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Melbourne .au

Yeah, it was a bit of a surprise - not a huge one, mind, but not 100% expected that she'd be willing to have a go at playing. She told me on the phone yesterday that she quite enjoyed playing it as well, and could see the appeal of it. I've just posted an update on the wordpress blog with shots of the completed game room, but it's a bit of a big update with 12 pics, so I won't over-spam dakka with them all and just post a couple here. Lots more there for anyone interested.

January:


Today:


Scenery Cabinet (yeah it needs tidying up!)



Still a little bit more work to go. Buying some lamps for mini photography and a set of window blinds later today. And at my wife's suggestion, perhaps a split system heater/aircon in the coming months!
But basically, it's done!

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Illinois

Looks great.

 
   
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Australia

Jealous, so ever jealous. My Wife has suggested we build a shed for my hobbies. But that is a way off yet. In the meantime I will continue to be envious of your creation.

See My Crazy Army plan here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/521618.page#5517409

2000 Point Armies
[40k] Orks - Kaptin Grimskragas Razorfangs; Tyranids - Hive Fleet Acidica; Astra Militarum - Murdochs 5th Armoured Detachment; Necron - Reclamation Legion of Tomb World Fordris; Inquisition - Ordos Hereticus Witchfinder Tasetus and Coven; Iron Hands - Taskforce of the Garrsak Clan Company; Alpha Legion - XII Ambush Cell, Loyalists of the Twin Primarchs; Aeldari - Guiding Light of Yarn Le'ath;

[Warhammer] Empire - Obsidian Knightly Order; Bretonnian - Vain Quest for the Grail, 11th Crusade of Araby; Dwarf - Throng of Kark Veng; Ogre Kingdoms - Wondrous Caravan of the Traveller and his Maneaters; Tomb Kings - Bronze Host of Ka-Sabar; Chaos Dwarf - Protectors of Hashuts Holy Places; High Elf - Dragonriders of Caledor;  
   
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Va

Good to see some KOW pics around here!

Love your work on the ogres, especially the older ones earlier in the blog.

Check out my Deadzone/40k/necromunda blog here! 
   
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Japan

Whoa! Dark Future? That's a blast from the past.

Also, two copies of Dreadfleet?!

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
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Melbourne .au

Thanks guys, I'll be back onto the Ogres shortly. I just need to force my way through the two half-painted Mantic Ogre shooter units and I've then got some really cool stuff planned for the Ogre force as a reward for myself. I'm just not letting myself at them until the Mantic figures are done...

yeah, Dark Future was one I missed out on back inthe day buy managed to pick up off eBay for a reasonable price last year. I also got Heroquest and Advanced Heroquest, as my original copies of both hadn't really survived the years all that well. Now if I could only find Adeptus Titanicus, Space Marine, EPIC, Warhammer Quest and BFG for a reasonable price (My AT and SM didn't survive the years, I missed EPIC, WHQ, split a BFG box years ago, but I'd like the proper set today).

And yeah, 2 Dreadfleet boxes. Haven't played it yet, but they were on 50%-off clearance, the ships look decent, the sea-map is great and it was only a little more expensive than buying a few extra ships and such off eBay.

   
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Va

I have a copy of Deadfleet myself. I haven't played the game but the models are pretty darn good, and the sea map is beatiful. We use it for Dystopian wars.

Check out my Deadzone/40k/necromunda blog here! 
   
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Melbourne .au

Some scenery shots this time.

Here's the Siege Attackers and (most of the) Defenders Almost all of this stuff was painted recently, mostly after sitting undercoated in random boxes for over a decade.






Some graveyard centrepiece scenery. I think they might be by Grendel, but I'm not sure. Both of these were started about a decade ago, and only finished recently.






And some more generic and historical-friendly stuff:







   
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Illinois

Sweet, nice stuff all around. The siege attacker stuff looks hastily assembled , especially that second ladder, which is cool. Good colors all around, and a nice use of static grass where you used it. I like the house.

 
   
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Australia

The scenery is awesome. I love the wood on the siege equipment. Really nice job.

The tomb has got to be one of the nicest pieces of work I have seen in a while, keep it up.

See My Crazy Army plan here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/521618.page#5517409

2000 Point Armies
[40k] Orks - Kaptin Grimskragas Razorfangs; Tyranids - Hive Fleet Acidica; Astra Militarum - Murdochs 5th Armoured Detachment; Necron - Reclamation Legion of Tomb World Fordris; Inquisition - Ordos Hereticus Witchfinder Tasetus and Coven; Iron Hands - Taskforce of the Garrsak Clan Company; Alpha Legion - XII Ambush Cell, Loyalists of the Twin Primarchs; Aeldari - Guiding Light of Yarn Le'ath;

[Warhammer] Empire - Obsidian Knightly Order; Bretonnian - Vain Quest for the Grail, 11th Crusade of Araby; Dwarf - Throng of Kark Veng; Ogre Kingdoms - Wondrous Caravan of the Traveller and his Maneaters; Tomb Kings - Bronze Host of Ka-Sabar; Chaos Dwarf - Protectors of Hashuts Holy Places; High Elf - Dragonriders of Caledor;  
   
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Melbourne .au

Thanks guys, I've got a bunch of LotR Uruk-Hai Siege stuff to paint up as well sometime. Hopefully the ease and speed of it will be enough to counterbalance how boring they'll be to paint!

Anyway, here's something a lot more interesting - More Ogres! Golfag's Mercenary Ogres!
Yes, I be kicking it old-school!















These are the second series of Golfag’s Ogres aka Golfag’s Regiment of Ogre Mercenaries. I picked these up when they were reissued sometime in the late 1990s with many of the other Regiments of Renown in the clear hard plastic sliding-back containers. (And I’m still spewing that I didn’t get the cultists!) At the time I was collecting Ogres, and so this set was a natural, despite the higher than usual price. The set I got had 8 Ogres in it, but since the grunts were pretty weedy compared to even the current figures of that time (about the size of an Orc) and I wanted each of my ogres to be an individual model (which I still like the idea of today) I modified the mace of one (cut off the spikes and bindings) painted them with different skin tones and traded away the extras.

These guys, as my least-favourite ogre models had actually sat around in the bottom shelf of my glass cabinet, with no real priority to update them. The standard bearer had been pried off his base to be blu-tacked to a chariot for KoW games and otherwise they were pretty much semi-forgotten models. When we had the large game with my friends a couple of weeks ago, they got grabbed out since they had all the right bits for a unit I needed (6 ogres, standard, musician) and so seeing they had some use, I decided to rebase them. I had originally half-considered/planned to split them out and spread them across other units and repaint them, while binning the grunts. I think the minor repaint and keeping them together is a much better aesthetic choice, and as odd as it sounds, one that respects the models a lot more.

The funny thing is that after I finished rebasing them and updating them – which was pretty much so they wouldn’t look like crap anymore, found that I quite like their new look. It keeps the uniform look, the contrast between the blue and mustard still works, but the toning down of the colours and removal of green and purple (what was I thinking?) – and the new earthy bases make them look a much better looking unit.

So after all that, and thanks to that one game, I’ve ended up with a unit of painted figures that I really didn’t care much about being reborn as a unit of models that I actually quite like. Even before I realised that they’re Jes’ sculpts. All that’s left now is to make a unit base for them out of plasticard.

Lots more words and pictures on the Wordpress blog as usual, but hopefully this Dakka update is worthy in and of itself!

   
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Illinois

I appreciate the Dakka updates since it's too hard to track down all of my favorite hobby bloggists on my phone and I get a nice easy notice of updates on the threads subscribed page. Though... I guess it's pretty damn simple to add a blog to my RSS app thingy.

They look good. I think the bright colors work well for those older models. I'm not sure I could get myself to paint them like that, I've always been a dark and dirty painter, for whatever reason, but I certainly appreciate brighter schemes when other people pull them off. I'm losing track of how many ogres you've gotten finished, but it seems like you're getting a solid force built up.

 
   
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Australia

I love the old models, they have so much "character" than some of the new ones. Sort of like that old antique chair that is hideous to look at, but endearing at the same time because it has so much going on compared to the mass produced IKEA of today.

I totally agree with GrimDork that they carry the vibrant colors really well and you have done an excellent job of painting them.

See My Crazy Army plan here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/521618.page#5517409

2000 Point Armies
[40k] Orks - Kaptin Grimskragas Razorfangs; Tyranids - Hive Fleet Acidica; Astra Militarum - Murdochs 5th Armoured Detachment; Necron - Reclamation Legion of Tomb World Fordris; Inquisition - Ordos Hereticus Witchfinder Tasetus and Coven; Iron Hands - Taskforce of the Garrsak Clan Company; Alpha Legion - XII Ambush Cell, Loyalists of the Twin Primarchs; Aeldari - Guiding Light of Yarn Le'ath;

[Warhammer] Empire - Obsidian Knightly Order; Bretonnian - Vain Quest for the Grail, 11th Crusade of Araby; Dwarf - Throng of Kark Veng; Ogre Kingdoms - Wondrous Caravan of the Traveller and his Maneaters; Tomb Kings - Bronze Host of Ka-Sabar; Chaos Dwarf - Protectors of Hashuts Holy Places; High Elf - Dragonriders of Caledor;  
   
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Melbourne .au

That's a good comparison, Archer. It covers most of this batch quite well, really. Well, I still objectively like the drummer, but the others really rely on character a lot more...

I probably wouldn't paint them nearly as bright if I were to start them from scratch today, but I've fethed up enough of my old paintjobs over the years that I much prefer to see if I can tone things down now rather than strip and/or totally repaint. So this works out as a reasonable compromise for me. It's also finding that balance between interesting and realistic. Real models would mostly be dirthy brown with dirty brown shading and dirty brown highlights - which is much more realistic and looks great onscreen but not so much on the table.


   
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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

Loving the progress mate.



 
   
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Melbourne .au

I think I have painting ADHD.

I've just talked myself out of casting bases today. Which is not something I have a lot of experience in anyway. I've cast two in my lifetime, with passable success at best, and even those had no retail, being recasts of WotR cavalry regiment bases when I was trying to learn how to do it. One was okay, and the other two.. well, the resin wasn't mixed all that well, so they never ever quite cured properly.

Why was I wanting to cast up some bases? Well, resin bases are expensive. I looked on the website of the place where I've gotten most of my cast bases from (back to base-ix) and they wanted AU$8 for one 50x100mm chariot-sized base. That's a bit rich, especially for something as simple as "slate". Why did I want a slate chariot base? Well, I tend to like putting big and important figures on cast bases, and slate tends to be one of the most nicely generic types - and works well in many kinds of environments. Tiles or ruined temples or urban bases are a lot less flexible. Slate kind of works decently across all of those. What was the important figure? I found a Reaper Bones hydra in one of my figure tubs while I was looking for another model. I found the hydra, looked at it, thought "hm.. I bet this would paint up quickly, and look bloody nice." and got it out of the tub, opened the baggie, dry fit it, and started looking for ideas on how best to base and assemble it (types of glue) online.

What was I looking for in that tub? Reaper Bones Frost Wyrm. So I could paint it up as a speedpaint jobbie as a Catachan Devil. Directly inspired by Sho3box and something I originally wanted to do several months ago. I happened to have his blog open again when doing some blogging yesterday, and spied that page this morning when closing down a bunch of windows left open last night.

But anyway. I'm not going to create and then cast bases in resin today. I decided i need to get back to what I'm supposed to be doing.

Which is painting stuff that's already started.



Here's my painting bench, right now.
As you can see in the foreground, I have some trolls on the go. The one on the left was painted years and years ago, and then rebased about 2 years ago. The one in the middle was also painted many years ago, and was rebased in the last couple of days. There's varnish drying on the underside of his base, which is why he's sitting like that. The one on the right is hanging over the table for the same drying reason. I started him (basecoat of blue) and glued him onto that base about 2 years ago - when I rebased the first one. They all came out of the case with the ogres, last year, and have been sitting around in the open since then, waiting to be reborn as a new unit. I started on them again this week.

Though, this was as a distraction from what I was supposed to be doing - which is painting the Men of Gondor who cover the active part of the bench. I'm updating the 26 that I painted about 3-4 years ago, and adding some eBayed ones I picked up early this year, which were primed black or simply painted - good enough for overpainting - as well as a couple of command groups that have been here forever and Beregond, originally started when I finished the initial bunch. They got used in the recent games, and I thought I should bump up the numbers and at least fill the regiment bases.

The Men of Gondor though, are a distraction from what I'm supposed to be doing - which is painting the High Elf Phoenix Guard - which again had use in the same recent KoW games as Elven spearmen. You can just kinda sorta see a couple of their red cloaks in the top left corner of the picture. I did their armour, based them properly, then started base coating things like cloaks and robes. They look a hell of a lot better than the primed-white-since-1997 figures they they used to be, but they still need to be finished. However, those Phoenix Guard are actually a distraction from what I'm supposed to be doing. Which is finishing off the High Elf Swordmasters of Hoeth, who you can kinda see in the middle, behind the Vallejo gloss varnish, silver and brown paints. They have a few figures who still need their gems done, and then a varnish, and they're done. Some already have the gems done, and then there's a bit more work to do on the leader, musician and standard bearer - including painting a standard. Not much though - that unit should take maybe an afternoon to complete everything but painting the standard.

The Swordmasters are actually - you guessed it - a distraction from what I'm supposed to be doing - finishing the unit of Dark Elf riders. Which in turn are a distraction from what I'm supposed to be doing - which is finishing the Dark Elf warlord and Standard bearers on Cold Ones - all oH whom you can kind of see in the metallic blue-green, buried behind the red and gold of the High Elves. Those in turn are a distraction from what I'm supposed to be doing, which is finishing off a dozen or so DUST Tactics Axis Gorillas. I started those as a concurrent speedpaint project back when I did those DUST Axis Zombies. Back in January. The Gorillas were supposed to be knocked out and completed at the same time/right after the Zombies. Unfortunately, though - it seems I got a little distracted.

So anyway. I probably should skip resin casting slate bases today. I should probably try to complete some stuff I've already got on the go instead.

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Illinois

Haha I've got that too. Is there a twelve step program? Beyond some nice layering I mean

These days, I just don't see the point in painting something if I'm not feeling it. So paint that hydra

 
   
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Melbourne .au

After procrastinating for a couple of days, I got my wife to wash the Hydra for me with dishwashing liquid last night and started it today. It's about 70% finished, so hopefully I'll get it finished next weekend. I need to sort out a base for it, though.

In the meantime, here's more pictures of scenery - finished and photographed recently.


I did a lot of playing around with Verdigris effects on these. Pretty much figuring out how to do it. I missed that little Dark Legion icon up top of this archway until I was looking at these photos. Maybe I’ll go back and paint it with gold/brass/verdigris.


Obviously, I used a lot of drybrushing on these sets as well. I almost always use it on stone, but I usually hand paint and shade things like skulls. In this case, however, they got drybrushed as well, and the starkness actually turned out really well, I think.


I also had a bit of a play with weathering powders and Tamiya’s weathering compacts on the bottom of these scenery elements. The compacts worked a lot better than the powders, especially as the scenery needed to be varnished and will be handled a lot.


Since – let’s face it – this scenery is going to spend more time on Warhammer-game-themed tables than Warzone tables, I looked around for awhile for something appropriate for the banners. Originally, I was just going to paint some runes of Khorne on them, but that seemed a bit too boring. These stars appear to be used by the “Blood Pact” Renegade Guard forces from one of the IA books, but also look generic enough to be more general Chaos than just Khornate. Turned out better than I’d expected, too!


I really like this Sewer grate. It had a couple of the oversized skulls that I wasn’t fond of, but my clippers took care of that (one skull went flying through the lounge room and has still not been found!) My big plan for this piece is to use it when playing Helms Deep in LotR SBG or WotR – or Helms Deep-inspired scenarios for Kings of War. Butt it against a castle wall and let those Uruk-Hai sappers loose!





   
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Illinois

Damn, those are all really nice. The chaos tapestries especially are awesome.

 
   
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Australia

Love the terrain. I think people too often gloss over spending time and effort on their terrain and it is a real shame.

A great looking playing surface with painted mini's really takes the hobby to a new level.

Keep the updates coming. Wish I could get my wife to wash my miniatures, all she wants to do is fling paint at them (ok, so I have encouraged her to do that, but she could at least do some of the hard yards too).

See My Crazy Army plan here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/521618.page#5517409

2000 Point Armies
[40k] Orks - Kaptin Grimskragas Razorfangs; Tyranids - Hive Fleet Acidica; Astra Militarum - Murdochs 5th Armoured Detachment; Necron - Reclamation Legion of Tomb World Fordris; Inquisition - Ordos Hereticus Witchfinder Tasetus and Coven; Iron Hands - Taskforce of the Garrsak Clan Company; Alpha Legion - XII Ambush Cell, Loyalists of the Twin Primarchs; Aeldari - Guiding Light of Yarn Le'ath;

[Warhammer] Empire - Obsidian Knightly Order; Bretonnian - Vain Quest for the Grail, 11th Crusade of Araby; Dwarf - Throng of Kark Veng; Ogre Kingdoms - Wondrous Caravan of the Traveller and his Maneaters; Tomb Kings - Bronze Host of Ka-Sabar; Chaos Dwarf - Protectors of Hashuts Holy Places; High Elf - Dragonriders of Caledor;  
   
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Melbourne .au

Thanks guys - I really wanted to do something different to the kinda boring old runes of khorne, etc on the tapestries, so some googling really came up with something I wouldn't have otherwise thought of. Pretty cool that your wife joins in on the painting, though Archer!


When I'm able to focus, and manage to remember, I like to participate in the monthly painting challenges over at The One Ring webpage, which is a great community of Tolkien/Miniatures gaming enthusiasts. Sometimes I check their page too late, sometimes I forget for months at a time, sometimes I select a figure but just don't finish (or start!), and sometimes I actually manage to finish the model on time. This month, I managed the latter.





This Gandalf is from one of the very early boxed sets, circa around 2000. I bought it back in the day, and haven't exactly been quick when it comes to painting it. In fact, I don't think I've completed any of them. Well, excepting Gandalf now. I never got around to really playing the game in any meaningful way, so most of my interaction with the LotR line has consisted of collecting them.




I'm quite happy with the outcome, especially since the model was also a speedpaint, and something a bit left field - since I wasn't planning to paint any Fellowship-type models at the moment. I only started the figure yesterday afternoon, and he's done in just a bit over 24 hours. I rarely manage to do it, but there's something especially rewarding about finishing a figure in a day. Or in this case, 2 days. Regardless, a lot nicer than my usual, which is months or even years to finish figures.

My previous attempt to paint a Gandalf model petered out and the model hasn't been touched since 2010..

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Illinois

Looks good, really bright and smooth.

 
   
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Australia

That Gandalf is a lovely simple version. By simple I mean it is really neat, crisp and I love you haven't over complicated anything. He is meant to be a simple traveler not wanting to draw undue attention and I think you have captured that beautifully.

See My Crazy Army plan here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/521618.page#5517409

2000 Point Armies
[40k] Orks - Kaptin Grimskragas Razorfangs; Tyranids - Hive Fleet Acidica; Astra Militarum - Murdochs 5th Armoured Detachment; Necron - Reclamation Legion of Tomb World Fordris; Inquisition - Ordos Hereticus Witchfinder Tasetus and Coven; Iron Hands - Taskforce of the Garrsak Clan Company; Alpha Legion - XII Ambush Cell, Loyalists of the Twin Primarchs; Aeldari - Guiding Light of Yarn Le'ath;

[Warhammer] Empire - Obsidian Knightly Order; Bretonnian - Vain Quest for the Grail, 11th Crusade of Araby; Dwarf - Throng of Kark Veng; Ogre Kingdoms - Wondrous Caravan of the Traveller and his Maneaters; Tomb Kings - Bronze Host of Ka-Sabar; Chaos Dwarf - Protectors of Hashuts Holy Places; High Elf - Dragonriders of Caledor;  
   
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Melbourne .au

Thanks guys. Gandalf is indeed a pretty simple figure. I went with a bluish-grey rather than the almost brownish, dirty grey from the film in an attempt to add a bit of (muted) colour and interest to the figure - also so his beard would contrast with the clothing once it was all highlighted. Then when I do a Gandalf the White eventually, he'll have a super-clean beard, and a totally different robe palette.

   
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Melbourne .au

A quick update today. Just a couple of pieces of scenery to share. These three pieces were all done at least 10 years ago, so it's really a back-catalogue update.

First up, a couple of Daemonette statues. Once again, these are based on some Scotia Grendel (hey guys, send me some free stuff!) scenery. Back in the day I collected my Space Marines and Imperial Army Guard and whatnot as armies, but I also tended to grab anything else that took my fancy just to paint - much as I do today, really. Most of my Chaos figures of the day were procured just to have them, and since I wasn't a serious WHFB player (outside of my Dark Elves, then Orcs & Goblins), I wanted other figures to be individuals, as I noted in the last post with the Fleshhounds.

So what to do with doubled-up Daemonettes?

Turn them into scenery, of course!

I took a couple of the Grendel pillars, jewellers-sawed a channel out of the tops of them, then glued the model tabs in there with Araldite.



Daemonette Standing Stone Statues

I painted them with pink highlighted into white, and added blue marbling-style veins to them. I thought the pastel look worked for Slaanesh, and yes, there's a conscious subtext there as well. The bases were originally done in green flock, but several years later when I changed my basing style to the dark brown I painted over it, added the static flock, and also glued a bunch of soft seashells around the edges of the base. I felt that they had the right soft, pastelish, smooth, sensual look to them to fit in with the Slaaneshi scenery as offerings made by the chaos tribes.

More recently, I added the flowers to the bases, to add a little more interest to them. And besides, who said everything Chaos touches needs to be blighted wastelands?



Italieri Fountain, 40k style.

This one's as simple as hell. While perusing a model store years ago I saw this cheap Italieri kit on the shelf. I thought I could use it for scenery, and bought it. One simple assembly, four old-school Space Marine Banner tops (you could easily do the same with easily-available brass etch these days), and a quick base coat and drybrush followed by some thinned down orange paint for rust streaks and you're golden. And yes, it's still available today. What I especially like about it on current reflection is that it's still generic enough (even with the Aquilas) to be used in Historical or Fantasy gaming. Simple, cheap, effective and good looking.

Like me.

Ok, so I'm not as good looking as the fountain.


   
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Illinois

Awesome stuff, its all simple yet looks great. I like the little rust bits on the fountain, and the colors for the statues are reallly great.

 
   
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Australia

I second the rust/slime effect on the fountain, it really adds to the overall.

See My Crazy Army plan here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/521618.page#5517409

2000 Point Armies
[40k] Orks - Kaptin Grimskragas Razorfangs; Tyranids - Hive Fleet Acidica; Astra Militarum - Murdochs 5th Armoured Detachment; Necron - Reclamation Legion of Tomb World Fordris; Inquisition - Ordos Hereticus Witchfinder Tasetus and Coven; Iron Hands - Taskforce of the Garrsak Clan Company; Alpha Legion - XII Ambush Cell, Loyalists of the Twin Primarchs; Aeldari - Guiding Light of Yarn Le'ath;

[Warhammer] Empire - Obsidian Knightly Order; Bretonnian - Vain Quest for the Grail, 11th Crusade of Araby; Dwarf - Throng of Kark Veng; Ogre Kingdoms - Wondrous Caravan of the Traveller and his Maneaters; Tomb Kings - Bronze Host of Ka-Sabar; Chaos Dwarf - Protectors of Hashuts Holy Places; High Elf - Dragonriders of Caledor;  
   
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Melbourne .au

Another smallish update today. Basically, I haven't been painting much at all over the last few weeks, and so I'm sharing some more "back-catalogue" scenery pieces. As usual for this stuff, these are at least 10 years old, yadda yadda. They were painted during the heyday of Necromunda, and have been used in many an underhive battle and on 40k tabletops since then. I'm also sure they'd fit in just fine for Warpath, DeadZone, and pretty much any other sci-fi tabletop or RPG games.





This piece, despite looking like the sort of thing that you could easily assemble from a few bits from your local hardware store is actually a purchased resin piece. Probably cost between AU$10-15 back in the day. It's a slightly rough cast, and I think it's an old piece from Armorcast - or possibly Forge World - not the current GW-subsidiary, but the US-based company that produced 40k-scaled Epic stuff back in the 1990's. It's a slightly rough paintjob on a rough cast of a rough terrain piece, but it's good enough for most tables. I went with blue-grey because Necromunda, and as you can see, I wasn't quite sure on what happens to the orientation of hazard stripes on certain things. Not sure what the iron sights on the pipes are in aid of, either.

Once I get past the batches of fantasy figures and terrain I'm working on right now, I may well wander down to the local hardware store and pick up some plumbing fittings to create some new and better-quality variations on this theme. Maybe some more exhaust ports like the above? The traditional outflow pipe into a small pond of toxic sludge? There's an endless supply of clichés to mine, after all...




This generator is made of an old broken toy part that many of you have probably already recognised - yes, the Hoth Generator from Empire Strikes Back. It's from an old, old Micro-playset that was a bit broken and busted up from many play hours as a kid (and was second-hand and incomplete when I got it) The main body is made of two audiocassette cases glued together, the box on the side is a random part from a model kit, and the control panel on the front is a thumb switch from a kids' flashlight. Some flyscreen mesh and a rectangle of card over the top to finish up. Mounted the whole thing on some MDF, then add paint and a couple of decals to finish.

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Those are both really nice but I especially like the generator. Great paint jobs and fancy weathering, the decals really add a lot as well. Looks like you had some damn fine necromunda games over the years?

 
   
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I had assumed the first piece was made from hardware supplies until I actually read your post. Like the use of the Hoth generator. I think thats my favorite piece between the two.

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