As you have seen from my previous posts I have been slowly building up my 3mm miniatures from Vanguard Miniatures for their up and coming Dominion Wars ruleset. These are amazing miniatures and as you can see from the photo’s the level of detail is outstanding for this scale.
Having played a lot of Battletech, Epic40k and Epic: Armageddon in the past, I have always imagined a game with dozens of Titans with supporting troops battling over miniature cities in the grand scale would be truly amazing. Vanguard have recently released the first of their Cybsershadow Jackel Stalkers (Titans) to be followed by a Dreadnought and WarStalker. John sent me a pre-production Dreadnought Stalker in December and I have had fun building and painting it up.
The Stalkers come as multi=part kits with a variety of weapon options. Immediately I saw this as a great opportunity for using neo-magnets, especially as the Stalkers can be equipped with differing options in game.
I tried using magnets for the torso but they were not powerful enough to hold in place so ending up pinning the torso to the legs. However, all weapon options are fixed with magnets which gives me 4 options per arm and 3 for the dorsal mount (not all weapon options shown).
I went with a Legio Mechanicus theme managing to find some skitarii decals on ebay which I have put to good use.
The Cybershadows will be a standalone army within Dominion Wars or can be used as a mercenary force.
Dominion Wars will be a ruleset using Vanguard Miniatures so the range will expand with more of the Novan Marines and Novan Regulars. Hopefully we will then see some Skinners and Eloi forthcoming. Not sure if at this stage if miniatures from other ranges will be included in the Dominion ruleset, although I suspect these can be used as proxy miniatures. John has stated he wants the rules as an “open” set with ongoing development through feedback from gamers.
Over the next month I plan to get some play testing done of the quick play rules especially as more miniatures become available such as these jet bikers.
For the Gamers
Adrian
A Passion for Miniatures 
Wow! These 3mm chaps are beautiful, as are the 6mm, crisp paintwork and an eye catching scheme.
3mm vanguard are very definitely next on my shopping list.
May I be so bold as to ask what colour brown you use on the bases?
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Hi there,
Thanks well there is no need to convert you to small scale gaming judging by your excellent blog. Glad you like the 3mm Vanguard Miniatures looks like a promising range with great potential.
I use a variety of colours for the bases, general tan or mid earth. I then wash with dark tone and then highlight with drybrushing a mix of desert sand, flesh and white
Adrian
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