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 Dysartes wrote:
I don't know much about Deep Madness, Siggy, but it looks like there's some fun sculpts in there (especially the diving suit in the front right), and you've certainly done them justice.

Thanks very much! Yeah, I know very little about the game too. Seems like they ran three Kickstarters (it very much looks like a KS boardgame), one for each of the print runs. Apparently people who got it are happy and praise the components and the hard difficulty.

I actually painted a LOT of figures from that set, including some rather large and disturbing boss monsters and so on, but the world will never see them because against my usual procedure I didn't take any pictures! Rather surprised about that myself. It was a pretty huge order of figures (these boardgame figures plus loads of D&D figures) which had to be finished by a rather dead timeline, and I guess I was just exhausted or didn't have the time to take pictures? Not sure. Anyway, imagine all sorts of tentacle/insect/unspeakable horrors from beyond space and time of all shapes and sizes, painted kinda like the tentacle dudes in the back there in the photo. Blue tentacles, yellow details (boils and blind-yet-mad eyes mostly), pink flesh, blood, black bases.

Yeah, that space suit was fun to do. I immediadely defaulted back to what I felt comfortable with - blue armour (love a blue robot), scrappy looking, bit rusty, hazard stripes, lenses/lamps in constrasting colours and all is well. I based the paintjobs on the Investigators on the character artwork where I had it at hand. Problem is that most of the artwork is that sort where illustrators make everything purple and very dark browns. I love purple, but unless you're a dark elf or a very sinister individual there shouldn't be much of that on ye.

Btw, I have strong and silly opinions on many colours, all available to Patreons of "risotto tier" and up.*



*) This is not true, just a silly joke.




I'm proceeding to painting some LOVELY new 40k figures now. Seriously lovely. There's stuff to look forward to. At least I do. I also started building some of TTCombat's 10mm MDF sci-fi buildigs. They're cool.

Heyhey, last weekend I had a lovely game of Operation Squad!

Wrote a review and battle report about Operation Squad (squad-level WW2 skirmishy things).

https://tabletopstories.net/language/en/2025/04/operation-squad-review-and-battle-report/




Hope you like the article!

As always, the article is available in German and English.

Heyhey, happy Easter!

For many, many months I've been infatuated with the idea of Warhammer Renaissance. As you know, I played a game of 5th edition last year, and it's exceedingly lovely and all, but the problem about GW games is that it's always bound to 'making an army list', points and all of that. And I'm not sure I love that a lot, at least not in the shape of the 4th/5th edition army lists.

In general, I'm a big fan of keeping GW away from rules and let people who care do that instead, so I'd really like to try out Warhammer Renaissance.



Dark Elves are finished enough for now, to try the rules solo (as I like to do) before subjecting others to them, I need opponents.

Last week I somehow got the idea of going through boxes to check just how little I actually got in terms of Empire figures and how surely it would never be enough to turn it into a playable army. Turns out it's more than I thought, especially once i broke out that box I got second hand off ebay a ton of years ago.

So I got out some reading material and try to cook up some Empire units!




Let's see where this goes!

Happy Easter!

Good luck with this Warhammer Renaissance project. It reminds me a lot of Warmaster Revolution!

Cosmic

Had to go back and read your introductory sentence a second time: I thought those Mordian Iron Guard looked a little too much like WWII Red Army....

Very nicely done!

@Cosmic: Cheers! Yeah, it's an interesting how Warmaster made a pretty broad return in recent years. I put a lot of faith into Warhammer Renaissance. Hope it's any good.

@Meer_Cat: Yeah, I got a lovely collection of WW2 Soviets in 28mm. I'd love to bring them to shows too, but WW2 still is a slightly touchy thing, and Russian stuff is a touchy thing. Anyway, some lovely figures I got there. Black Tree Design, Bad Squiddo, Artizan, Conqueror, backed up by tanks by Rubicon, Die Waffenkammer, and Warlord.


Heyhey, here's a snapshot of my desk:

The crossbowmen look nice, Siggy - the Halberdiers, on the other hand, may need a few repairs.

Some nostalgy in these empire minis

@Dysartes: Cheers! Yeah, funny thing is that I tried to strip them for days, but the stuff didn't come off. So I thought "fudge it" and just removed the mold lines and will repaint them.

@moskolector: Oh yes indeed. I bought them many years ago, shortly after the 7th edition Empire plastics came out, which I wasn't a big fan of (but which I worked with a lot for commission stuff. The greatswords and archers are really good; those arebascially the second wave. But the state troopers from that time I'm not too much into.). Just in case I'd ever do an Empire army.



Right, since we last spoke I got my hand caught up in a shattered glass door ("real glass, go cry me a river!". Loads of blood, stitches, no nerve damage though apparently, so I was lucky.), which hampered my painting for a few days. Now I'm back at the desk and made some photos to catch us all up on what happened the past weeks.


Where can you find pleasure, search the world for treasure
Learn science, technology?
Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true
On the land or on the sea?

Where can you learn to fly, play in sports or skindive
Study oceanography?


Right you are indeed, in the Navy.


Sadly the white background ate the reflections on the metallics; they look so lovely in real life. I'll make some more photos before I sent them back home.

Anyway, these are amazingly lovely figures. Perfect imperial armed forces figures in my book, for several reasons, and spiritually the closest thing we ever got to the nominal and legendary depiction of imperial guardsmen in Codex Imperialis.




Staying with the imperial armed forces, well, a different branch altogether really but they are also imperial, also armed, also bring force to the table - Imperial Harbinger Space Marines.



These are an addition to the lovely Imperial Harbingers army I got to do in 2023. A very underrepresented chapter, and a tricky colour scheme, but I really enjoy how pragmatic and no-nonsense they look, and I kinda underline that with the colours used. These here in the photo are still WIP, once the last bits of colour are added they'll look perfectly rounded (hopefully).


Last but not least, there's yet another completely different branch of imperial hard power - employees of the Officio Assassinorum!


Even though I'm pretty sure that Death Cult Assassins aren't part of that club at all, but rather one of these less-than-official pals to the Adeptus Ministorum. Anyway, they're also still WIP, but getting there.


Hope you like them and a happy 1st May in advance!