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Oh Wow! Those Rock!! My favorite is the motorcycle rider! The striped yellow leather is fantastic!

OOps sry for the rollover. He could be 1/2 of Daft Punk!

HA HAHA HA half of Daft Punk now reforming with the village people

Great work Scarp but the bases need more detail to tie them to their professions .

So, survivors and zombies, heh!

Thanks very much, guys!

@LDD - You're absolutely right, that would improve them loads, but at the mo I'm just trying to power through them all - there's about 100 in the box, and I've got a fair few more coming with the next kickstarter

I've just been off to Venice with Hannah on my first annual leave in a fair few months, and it is an absolutely beautiful place. Seawater and tourism also does stunning things to stone and paintwork, and as is becoming a bit of a habit, couldn't resist taking a few reference pics to share! Hope they're useful for someone - I'm definitely saving them for when I get around to terrain work.







p.s. I have a ton of normal person vacation pics too, it's not all close ups of peeling paint, honest! Just thought you may not be quite so interested in ones like this
(That beer cost 8 fecking euros!)

Also did this when I got back - was having a lot of trouble fitting Ivy with the colour scheme for the rest of the Jackals for some reason.

I'm hoping to try out a fair few new techniques! Plan is to experiment with blending pink into white for fluke, like this chappy here:

And Ivy herself will be getting some paleskin and sunburn, possibly with marks spared by her goggles


Good plan, bad plan? Anyone know any good techniques for that kind of blending? Do I need to stop with the TMI holiday snaps? Hope you've all had as fun a week as me

Cool holiday cool pics nice ideas but why the pic of that strange dude we have to draw the line somewhere

Like the colour scheme ideas and the sun bleached face, be good to see these techniques attempted help wise I have no real idea

Beer that price I would go sober

Good plan!
Is this close to what you were thinking for the sunburn?

Ahh Venice! Looks like a good time! lots of great decay there!

Hey guys!
Brief update with a shoddy pic of a WiP Ivy.


And here's a shot of the board from the last hammering I took against Peyma's rat bastard Red Hand gang (cheats).


Better update to come some time in the next few days!

I can't see the first pic it is broken. Looking forward to the better update!

Apologies, fixed it now. Not sure what happened, but that would definitely have been a rubbish update!

Ivy is fantastic Scarp! no shoddiness detected!

Alsom your board is looking nice too! Tell me about those shipping crates?

Thanks Dave! The shipping crates are from eBay - I'm really sorry, but I can't find the seller now. Will have a hunt and let you know when I've got a bit more time!



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Aaaaand finished photo of Ivy and Fluke.

Off-white is an infuriantingly hard colour to photograph - it just reflects back all the light!

Hope you like the two of them, and story to come.

looking great., where are these models from?

Awesome job Scarper so close to the original art work the dog colour is spot on and has photographed really well as it looks great from here.

Ivy is a great little miniature really fits that Apoc outlander vibe, love the bag and the sawn of shotgun really ties nicely together

I to would like to know where the models are from, I have worked out the head is from statuesque miniatures I believe

Awesome cool. Really great update. The dog looks familiar - He was on a leash right?

Nice work. I like the colours you chose for all the fabrics they all work together nicely.

Great work on Ivy and Fluke, sir, although naturally I really dislike them both. Darn mutt...

My missus has taken great interest in your terrain photos - I came home to random cardboard and egg boxes placed on my desk. Looks like another project...

And The Red Hands are not cheats thank you very much! They just had more stamina than you!

Thanks a bunch for all the comments!

@Bruticus - Thank you! The girl's body is a female scavenger model from a system in development called Scavenge Skirmish Survive. The sculpts are a little ropey in places (I had to resculpt her left hand, for example, and there are a few thumb prints here and there), but they are interesting and fun. The head is from Statuesque Miniatures resistance line. The dog is from the Convoi starter set from the Eden game system.

@LDD - Very kind, thank you! Though I wouldn't have called my original half-arsed colour plan 'art work' Good eye once again for the Statuesque head!

@Weety - Thank you very much! I don't think you've seen this particular mutt before, but I did put up a picture of a similar hound to steal the colour scheme from, so maybe youre thinking of that

@Dr. H - Thanks a lot! I sometimes worry that I use too many earth tones, but you can get some fun effects with a little variation in shade.

@Peyma - Thanks, man, much appreciated. Did you have any more luck with the eBay scores? Would be great if we had two bases to play over... And they were definitely cheating. How else would you explain three gangers being torn to pieces by the same dog and then my team running away?!


A few simple new things:


A speedy paintjob on an unfortunate gentleman who will be playing a role in an upcoming scenario



And some finished greenwork for a bounty hunter who has entered the fray.

Hope you like, and an update on gang status soon.

Scarps

The bounty hunter is ace. He looks nails.

does the kneeling one have a bag on his head?... that is a nasty cut on his back...

bounty hunter looks wicked...

I think the unfortunate gentleman (or Saturday night guy ) looks pretty cool although a little fetish Scenario hey

I to stick to the earthy tones myself but I found a cool way to get around this , just add one bright colour to the mix it is quite amazing the difference it makes but still keeps the same earth tone you love.

The Bounty hunter is a cool looking miniature love the use of parts, ok here goes Vostroyan sniper body, Vic miniatures shotgun trenchers arms and Vic resin head Penal legion I think.

The only thing stumping me is that grey weapon, not sure if it is the Elysian rifle or something completely different

Great job though all looks great mate

Sorry for bringing up old stuff, but holy crap, this one is perfect. You nailed the facial expression. Very nice paintjob.

Wow, excellent thread. Wish I'd found it sooner. I'm a huge fan of PA games.

Yeah that one is my fav too Baiyuan. Great work on that scarper.

I might have to steal that bounty hunter idea. It's way awesome.
Also, I agree with Baiyuan. The face is perfect.
I like the prisoner and Ivy too although the prisoners bag looks a bit flat.

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Sorry for bringing up old stuff, but holy crap, this one is perfect. You nailed the facial expression. Very nice paintjob.

Yeah, on top of it this guy is the ing MAN. due to his cunningly concealed flamer, he's snookered me a couple of times now. And he's just always so laissez-faire about everything, like 'ah, well, another gak day, might as well win hard at life in the underhive, meh'

total beast.

And Scarp probably wouldn't like to admit this, but he's actually got the most wins in our campaign... I might have a gang rating over 2K, but he's got the most victories. In fact, the only time he lost to me was when it was the Jackals AND the Red Hands trying to sandwich me (joint rescue mission) and the Red Hands were about as good at stealth as a battalion of redcoats in a knocking shop...


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Addendum: I know you've dropped the bounty hunter now chum, but paint him up anyway... I know at least a couple of arbitrator scenarios where he could come in really handy

That guy!!

All of this is really nice, but that guy really is amazing

I like the look of the bounty hunter. I like his pose.

@PDH - Thanks a lot! It's the head that does it really - great sculpt that oozes menace

@Vik - He does indeed and it certainly is. His captors obviously don't play nice. Thanks for the kind words!

@LDD - Cheers, that's very kind! The fetishy bit didn't even occur to me, but to each their own I guess The bolter substitute is an elysian lasgun (one of the bullpup type ones) with a couple of modifications. I really like the design of the original!

@Baiyuan - Not at all, that's really nice of you! Means a lot. Would love to see some more of your stuff soon too - I could use the inspiration!

@LeadLegion - Welcome! Hope you find something else you like.

@Weety - Thank you!

@Igandris - Cheers! See where you're coming from with the bag - will have to do something about that.

@Roddy - He's looking pretty scary now too with T4 and W2! I'll try and get the bounty hunter painted up, but 2 new juves and a plasma heavy on the work bench at the moment. Those settlements are really pumping them out!

@Migs - Thank you very much! Glad you like him.

@Scrazza - Glad you like! It's mostly the pose on the original, I just made some small changes

Couple of painted cargo containers for today. I've been playing with weathering powders, which I've never really used before. Steep learning curve, and I think I overdid it a bit in places, but they're fun to work with!



Hope you like, and more as I work on it.


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p.s. I can't find the original plaster ones I got off eBay anymore, but there's a gent here selling what look like exactly the same casts in resin for a really good price.

They're really versaltile and totally worth a look for a skirmish-style board.

That color of rust goes great with the blue! Fantastic!