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Yeah, the tanks are entirely scratch-built, the only non-homemade parts are any guns like multilasers and the like, which are fiddly to do. I only have a couple of them at the moment, but am looking to make a few more soon. They tend to take 10-12 hours each, but only cost around £7.50 in materials, or about $11. So in the end, it's a good deal, especially when I enjoy the process.

Apologies if you were expecting pictures on the blog, it's just a collection of wordy ramblings on IG at the moment. I still haven't managed to get time, lighting and possession of a camera to be aligned long enough to get some actual pics of my models.

Strain should easily work as Plague forces, I can see the bigger ones making nice S2s (not sure there's anything big enough for S1s). Depending on what you have in the way of terrain and enforcers, it shouldn't be that hard to get a game going before the package arrives.

The Grendlr may actually be as big as the 1st gen. The Cthonian might sub for a terrorton, though he has guns. Scythe whiches would make lovely second gens. The brimstone may even pass for a mortar while the Quasimodo is s boomstick.

I think I like my vanguard test so much I may be repainting my enforcers

Its too bad there are no rules for corp Marines yet... got s ton of those painted lol.

I'm working on some house-rules for the corp fighting the first waves of an outbreak. I've been playing around with making them very susceptible to the plague, each killed one potentially being zombified. This would be balanced by giving extra VP for each on e of the zombies killed. No idea about if this would work, but I'll try and get something structured posted up soon for review.

Looking forward to seeing the Vanguard test.

Tomorrow, as soon as the minwax as cured and seal+base. It's basic, just medium gray, but I like it.

Let me know how your outbreak campaign progresses. Perhaps after we've seen the Nexus Psi campaign, zombie rules are out, and so on, we can work out a proper 'early days' mini campaign to play out


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They need sealer yet.. too glossy. I may adapt the vanguard for enforcers, would be like studio scheme just a bit darker. I'm thinking of keeping the dark grey/black portions on the bigger strain for plague color scheme. Would make gens 1 and 2 a lot of black and red.. might be neat.

finally got around to taking some pics of my rebs





also snapped a quick shot of my still very wip plague

Green plague NEED purple clothes!

Stage 1 smash!

GD, those Vanguard and Strain are looking ace, the simplicity of the Vanguard will work very nicely with the DZ style. The Strain scheme works nicely on the bigger beasties.

Greenskin lynn, very unique Plague there, good stuff.

 Alpharius wrote:
Green plague NEED purple clothes!

I fully agree. Rest assured, mine WILL have purple pants! Except the S1, who doesn't believe in pants. He'll look like Abomination. Maybe the second S1 I got will be blue-ish and look like A-Bomb. It will be team smash, have no doubt.

The Abomination is one of my all time favorite villains, and I'm still a little peeved that they killed him off.

A-bomb looks cool, but in the end, he's no Abomination!

Those rebs look pretty solid, and the radioactive mutant plague too

@Paradigm thanks

thanks to the magic of a day off and no pressing engagements, i was able to finish up my plague today

Nice work.

3rd gen went to mow, went to mow a meadow
3rd gen, 2nd gen and his dog (woof) went to mow a meadow

Those are pretty cool. Interesting colors.

yeah some pretty nice/nasty looking plague beasties there, look forward to seeing how the stage 1 turns out.

I posted this in the DeadZone news thread but thought I would post it here too. I prefer hard plastic over restic but I don´t think that restic is worse then metal to clean up, at least not by much. Going on 35 + celaned and assembled Deadzone minis. (And the game is fun too)

And then I discovered the "hot-water trick" which in my mind really makes restic worthwhile. It is extremely an easy and stunningly effective method for conversions. I'm a bit sad that I didn´t discover it until I had glued both rebs, enforcers and most of the plauge. For any organic model one can easily twist and rotate not only arms, legs and heads but also entire torsos! A real boon for modelers and fun and fast to do. No two restic miniatures need ever look the same. Here are some examples of doublicates in one stock version and one water-bent. I am particualry pleased with the dogs (sorry for the bad images):

Said it there, will say it here, nice work I've got a bucket load of this stuff coming yet, so anything to de-mono-pose stuff is appreciated

absolutely, things like repositioning the heads and necks of the dogs would have been very time consuming and needed lots of cutting and greenstuffing in plastic (or metal) but here it took literally half a minute.

You can bend hard plastic too though. I straightened at least a dozen gw hormagaunts to be running instead of leaping. I'm sure its not as convenient as restic but it is possible. I used s hair dryer

Still a useful property of restic, gonna use it on my sedition wars strain.

partisan_nick wrote:
absolutely, things like repositioning the heads and necks of the dogs would have been very time consuming and needed lots of cutting and greenstuffing in plastic (or metal) but here it took literally half a minute.

Some good conversions and variations on poses there Partisan_nick, I personally think that hard plastic and metal miniatures are a far better option to the resin variety, the clean casting and general quality of the figures out weighs the convenience of altering the model itself.

In other news, the modular board is slowly progressing, its taking a while since I'm trying to get as much "free" modelling material together from old boxes etc...

For now here are a few more W.I.P shots.

Great idea using card for squares, it adds a nice 3Dness to the board, looks awesome, and is very convenient. Consider the idea borrowed if/when I get around to doing this myself.

Just getting 1 set of terrain on there you'd already have a far more dynamic and varied board than the base set. Good stuff, looking forward to progress.

Yep, that board is really nice, I may have to borrow some of your ideas The extra ups and downs you've added are probably approximate to at least another battlezone added in, which should allow you to use less tiles, or just go even crazier When I set off to do my DOOMCUBE, I may make a base for it like you have done, do the lowest levels in some other material, maybe even make them a bit rougher/older looking as possible. Maybe even a street level 2-3 tiles up and some sewer action at the bottom

quote=GrimDork 566289 6498657 d771eb2dde6afad53b1d001f82ed671a.jpg]Yep, that board is really nice, I may have to borrow some of your ideas The extra ups and downs you've added are probably approximate to at least another battlezone added in, which should allow you to use less tiles, or just go even crazier When I set off to do my DOOMCUBE, I may make a base for it like you have done, do the lowest levels in some other material, maybe even make them a bit rougher/older looking as possible. Maybe even a street level 2-3 tiles up and some sewer action at the bottom

just got Dr Simmonds and her science team finished, to be honest I'm not too happy with how these have turned out but there done now. =/

Look pretty good to me! I like the white and the blood fx on the coats.

Same here - I think they look great!

Well, as I promised you guys... movie Abomination paint scheme for my S1.

HULK SMASH PUNY IRON MAN!!


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Also, with the picture I see there is a mold line. Whoops. Can't really notice it on the model, just in the pic, so whatev's

Bwahahha nice.