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I remember that discussion, I think it would be hilarious.

Well another kickstarter that I backed has arrived. The impact miniatures fantasy football kickstarter is fulfilled before Christmas. Tom Anders, I think is the owner, switched 17 fantasy teams over to the trollcast material from metals. They have some really neat looking teams, and some that are just bizarre (looking at you platypus/counts as goblin team). Anyway when I backed I didn't have tons of funds to throw at this, so I just picked up two figs that I wanted. The ogre/oni big guy, and the bar wench . Casts are great, I didn't like the placement of some of the vents, such as the one in the oni's hair, but the material is easy to work with. My Oni came in four parts, only supposed to be three, but his leg was busted at the ankle, clean break that superglue fixed. The only other issue I have with him is he doesn't fit on his base. Not even as close as the necron figures who only get their heels on the 25mm bases. But otherwise I think the sculpt is fantastic, and he will somehow join my terracotta Kings of War army.

Here's the pic

Look solid, good detail. Punchy McFist could be some kind of hero/character surely.

Theo, you need to order 55 and 50mm bases for that big Oni!

Oh, it's been a while since I've been here. Nice Grinch. good idea.

Terracotta army is nice too.

Have a good Christmas.

Did they send you the wrong base? Nice minis either way. Could easily fit into other systems.

I'M NOT BACK

Just posting a few pics of what I've been halway working on over the last few months. Hobby time has been short, and motivation has been non existent. But some things are brewing, ideas perkily ting and samples are being made.

First things first. The servo skull janitors have had enough of other people's crap . It's time for war, and these guys mean business (as can be seen by the green armor ). There are many more "brothers"(though some might be sisters as it's hard to tell when there are only skulls and mechandrites to show). Here's the first batch of three servo skull baddies.


The next thing that has gotten some ideas floating around in my head is from a previously defunct game (it's died twice before) Alkemy. It's a small skirmish 10-15 model Mordheim style game, that is finally being supported now fully in English. Before it was first only in French, then the rules came out in English, but not all the models had rules in english . Now the new company has hired the player who did a ton of translations and made English adaptions for the game on the web and it is coming again.

Pictures will be added shortly of these guys. I'm on my trusty old iPad and it deletes everything I type if I try to keep toggling back and forth to grab more pictures, so beware the edits.

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The big guy is called a colossius, he is the heavy whooping stick of the Kingdom of Avalon.he is on a detailed resin 40mm base and is massively detailed and is also all resin. The kingdom of Avalon is a human kingdom in the Alkemy world. They broke away from the Jade Triad and founded their own lands many years ago. The kingdom is run by the Church, but they also worship a great tree, which is alive and imbues certain individuals with powers (mutations) and great strength. So in all intensive purposes this is the chaos army for the game.

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The jade triad. The "main" human group in the world of Alkemy is the Jade Triad. There are three rules of the triad....duh, two are known and the third is not....that one controls the ninjas . No tropes here . I love the fact that most of these were on clearance at miniaturemarket.com and I got a fully playable 300pt triad list for about $30. All the triad figs I've shown are all plastic . Plus there are 4 different archer poses, 4 different spear poses (each has two female, and two male). The two ninjas are also one female and one male, so there is nice sculpt diversity, and also the size of models is not all cookie cutter. A couple of the figures are heavier set men, not overly fat, just bulky while some are slim. Also no ham fisted gw models here . The regular troops are mostly done, I need to work on the two heroes and the two alchemists(magicians) still.

Last edit for a while.

The mix of others for alchemy. In the mix are the booster box of aurlok including their shaman and a pack of musicians, and the only box of the cat people that were left. The Aurlok are very Native American themed with the basic Aurloks being selected by animal totems as children and them taking on their totems aspects as they grow. So their are crow, wolf and ape aurlok. The cat people are a very Arabian themed army with sultans, dervishes and djinn. There are the different species of cat people, all who seem to flaunt the females furry breasts . The only two figures I could get were two dervishes.

Like I said I picked up all the clearance boxes at MM, as the game has been dead for a while they did not have all the different armies available, but I did get a starter of jade triad to have the rulebook and the special dice for the game as well as tokens. The rules are free online though, so check it out. Seems very easy.

Welcome (not back, but welcome).

Liking the skull-marines.

Look forward to more of you not being back.

You're not back. Your front good to see ya, bucko.

looks like a big resurrection wave.. if that´s what they call the afterlife... then i waant my money back... too long working hours, the grub is also no mana and i seldom see harps here....

i´ve only ever seen some ebay auctions of alkemy... and never really saw good enough pics to assume what scale they´d be...

your green dead re-plugged army looks rather cool...is that a self made cog on the shoulderpad?...cool! bet for that army a nice suply drop with a certain mechanicus content could work quite well not that anyone would want to tempt you too get more plastic in your house...

Good to see you around Theo.

Alkemy is looking good, I've been watching their activity lately as well.

I think you should hold off posting pictures of your samples, sounds like you've been influenced by papa Nurgle while you've been away

Theo's Alive!!!!

Hah, I like the angry servoskull marines. Too bad you had the idea, I could almost see doing that

...I think it is OK if you still do?

Thanks everyone......including Alpharius(as we know you always get the opposite answer from that legion )

And now a renaming of my servo skull legion thanks to Grimdork (he might not even have known the inspiration from his words ). I was always wanting to do Angry Marines, but didn't like the yellow. Now I can make the Angry Servo Skull Marines...or A.S.S. Marines for short . I just made a quick stop by church to get it ready for an event tonight and on the way was struck by an idea that should work with this. Can anyone say POWER FOLDING CHAIR OF KRUMPING .

I'll try and do a scale shot of the Alemy minis for reference.

Oh and also

Haha, well now that he's doing the ASS Marines, I can do regular servo skull marines

Your regular servo skull marines just won't be able to cut it against my ASSmarines, we own the whole ASSault phase .

Well the juices are flowing again, and the support helps a lot. I appreciate it fellas.

Got some time so I took two of those primed Aurlok figs and tossed paint while listening to Marvel agents of shield season 2 episode 1 (just got season 2on Netflix about three hours ago ). So here are the two wolf totem warriors.


Obviously I didn't bother getting rid of mold lines . Oh well with the discounts I got on them from miniaturemarket.com I paid about $1.25 each, and I think I'll grab another box as I believe I can have three or four of these guys. I did forget to paint their eyes, was trying to think of a different color to go with for that, and I'm not liking the red for the tomahawk handles, will probably do the leather strap look when I revisit them.

Here is a closer pic of the colossius.

He is imbued with the sap from the great tree, which has changed him from a regular warrior into a giant destructive force of nature. I tried to make him look more wood toned to his skin parts of him have turned completely to wood such as his Spindley legs and he has branches growing off his arm. He might be slow, but he hits like a tree that falls on you during a tornado.

And lastly a size comparrison for a triad warrior vs an ASSmarine.

I had painted him a week or two ago and then tried to put some agrax earth on his robes. It rolled right off or pooled in odd spots on the robe. Luckily it looks enough like dried blood that I won't complain too much about it.

Wut season 2 is on netflix now? Kickass, I've been looking for something to watch

Those guys look good, creepy color scheme which seems appropriate.

Tree-inclined giant is pretty sweet too!

Yep, I got an email notice season 2 was now available around 4pm. I'm into episode number 4 now .

Also here is the link to the N&R page about Alkemy. It also has lots of links in it too including for the rules and group builders.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/648598.page

I've started 2 more figs, but pretty much wiped out for the night, so off to bed shortly. I'll finish this episode of SHIELD, check the MM deal of the day at midnight, and then .

Oh and this guy also got a new paint job.....you might see him in the morning

Theo: You'll love Season 2 of SHIELD. Some pretty cool stuff going on there

no spoilers puhlease! love that show too^^

looking cool theo!

Your ASS look brilliant.

Good to see you, even if you are not here.

Alkemy has been tugging at me for a while. Minus has a fair bit of it on his thread, all looks very cool, and definately different.

Here's hoping you stick around, missed you.

Looks like the Borg have a new king.

Miss Dee, my servo skulls are just crazy enough to volunteer for the Borg.
@Cam, thanks for the heads up on Minus, quickly jumped through that thread to see what's up. Obviously the only people who knew of the game were French, since that's where it started. He has some awesome painting skills to boot. And I missed you guys. I've been back over in the N&R threads getting bitter again . But it's been refreshing to come paint and chat back in the happy world of P&M blogs.
@Vik, no spoilers then, besides I'm more listening than watching.
@angelof vengence, so far so good ,

Well as promised I'm showing off more of my ASSmarines

Meltabomb still needs painting, but he's ready to join the frey. These assault marines have no legs as that just slows them down. Who needs legs when you have a jump pack anyway?

And the wolf brothers got yellow eyes too.

Aurloks got painted up as well. I think they will all have the yellow eyes and the leather outfits to tie them together (doesn't sound right )

The musicians give others in the army buffs if at a certain range.

Excellent work on the skin dude.

Like the idea of the Legless Ass Marines, great stuff and totally Theo.

Thanks cam, but remember leg less ASSmarines don't trump crotchless chaps contractors (looking at you MEdge ).

Don't make me explain how chaps work *again*...

The Assmarines are really funny, getting into my head... gonna have to copy cat before it's done.

Well the ASSmarines are just a progression of the "attack of the servo skulls" and servo skull janitors that I made a while back. If I recall correctly there are certain members that were already indoctrinated into that group . They will get their armor and new paint jobs. Some might even become veterans . I got base coats done on the last three Aurlocks that I have (2 regular crow warriors and the shaman) before I left for work. I wasn't sure on colors, but we will see if they turn out alright or look like plucked chickens. I'm actually hoping more for the second.

Haha, plucked chicken look does sound creepy!

I think the ASS marines would finally give me the chance to guiltlessly use a pair of the sedition war hunchback dudes with the big back cannons (not the one on all fours, the more man sized dudes.. forget name) as plasma cannon equipped servitors hanging out with a techmarine/motf. Obviously the servoskull legions need techskullmarines to keep them running.

That's a good idea...I can break out my sedition wars bone crabs and use them as scouts(just need large bases with enough height on them to "bulk out" the model.