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No Amaterasu is their Sun Goddess in Japan.

Yeah, I know. But the colors don't correspond to the sun. It's a purpke-tinged pearl white with purple trim. The planet in its chest is a mixture of blue, purple and green, not colors one thinks of in relation to the sun. Plus, it has the ring. So, the colors and the ring seem to suggest either Neptune or Uranus.

Any blurb on the package that explains it possibly? Or in the instructions?

Bring them home and we can take a look at them.

Odd choice with the name and colors.

Great line of 15mm and Infinity stuff you've chewed through in the last couple of weeks, but that WarZone stuff... wow I remember those guys. Awful, awful figures, yet you've somehow managed to turn them into something that wouldn't induce illness if I had to face them on the table. Is that the finished unit, or do you plan to expand them further?

Also, congratulations on making it forward to the not-too-distant past.

Arg, you time traveling Aussies. I'm actually leaving Japan soon, so I'll be returning to the past.

Thanks, those Earth Tribes are really ugly designs all around. I'm really pleased that I managed to make them look relatively acceptable. I have two more figures to do, and then I'm done with them.

Once I get back, I've still got a bunch of models to build, then I'll return to my minis. I'll very likely return to the 15mm stuff. I actually picked up some Tomica stuff that looks like it might work as some 15mm vehicles.

Wow, I have just achieved a milestone. I've now uploaded 1000 pics to my gallery!

I haven't been very productive this week. Jet lag has had me in its grips for most of the week still. I think I'm finally getting over it though. I managed to complete two whole figures though! And I mean complete. No half-finished, unbased, un-dipped stuff. No,no. I actually totally finished these two in one night, start to finish.

First up, I cracked open those Kryomek Cobra Marines and got to work on them. First one is done.



I had a hard time choosing between doing these guys in light green or white. White, obviously eventually won out. I'm not disappointed, either. It's just very time consuming to paint these guys white, so I'll be doing the other two very slowly. Pics of these guys and, for that matter, about half of the Kryomek line are rather hard to come by. It seems that the only pics of these Cobra Marines floating around are the rather bad ones that were done for Kryomek USA's web catalog, which have a rather ugly, somewhat glossy looking red paintjob. It's weird that I seem to be the only other person on the net to actually post a picture of one of these guys fully painted and based.

The other figure I painted was a Cygnar Tempest Gun Mage Officer that I picked up from the FLGS on Wednesday after work. He was in the consignment case and cost me all of $5.



I was looking for something that was fantasy/steampunk-ish, but not full on medieval that I could use as a player created character for Dungeon Saga. I was actually sort of leaning towards this guy while looking around online and I just managed to luck out that he was sitting in the case waiting for me. I'm planning to run him as a human (obviously) demon hunter. Other ideas I was toying with were an elf warrior (probably Gamezone or Warmachine) or a human cleric (my Severius figure). I may visit those ideas in the future, but for now, I'll be playing as this guy. I need to figure out a name for him still.

My plan for the weekend: more Sons of Rasputin!

Well done on that Gun Mage!

I almost bought him myself, opting instead for another Khadorian with a big hat and a big belly.

Did you read the rules for Dungeon Saga yet? Because I certainly haven't....

Yeah, I really like that Cygnar model. Damn these PP models getting close to sucking me in!

Somehow Cygnar hasn't really won me over as much as the other factions. I only have the three models from their faction, this guy and the two Sword Knights. I think you ought to just try out painting a couple of WarmaHordes solos, Azazelx. I'd love to see how you would paint them.

And no, I haven't read the DS rules yet. Just the character creation parts

Good stuff lately as usual!

I achieved my weekend hobby goals. I got both Sons of Rasputin finished. I've completed my Shock Sergeant and my HMG trooper. One of these days I'll have to pick up the proper Soldat Sergeant and the standard bearer.

Soldat Shock Sergeant



It took me a little while to figure out what his weapon is. It looks a lot like the grenade launchers that some of the Brotherhood units carry. But then, it has a hose connecting it to a tank on his back, so it couldn't be a grenade launcher. It certainly isn't a flamer since there's no igniter anywhere. It turns out that it's actually a chem-thrower. Apparently the Shock Soldaten are actually a unit armed entirely with chem-throwers! Until I get a proper regular Soldat Sergeant though, this guy will have to do the job. I made sure to give him some red facings so he stands out just a bit more from the regular soldiers.

And here's the Soldat with HMG.



This guy must be a giant. He's sculpted in a kneeling pose, but he's the same height as the other figures. If he stood up, he would be towering over the rest of them. Then again, that HMG is enormous as well, so this guy must have some crazy upper body strength to heft that thing around. Even though he isn't using it, I like the fact that they actually bothered to sculpt a bipod on the gun.

That one is really good. I'll have to get some primer and start working on mine too.

M.

You have some Rasputins as well? I'd like to see someone else's take on them. Shame they never got a resculpt. Their designs could be quite cool.

I actually somehow accidentally downloaded the Dark Eden expansion book and read through it. That was right up my alley. Grimdark post apocalyptic? Sign me right up. It's a shame though, the book only talks about the tribes in Europe and North Africa, completely leaving out Asia, the Middle East, and the entire Western Hemisphere. It's also a shame that the Megacorp units listed never got made. Some of them looked really cool, like the Wolverines and the Fallen Angels.

Dark Eden left me somewhat cold. Too much Mad Max in a setting that was 1930s in space to me.

Only painted the Captain? Hero?



I have to deal with the others but they are kind of low in my priotities.

M.

Hey, that looks pretty good. I like the earth tone look to went with. Makes him look grittier as opposed to my flashier looking guys. Very nice job. But yeah, that is a huge difference in sculpt quality between him and that Imperial guy.

I wound up painting some more 15mm figures this week. Got some more work done on my Africans.

I've added a command element to my Hardened Militia.



These are the three main sculpts for them. I'll be doing other ethnicities for them as well.

I also painted up some African Militia Fighters.



Interesting sculpts on these guys. Their clothing is so haphazard. The guy with the vest is actually sculpted only wearing one shoe. The guy with the green and purple shirt and the red and yellow striped shirt is sculpted barefoot. The guy I gave the trackpsuit pants and pink shirt to actually seems to be sculpted wearing a tracksuit. I figure with these guys, I'll try and do some garish and clashing colors on them. It'll certainly make them look more individual.

Lastly, I have a random lone zombie.



I'd painted these figures 4 at a time and just grabbed mostly at random from my pile of primed 15mm figures. So, this wound up being the only zombie I grabbed. Oddly, this guy doesn't seem to have an wounds sculpted onto him. I think he'll make a nice frightened civvie, so I'm going to do that with one of the other two copies of this sculpt I have.

Cool stuff. Neat little wee folk.

I feel like my output has been pretty low since I got back from Japan. I've only managed a few figures since my last update.

I got some more 15mm done.



Just more Hardened Militia Command and another zombie.

I got the second Cobra Marine finished. I believe this guy is carrying a plasma rifle.



And I finally got around to finishing my AE-WWII OSS Agent.



I do rather like this guy. He's certainly got a dynamic pose. The base was one of my first attempts at using one of GW's newer technical paints. I forget the name, but it's supposed to be used for making bases look like concrete or asphalt. It dries slowly, but I can see myself using this stuff a lot. There's also supposed to be one for making mud. I'll have to pick that one up as well sometime.

That OSS agent is nicely posed in action!

Good stuff. I think you're still trundling right along output wise.

The leaping pistol dude reminds me of Branden Frasier in the Mummy movies.

Your GW technical stuff sounds similar to the Valejo earth tone stuff I have that looks like peanut butter in a jar. Might be more manageable than the stuff I have though.

I wasn't super happy with the cracked earth one. My results weren't very good. Very flat and not very parched. How'd you get yours to turn out nice?

I just glob the Argellan Earth onto the base. It's like Nutella, the more you slather onto it, the better.

The basing stuff is apparently a texture paint, not a technical. The stuff is called Astrogranite. Make sure you don't apply it with a brush though. I expect it would totally kill your bristles.

I found a couple of HLJ boxes awaiting me when I came home today. the Gundam kits my brother bought for me for the holidays, the Dougram mech I bought for myself.



That Dougram kit ought to look familiar to old school Battletech fans. Here's a better look at it. This is one of the shots on the side of the box. I hope mine will at least look that nice when I'm done building it.



The kit is 1/72 scale, so I think using it in 28mm wargames will be a bit of a stretch. It's put out by Max Factory of all companies, which is not exactly known for their plastic models. Here's hoping for a decent build.

I found this thing for .99 at Brookhurst last weekend. I figures, what the hell. It's cheap and it's in a scale I've been collecting.



It's some US mech from Gear Krieg. It's in its "vehicle" mode, so it's all folded up. It has some tiny little manipulator arms on the front of it, too. I wonder if anyone has statted these things for Gruntz?

Lastly, I got off my duff and actually got this ISS figure painted today.



He's from Megacon Games' MERCS line. This guy belongs to the ISS faction, which is based in Greece and specialized in sea power. ISS is supposed to be a powerful megacorp since they pretty much have a monopoly on sea-based trade. As you might imagine, they're supposed to be quite skilled at maritime warfare as well. This particular guy is one I've never seen any painted pictures of online. He's supposed to be the faction's demolitions guy, but I think he looks more like a grenadier since he's carrying what appears to be a grenade in his right hand (although it looks more like a Thermal Detonator from Star Wars). I'd heard this faction suffered from major QC issues early on with a lot of the figures have extremely soft details. ISS was supposed to be the first faction they digitally sculpted and they had all kinds of problems with it. I think this guy was hand sculpted though, so while some of his armor details are very fine and shallow, he doesn't suffer nearly as badly as some of the examples I've seen of the rest of his faction. It's a shame too, because they have a really cool design. Supposedly, when they transitioned them into plastic for MERCS Recon, they managed to actually get the detail even better than they did on the re-done metal versions. I'm supposed to be getting their expansion, so we'll see.

Day off, so I built one of my new kits, the Man Rodi.

That's kind of, dare I say it, cute.

Great stuff. The 15mm stuff is looking pretty cool as well. Which games/conflicts are you tending to use them for?

Good new and old stuff there!

Azazelx wrote:Great stuff. The 15mm stuff is looking pretty cool as well. Which games/conflicts are you tending to use them for?

Sadly, nothing yet. But, if I can actually get more zombies painted up, I'll be able to use my stuff in All Things Zombie: Mass Hysteria as well as Red Ops 5. I also just picked up Gruntz. I'll have to find some way to pass a copy of that on to Highlord Tamburlaine since, from what I hear, it's based on the same game engine as Warmachine/Hordes. If I can actually get that ruleset down, I will be able to use damn near everything 1:100 scale and anything close to it as well.

GrimDork wrote:That's kind of, dare I say it, cute.

shasolenzabi wrote:Good new and old stuff there!

Thanks guys. I do really like that Man Rodi, too. It's a neat design and, like most of Iron Blooded Orphans' designs, it isn't very typical of Gundam.

Tonight, I worked on one of the two Naffatun I'd assembled and primed earlier in the week. I've got all the base coats down and now I can set her aside to await dipping. On to the dude tomorrow. Maybe. Pic is kind of poor though.

Looks solid, is that some kind of theater mask under the hood or is she just pale (or I'm missing something?).

I think thats skin tone underneath hair, I could be wrong. I think the brown orange makes it look lighter than what it really could be, not that the color is wrong, just a trick of the eye.

Like I said, bad pic. It's her skin tone and for some reason she's got long, flowing hair blowing about. Because that's a great idea when you're using a flamethrower. I need to darken her skin and hair still.