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Thanks! I do really enjoy hunting up odd miniatures and incorporating them into my projects....

You know your heroquest....

Got a few things cued up:

Mutant Family....



Couple of Rogue Trader Crew:

Great figures, where are they from. I love that bird family.

Eureka's fantasy line.

You find a lot of unique and characterful minis for this project. very cool

Just caught up on your blog. Love your conversions. So many fun painted minis as well. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks folks!

I'm hoping to get my gladiators based and photoed for showcasing in the next month, as well as more cars.

Here's the start of an RPG report featuring quite a few of the models in this thread for those who like such things:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/524342.page#10076922


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A somewhat converted mini from Laughing Monk. The sculpting is cartoonish by today's standards, but I rather like the result. Suitably bizarre for the dregs of space on a rogue trader or corsair.
I really like the yellow and stegadon green color scheme and plan to use that again. Goggles by victoria miniatures.

I like that. Sculpting is a little dated, as you say, but she looks badass.

Hmmm, a quick head swap and I think she's fit in somewhere with one or other of my warbands.....

the crazy monk chick is kinda cool, I like her. she's just weird enough to be in the 40k universe

Thanks! I've been meandering through creating a full rogue trader crew. I should get them all together at some point.

In the meantime, here's an addition to the motor pool - two Mantic Mules (one of them is I-Walker's). I was not impressed with it when I saw pictures, but in person they are pretty nice. They are not overlarge or overdetailed, but both things are fine with me, especially for a basic vehicle. They are very solid, very easy to put together and paint.

I like those Mules, I may have to give Mantic's stuff a look-over again!

I'm going to give some though to wether or not I need some of their flyers. We'll see.

In the Meantime more mutants:

Too funny! The posing puts me in mind of the Lorelei (sirens on the River Rhine) if they were mutants! Great stuff!

Well, mutant sirens is good I think.

Here's another of I-Walkers Cars. The only thing I am not sure about is the silver glare on the gloss black windows. I could do the windows black, or red, or just leave the silver. Not sure.



https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/963904-Car%20Civilian%20War%20Games%20Exclusive.html

Absolutely love that mutant family - great skin tones! Where's the - uhh - 'beaky' gent from?

I like your silver glare effect - at a first glance it really gives the impression of reflective tinted windows.

Agreed- keep the silver. Nice ride.

Thirding that the silver effect is good.

It is a thing of beauty! Like the silvered effect. Going to scale up a carwars turn tool to the WGE scale cars, which covers the FW stuff too.


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Need to do the beach car show too...


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Just about the right size

Excellent! I am going to work on the windows a bit more after dull coat.


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Blend the silver in a little.

Couple of Denizens of the Galaxy - Geminia Mk 2 from our kill team campaign, and a "Dvarg". With cool Landsnect clothes.

At last! The Train my civilians have been waiting for this half decade has been found!

Nice train. You going to be adding a lot of 40k to it, or keeping it fairly stock.

Have not commented in a while here, but been lurking. (sorry) but the train made me come out of hiding.

Love the car, love the Mules, love the people, but the "Dvarg" really catches my eye. Like him an awful lot.

Great stuff all round.

Ha, that's a good train. I'm not certain what a dvarg is but i like his shoulder pads.

A dvarg appears to be some sort of space dwarf, though this fellow is the best dressed of his people, who can be found here... .... ...well, whose people seem to have vanished from the internet. Sad, but sort of fitting. Still, I got the best one.

With the train I'm thinking the engine will get some light armor over the windows, a smokestack, and a few cog bits, maybe a purity seal. Not too heavy conversons. There is a coal car that will take a turret mount nicely, for with a quad gun or whatever for dangerous stretches of track. The passenger cars (comes with 2) are oddly a little out of scale unlike the engine. I'm going to unscrew the bottom, add a piece to make them a little taller, make the doors bigger, maybe put some aquila water slide transfers on it. Overall, nothing too heavy. I do want an armored train eventually though! I'm going to get at least one more set, the one with cargo cars.

Hobby Progress has been minimal recently - Super busy and unfortunately back pain is interfering with my enthusiasm for sitting for long periods. I have done a few things, most notably worked on my downtrodden mutants. Given that they are a mix of several different lines of figures, I'm giving them all the Ramshackle games orange and yellow stripped outfits treatment. I figure it is a particular cloth that is given to the mutants, sort of a charity but also making them stand out as outcast. Aesthetically, it helps unify the different lines.









It might be fun to do a 40K rpg episode where the players are mutants launching a doomed uprising.

I love the Ramshakle mutants, the keytar guy is fantastic and the 3 legged girl is just disturbing.

Looking good, the cloth works well to bring them together, and is a nice bit of fluff

Thanks!

Painted these here "Chernops". Not really sure what a Chernops is - I had slated them for Gladiators, but now I am thinking they are bodyguards of some sort, highly augmented. They have a sort of a "stake launcher" on one arm - to protect you from psykers, obviously. It is nice to paint older figures with cruder sculpts, IMO - less pressure.





Here is a more conventional gladiator:



NSFW maybe.

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Idea for later: Take a Munitorium cargo container and make it into a soothsayer or holy person's hovel - lots of skulls, an LED light in the ceiling, belongings, etc.