I like the camo pattern on the tabards. A good idea. That mini doesn't really have any hips to speak of, eh? A not uncommon thing in some of the earlier digital sculpts.
I like the Tau and the Knight. Especially like the grainy grey on the undersuit of the Tau. Nice contrast without detracting from the white armour plates.
Bah, told you guys work picking up would seriously hinder hobby progress. Managed to order 4 more models with Amazon points... Pile is bottomless.
Been looking over dz2/infestation. Would have to play before I could make an informed critique bit it seems streamlined and I believe I like most of what I've seen. Campaign looks more fun.
Yeah, sigh. It isn't so bad until it gets *really* hot, and then I'm just done. Even if I do find time, still, done.
Still having lots of TNT warband ideas, we'll see if I get the wherewithal to do anything about them.
Still on the fence about the TNT book, I like to show support but I already bought the PDF. Also found out some 10 year old boy pitched an idea for a Magicka based card game and the developers were cool with it, so I'm backing that for like $15 on kickstarter too. Just a single deck of cards, for better or worse. I like the franchise and the kid seems pretty funny. It's not just the kid, his dad is handling the kickstarter part I think. Bit curious as to if the game balance and art direction are being left wholly in the hands of the 10 year old..but like I said it's $15, or at least the early pledge I found was.
It's always good to back something you find interesting. About 20 years ago I pre-ordered a card game from the description in a previews magazine. It seemed innovative and fresh, and we were only playing 40K, fantasy and regular cards on saturdays. The game shipped Gencon week and I had ordered a box of boosters and starters. We got a call from a friends dad (the guy that brought warhammer to us from England on his FBI trips) saying we needed to order the crap out of the game. I told him we had an extra box of each at the store (ordered 1 extra of each box) and he bought it over the phone. THe Game was called Magic: The Gathering, you may have heard of it . I later sold a stack of cards a 1/2" tall for $1100. You might have found a gem.
I doubt it, honestly, but it'll probably be fun if I ever get around to trying it. Premise sounds kinda link Muchkin in terms of player interaction.
MTG was special, wasn't it. The oldschool original cards could (probably still do) go for massive sums as you say. I got into that around 5th edition which was a little late for such stories to arise.
So my opponent and I are working through the Perilous Island campaign for Pulp Alley. Rather than go to the jungle we're going to the desert (with an oasis!) because that's more in line with his collection of scenery and NPCs/extras. I'm gonna try to bust out some tomb kings skeletons and the big bad pharaoh himself to add that little bit of extra Ooomph to the final games. I think there's some kind of giant cheesy lizard monster and a big stompy robot, but probably not mine because he's not very Egyptian.
Also tinkering with fish people mutants/tribals for TNT using those Naiads I got from the KoW kickstarter, and executing a similar idea using my range of older edition metal skavenses.
Both of those lists are done, though the models are not started. I also made lists for dragging some infinity PanO over-- a knight and 4 soldiers kinda thing-- as well as one for forge father preservers and dark eldar raiders. Finally the trench coat Incubus will rein in the spotlight with his harem of drug-crazed wyches and so on.
I may just have to finish all of these factions and have them battle to the death in my deadzone/city terrain...which I'll also have to finish
Seriously, I mean it. I'd like to... but so tired. Too tired. Blah.
So I think I may work on making a 4x4' city/capitol wasteland style board out of 1x1' tiles, saw one on the This Is Not A Test facebook group and seeing proof of concept has made me want to resume the idea. I think 6 straight road tiles and one crossroads gives me a lot of road options. For the other nine initial tiles (because knowing me I'll want to keep making more if I ever get the core set finished) I dunno, taking suggestions honestly.
Still working out what to paint this month, but gonna be a much shorter list than the last three. Have about 10 tomb king skeletons/characters to paint up for our Pulp Alley campaign, and I still want to get at least one unit done for Azazelx's tale of gamers challenge.
May try to paint something easy this weekend, but we'll see.
Ok got a little bit done today. I think the fence may have been yesterday but it got sealed today. Or something. Anyway...
My phone camera does odd things with reds/oranges, like too much saturation or something. Daylight was way bad, this isn't quite so extreme, it's more or less what I'm seeing in hand. 40mm base just felt more right than 25, I offer no excuses!
Quick job, sloppy paint work but it was done under the extreme duress of frequent interrupts to fix/explain various Nick Jr. games for my kiddo and having to bribe my baby with baby treats while she played in the 'exersaucer' (yeah apparently that's a thing). I'll take it.
Really quick little bit of terrain. I've been actively watching the This is Not a Test and Terrainiacs facebook groups and on one of them there was a question/debate/whatever about good materials for 28mm scale fencing. Tulle was mentioned. I like it alright. It's really flimsy and flexible so you have to adequately support it...but it's not nearly so fragile as it looks. Those holes in the fence I had to cut out with an xacto, ripping it wasn't happening without tearing out the fence supports. Craft stick, two bits of sprue, length of floral wire, and a small strip of tulle later... boom fence. Texture on the base is blah. Didn't want to have to wait for my usual dap/stucco stuff to dry. The grey/brown is the color I'm considering for large parts of my city board.
Oh. Huh. Don't think I have any photos... I may be back in a minute, I think I sorted out roads for my board. Boom.
Again, at least loosely inspired by the TNT/Terrainiacs facebook groups... Vinyl plank flooring strips. That piece is 24"x6", is pre-textured, and is even adhesive-backed so I can slap it down into place without worrying about hotglue or similar. All for like $1.29 or something. I picked up five after botching the math a bit. I wanted enough pieces to make my two 24x6", two 12x6", and one 12x6" crossroads sections. 4 would have been sufficient. So now I've got a whole extra 24 inches of road, I'm sure I can just make an extra pair of road tiles (or another long double tile) and use them occasionally. Spare board tiles have always been in the cards. Huh yeah, cool. The 5th piece will let me ignore the crossroads and have two 4 foot long 6 inch wide roads that run parallel to eachother. Side-by-side for the interstate maybe, or spaced further apart to represent two main city roads that run parallel.
The orc is the Warlord of Galahir from the Dungeon Saga expansion by the same name. Be bas a name but I haven't read all of the DS material to know it.
The terrainiacs is a group run by that Mel Bose guy, the terrain tutor. There's a no linking policy so the whole group is nothing but photos of people's terrain WIPs and finished works. And some questions/debates about terrain stuff like what's good for 28mm fencing, which train scale should I use for x or y, what are you guys using as base boards for your terrain pieces and so on.
The TNT group is a good source of inspiration if you're into TNT or the whole post apoc scene. Seems like a pretty supportive and mellow group.
I'm not a huge fan of Facebook in main but I have e found some groups I like enough to put up with the rest.
WIP. Obviously. Not long though. Our pulp alley campaign calls for zombies and a priest but we've switched to a more desert/Egyptian theme so its skeletons/mummies and this Pharaoh to summon/lead them. Been built forever, finally got some primer down recently.
I really liked the tomb kings range, too bad it's being dumped by GW. He is coming along nicely, glad your getting some hobby time in between the little ones and the weather getting better for your work.
My opponent wanted to do the last one on LAF I think, still gotta get him the photos. I'll be doing at least another one though. I think we're towards the end of the campaign but I'm not really sure as he's got the book.
Mummy boss is almost done, some highlights and final washing. May skip dipping just as a matter of expediency.
May add a little to these guys before it's over, I've got an anubis/hourus statue/thing from bones 2 and a giant scorpion as well. May as well flesh them out a little for eventually. But not necessarily now. I really wanna get cracking on some Infinity and would like to bulk up my Orc force as the tale of gamers challenge isn't going to leave me a terribly large army if I stick to one unit a month.
The Warlod of Gwahir has come up really well, as has the fence. I'm liking the progress on the TK Pharaoh model as well. I'm also rather unhappy that TK are getting squatted.
Automatically Appended Next Post: OOOh! New photos while I was posting! The dip has really worked its magic on this guy and brought out the facial details very nicely. The angle on his cape is a bit crazy. Like he's standing in high winds or like he should be standing on a Disc of Tzeentch or something!
Ahh spotted that did you? He's meant for a chariot. Needed a foot boss though. Still have his ride so he may get it painted some day. It would also justify his Pike sized glaive.
Just brown ghost tint this time, too impatient to dip. Find it almost as good and I can touch it up or seal much sooner.
Pretty pleased with him overall, still kind of a rush job but I think the colors work. He will severely outclass his minions wjo are the old chunky GW skeletons with the odd Egyptian themed bit thrown in, hallmark of the tomb Kings plastics.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also thanks, for compliments and comments. And that goes for everyone! Sometimes I jump straight into answering questions or explanations, but never mistake that eagerness for a lack of gratitude for everyone's continued support!
Thanks It's probably his liver or something, knowing Egyptian themed Pharaoh types. Didn't they discontinue the line? Because that *would* be pretty sweet, but I dunno if I can handle paying scarcity-based-INCREASED GW prices
Back when the TK had their "second coming" I had a TK army in exactly that scheme. Looks really good Grim, have you got his chariot (is it Settra?) knocking around somewhere?
"Lazy" phone uploads is pretty cool as well.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Back when the TK had their "second coming" I had a TK army in exactly that scheme. Looks really good Grim, have you got his chariot (is it Settra?) knocking around somewhere?
I forget why exactly but aside from two charioteers this is the extent of melee tomb Kings skeletons that I own. I think I may have 30-40 bow skeletons though. Three chariots plus the boss chariot too. I think I'll do the boss chariot some time. I'll cut and reglue the horse bit...yoke?.. go reduce it to a two horse chariot because there isn't a lot of reason to carry on with the awkward footprint for KoW.
Other stuff to paint though. Orcs. A load of 'snowy day' stuff I primed to have on hand during the winter no-prime-time. Much Infinity.
Also scenery. I need to do a test piece but I may have solved my 1' tiles for my 4*4 post apoc board. Floor tiles. About a buck a pop. Far too heavy and sturdy to slide around or warp. I just need to verify that hot glue and Spackle/plaster/other scenery stuff will properly adhere to them.
Yeah I haven't forgotten you . Just a hundred different projects vying for my hobby time.
I'll be using some battlezones for the PAB, though a slant towards redbrick.
Rainy today. May try to get the materials for my board project. Maybe the shelves too. Storing the 16+ tiles will be no joke as I doubt many are gonna stack.
Torn between orcs and starting on a random primed batch of minis. Even got a giant. Obviously infinity too but I won't paint those under suboptimal conditions. I'll still basically rush them but I won't do it in bad light or shaky table conditions.
Thanks! I have a block or two of archers so up to 4 troops of those, three chariots though I dunno what those do in undead KoW list. Maybe the not tk list huh. Oh and setra chariot . a statue from reaper. So I may sometime .
Related, h
What do you do for blocks of 10 archers when you're doing your lotr troops? Just a tray with 8 guys and if its 10mm too deep so be it?
What do you do for blocks of 10 archers when you're doing your lotr troops? Just a tray with 8 guys and if its 10mm too deep so be it?
Exactly that.
I've asked about this on the KoW page before when I wanted to use my models for both AoS (very big round bases) and KoW, and people get REALLY upset when you talk about changing base sizes even a few mm... it seems to be taboo.
What do you do for blocks of 10 archers when you're doing your lotr troops? Just a tray with 8 guys and if its 10mm too deep so be it?
Exactly that.
I've asked about this on the KoW page before when I wanted to use my models for both AoS (very big round bases) and KoW, and people get REALLY upset when you talk about changing base sizes even a few mm... it seems to be taboo.
Those people are feth wits. That kind of behaviour is a form of self-identification warning that provides a signal to the rest of us that they're best avoided. Like the black and yellow stripes on a bee or wasp.
I'm happy to take this:
Exceptional Base Sizes
You may need a wider or deeper base for
exceptionally large heroes, monsters or war
engines – in such rare cases, use the smallest
base that you can fit your model on.
...and apply commonsense to it. In the same way is described in Pages 14-16 of Hail Caesar or 12-13 of Black Powder.
Exactly. If the base is larger towards the back who cares. The only time it would come into play would be with someone cheating on movement by measuring front to back (had a friend who played dwarves in third edition who tried this all the time , when his dwarves were moving faster than my knights something was up).
Like my Raging heroes commissar sisters, they would look like their ankles broke is put on a smaller base, I had 40mm bases available for them, Maybe if there were at the time the 32mm bases, I might have used them, but heck they are heroic gals.
What do you do for blocks of 10 archers when you're doing your lotr troops? Just a tray with 8 guys and if its 10mm too deep so be it?
Exactly that.
I've asked about this on the KoW page before when I wanted to use my models for both AoS (very big round bases) and KoW, and people get REALLY upset when you talk about changing base sizes even a few mm... it seems to be taboo.
Those are people you avoid playing with. A few mm extra doesn't make a difference.
@Theo there are lots of zombies, not a huge number but enough for at least one quarter And that's just a random hodgepodge of buildings that are done. I need to do a lot more BZ scifi city, knock together the 20th century redbrick with the damaged sections to use for TNT, and receive my battle systems pledge for a nice big contemporary town.
Need to make the second board and the mega-shelves too so I can clear up all the sawdust and put an extra rug someone was throwing away at work (work for enough wealthy people and you come across occasional gems that they just don't want any more...you also come across people who think they're being benevolent and doing you a favor by letting you haul away their junk.. it's a mixed bag ) down on the concrete so it's not so cold in the winter. Also because then I can get some of those furniture skid pad things and scoot the boards around even easier than now.
I'm hopeful that I can get the height right on the second board to match the first. I can measure twice before I cut once...but I'm still prone to not getting that 100%
@ Josh, still nothing too fun yet though, just stuff I've already had laying around. I should be building some redbrick battlezones before terribly long and I would like to work on some scifi stuff too. I have soooo many battlezone tiles and bits laying around I need to turn them into terrain before the ghost of their lack of progress materializes and starts haunting me!
I haven't actually gotten to play on the surface yet, not even when it was a 4x8 sheet of OSB sitting on an air hockey table. Well, a couple of games of X-wing, anything else was just solo battle reports.
But yes, I think it will be nice. Especially having the two boards but rarely needing them both at the same time (maybe KoW, possibly Warpath down the line..everything else is 2x2, 3x3, or 4x4) because that will mean I can leave a couple of different games set up at the same time if I'm so inclined.
I guess technically I could always use bottom storage as some kind of sub-board to the top board, like a spaceship on top and a planet below, or sewers, or etc. Kinda low to the ground to actually play on though, most likely better for scenery storage.
Table looks good. Have you thought about adding a lip around the top? Something to prevent stuff from rolling off easily, and to protect the edges of the top.
Undertable storage is a good thing. Those are not 2x4's. what dimension are the boards?
Those are totally 2x4s. At least that's what the store said. Obviously they're a touch leaner than true 2" x4" but I'm pretty sure they're regular old 2x4 studs. Top board is theoretically 48x48" however playable surface is more like 48x47" since they make the one end shorter expecting builders to be connecting them with those little tongue and groove bite on the sides.
Bottom part is...less? There was measuring but I've already forgotten.
Automatically Appended Next Post: So I checked the tag, 2x4x96" select stud. Actual measurement is very close to 1.5x3.5 inches, possibly slightly less.
No worries, my sense of scale must be off then. I blame the allergy meds A 2x4 is really 1 3/4" x 3 1/2". I ended up using a pair of 1/4" mdf sheets ( 2' x4') for the table top I did. And floor tiles too, to make it look like a red desert. It worked. Really heavy though.
I think I'm gonna use ceramic times as the base for my TNT board. The table is plenty sturdy to support them and I like the mix of permanence and modularity of 16 square foot tiles.
2 x 4 is the sawn size, if you have a plained finish they have taken off a portion for plaining on all sides. This varies but usually you loose 1/4 to 1/2 inch. It is usually still sold as 2 x 4 though.
In the UK we have adopted and adapted the metric system, whilst maintaining the Imperial, so we have 100mm x 50mm sawn, with 90 x 45 plained. All messed up if you ask me. You used to buy boards in 8' x 4' sheets, now it is metric so 2440mm x 1220mm, not quite 8' x not quite 4' (it is very close, but is noticable.) Why the heck they did not just bite the bullet and go 2400 x 1200 or even better 2m x 1m is beyond me.Amazing how all builders work in 8' x 4' still today.
Your boarding will be 48" wide, they take into account the tongue and groove in manufacture.
Oh and interesting fact, probably not relevant anywhere outside the UK, the Ford Transit (British Standard Builders Van) the back has always been designed to take an 8' x 4' (British Standard Sheet Size) board exactly between wheel arches and bulkhead to rear door.
Back on subject, excellent table, looks nice and sturdy. Ceramic tiles are a good idea, especially as you can mix it up a bit with 4", 6" or 1" mosaic tiles as well.
Thanks. Those are the inadvertently kickstarter exclusive mars attacks paper mats. Not so much KSE as they simply came with kickstarter packages since they were promised but weren't seen at retail after the mats got upgraded to neoprene.
Man that dark souls KS is blowing up all over the place. Never played the games so dunno a thing about it.
Got the main structure for the second half of the board built. Need to do the storage area/leg supports. Then the shelves. Then the makeshift carpeting and furniture sliders. Then my game room will be nearly complete muahahaha.
Those Mars Attacks mats look better than I expected. Or to put it another way - in your pic they look far better than paper mats. Looking forward to Part 2!
They've been sleeping under the rubber mats for weeks to flatten them 'mostly' out.
Second board is almost done. Just gotta attach the bottom bit. Boards are within 1/8 maybe less of an inch of each other. Once I get the rug/carpet sorted I can find tune the heights by adding a shim here or there between the legs and their slider pad things.
Need to do shelves before that though. I had a thought. Was gonna do all shelves with the flat board on top but I think I will flip at least one so as to have a shelf with slightly smaller surface area but 3+ inch high walls making it more secure for wee bits of scatter.
Looks like attaching that bottom piece largely sorted the slight height difference. Must have balanced the legs a bit.
Anyhoo I may do some sanding to ward away splinters...but my board is pretty well finished. I could paint it or stain it maybe...but for now we're good. Aesthetically the woodwork is far from amazing but its solid and functional.
I'll have to do a big set up at some point but I'm gonna hold off till I've got the room sorted out.
Alright got some time this weekend and knocked out the second board section and the shelves. Man... Shelves were kind of a bear to push back into place but its all done yay. Just need to clean the small part of the room you can't see in the picture and get some kind of rug or carpet down for creature comfort and greater ease of sliding the tables around (with those little furniture slider pad things).
Need to get back on the paint wagon so I can populate the new storage.
Great looking table space you have now . You and your mates won't have to go hang out at the library to play now, and it will make a great get away from the kids when you need to call a time out on yourself.
Thanks guys. I just hope those shelves will fit all of the terrain I hope to be making. The TNT board will fill a shelf by itself. And the BS city scenery will probably eat up a lot of the top one.
Getting there! Need more of each kind of terrain and I have plans for so much more besides.
Included below is s bad shot of z mostly finished reaper dragon turtle. Also have a mawbeast from dungeon saga mostly done, trying to get that orc/goblin archer unit worked on for May completion. Went with what I hope is a tawny/lionish look. Orcs and goblins to follow at some point maybe.
Yep that's in the works. I have a couple extra boar riders so if I chase down a spare overlarge axe I think I can pull off a lower ranked krudger on slasher. I have giants from that old whfb two giants and a druid box that I want to paint eventually so slasher makes more sense.
Sorry folks been better than a week. Just been keeping busy. No painting (unless you count some minor touchup work around the house) but I have been doing some building. Battlezones. Most of it occurred today . I've had time to chuck a few photos to Facebook but haven't gotten around to uploading here. Will do soon. Probably finish the bulk of it first.
Also got my MM shipment so I'll show you all the updated infinity shame drawers (yes its two now...). Got some alkemy dudes too and they look quite nice in resin for the pittance I paid. Got a TNT barbarian themed tribal warband almost built.
So I got the majority of my big factory done. Needs some gantries added on a couple of walls. Not all over, just enough to cover a couple of tanks/vats/whatever. Obviously there will be a bunch of stuff on the floor but I'm waiting for my deadzone2 because it will provide excellent factory bits and bobs. Logs and lots of rubble too. Better than 80% of the roof is collapsed so that will leave a mess.
But I digress, the interior has a ways to go but the main building is virtually finished.
When I do the rest of the board sections I intend to make a couple that are mostly empty but for long crumbling walls such that I can socket them in between the factory walls to make it a larger yet more broken factory. I'll probably include the two current 6*6" redbrick as a sales office and maybe a diner.
Eventually I'll probably make enough spare tiles to run the board without the factory, just as a wasteland or city outskirts. Anyway photo:
So had a bit of time today and knocked out the road portions of all 7 road tiles. Now the tiles need texturing and whatever bits and bobs of broken cars and roadside detritus I want to permanently affix to the them. I'll probably leave the roads themselves a least partially clear. The cheap plastic cars really need to be sunk into the ground and the mars attacks Crashed cars have their own bit of rubble (if necessary) around them so no need to fix them to the board forever. But I'll want something here and there along the roadside for cover and accent.
So had a bit of time today and knocked out the road portions of all 7 road tiles. Now the tiles need texturing and whatever bits and bobs of broken cars and roadside detritus I want to permanently affix to the them. I'll probably leave the roads themselves a least partially clear. The cheap plastic cars really need to be sunk into the ground and the mars attacks Crashed cars have their own bit of rubble (if necessary) around them so no need to fix them to the board forever. But I'll want something here and there along the roadside for cover and accent.
Gah blah. Just took a couple photos of my Infinity shame drawer, they will follow shortly. Gah. It's two drawers now =/
Also got my DZ:Infestation kickstarter rewards. Missing one metal figure though I need to do a count and make sure I'm not missing any duplicates of anything etc. Not too bad though, and I wasn't last in the queue for once
The industrial scenery is amazeballs and I love it. Large chunks of it will be living in the factory I've been working on...perfect timing. Some of the figures may get eaten up by TNT. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with 50 space dwarfs. I only purposefully ordered 40 of them, the others were included with my pledge...and they were only a dollar a piece but still. That's a lot of space dorfs.
Road is looking great. I caught myself getting out of hand with collecting models out of turn. Had to have a very stern talking to myself to get back on the straight and narrow.
Well we've got enough extra costs accruing that my desire for models is pretty severely curbed. And I have too many. So many. Really fun finding new purposes for them via TNT though
It is mostly the lockdown pledge, only two battlezones worth of battlezones... uhh... well whatever they used to call them. Basically each unit was 3 each of two different sprues/sets of bits, and two baggies of accessories. So something like 18 wall tiles and a bunch of extras like half tiles and then the accessories which are pipes and all that junk. I only added on one extra baggie of the conveyor belts/engine/etc. So there's enough for a bunch of scatter and maybe a couple of small buildings, or parts enough to industrialize a fair few other pieces if you spread them out.
So basically it was 10 enforcer pathfinders, 20 veermyn and then loads of extras and faction boosters for most of the other factions. Plague got this big resin/restic abomination who's actually bigger than the first gen and 5 zombies, the rats got a bunch of extra stuff since they were the main faction of the expansion. I should have 20 rat dudes, 5 old rat dudes from the original run, at least 4 big rat dudes--ogre sized or larger, a more feral big rat thing, rat artillery piece, character etc... oh 5 more peacekeepers which is cool because I only ever had 10. Some individual characters, something like one per faction. Oh 4 jetbikes, I added a couple. Basically a smattering of everything, and then 40 extra dwarfs because... I dunno I guess I was still stuck in the 'needz moar armies' frame of mind from so many years ago. Think I'm pretty well broken away from that now.
I have to get the forge fathers out and put a couple of them together, even if I don't know what to do with 50 of them... I still wanna build and paint a few relatively soon. May try to give the contents another go-over this weekend but it's just me and the girls so I have no concrete plans of getting stuff done.
I'd like to have my factory board done by july/august when battle systems is due out but... meh, we'll see.
The board is coming along very nicely indeed. I'm glad I never got into infinity. I'm already spending way too much on GW now that I was never expecting to after their last few years. Last thing I'd need is yet another system worth of factions to covet and buy and paint....
Been a hectic week and it will be for a couple more days yet. I'll post a photo or two in a bit for what little progress I've gotten.
I've also got it in my head to eventually do 3 mutant-rat-people lists for TNT and give them their own underground/cavern 4x4' board aka Ratopia. More on that later, I want to do it but I have to get the city/factory board done first. Trying to work on both will result in neither.
TNT barbarian tribals. Got the skin down. I guess it's NSFW as maybe 5 of them don't have shirts on. Wanna get these guys done and move on. Bones is not my favorite, I'm coming to realize. Price is right, but I'm itching to do some infinity.
Thanks guys. Out of 7 barbarians 5 have no shirts, though two have half of boob armor for..reasons? One who isn't technically a barbarian has has a tunic, and the one lady was maybe supposed to be a viking or something instead because she has a chain skirt and a proper top armor (except, y'know, its shaped like boobs).
Wow I thought I replied to this days ago. The post apocalyptic game This is Not a Test.
Was gonna get something done this weekend despite being busy...then papa nurgle blessed me with some kind of stomach flu. Weak as a kitten and afraid to eat much. Such vomiting like I can't remember.
Had some Amazon card bonus points roll in recently so now I've got two more groups/teams for my Nomads coming in. After I said I should cut back... but, hey, the points are free so there Now I've got the link box of Riot Grrrls coming to join their spitfire wielding compatriot and the sexy/deadly Chimera and her pupniks will arrive with them. 8 more minis, all stuff from my original Nomads wishlist. Yay. Still on the fence about wanting to get the Moiras but I dunno space nuns are kinda meh most days. One is probably enough.
Still eager to get to work on my current projects but with little quality time to work on them. That's the spring and summer for you. I've done a bit of work on the barbarian tribals at least. Being bones, there isn't that much to do overall so a couple of hours of good dedicated painting time should see the lot of them finished.
Meh one of these days I'll have something done to share
I was just thinking that I had an Infinity problem... I do, but apparently not as severe as I though You'll get those all painted before I am halfway through mine.
Any thoughts about making the sidewalk areas of your table tiles raised above the road?
Heh. Yeah. Infinity seems to be my biggest weakness and I've only ever gotten to play maybe one demo game. I was down before and the game did nothing to dissuade me.
Hopefully I find something more profitable to do this winter than sitting around, but if not...I hope to get some more traction on painting. Or even when it starts cooling down in the Fall. Right now it's about to get hot and I'm gonna be completely useless after work until it gets dark more or less
Hmm sidewalks. I hadn't really considered them. I was initially doing the roads as part of a more deserted strip of highway but now that I want them to be the roads that go around a factory etc... maybe you're right. You're the one who makes buildings that look like scale architectural models, what size should the sidewalks be? I guess at least wide enough for a 25mm base to have the illusion that they go with the models.
I may do it though, it would make things more cityish. I wanted to do some stop and street signs on the 4way tile anyway and a sidewalk would be appropriate there. But only if I can find a way to do it relatively time-effectively. I'm counting on the 7 road tiles to be quick and easy to finish and paint so I can get impetus on finishing the board. Easy wins as it were.
Wow guys. I just reviewed my Infinity drawer(s) and discovered that in my love for Infinity I managed to buy the same box of Unidron Batroids TWICE. /embarrassed face
I uhh... I dunno. I mean they're technically total availability in the list they go to, I think. I'll have to sort out some arm swaps as doubling up on all of the special weapons would be kinda meh, maybe come up with some kind of melee attachment as the only way I'd be using them all is for some different system. Kinda neat though, with the baggage guy I have 12 bipedal alienbots.
Wow Grim. Sounds like you're as bad about Unidrons as I am about Bolts. I think my a Infinity pile is starting to look like yours, too. There just isn't enough time to get through it all.
Extra minis are always potential conversion fodder. Or for trading/swapping.
Sidewalks... well a 1"/25mm base is ~4.5' wide in scale ( yeah) which is a bit wide for a regular sidewalk, but city sidewalks can be wider. I'd go for 1.25" for the narrow walks and 1.75" or 2" for the wide ones. Have them raised 1/8". A bit tall, but an easy measurement to get, especially with 1/8" thick mdf I plan on doing something with sidewalks eventually, but only after the Table of Shame is emptied.
I'm done being sick. Still don't have 100% appetite and feel totally awesome, but not much worse than a work week would do. Many fluids were consumed as soon as it was apparent that they would not be regurgitated with much violence. Thanks for the well wishes.
Meh its just 11 robits. I think if I convert the extra sniper and missile they'll be snowflakes enough.
Yeah I knew the bases were pretty wide, how else are the models gonna be six feet tall. Still a bit surprising.
Hmm maybe the answer is good old foamboard. Glue it down and maybe peel off the top paper so I can do some weathering and give it a concrete texture. Should stick up over the road just a bit too.
We'll see how it goes. I figure it will be the right height in relation to the roads and fairly inexpensive. Cutting the long strips evenly will be the challenge for me As long as I can get one side right.. I can obscure the other with debris probably.
The riot grrrls and uberfallcommando team arrived. Yay.
Also got the post apoc barbarians done. Pic attached. Need bases yet. Any backup will have to be mercs, animals, and WGF survivors with space wolf bits who've gone native.
Bit of a rush as most of my recent projects have been. But still happy enough with them. The wolf needs teeth, just noticed, and the black guns need an edge highlight. Otherwise they will do.
I could finish another 9 model warband by painting two skaven and dipping the lot. May do.
I'm up to 4 ratfolk based factuons in theory...caravaners, peacekeepers, rat tribals, and rat raiders now. Need to build them before the ideas dissipate. Joined by the forge father preservers and my sea creature mutants all six basic factions would be represented for an underworld sub campaign. Because I don't know why.
The sewing machine thingies are actually not that..as far as I can tell. They're from a line of scrapbooking bits. The line is called Spare Parts. So while they're basically those thingies that go atop the sewing machine, bobbins I think? They kind of aren't Basically overpriced junk for those who don't have the original junk laying around. But they were heavily clearanced and look very much like cable spools
Trying to get myself to finish an orc boss so I've got *something* done for Az's tale of painters challenge but motivation is lacking. The little one is very snotty and not likely to stay asleep or be kind tomorrow, so even though it's a holiday I'm not likely to get as much done as I'd have liked. Ahh well, 9 barbarians is something, though it's my weakest month so far painting-wise.
Can't decide if I want to do 6 more months of Orcs for the second leg of the challenge, or if I'd rather focus on a new project along the lines of a new TNT warband each month, or a batch of Infinity figures each month. Those two would be different month-to-month and a bit more free with stretch goals and side projects. Of course, doing the orcs would probably give me a sizable fantasy army by the end of the year.
Probably Gonna have slow progress for most of the year anyway and then slightly better November/December. The real progress months will be January, February, and maybe most of March. And all dependent on the whims of the children. The smaller one will be getting more and more mobile and easier to feed in some ways..both of which can *potentially* free up more time. Of course if she's needy then nothing changes
Was poring over 4X space games for an hour or two today. Been reading a really neat scifi series and was in a space mood. Stellaris looks cool but my tabtop surely won't run that and I watched a lets play of Endless Space and when they got to the guts of all the crap you could/needed to know about each planet in your empire my eyes popped open and I closed the screen. Too in-depth for me. I like the idea of a space empire in theory but I dunno that was too spreadsheety for me I don't really want a space combat or flight simulator though. Something like the 4X but smaller in scope. Like FTL if you had a planet or something. Or that old smugglers game, kinda reminds me of the buy stuff at X and take it to Y for profit thing you can do in games like Mount and Blade. I guess I want to build something...just not a whole freaking empire with too much handling going on. Not like I get a lot of time to play anyway, loading up one of my almost-finished JRPGs instead lol.
Not been much going on. Been mildly sick (again lol) and picked up Stellaris which has consumed my scant free time. Usually too tired to paint anyway.
Need to do an orc unit this month and finish that other rider so I can say I did one each month for Azazelx's tale of painters challenge. Trying to decide which project to swing for the second leg of the challenge, the next 6 months.
Could do:
More orcs, have a proper fantasy army by years end or
Infinity teams/bunches, because I have too many or
TNT warband each month, possibly the six rat/underworld
themed groups or
Forge father army including various infantry walkers and big guns (tanks dint exist yet) or
Maybe another fantasy Army to go with the orcs.
I think I pretty much let you guys decide what I did last time and that's mostly worked out soo... thoughts?
So. Theo didn't vote (unless the Smurfs get their own honorable mention category) though he did mention the orcs too
But that leaves us with 4 for orcs, 2 for TNT warbands, and one for the forgefather army, if we're counting wishiwashiness or multiple votes
Orcs still in a pretty strong lead. I'd probably have to do the smaller stuff in the first couple-three months due to time constraints. A rough guess would look something like..
Obviously all 7 would require getting above and beyond goals completed, or just dropping a duplicate. The gore riders seem like they'd be lonely without something else at least kinda fast. Would also make sense to do some minor orcy terrain too. Something simple like huts/tents or objectives. Just to cap it out. Nothing ambitious though due to time.
On one hand, I'd like to see you bump up and get the Orc army to a point where it's a mean green smashin' machine.
On the other hand, I've seen that you've run out of steam a little on them, so maybe it's not the best project. You'll have much more fun painting something you're enthusiastic about than something that feels like work.
I'd suggest an and/or target, which is similar to what I'll be doing for the latter half of 2016.
1 "unit" of Orcs and/or <insert thing you really want to work on.>
That's a good idea, maybe a nit of orcs and an infinity model as you've been knocking some of those out. Plus I think you have a drawer of them still too
So now we're at 5 orcs, 3 TNT, 2 Infinity, and 2 forge fathers.
Given the facebook groups I frequent, I'll proxy vote for those and bump it to 5 orcs, 4 TNT, 2 Infinity, and 3 forge fathers.
So orcs do seem to be gaining some competition. And nobody is late to the party, very unofficial kind of voting here, none of it matters for another month (although getting some prep work done now would help grease the wheels of future progress..).
@Nev, I did consider Sins of a Solar Empire when I was looking these up. And I've been enjoying Stellaris quite a bit so I may want another game in the genre afterwards. I initially skipped Sins because it appeared to only have three races/factions and I wanted off-the-wall crazy alien stuff. One of my favorite things about Stellaris is how procedural it is. I've made two random races in two different galaxies and neither has encountered aliens or events quite the same way. A lot of replay value and it's neat. Once I don't care about that as much, I may give Sins another look.
Hmm... I've been letting you guys do all the voting, I haven't really considered what I actually *want* to do the most. A non-orc fantasy army appears to be off the radar and I can agree with that. I like having big shelf-dominating armies though they're more work so I'm kind of more neutral on the orcs/forgefathers.
And the other two options are much the same, just different systems. I mean, I could even migrate them into a more generic category "Monthly Factions" and then they'd be slightly ahead or Orcs between them. Of course spreading the love between different systems loses a lot of the appeal of 'building an army' that the challenge originally entailed.
Hrmrmr. Your inputs are greatly appreciated (that's what sh...no, no we won't go there), I'll figure something out
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh, would it change anyone's vote if Terrain (of any kind) was one of the categories?
And what you want to paint takes precedence, naturally.
I think the sewing machine things are called bobbins.
Nice group of barbarians and amazons (IIRC, amazons did wear armor with the left breast exposed, at least according to some classical source-- Homer?-- I read many years ago...) Are you going to pick out any details on the wolve's faces? A quick dark spot with a small white spot in it for the eyes would do wonders. And nice yellowish teeth.
Yeah the wolf is getting teeth. I forgot about them and it was a time sensitive dip them all or wait a week or three to have another chance kinda thing. I tried to give him those neat blue eyes that some wolves have. It failed miserably, when I do the teeth I'll be trying to fix those as well.
These are barbarian babes though, not amazons They just have weird fashion sense (but like to match being twins and all).
I do recall hearing/reading something about amazon warriors having a single mastectomy so they could draw their bows back better... or something... but I dunno seems kind of far fetched what with infection rates after amateur surgeries in the past. The missing armor makes more sense lol, or just a linen wrap ala sports bra for crying out loud.
Ok so here's last month's entry for the tale of painters challenge, a bit late but here:
So the dragon turtle can be used for other things both TNT and as a certain monster for Pulp Alley in a pinch. The orc sits relatively nicely atop him and I figure he's just butch and holds on with his legs and maybe an arm when he has to. Chains would over complicate things. The orc is pretty bland for a boss though. I may go over his armor with a wash or glaze of some color at some point. Red or maybe yellow/orange/brown or something. Either make it more threatening with red, or more ostentatious with a golden color. I think all of the orcs with shields are gonna need some kind of spot color on them too, an army symbol..just dunno what.
Meh, that first one is a bit blurrier than I thought...
Anyway it's an orc boss on big fangly monster, or what should count as an Orc Krudger on Slasher for my fledgling KoW Orc army. Army currently has two bosses which eat up all the slots for bosses/monsters from the two regiments I have. Really need a horde, those unlock better than double what a regiment does I think and don't cost as much. Need to do so to fit in the Giant and the Trolls. I guess regular ax horde will do it. Be a bit of a slog, probably 28 of them. Probably build them as two regiments that happily Voltron into a horde most of the time as doing more than 14 at once would break me. And probably towards the end of the year when I have more time.
For the last month of the first issue of the challenge... Not sure. Doubt I can paint 14 orcs even with almost the whole month left. Maybe the trolls or the giant, even if that's largely eating dessert first.... it may be all I have time for.
I love that turtle. The rider is just a gore rider, right? He fits pretty well.
I know what you mean about orc shields. Mine are all just red right now, as I don't have the patience to freehand 80 or so shields. I like the transfers Mantic sells, but shipping would take them right out of my comfort zone for prices.
Dragon Turtle is looking great. Any closer to a decision on the July-December challenge? Do an either/and, I say - with Orcs as one of the options. And then make use of the more exotic options in the O&G list to keep it interesting, and even allies.
That's kind of awesome, is it from GW? If so it looks like they're starting to take their art direction from WoW what with the giant shoulder pads and jaw thing. Although I guess they kind of always had those things too. Maybe it's just the black color scheme making me think that.
I believe he is technically the krudger and the giant turtle is the slasher. Not really sure what a Krudger is.. something englishy I reckon.
Sorry, the names for Mantic orc stuff don't stick with me quite as much as the GW stuff. Definite mix up there I think. The model is indeed a GW creation. It's a Megaboss on a Maw Krusha. Or he can be built as the character called the Fist of Gork.
The Megaboss is quite big and about as tall as a 40k dreadnought. On foot he uses a 60mm base and mounted he sits on a 160mm base. Megaboss is sculpted by Brian Nelson who did classic GW orcs I believe.
I've ordered 1 box of the Orruk Brutes already, and am horribly tempted to order another two - giving me 15 in total - I'd probably use them as "Ogre Allies" for my Orcs if they're as big as I hope. four regiments/two hordes or something something Ogres, plus converting one each to a standard, a shaman(?) and a Warlord.
I'd like the Megaboss or whatever he's called, but $50-odd for one model makes me hesitate much more than $60 for 5.
Azazelx wrote: I've ordered 1 box of the Orruk Brutes already, and am horribly tempted to order another two - giving me 15 in total - I'd probably use them as "Ogre Allies" for my Orcs if they're as big as I hope. four regiments/two hordes or something something Ogres, plus converting one each to a standard, a shaman(?) and a Warlord.
I'd like the Megaboss or whatever he's called, but $50-odd for one model makes me hesitate much more than $60 for 5.
To be honest, the Brutes are pretty massive in their own right so you could use them. Left is a Black Orc, centre is a Brute and obvy right is the Megaboss on foot.
I buckled when I got home from work. Another 2 boxes of those Orc-Ogres. Now stop pointing that Mega-boss thing at me before something terrible happens again...
And before we get off the subject of Orcs... here's a few more:
And some goblins. And a mawbeast who's somewhere else at the moment. Those 7 models will form a troop of KoW Orc Skulks and serve as my 6th submission for the Tale of Painters run by Az. Gonna try to do some more this month, you can see in the photo a bit of the trolls I'm working on now.
I'm not a massive fan of those trolls, but they're decent - and far, far better than the KS1 models. You're keeping them on the 5omm bases, or is that just for painting before clear rounds?
If they fit, they'll go in 40mm rounds. Those will just barely fit on a proper sized troll regiment tray so I'll have to make it slightly bigger maybe 5mm longer and wider.
If I ever get to play dungeon saga, I'll deal with he wrong shaped bases then.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Still sick so no goals or plans for the day but I got green on a second troll and the skulk base is sealed. Once that's aired out I'll hotglue a couple of clumps to it. Orclings probably couldn't keep up with the scouting skulks so probably just bushes and flock. Any other time I'll try to stay on the trolls.
Had a fun idea. Probably hard though. For my fellow anime fans out there, was thinking the crew from Trigun would be at home in TNT. Not sure anyone makes 28mm Trigun minis though so I'd probably have to do a lot of sourcing and converting/scratch building. Just a thought .
Trying man, almost two weeks now lol. Finally went to the clinic place because of progressively oranger mucus but still not much they really did. Sticking with my 12 hour decongestant and some steroids they prescribed which supposedly helps with severe allergies and swelling. As long as I don't get overwhelmed by sinus pressure I can be useful albeit a little cranky.
The other two trolls are ready for their metal color. Then it's just eyes and teeth and a couple of quick highlight passes before I can brown wash and seal them. I could get them done, but only if the baby naps long enough. Not holding my breath on that one, just have a feeling.
Also applying the last bit of flock to the Skulks base so yay that.
I plan to convert 6 or 7 ax orcs to be skulks eventually. I've got some leftover goblin wolf rider bow arms from ages ago and they're just ridiculously bulky enough to pass for skinnier arms on the larger models. Gonna want to do greenstuff hoods though so they match the current unit.
Trolls going on bases now, need to be able to see how they'll rank up before I build their tray.
Here you go, trolls are done. Gonna try to get their base made tonight though drying time means the best I'll be able to do is spray paint it before bed. Running out of primed orc models.
Nice progress on your Orcs Grim. I think the mixed unit of archers works really well and the base serves to further tie them together. The trolls are cool and look ready to cause havoc upon their enemies, and possibly even their comrades given that they are a bit thick. Great stuff.
You're really kicking it up a notch on these orcs. The Skulks look great, as do the trolls. Converting their weapons as you've done really helps them as a unit. I was going to start on the DS Undead trolls, but the stone they're all holding makes it an Attack of the Clones issue, which you've nicely taken care of with these models.
The trolls are still pretty samey but the gearswap hopefully pushes that to military uniformity and not just identical models.
Got some paint on the giant but I've put in too many 'hunched over the painting desk' hours this weekend and its making my back a little hurty. So I may wait for later, dunno.
Got the troll base primed too but it'll be a couple of hours before I'm willing to bring that into the house
Dug out the rest of the dungeon saga orcs and I'll probably use them in the next block of infantry. Somehow I have four with big axes and two dual wielding. Out of three supposedly identical baggies.... oh well not a big issue.
I want to do a horde with the front and back rows socketed like some of the slots on the other trays are. Make enough greatax and ax orcs on separate bases so I can swap them out, all of one kind in the front designates which type the unit is.
Not sure what else to do for the Army . Needs either chariots or fight wagons, probably more infantry. Will have a look in the rulebook but I know I'm behind on rank and file and there're no warmachines.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh Orc army, I find your lack of warmachines disturbing... looking through I think I really will have to do another unit of skulks, there just aren't that many interesting unit types in the list.
The troll boss is an option but only if I get more blocks. Right now I have two heroes and I'm starting the giant which is a monster. That eats up the grace of three blocks alone. Gore riders and morax count so I'm already short one. Horde should cover two I think. Leaves me one bit of leeway. I'd like to do a war drum too, makes the units near it have more nerve which is effectively more wounds. There's a wizard too but surely I don't have an appropriate figure. Not to mention I have no flaggers eeep.
War drum would be easy I think, scratch the drum and put drum hitting pads where the axe heads go on the great weapon orcs. Maybe even use the feral looking DS guys .
I Think I like fight wagons over chariots. Building a box and sticking a platform on front of it sounds a little easier than building a chariot. It also leaves room for me to be unscrupulous and cut corners for the boars themselves. With everything but the bottom of the legs obscured, I could possibly source some cheap toys or use other methods , I wouldn't have to make all of the complicated harness stuff that you might need for a chariot.
Really enjoy your orcs. The skills are probably my favourite of your models to date. They work so well together and the green of the skin is excellent.
Got their base done. I really want to give it some clump foliage or something but there's just so little room and they rank up really well at the moment so I'll probably skip it. Too much glare in photo, giving the poor clear bases a bad name.
Nah I think they were all just slightly different from their individual arrangement in their baggies. My undead and demons Re bent flat in places, but the thicker orc and troll models just ad slight bends that kinda help make them less samey.
Zoom in if you like, whatever ended up in focus should be more readily visible if you do
Took the boys out to the garage where the finished models tend to congregate. Still working on that Giant but this may be what I got done for Az's first leg of the tale of painters.
You've definitely painted enough minis lately to have one Barzam, you've just got that whole 'bit of everything' approach
I should finish the dungron saga orcs some time, just 2 more mawbeasts, either 3 or 6 goblins and six more orcs. Just finish 4 heroes after that and i could actually set up a game. Meh, some time.
So my loose plan for the second wave is the mor/great/ax horde, a regiment/horde of chariots or fight wagons, a regiment/troop(s) of skulks potentially, and then three fun somethings.
The three somethings are kinda nebulous on purpose. Whatever keeps me motivated. May get a few bones trolls to go with the ones I have and do two more troll regiments, stone and marsh to go with hill(or whatever you'd call standard mantic trolls) and a troll character/hero. May figure something else out entirely, I do have a second giant though he came defective in the box with three arms and one leg. But if I'm up to sculpting a giant boot or two...
Heroes as monthly goals are last resorts, though ideally I'll manage to get at least one (if not two) flaggers and maybe a war drum or two.
We'll see what goes on.
Couple more photos of just the dungeon saga orcs and then all the loose minis for DnD or skirmish etc.
Love the group shots, really brings all of the effort you have put in this year into stark focus. Thats a lot of mini's in a fairly short space of time. Very jealous of your terrain setup up as well, it looks incredible.
Put a little effort in on the giant but he's still got quite a ways to go. Gonna bother with touchups and all that since he's all on his own and expected to draw attention. Still keeping the scheme similar to the orcs and pretty plain. I realize I could go crazy painting his pants up as a mishmash of random stuff like boat sails, carnival tent material, picnic blankets etc... but I'm just gonna keep him simple and serious.
Really need to get onto cleaning up the next crop of orcs too while I'm at it.
Yeah that was totally in the directions but I'm a lazy punk.
Happy Father's day to whom it applies, by the way.
Oh, also. I hope you and your orc lust are all happy. You know what happens when you have orcs? You gotta have dwarfs to keep them in check or they'll overrun the whole display area. So yeah now I have to make a dwarf army. You punks. Worse yet I'm quite a big fan of R.A. Salvatore's Drizz't books and I'd just have to make a pseudo-not Clan Battlehammer which would mean conversions. Sigh. What I let you people talk me into. Will have to be dwarf fort scenery, and not even really functional...just to go in the corners and look good. Fiends. And then I'll have to dig through the units and find one that's suitably badass to represent the Companions of the Hall, the pseudo-official name for Team Drizz't. Basically taking a page from my heroic party regiments, just about 4-6 dudes on the base but with extra scenery or lots of room for them to have suitably dynamic poses. Of course the dwarf should almost be off on his own leading the army itself...and the woman has either an artillery grade magic bow or is a wizard pending timeframe in the series... I dunno the steam tank equivalent certainly has the appropriate stats but it's awful slow... anyway that's just one fugging unit I have to do all of this thinking about. You currs. And THEN I'll have to have battle ragers. Kind of like berserkers but instead of being half nekkid and tattooed they'll be covered in segmented plate armor with spikes and sharp ridges everywhere they'll go. Complete with upwards of two feet of helmet spikes. Yeah. They don't make those people, I'm gonna have to convert my own. I hope you guys and all of your Orc Lust are happy. My poor Infinity pile.
No shame for your orc lust huh? Nothing to say, ehh?
On another note I ay or may not have ordered 11 giant gorillas to make a TNT mutant warband out of. Twice the starting points worth of figures and only 16 dollars or so. Damn MM and TNT.
Took advantage of Miniature Market's gorilla sale, huh? I saw those prices and, I have to admit, I was very tempted. Thankfully, I don't need gorillas, so I was able to resist.
Yeah. Was gonna pass but instead got 3 of them =/ TNT is a pretty big enabler because it's so easy to make up a story for why any given model fits the setting.
I already painted three of these for a buddy a while back so I dunno if I'm exactly terribly enthusiastic about owning 9 of my own, but I think doing some gear swaps and post-apocafying will help keep the interest going. At some point. These guys are sitting on a Hold Order at MM with some other stuff I shouldn't have bought and haven't bothered to mention yet Good chance they won't be with me for weeks but that's ok as I've still got loads of orcs to work on.
I saw them as well and almost pulled the trigger. Thank God I don't play the DC miniature game as I would have a Grod and gorilla army by now . Planet of the apes or Congo style force?
Neither really? I'm just gonna use the Ape X as their leader. Depending on comparative size he may or may not share the Big rule (40 mm bases, tougher, etc) and may wind up being a potent psychic instead. I figure They were an experiment gone wrong or gone sideways after the bombs fell. They're a bit more like the preservers (brotherhood in fallout) in that they want to unearth more about their history and why they were created etc, but they're still pretty thuggish. Probably by necessity, I mean I doubt many wastelanders want to deal openly with a gang of giant gorilla monsters.
Now a question out of nowhere.... below you'll see a few steel warriors. I want to do a demo kit for deadzone 2.0 so I need to paint those guys. Don't want to repaint anything so first try has to work, I've got 50 of these be locking myself into a scheme for. So the off color and soft Armor parts will be medium-dark grey. Guns black. Main armor though? Either light tan/broen kinds like the orc cloth color but maybe a different slightly more brown color, the dark green that I've used for orc skin/shasvastii/USARF armor, or a grey color that starts with dark grey and highlights up towards white with heavy drybrushing.
Now a question out of nowhere.... below you'll see a few steel warriors. I want to do a demo kit for deadzone 2.0 so I need to paint those guys. Don't want to repaint anything so first try has to work, I've got 50 of these be locking myself into a scheme for. So the off color and soft Armor parts will be medium-dark grey. Guns black. Main armor though? Either light tan/broen kinds like the orc cloth color but maybe a different slightly more brown color, the dark green that I've used for orc skin/shasvastii/USARF armor, or a grey color that starts with dark grey and highlights up towards white with heavy drybrushing.
Thoughts?
Your Enforcers are off-white, right? I say go for the green to keep them from looking too samey.
I have one but he will conform to the main scheme I think. And I tried yellow/orange and didn't really like it (old steel warriors waaaay back towards beginning f thread).
Ckig the enforcers are off white, the space dwarfs will be slightly master chiefy.
I'd go dark grey the highlight up. Forgefathers supposedly like to mine things, like whole planets, so I would think less vegetation colors and more rock and dirt colors. Though orange colors for scope and eye lenses would be neat and harken back to the molten metal color.
Hmmm still torn. I was neat sold on green but I've been warming to the grey thing. I have an old steel warrior primed grey so I may use him as a test subject.
So still gonna work on space dwarfs at some point. Probably not an army of them, just a batch or two.
I wanna fix up a compact deadzone demo kit for those rare occasions I get to drag models out. Enforcer half is 75% done just need to paint one of the new dogs and a set of arms. Maybe I mentioned this already? Time has lost meaning here
Also...
I think I'm gonna gak focus from the orc army. Don't think I can keep that going for 6 more units. Not right away. May try to do another one or two this year we'll see.
I think I'm gonna go back to the subject of gangs/teams/squads/units/warbands/etc. Specifically focusing on those groups that will be at least sort of comfortable within the battlesystems post apocalypse city terrain I should be getting in a month or two or so. Basically moderns and post apoc and some scifi, I mean anyone but fantasy models does fine in blown up city.
One group I want to do is my USARF guys, I finished what I have of course, but I have a got a pack of grunts on sale months ago and I have a van zant joining them. I think I'll get the rest of the specialists from the ariadna range and maybe add a couple of modern soldier types to fill out the ranks. Maybe paint that truck for them, maybe steal a mini from another faction so they can have a mercenary hacker.
Heh, I'm becoming convinced you're on their payroll
More zombies and survivors are potential candidates for monthly groups. Maybe more along the lines of stretchgoals though.
I wanna do the USARF stuff and maybe my morat stuff just because. Then I dunno. Gotta finish some dwarfs for deadzone sooner than later. Tau would be good too sometime... dunno, we'll see. Lots of TNT warbands too.
I would like to see where the Tau go too. Technically I still have to build all of their drones and magnetize the second half of the suit weapons, maybe build/convert the leader too. Not a massive undertaking though. I'm rooting for warpath:firefight but I may check into osprey (I think they have one) or even Medge because I'd really like a good ruleset for scifi 28mm bigger-than-skirmish-but-way-smaller-than-what-40k-has-become-these-days. Just like I dunno 10-20 guys, a few bigger guys, maybe a tank or two. Basically skirmish plus some support. Buy the tau maybe some pathfinders, a suit commander, stealth suits, maybe the giant stealth suit as their big'un.. work towards factions of similar strength to challenge them...
Just ordered a couple more dudes to round out my USARF team and that should be enough to hit free shipping for my latest miniature market order. Sigh. I gotta stay away. Buy one thing because it's a great deal and I'm locked in for a hundred bucks because I'm violently allergic to shipping I'll show off what I got when it shows up, still have to have them release the order.
Ordered the cooler looking Oznat for my morat forces so that group is technically done. Probably not legal though. I think the new Onyx force allows you to use most of the morat things I have though so I could use some in there. Kinda excited about the new bigger robots/mini-tags and maybe that guy that floats on his cloak or whatever...but only if I get that stuff painted.
May dig out a few things from Mars Attacks or my general stock to use for USARF, not specifically for Infinity but to use with the group of models in other systems or for photo ops. Depends on how productivity goes, but a couple of them (and even the basic US soldiers) kinda loosely match my USARF guys.
Those MA soldiers paint up pretty nicely, once you accept that they are about a half-step up from green army men. What are those metal guys on the bottom of the tray?
USAriadna grunts from Infinity. Did a batch at the beginning of the year as part of the army starter box. The four in the box (now built and primed) are the special weapons guys including hmg, light grenade launcher, sniper rifle, and heavy flamer thrower. Round out the first three with rifles.
The infinity dudes are a bit taller and bulkier than the mars attacks guys. Like basketball players vs average joes. Maybe not a full head taller but noticeable. The ladies are about the same size and infinity dudes are usually a fair bit bigger than the dudettes.
It'll work in the zombie survival scenarios, where you usually see a wider range of figures anyway.
You got it though, thought a few Quonsets would go well with the USARF and other .modern scenery. The ribs are too far for realistic huts but I figure maybe in the space-future they have a giant press.
The ma guys are a bit soft really but when you're primarily after body count they do alright.
Got everyone light browned today. Really not that much to the scheme so that's decent progress. Below is the wip of their companion scenery, some budget quonset huts. Need to add doors, maybe windows, and maybe a bit or two for visual interest. Also dip, too shiney as is.
Ever the hobby butterfly Grim. Are you going to go for a traditional scheme on the MA Marines? The huts are already looking the part, the detailing should really set them off.
Not all Quonset huts had windows beyond those on the front/back:
Hard to get a great picture. I mean I'm sure windows are favorable but several of the photos of them are of models that don't have any side windows. Since they're prefab and get moved around etc, the fronts I think were potentially just plywood added to the metal frame with the doors and windows added in.
I figure it's Infinity so portable lighting shouldn't be an issue so there's less reason to have an extra vulnerability. Plus, as you say, it would be quite hard to add extra windows
Also, thanks everyone, scale shot with obligatory space marine included below
. I later sold a stack of cards a 1/2" tall for $1100. You might have found a gem.
, when his dwarves were moving faster than my knights something was up).
You must be new around here, since when do we do "smaller" terrain? Is smaller even a word? 
or your getting ready for cosplay and you need your robot arm joints 
