Today's Pile of Shame update covers three projects that I completed from 21 - 28 August. I grouped all three together since two are similar and the third is about fences, which may not be very interesting to many of you.
I completed these praying cultists on 21 August. These are resin models that were once produced by Miniatures of the North, a Scottish company. They were sometimes called House Crowmantia. I bought them through Northstar Miniatures. They are
OOP now. I don't remember why I ordered a bunch of them. I guess that I wanted some cultists to fight my Cadians. The praying cultists are one piece castings. They are a bit thinner than a
GW heroic scale human. Scrawny cultists seem normal to me though.
This batch of cultist leaders and gunners was completed on 28 August. These were sold in a pack with one leader and one gunner. They have separate heads. The gunner's weapon was separate and had the hands molded on the weapon. The belt of ammo, and the leaders' hands were also separate. These models don't stand on their own, and they did not come with bases. I puttied them onto some Renedra 25mm round bases.
If anyone is interested in seeing the models before I painted them, I still have
WIP photos on my phone.
I am using these cultists for a Halloween game, which might explain my color choices to some of you. For those that do not understand, the colors are similar to the colors of American pumpkins used in many Halloween decorations and art.
In between prepping, priming, and painting the cultists, I based about nine linear feet of O gauge model railroad chain link fence. Woodland Scenics sells these sections in several scales but O gauge is the closest to 28/32mm. Each pack came with eight sections: two gate sections, two sections with end posts, and four sections with no end posts. Each section is six inches long (a bit over 15
cm). I used bass wood to make the bases and cut the wood in a mitre box. I also used the mitre box to cut the 45 corners so that the fence sections could make better corners.
The fences are made of plastic that seems pretty hard. They have two longer posts on each section that I used to anchor them to the bases. I used a pin vise to drill the post holes in the bass wood. The gates and sections with end posts have the longer posts at the ends of each fence section.
The fence sections with no posts are not anchored to the bases at the ends of the sections so they have a bit of curve at the ends. I haven't glued the fence posts to the bases yet so I may pop them out and try to get the fences a bit straighter using boiling water.
These type of chain link fences are useful in a lot of different genres: superhero, modern, apocalyptic, zombie, and sci-fi. You can add signs, trash, damage, and other crazy things to make them more unique.
Sixteen chain link fence sections, seven praying cultists, and six leaders/gunners adds 29 painted models to my 2025 total for painted/completed models. I am up to 366, which means that I have already met my New Year's Resolution goal of one mini completed per day in 2025. It's all gravy from now until the end of the year.
