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Target-Earth Blog!
Welcome to the blog section of my website. Here you'll find my mostly useless information on various retro gaming computers and consoles and a few other hobbies…
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- Video Game database - Online database of all my computers, consoles and games.
- Home Power Monitor - Electrical grid monitoring reports.
- Tech stuff - Retro gaming and computers, old electronics, network installers for Unix-like systems.
- Model making - Scale model making, sci-fi; Gundam, Macross, Maschinen Krieger…
- Miniatures - Miniatures painting.
- Car stuff - Rebuilds, projects and previous cars.
- Personal projects - Days out, DIY jobs, other unsorted stuff…
- Digital Photography - My very amateur attempts at digital photography.
- Book Collection - Cataloguing my book collection.
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Miniatures & Painting - Excalibur Miniaturen
German distributor of some odd/cool little figures. Bought most of these around the year 2000.
| Image | Name | In-Universe Affiliation | Scale / Size | Model ID | Quantity | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ? | ? | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Painted, not based. Large mutant figure. | ||
 | ? | ? | 25 - 28mm | 3 | 'Grey' aliens with rifles. Barrel conversions on the rifles to make them more scifi. | ||
 | ? | ? | 25 - 28mm | 2 | Crouching aliens with swords. | ||
 | ? | ? | 25 - 28mm | 4 | Aliens with armoured fist and scifi pistols. | ||
 | ? | ? | 25 - 28mm | 2 | Alien robots with scifi pistols. | ||
 | ? | ? | 25 - 28mm | 1 | War robot with heavy cannon and power sword. | ||
 | ? | ? | 25 - 28mm | 1 | War robot with fist blasters and biogun/flamethrower. | ||
| ? | ? | 25 - 28mm |
Miniatures & Painting - Unknown Models
I have a large number of models that I have lost track of what they are or where they were bought. Anything falling in to this category I list here until I can find out (or remember!) more information:
| Image | Scale / Size | Quantity | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 25 - 28mm | 12 | Various figures with pistols, shotguns, rifles etc in SWAT style bodyarmour. |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Machine gun on tripod. |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Missile launcher on tripod (scratch built? Maybe GW Tau missile pods?). |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Alien mounted weapon. Think this may be based on a GW Eldar starcannon with some extra bits. |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Girl in vest with pump action carbine & machete. |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Man in vest with bandana, with rifle & machete. |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Man with mohawk, with carbine and machete. |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Man with hat with rifle and machete. Pose 1. |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Man with hat with rifle and machete. Pose 2. |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Man with binoculars and bandana, with carbine & machete. |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Mortar team. 1x Loader carrying shell, 1x spotter kneeling, 1x model covering ears, 1x free-standing mortar. |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Man with long hair, with multi-barrelled cannon and machete. |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Girl with boots, with scifi pistol and knife. |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Girl with boots, with twin scifi pistols. |
 | 25 - 28mm | 1 | Off-road buggy. Customised with additional armour blocks, netting etc. |
| 25 - 28mm | 1 |
Miniatures & Painting - Target Games: Warzone
Never played this game, just picked up some of the (wacky) sci-fi figures for use in some other games I was playing at the time.
These are old sculpts, and despite not being up to the standard of modern day versions, are interesting for the massive range that was available for the game. The number of models was truly huge.
Miniatures & Painting - VOR: The Maestrom
FASA produced VOR: The Maelstrom figures in 1999. They had taken over Ral Partha in 1998 and used the brand to produce miniatures for sci-fi miniature wargame of the same name
which they also published. After FASA's demise in 2001, the game and assets were acquired by Iron Wind Metals where this range is still in production.
Description above taken from http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=VOR:_The_Maelstrom
I have a reasonable number of the Union and Neo-Soviet models in my collection, as well as (somewhere!) a copy of the VOR rulebook:
Miniatures & Painting - Mordheim
I only have one figure from the Games Workshop Mordheim range. I have no idea where it came from, as I never played the game. Was this a giveaway in Games Workshop stores at some point?
| Image | Name | In-Universe Affiliation | Scale / Size | Model ID | Quantity | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Aenur, Sword of Twilight | N/A | 28mm | N/A | 1 | Based, but unpainted. |