New Project: 15mm Scifi

 Well, I made it a quarter of the way through the year before I started a new project. I feel like that's pretty good. 

I've had the itch for smaller scale science fiction for the past week or so, and I was originally thinking of going to 6mm scale for combined arms combat with tanks, VTOL aircraft and giant mechs; I started to explore 6mm a little bit a couple years ago - mostly just got some terrain painted up. It's appealing from a storage point of view and from the perspective of my wallet. 

I'm mostly looking at using Fistful of Lead's mecha supplement "Battlesuit Alpha" for rules, but I've been reading over a bunch of different rulesets.

The more I think about it, though...I think I'm too fat-fingered and indelicate to handle figures the size of an uncooked grain of rice. 6mm might be *too* small for me. Instead...I see a lot of people talk about how much they love 15mm scale wargaming. The figures don't look too bad to paint and the price is right.

I've also seen a lot of people talk up a 15mm scifi ruleset called "Gruntz." I've downloaded the PDF from Wargames Vault but I haven't gotten much of a chance to read through it yet. 

I haven't ordered any figures yet (just a few pieces of 3D-printed terrain that were on a flash sale on Etsy); Alternative Armies is having their Spring Mega Event next week, and they've got some stuff in their 15mm lines that I really like the look of. So I think I'm going to take advantage of that 20% off sale and load up on some mechs, infantry, APC hovercraft, etc.

So that's where I'm at. Next week I get my annual performance review at my job, which historically is 15 minutes of positive feedback, and payday is the very next day so I'll splurge out a little bit.