From StuartL - Screaming Into The Void - Sci-Fi - 120 Points

Hello everyone,

Many years ago, a friend of mine owned a comic/hobby store. He was a really friendly guy, interested in all kinds of hobby things and really, I mean REALLY, bad at running a shop. His attention wandered if he was left alone for more than a minute and he was always taking on other part time work and projects, seemingly at random. I would turn up at his hobby shop after working all day only to be asked to look after the place while he took off to go and fix up an old car or to do a DJing gig at a local club. In my friend's store there were loads of comics to read and a fair selection of D&D products to look over, but there was also a stand containing blister packs of a cool looking SF game, VOID! Wait, whaddaya mean you've never heard of it? Void is essentially a table-top wargame in the style of Warhammer 40K. Aside from only having a handful of factions and none of the brand name recognition, the biggest difference between the two systems was that Void used d10s. Fast forward a few months and my friend's shop was closing down. He wasn't selling anything and had to get a job elsewhere. As he had his closing down sale, I bought a bunch of the Void minis.

Skip forwards about 21 years and I have finally painted some of these models that have been sat staring at me in all their unpainted glory whenever I managed to dig my way down to that sedimentary layer of my to-do pile. I have tried to copy the box art I found for the different models online, though I did add some different skin-tones to break them up a bit. The models are all pretty simple and all of the factions seem to have a mix of male and female models in most of the units. The figures used to be made by a company called i-Kore, but they are now produced by Scotia Grendel I believe.

First up we have the Viridians. From what I can tell, they are based on a jungle planet and ride around on dinosaurs. Nothing screams jungle fighters like bright blue trousers.

These guys are from an organisation called VASA. They are like the space UN and are the elite special forces of the setting. To help differentiate themselves from the other factions, they wear cool?? helmets and knee pads.

And finally we have the Junkers. Reading their background they are all convicts/slaves sent out to fight on behalf of their masters. Apparently they are the low tech, horde faction in the game and are meant to fight in disposable human waves, which really makes me wonder why they have body armour and full length shields. I think the designer just really liked the Roman aesthetic.

So, for my score, this entry is fairly simple. 

20x 28mm models @5 points = 100 Points

Sci-Fi @20 points = 20 Points

Total = 120 Points

My side duels:

Squirrels - 9

Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Dwarves, Fire Giants, WW2 Polish, Daemons, Viridians, Vasa, Junkers

Skullz - 1

Turnips - 0

Next up a trip in the limo.

Stuart, you are right. I've heard of it. To be honest if I was part of the Junker horde, I'd want 2 things, a really big shield, and to be at the back. Great colour job on these, jungle troops need be painted blue and the purple on the VASA is very cool.