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You're lucky you have a group you can talk into playing. Since there isn't really a scene around here, I'm pretty much stuck with immediate family.

It's an interesting group of figures you have there. Those WGF bits fit rather nicely on the Mantic figures. It looks like you're going for WYSIWYG, huh? I'm surprised you aren't using your infinity and Mantic stuff.

Well, I don't so much have a group. I have one guy and we manage to get together to play 1-3 times a month pending work and stuff. He's the one who got me playing Pulp Alley so I think this is pretty much up his alley tangentially.

With more time I may be able to convert some of the magic/heroclix players at the small yet apparently thriving fairly new game store in town...but I haven't got it.

I think the WGF/gcps marine mix looks a bit small, but hey, there are small people. I'm trying to WYSIWYG as much as I can, half the fun of converting them. Now, when it comes to upgrade time in a campaign...may just have to deal with sticking bits on the base or referencing the paper. Should that ever happen.

WGF survivors were the roughest/poorest looking figures I could find and that's what the diggers are: somewhat downtrodden manual labor, sometimes they're even press-ganged virtual slaves.

The next two warbands will be eating up a lot of DBX and Deadzone models, don't you worry

nice progress with these guys. I wish I had the time to develop a group to play with, I'm not spoiled for possible players with so many game stores near me.

Yeah, a campaign with at least 4 people would be nice, oh well. I'm sure other dude and I could always put together a couple of bands each.

Raiders are coming right along, photos later if I make more progress.

These kitbashes look pretty bloody nice. Let us know how TNT plays. I shouldn't be tempted by another ruleset since I've got oo much I already don't play, but still...

Thanks Az, though it may be awhile before I get the chance. I've sort of sold my opponent on trying it but we may as well finish the current pulp alley campaign book and at the rate of one *maybe* two games a month, that could take awhile yet.

These raiders are *close* but I don't want to rush them.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-70053-50535_Loer-recycle%20Of%20Life%20Final%20Gallery.html

Finished cabin, yay.

Very nice. Did you make those little chairs, or are they from some dungeon dressing set that I don't know about?

Yeah from scraps left over from a bag of random balsa bits, they were a pain and I do not intend to make more

Now I just need a couple of smaller out buildings and some woodsy stuff and I could have a convincing 2x2 or 3x3 woodlands area.

Cabin has come up really well. Would love to see a zombie survivor battle report. Everyone knows in a crisis a cabin in the woods is the place to hang.....

Great action shots in the cabin!

EDC

Thanks guys.

@Archer yeah, that's in the works but I probably need a few more woodland elements before it's worth doing.

Now for something a bit different from the cabin:


Reclaimers Warband


Raiders.

Haven't really decided on the fluff for everybody yet. Obviously with permadeath in campaigns I don't feel compelled to go into paragraphs per character

The angry excavator with power drill used to get by on her looks but she got older and had to find what work she could. Working for the reclaimers is tough but its keeping Lettie (well) fed.

The seeker in the back is a fairly new recruit to the Preservationists in general and this band of reclaimers in specific. Rogers worked the caravans as a guard for a time but was separated from his group and nearly died of exposure. Lord Reclaimer Grimms offered him a choice and the beleaguered wastelander took his chances for something better. Dedicated service has earned him the right to some pre-fall body armor and a weapon in decent repair. Maintaining this gear is one of the steps toward becoming a reclaimer himself one day.

Chuck has had a lot of jobs over the years, and for a wastelander he's getting on in them. His irritable nature and gruff attitude usually see him coasting on before more than a year has passed. Been that way for awhile, and Chuck doesn't much seem to care. He mumbles and grumbles while going about his work, using his cut-off saw to help the senior Reclaimers to clear excavation sites, or plying it's spinning blade at any foolish enough to imperil himself or his current employers.

Lord Reclaimer Grimm's title may be impressive to the uninformed, but what it ultimately amounts to is middle management within the Preserver's hierarchy. Grimms has autonomy and authority, but he also has a chain of command to which he must answer. He has earned his ancient power armor and laid claim to an actuated gauntlet found on one of his earlier excavation expeditions. Grimms is probably more at home in the (battle)field than in any friendly settlement, his thirst for achievement, notoriety, and rank keeping him restless. He is not a s ruthless as some Lord Reclaimers, and will only draft willing workers to be his diggers, and actively promotes the worthy into the seekers.

More later, I think the baby is waking up.

Looking really good so far, Grim. Keep it up.

Merci!

I hope to paint them soon. I consider the reclaimer armor as a test for Tau scheme etc . Raiders should be fun too.

Fun batch of minis there.

Like the TNT bands. I'm gonna start on my own soon. I assume you will be doing the KS on the 8th?

It is..possible. Depends on what they have on offer. I already have the PDF and while I like physical books my Tabtop makes reading the digital version pretty acceptable. If the physical book is the right price, or maybe if they have some new models on offer. Or if there's a competitive shipping/pricing on the peacekeepers they already have. I'm not expecting crazy value from such a small outfit, but given the size I'm also more willing to be generous with a pledge anyway...but they'll have to have something I want or *need*


Was at the local K-Mart and saw this pack of cars that I'd seen before. I had dismissed them in the first place because they are too large/toy-like to work for moderns. But then I looked at them thinking half-buried wrecked cars and covered-in-scrap-armored-plates trucks for the post apocalypse and I decided it was worth buying.

$7 for 10 vehicles, even if none of them are precisely the right size and they all look a bit like toys. Paint and conversion will help that somewhat.


The cars are too wide and scrunched to not look like toys if left alone. The SUVs and trucks are a little more believable, and I think if I go all Mad Max on them... they'll do ok.


Quick demo of the thought, I think if I buried the car a little further and added some junk in and around it... could pass well enough as scenery. Then I just have to extract the tires from the bottom half and I can start making tire piles

Are they plastic or metal? If they're metal, take a hammer to them, get some nice dents on them. Should help make the scale issues less noticeable if they're all beat up and there's no flat surfaces that'll look obviously out of scale.

They are plastic, very cheap and flimsy plastic which makes converting easy in it's own way. If I want fully junked/wrecked/pressed cars there's a method for casting them where you wrap a properly scaled vehicle with tinfoil and press until you get all the details right then carefully extract the original. Then you can crumple and dent the new tin-mold before adding your material of choice. I'm not sure if the mold survives the process as tinfoil is awful fragile at the best of times, but even if you had to make a new one it's pretty doable. Been meaning to try it.

I bought a couple cars from my local goodwill a week or two ago for 50 cents each. Not sure what to do with them but I was thinking along the same lines as you. Hopefully you can come up with something awesome and I can just steal that.

I don't have the PDF yet for TNT, as I have a hard time spending "real" money on digital items. I can do a dollar or two, but not 25. I would much rather spend 30 or 40 on a hardback, so I will probably just wait for the KS to ship before I get the rules. Doesn't mean I cant make a few models while waiting though.

I prefer buying physical goods usually.... but the book is really top notch, I'd put it over some of the recent mantic rulebook offerings. Lots of painted examples of things, solid art, haven't noticed m/any typos etc. If you're wanting to make something and need to know if there's a rules equivalent for it just ask I've got the book on all of my devices.

Alright here are the first 12 models of March, 11 orclings and a regiment base to allow for the completion of the second regiment of orclings. These guys put me at 12 models in March and 96 models for the year. Yes, there are over 40 orclings in that total, but consider that there are also 22 orcs (8 of which are on boars!) and 10 USARF infinity guys along with some other randomness... I think it's pretty fair. And a pretty strong start for the year. Of course, I'm not going for numbers this year exactly, but I'm certainly glad to have them.

Anyway:



Orcling Regiment #2. 28 orclings and their base. Honestly could probably pack more in but given the poses they have I didn't want to. If some of them were up on the shoulders of others or what have you... but I'm happy with the density here. Thanks for a mini supply drop from Theo, I should have enough orclings left to sprinkle along the other orc infantry bases as well!


Here's the two orcling units arranged in Horde formation. Not sure which is more desirable in the game, but I have both options now.


They don't look as good from the side (the way the units join is more obvious), but I think they work out well in any case.


And here are the orcish hordes so far, a nasty block of troops, fast hard hitting cavalry, and a couple of screens to help the main units get to combat. I think the force could use a leader to help it look more complete, if still small.

Thanks for looking

Good stuff! Yep, those Orcs need a boss, preferably something big, killy and with a suitably (or unsuitably, depending on how you look at it) large axe!

The Dungeon Saga orc boss is ready, he's a bit feral and doesn't closely match them but he's tough enough to boss them around. I'm also considering up-arming one of the boar riders and slapping him on the back of a Reaper Bones dragon turtle as a regular slasher.

4 days into the month and you've already done that many? I'm jealous. I'm really dragging my feet on my actual monthly challenge models. I've been working on other stuff, including the stretch goals.

Well remember they are done based on Azazelx's scheme of count them when they're finished so half of their painting was done in Feb. I may be done with tale of painters stuff for now, gotta do those bands and work some terrain and Infinity in... I've been pretty bad at avoiding the infinity DotDs... Did you see that you can now queue up mm orders w/o shipping them instantly so you can buy DotDs and hoard them till you hit free shipping? Very cool.

That's not a temptation I need. Lol. I managed to resist the Batroids for now. I really shouldn't be buying right now since my birthday is coming up. We'll ignore that FRP order I just made though. .

I really need to pick up the pace on my challenge stuff though since I'll be house sitting again later this month, and it's going to be at least a full week, so I really have less time to complete my challenge this month.

Ahh yeah, better get to it then!

Ok guys be brutally honest here, I'm no Paradigm so how is this dingy not-a-marine for you?





Remember he's for not-Fallout so dingy and scratched up is intentional but.. still pretty rough. Thoughts?

Overall, looks pretty good, just those eye lenses bud.

Very promising start though, nicely grubby and beat up.

Clean up those eyes.....!!

Yeah was rushing too much. They don't look soxbad from a distance but its on the things to do..

Still trying to decide if I like the dingy white or if I should switch to scuffed up black.