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Okay, these three took me way too long to do, considering their very simple paintjobs. For whatever reason, they took me the entirety of last week to paint. But, they're done now. i present, the Enhanced Machinators from Cybertronic!

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and minigun toting #3



I like these guys. They're so much more brutal looking than the Kickstarter versions. They're also more in line with the lineart that was presented during the Kickstarter. The details on them are very sharp and the casting was really good. A neat aspect of these figures is that each one is only 2 parts. There's also an option to arm one with a minigun, which you can see I went for. Otherwise, you can have all three carrying rifles. For a bit of added individuality for them, I decided to give each one differently colored cables. There's a lot of cables sculpted on these three.



Did I mention these guys are kind of big? They're kind of big. Here's how they match up to a regular Imperial guard type figure.



Yeah, they kind of tower of a regular person. I have a set of the Mk. IX Machinators as well and they're also fairly big, but not as tall or bulky as these guys. I'll get to them soonish, hopefully. Got some other stuff to attend to before them.

You call that a necron? this is a Necron!

I think I like Barzam's better.

I can see why they would take a while to paint. They turned out very well.

Fifty wanted more Afterlife. So, here's an Afterlife figure, a Republic Grenadier with Rocket Launcher.



That finishes up the figures I purchased in England. Yay!

I also finished the remaining two Rakshasa from the East India Company.

Heavy Weapon Guy



Their flagship unit, the Assimilator.



The Assimilator seems largely useless in Recon, but in tabletop, I believe he needs to be on the table to grant their assimilation bonus to the EIC. From what I've read, it allows them to use enemy tech to buff their troops. More likely, I'll never use him for either game he was intended for and instead I'll probably use him in Rogue Stars. I'm already figuring he'll be statted as having a cybernetic right arm with integrated laser rifle, a power fist, and light power armor. That's probably going to wind up being an XP sink though.

The little dudes and afterlife are sweet, up to your usual standards, but those teminator/necron/terminators...are sweet. I kinda want those, and this is during a time in my life when at least 90% of all hobby things make me go 'meh'. Those are cool, kinda like necron/terminator terminators... in a space marine sense, the heavy armor version. Looks like something terrifying to import into TNT or other semi-modern/near future games.

I know a lot of people have issues with Prodos, but when they're on the ball, their stuff is actually really nice. If you're interested in getting a set of Machinators, Miniature Market probably has the best prices. They're $14.39 on Miniature Market. If you like the Boomer aesthetic, there's also the MK.IX Machinators as well.

Nice one on the Afterlife!

I am painting my Unity forces first as I just can't settle on a colour scheme for Republic. Definitely some yellow too though. In fact, my grenadiers might be coloured more like your second guy there.

Have you played much Rogue Stars? How do you find it? Opinions are mixed at my gaming club.

Thanks I'll have to look into them.

The whole faction is kinda neat but the ones you just finished definitely are the coolest.

 Fifty wrote:
Nice one on the Afterlife!

I am painting my Unity forces first as I just can't settle on a colour scheme for Republic. Definitely some yellow too though. In fact, my grenadiers might be coloured more like your second guy there.

Have you played much Rogue Stars? How do you find it? Opinions are mixed at my gaming club.

Haven't actually played yet. I'm waiting for the quick-reference-sheet. There's a lot of tables and I don't want to have to be flipping back and forth constantly.

Here's today's progress

House 9 Shocktrooper from MERCS: Recon.



and a pair of little Rebel Minis zombie ladies that were sitting on my table.

I like that Mercs figure. He reminds me of Wild Dog (the DC character).

Hey, you know what color sucks to paint? Orange! Guess what color I've been painting!



This is a command type Bulldog Truck from Ground Zero Games' Stargrunt range. I'd purchased it to go along with their Moongrunt figures (such as the one pictured) as it has a nice space exploration-y vibe to it. I was tempted to put NASA markings on it, but I figured if I left them off, I could use it as an objective or something for any faction. This thing is a heft little kit. Solid metal, all the way. Did I mention it's also multipart? Yeah, this thing is a full on, solid metal kit. The mold lines on the trailer and wheels weren't too fun to deal with though. I managed to get most of them off, but you can still see their remnants if you look closely. Regardless of my so-so job at removing mold lines, I like this truck a lot. I'm tempted to get more of GZG's civvie vehicles and I really want to get their actual Moongrunt vehicles. I mean, who doesn't want an armed lunar rover?

 Barzam wrote:
Hey, you know what color sucks to paint?

 Red Harvest wrote:
May the devil take the color orange. Ugh.

 Barzam wrote:
Orange! Guess what color I've been painting!

I hear ya buddy. I'm sick of it too.

The lunar rover is a nice little vehicle. Even if it is... orange.

Love the war zone robots and the afterlife dude

Painted up some more 15mm figures on Thursday. Two more Xin Sanbao. One rifle trooper, which finishes my rifle squad, and one heavy blaster.



full rifle squad



I also painted up the next five Space Knights.



This squad gets a guy with a minigun for their heavy support.

Lastly, I finished a new Murder Monkey, the Treitak Spec-Ops.

I've got a bit of Mantic love for you tonight. When he was originally shown, I wasn't all that impressed with Hund's artwork. But, I later saw someone paint him up in a red urban camo scheme and though he actually looked really cool (sorry, whoever that was. I totally forgot who did that) and I decided I would eventually need to correct my error in judgement and purchase him for myself.



Yeah, I pretty much tried to copy that red urban camo scheme from memory. I have no clue how good of a copy I did, but I'm happy enough with the results. There's three things that surprised me about this guy when I got him in hand. First, the guy has optional bits! He has an alternate unmasked head (looks reptillian) and optional upper arms with some very big blades. Second, this guy had no integral base or peg to actually mount him onto the base. That was kind of a pain. Third, the guy is kind of big. Look how he compares to my Treitak.



I'd say he's pretty on par with the new sculpt Morats. He's easily big enough to throw down with one in hand to hand.

Pulled away from my queue for a moment and painted some guys I picked up over the weekend. I got an itch to paint some Menoth, so, I grabbed a couple of Warcasters.

Here's Sovereign Tristan Durant



and here's Vice Scrutator Vindictus



I really like the Durant model. His gear reminds me a bit of Kreoss, but better. I think if I ever play Frostgrave I'll be using Durant as my wizard.

Nice paint jobs on those warcatsers.

I finally decided to buckle down and paint my Iraqi Republican Guards. I've had them sitting around since way back when I posted my Pile 'O Shame pics. I've just never had the desire to actually get them painted since I didn't really have any actual use for them. They were total impulse buys. But, they're done now and I can move on to other stuff.

RPG guy



Shooting guy



Standing guy



Running guy



full squad with commander



I believe the company that made these figures was called Devil Dog Productions and the line they were from was called Dogs of War. Unfortunately, I've not really been able to find out much information on the company or the line. Brookhurst Hobbies- where I got them all- has a few other figures, mostly US Marines and I believe some modern British were made as well. Beyond that, I have no clue what other figures have been made. The company went under years ago and as far as I know, nobody purchased the molds. Most of the figures I've seen are single piece casts. Interestingly, the Iraqis all had separate heads, which is something I haven't seen on any of the other figures. The three guys with AKs and the officer are all single piece aside from the heads. The RPG guy was actually a multipart figure. He had options for the RPG, an AK, and two different RPKs. I figured the RPG would be the more interesting choice. The figures are very bulbous and very heroically proportioned, as you can see. I'm not actually sure if I like these figures or not, now that I have them painted. My plan was to sell them once they were painted, but my dad expressed some interest in them, so I'll give them to him instead.

While I was working on the Iraqis, I also grabbed some random figures that were sitting unpainted on my work table and slathered some paint on them.

Here's a Cephalyx Drudge.



Naturally, NONE of the highlighting or shading I did is visible in the pic. In person, it's all clear, but for whatever reason, not the photo. It's annoying too, because I'm really actually proud of how his skin turned out.

I also painted an AE-WWII German soldier.



This was one of the multipart figures that gave me an absolute headache putting together. The glue absolutely refused to hold together when I was assembling him and the others that came with him. The whole assembly experience just put me off from actually finishing him. It's hard to see, but I tried to do the Autumn Oak Leaf pattern on his pants. The results were... okay. I probably could have done better, but it looks fine even if the camera didn't really pick it up.

Well, on to the next batch. Up next I have some mutated giant rats from This is Not a Test and a mono-cycle robot from Brother Vinni. The rats will hopefully go quick, but the robot will probably take longer since I want to experiment with weathering it. After that, hopefully I'll finally be able to start working on my Thousand Sons.

Good stuff as usual! I see that you also used the mask version Treitak Special Ops head, he will fit better, but seems so much smaller than the latest sculpts which are hulking space apes.

4 armed alien is beefy!

Religious order warmahordes looking good as well.

soldier squad, again looks great.

German trooper looks very good, despite the apparent construction issues you mentioned.

Overall,

Some great stuff here. The Menoth guys look great, and I totally need to get some of those Drudges to throw in with my AdMech.

That was my original plan for them. I'm actually trying to clear stuff out. Chances are good that the Drudges won't be staying with my Mechanicus for long.

Man what a cool collection recently. I may have to give my hund a second look.

a tiny update, a 15mm AD Police officer with a shotgun!



Obviously, I have more than just this guy. He's just the test figure. I need some Boomers now.

Okay, back from house sitting and here's the other four AD Police I was working on!



Of course, I still have more of them to do, but for now, this is actually all I need to play Red Ops 5. I just have to do more zombies. The rules recommend 10 zombies per squad member. I'm about halfway there.

The other thing I worked on was my TNT mutant rats.



Just got a robot left to work on and then I can get started on my Thousand Sons.

I haven't been too productive lately. I have been working on my Rubric Marines, but they're a major slog. So far, I only have one nearly finished. To make matters worse, I got three orders of 15mm minis this week! How am I supposed to resist working on those?

What little bit of productivity I did have was focused mostly on finishing up some AE WWII Germans I've had laying around.
That last German I painted had been in a multipack. This is the other guy from that set, finally finished.



Next, I finally finished up my pack of Volkssturm. They're supposed to be the fodder grunts for the Germans in AEWWII. Weirdly though, they just look like regular old German soldiers, not Volkssturm. Volkssturm were basically volunteers made up the refuse that the German Army wouldn't take. They're single piece figures, which is nice and they have three poses. One thing I like about this line is that it's totally true-scale. I'd tried to do some customizing on them using West Wind heads, but the results were only "okay" at best. I have more of these guys from when I bought the starter pack, so whenever I get to them, I'll be leaving unmodified.





the third guy is unmodified. Though you can't tell from the pic, his helmet is actually a much darker green than the rest of his uniform.



One of the packages that I received this week was my pledge from Critical Mass's Astagar Kickstarter. Now, I wasn't interested in the snake men, but Critical Mass did have its entire catalog available as add-ons and at a discount. So, I grabbed an Astagar tank, since it looked cool, some mecha, and a platoon of troops from their Protolene Khanate faction. The Protolene are right up my alley. Can you guess why?



Alien dog-men! With a hint of hyena, too! I'm actually really low on one yen coins, so I may have to slow down on 15mm figures for a bit. Still, I couldn't resist painting a few of them up. I was even extra nerdy and painted them in blue and yellow, which are some of the few colors dogs are able to see. The blues I used on these guys are actually GW's Thousand Sons Blue and Ahriman Blue, which go together wonderfully. Usually I have trouble blending and highlighting with blues, but these two paints give me no trouble at all. I love them!

Now, I'll be attempting to finish up at least one Rubric Marine and work on four more. Alongside them, I have some 15mm vehicles I'll be working on as well. Should be fun.

Germans and the dogies turned out nice.

You know Khurasan has some dog men aliens as well, right? I don't think you have any though, do you?

Didn't you also say you had some Menoth stuff you hadn't touched? The knights with the crossbows? Let me give them a shot.

And you need to get going on my Blood Warrior dudes!

You painted those teeny tiny lenses so well on the 15mm guys. But the dog aliens are my favorite, especially the one smart enough to wear his helmet. Imagine some kind of space...wolves who weren't smart enough to bring head protection to a gun fight.

The Germans are 28/32mm stuff though. I saw some in package a while back.

Otherwise that would be insanity inducing!

I think he's referring to the AD Police. They're definitely a pain to do. Weird I can paint them, but human eyes are still a problem for me.

The Protolene actually do have helmets sculpted onto some of the figures. I love that about them. The detail is so fine though, it can be hard to tell which ones are are wearing them though. They have smoother features and no sculptef nose. Really though, because those features are so fine, you could easily get away with painted all of them with helmets and it would be hard to tell the two headsculpts apart.

I know Khurasan has dog-men as well. So does Darkest Star. I like the Protolene the most though.

I do have some Menoth knight guys that are unpainted, but it isn't the ones with the crossbows. It's the guys with the two-handed swords.

SOrry for the lack of updates. I've been working on Thousand Sons, and it's been very tedious and slow going. But hey, I've got two done!

Here's my first Rubric Marine.


And the Sorcerer, who I literally just finished before I took the pics.



I modified him a little bit. He's supposed to have a scroll on his left hip, but I carved up his Bolt Pistol to have a proper handle and put that on his hip instead. This way, he's got a proper sidearm.

After watching Colony a few weeks back, I got inspired to make a Red Hat soldier for myself. I have a set of Anvil Regiments guys who work perfectly as them, so I tried one out.



Lastly, I painted up Ion Age's January freebie, which was a noble in Desteria armor. It's basically Ion Age's equivalent of Terminator armor.



Since he's a noble, I figured he'd be a bit more unique, so I gave him a scheme that doesn't match up to my Space Knights of Prydians. Interesting thing about this guy, he's armed with dual Power Fists and a maul!

Word of advice for you guys. If you pick up the Rubric Marines, don't fully assemble them before you begin painting. Those loin cloths make it EXTREMELY difficult to paint their legs.