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Note to self - Astropolis figures can be had from Noble Knight games:

https://www.nobleknight.com/Products/Astropolis-28mm


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Oh Nos - the Astrogators are sold out!

Gladiator Escher conversion. The helmet looks really big - obviously packed with tech.







Pelegarth and Xenodrin:





Everyone so far - almost painted!

Looking fabulous bud. Actually look better than the silly hair they normally have.

Yeah the helmet looks great, looks like an actual human wearing a helmet over head

Rather than someone who had their head removed and replaced by a helmet shaped one.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Yeah the helmet looks great, looks like an actual human wearing a helmet over head

Rather than someone who had their head removed and replaced by a helmet shaped one.

LOL. Well said. I have a Goliath gladiator conversion going on right now that has the exact opposite problem.

Glad you folks like it!

The helmet looks great, nice job all round.

Thanks! Now I am considering making some of the helmets larger. Sigh, you just can't win with this whole "anatomy" thing. I was pushing hard to do the last few gladiators, then shelved it. Still, with the basing done I think a set of glamor photos for the show off thread should happen soon.

In the meantime, I saw a lighthouse for a buck, and well, I've wanted to start doing nautical stuff for my 40K/Insmouth crossover (the Docks of Pentegrad), so I did a light house. Not super grimdark, but I rather like it and enjoy totally random projects.

















In other random news, I've become kind of enamored of the Stormcast with mechanical bows. As the dimension hopping replacements for the Olde Worlde, they suck. But as an obscure order of low tech knights (perhaps with a sinister secret....) in the 40K universe they are pretty awesome. We may see more of them. Low tech warriors aping the space marines as best they can makes total sense to me.

Looking good. Glad to see I'm not the only one who can't walk into a shop without assessing the scale of every chotsky and souvenir.

Absolutely! I've been eyeing some new MFD holiday houses that have come out - the scale is looking good. Perhaps we'll see them on sale super cheap.

Speaking of super cheap, War Machine hit 70% off at the FLGs, and I scored I couple of things I've wanted from that range:





Ogryn Gladiator!

That cyber ogre (or whatever) is NICE. Can't wait to see it.

Loving both those models!

I had been eyeing them for some time. The only downside is that the cyber ogryn is about 25% too large. But hey, Growth Drugs!

Wow, those mounted troops, that's amazing!

Here's another Warmachine figure - Privateer Press sees him as a brutal "Cage Rager" harvesting the fear of his captives.



But I see a helpful mutant delivering much need Prometheum Byproduct cooking slurry to his friends and family.




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There are no end of the things this Ogryn Mutant could haul!

I really like that change you made, the mutant delivering promethium is great!

Aw, he's my favorite now.

Ha - when I first came across that figure my first thought was what could I do with the cages, and kinda dismissed the side as becoming some sort of ogryn....

The cages are... ...OK. They would probably benefit from a more motivated painter, but you can't really see into them very well because the bars are fairly wide. I think metal would have been a better material.
Still, hanging crow cages is useful as you say!

Here's a Malifleux Miniature that seems very 40K (Not my paint job). They must wear stove pipe hats somewhere in the Imperium, right?

I dunno, the elongated limbs and torso are kind of the opposite of what GW likes to do. It would be like Bugs Bunny showing up in Akira, both are good, but not really the same look.

That chained and robed servant being used to hold the book definitely has a strong 40k vibe.

I could see it done in Harlequin aelves style working quite well or (bugger can't remember the name ) dark elves. Would lend the thin limbed figure well into the 40k. Certainly not imperial though.

I've really stopped worrying about scale or form in the humans I'm using - it is a big imperium after all.

However, now I really want to make a Harliquinn army and bulk it out with Malefelux conversions. I think you're right, they'd work great!


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Painted my Galvanic Crane - this kit is everything you'd hope it would be. Go GW! I used black with a light green drybrush and gloss nuln oil. Not sure it was really worth the trouble compared to black with a light silver dry brush, but I do like it.





My new arch enemy is lights with wire cages over them. Hate those things.

Tractors next!

You should ERADICATE your enemy with knives and files!

No, seriously, I love this thread, and I'm glad you got your hands on some cranes and tractors!

You see it is typical of GW, they go and make stuff like this just to pee me off, I spend ages making cranes and mechanical stuff, and then GW come along with a beautiful kit, bloody lot.

Nice work on it though, good stuff bud. And yeah agree about the covered light thingy, hey maybe I could come up with a two part light unit....mmmmm.

Yeah, but this is the same crane everyone has. I'd much rather have one of yours that no one else has.


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 Briancj wrote:
You should ERADICATE your enemy with knives and files!

No, seriously, I love this thread, and I'm glad you got your hands on some cranes and tractors!

Thanks! I've just been painting them all one color and then inking them. It doesn't really make sense, but it is easy.

Lovely stuff. Nice work on the crane.

I'm planning to do a lighthouse myself, and seeing yours is a great inspiration!

I look forward to seeing it - I'm sure it will be Awesome!

Painted the Tractors and crane bits:



I made the grabbing claw optional on the crane- mostly because I need the hook to hoist up my giant cat fish from the Reaper bones KS.



The little tractor is one of the best things GW has done ever, IMHO.





At first I was cool to the 2nd tractor, but after painting it I rather like it.

Those little tractors are really cool! Nice find and addition to your collection.

I do love them! Just realized I missed a few things on the red one.

So I was working an accident scene an hour or so ago, and I saw what can only be described as a warhammer 40K bus. I didn't get a great look, but it was silver, mostly square on the front, fairly tall, with arched windows down the side and a weird angled stern. Like a cross between a trolley, a UPS truck and something art deco. If I remember it, I now know what to make my busses look like!

I wonder if I should cast them.


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Hmmm - or try 3D printing.

Here's the Prometheum Hauling Ogryn mutant Grod - and his best Friend, Napoleon Zaphod, the mutant crime boss. Zaphod wears a bit of the orange and yellow mutant charity cloth on his lapels as required by law - but of course he bribed some Sister Textilous to make him a particularly fine bolt. This way he shows solidarity with the Twists, and follows the letter of the law. Grod does whatever he says, whether it is hauling prometheum sludge to the shanty town, popping someone's head like a balloon, or taking bolter rounds....










Generally happy with how he came out. Barrels are modular, so he can haul other things as needed, including his original cages.