry space gramps is holding his arms up, palms out fingers splayed. And from each finger (except the thumb) comes a thin... laser beam? It doesn't look like force lightning - no crackles or anything - more like he has a small laser gun in each fingertip and in a festive manner just blasting them all at once! Could this be the Mifune type jedi master Lucas wanted all along? Stern but wise? Harsh but helpful? Read and find out. And that's it! Obviously, there are no other important characters that need to be on the cover. None at all.
A Dilapidated Shrine card with the character standees on it.
Half a dozen (more outside the picture) classic metal terminators from the Rogue Trader era. Stripper and disassembled.
Original 1e Space Hulk plastic terminators painted as Blood Angels.
The main characters of 2000AD's Strontium Dog, facing three sinister looking Stix brothers, in the lawless outback of the galaxy.
Picture of the five TAGs (mechs) and the three megabeasts (space monsters!) from TAG Raid. All unpainted. The Dragon dwarfs everything else and although I'd like to paint it, I need to figure out how to store it once done first.
The Stoorworm from Corvus Belli's TAG Raid. A giant (~20 cm tall) monster worm crawling out of the dirt. Painted in a light green with fleshy, red details and light blue energy nodes.
An SSU walker from Dust. Squat and bulky, like a walking ww2 tank.
A rebel squad for Deadzone. A mix of aliens and humans in a theme of grey and beige.
Jovian Wars minis. For Jovian Wars they're supposed to be three to a stand, but since I mainly want to use them for Jovian Chronicles (the rpg) and Lightning Strike (the older space skirmish game), I've mounted them one per flying base. They're tiny, 1/1000 scale, so about 10-15mm. A group of three Jovian Pathfinders and a Centurion, in white and blue, facing of against three green CEGA Wyverns.
12 Wizkids Clix style Federation ships, ranging from the original series up through Voyager.
Rear-view of Slave I. I've simply painted the engine parts so they look to be glowing yellowish orange.
Imperial miniatures from Star Wars Imperial Assault. Vader in focus, flanked by imperial guards. Stormtroopes and prope droids in the background, and an AT-ST looming over all of them.
A small Scourge army for Dropzone Commander. Biomechanical vehicles and and infantry. In this picture they're posed disembarked on a city square, with dropsips in the background.
A squad of Rogue Trader era Eldar guardians. A mix of one piece casts and a bunch of those that had metal bodies with plastic arms. Work in progress shot as I'm painting them as Alaitoc. Currently working on the blue.
A Scourge biomechanical army for Dropzone Commander. All loaded onto their dropships. All the models are physically in their dropships either because the fit (like an old CD rack) or because I've magnetised them.
Four battlemechs from Battltech. A Locust, a Battlemaster, a Commando and a Wolverine. All painted in a khaki/brown scheme with grey/white weapons and details. Cockpit "windows" in a dark blue.
Original movie poster for Star Wars A New Hope.
RG Sazabi together with a HG Zgok. If you zoom in your can see a tiny Char figure below the Sazabi. Really should get him painted!
Dom Test Type with hyper bazooka. Posed in a kind of neutral open stance.
My first gunpla, the Dom Test Type. Together with a tiny mech from Jovian Chronicles by DP9, that I painted in the same style.
Two Dougram model kit boxes. One with the Dougram itself, and one with the crew and main cast of the series.
PLastic hover jeep model from the Dougram Fangs of the Sun kit.
Eyes of the Nine for Underworlds. Light blue skin tones and details.
Two Dougram model kit boxes. One with the titural Dougram, and one with the crew and main characters of the series, together with their hover jeep.
Northern Grizzly from Heavy Gear. Humanoid mech painted in khaki and grey on a desert base.
Foundry screenshot showing an Iguana and the infantry sheet.
The cover of the Heavy Gear Tactical box from 1998. A Hunter gear with its autocannon ready, with the trademark Dream Pod 9 style of hazard markings and orange text and logo.