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Here's where I'll put the odds and ends that don't require a dedicated plog.

First up: Cylons!



If, like me, you grew up on a heady diet of shiny 70s and 80s sci-fi, you'll know why I enjoyed painting this so much. Cylons were off the charts on the cool scale, and I still can't decide who would win if a cylon centurion and a stormtrooper had a bare knuckle fight. So when Crooked Dice released this set of 'Mrk2 Argonauts' at Salute, I was all in. ALL IN.

I bought a squad on ten, 9 cylons and a centurion. There are three armed poses and two unarmed poses, for when the cylon is out at a bar or something. (My centurion will be one of these. He don't even need a gun to mess you up.) They are clean sculpts, requiring minimal cleanup and come with 2 head options. The cylon one, and argonaut one.

The scheme was super simple. Ultra shiny armour and black everything else. The armour is GW chainmail washed with 1:1 Lahmian medium and Nuln Oil. The chrome effect meant I couldn't darken the armour too much. Wash neat Nuln Oil into the recesses. Hit it with a heavy overbrush of Necron Compound, then Mithril Silver. Finally, gloss varnish the hell out of it. The black areas were wet blended up to pure white.

I intend to use these as a Pulp Alley league, so I need to tell them apart. I painted a faint A on his base, as he is trooper Alpha. Now I need to find Baltar, and some of those crazy disco-faced robots who gave the orders to the centurions with such eloquence.

Here we have a Martian Assault Tripod from All Quiet on the Martian Front. I love War of the Worlds, so when this appeared I was all over it. It's a very tall model, it's about 6" or so, on an 80mm base.



I used a Gladius Game Arts base for this guy, and added a bicycle from a Sgts' Mess bits pack. The burned skeleton is from another All Quiet model. After a wash of thinned Nuln Oil, I used mostly recess washes and glazes to work up the model. Painting larger models requires less contrast than smaller models, so again, I used acrylic medium to thin the glazes. Then basing. I had to do a little research for the burnt patch of ground under the skeleton. As the model is mostly neutral colours, I could get away with more vibrant base colours, hence the dirt road has a richer tone than I would normally use.

Awesome work. Very clean and really tells a story.

Nice! Love the touches like the Red Weed and the heat-rayed body.

Great work

Love the 7tv Argonauts/Cylons, really nice and shiny. So much better than the far less camp remakes!

I'll second your view on the crooked dice castings, they're very crisp and clean nearly all of the time.

Also the tripod looks great, and I like the baked fellow on the base.

Love the Cylons

Thanks folks.

Cool Cylon and great Tripod diorama - burned cyclist is a nice touch!
I love those old-school Sci-fi designs.

Fantastic work. Lovely metallics and great character.

Look forward to seeing more.

Quality painting there Mr. Saturday! Love seeing All Quiet on the Martian Front, the models for it are quite cool. One of these days I'll have to get around to painting mine up.

Thanks folks. Here's some drones, I neglected to add some images of them.

Love the Crooked Dice Argonaut (or 'not' Cylon). Very tempted to get some at Salute this year.

Martian stuff is pretty cool as well, n t seen those before, may have to check that game out now...

These are really cool, I especially like how clean an crisp the paint work is. Takes me back to my childhood pyjama days watching Galactica

I would like to ask about the red foliage you use on the bases, is that small pieces of red lichen ? or some other material ?

Also how did you fix it in place, with concerns of it falling of in storage/transport. A layer of varnish (satin/gloss), a coat of PVA ?

Keep up the good work, anything else in the works I for one would like to seem more.

Thanks.

I would like to ask about the red foliage you use on the bases, is that small pieces of red lichen ? or some other material ? Also how did you fix it in place, with concerns of it falling of in storage/transport. A layer of varnish (satin/gloss), a coat of PVA ?

It's red lichen, attached with a goodly dab of PVA glue.

Keep up the good work, anything else in the works I for one would like to seem more.

Oh, plenty! You can see it all here: http://mrsaturdaysmumblings.blogspot.ie/

I've been getting into Frostgrave of late, and with a big game coming up in a couple of months, it's time I got a group together. For a faction theme, I went with a group of Deadites from Army of Darkness. Here are the first two members.

Skeleton deadites seem weird, but either way he has a pupil and he shouldn't.

I don't mean to sound flippant, but you have seen Army of Darkness? The one with all the skeletons?

I hear you about the pupil. However, it is sculpted on. That's right, the pupil is sculpted on. Anyhow, seeing as he shouldn't really have eyeballs at all, I'm not going to lose any sleep over the pupil.

It's a walking skeleton. Pretty much magically risen. Why can't a walking magically risen skeleton have a pupil?
I like it actually - adds a nice bit of weirdness, character and even creepiness.
Nice models and painting

Is that the Dublin Gamers' Guild Frostgrave game you're preparing for?

Cheers Ishkatar.

I didn't know about the DGG event. This warband is for the KnaveCon Frostgrave event in April. We have several folks building warbands and terrain and a few flying over for it. Should be a laugh.

I didn't know about Knavecon. Must look into it.

More work on the warband:

Okay, some more additions, the Kandarian (wizard) and Bad Ash (captain).

Love the Cylon! He's perfect. Great job.

Bad ash is brilliant.

Well, here's the final warband. It still need a couple of guys, a bard, templar and maybe another crossbow, but for now, that's it done! Here's some shots of members I've painted lately but not posted.

Loving the Deadites, Man!

Where are those treasure piles from?

Thanks! To be honest, I can't recall, I've had them for years. Reaper, possibly.

After a lengthy delay, my final unit of terracotta warriors is done. The crossbowmen give the army a little ranged ability, and fit nicely with finds made in the warrior pits. The Chinese crossbow of the time was incredibly advanced, mass produced, simple and reliable, so it would be remiss to omit them from the army.

With this unit my clay painting technique has moved on again. I've stippled more colours over the basecoat before washing and drybrushing to give the impression of the remains of paint. The original warriors would have been very brightly coloured, gaudy even. I added some flowers to the bases to give them a little more colour.



With the crossbowmen done, that give me three infantry units, the halberdiers, swordsmen and crossbowmen, the guts of the army. It was a bit of a slog near the end, but I'm delighted they are done, and I'm very happy with them.

Here they all are, emerging from a hidden tomb entrance at LoPan's foul bidding, ragged pennants blowing in the wind as they await their new master.