Thrilled with Thralls

More of these guys.  Not sure what they do in the game, but it must be something nasty with these guns! :-)

I would imagine that there's not much of an armor save, but you might need one yourself if you are caught on the wrong end of one of these.

Lots more on the way!

Carrying a full charge

Ahh... here's where it gets fun!  While the initial 'exploration' of colors and themes for an army is a very fun stage, one begins to look forward to the day when you can start to take 'glory' shots such as these.

I love being able to take some painted terrain (the boardwalks and gallows from Burn In Designs, of course!) and create scenes such as these.

I may have to get a few more of these large size backdrops from Hangar 18 Miniatures, but this color has proven to be incredibly versatile.  It's worked quite well for the Mierce Miniatures group shots... but it really shines for the Wild West!!!

On occasion I have mentioned how I have enjoyed working with all new color palettes.  This has been the case with both the WWX figures and the Mierce Miniatures.  By working on all kinds of figures at the same time (the Mechanicum count towards this palette evolution too!), it has really accelerated the development of these varied earth tones.

I feel far more comfortable working with those at this point.  I can go cooler, warmer, higher or lower chroma with ease, and with just about any colors on hand.

There are more of these Interceptors on the way, so there will be even more scenes such as this coming!

I might also try to squeeze in some of the smaller buildings into this setting, or perhaps create a painted backdrop for the larger game board, as I have planned.

These next few shots will give you a better view of the small gallows.

I have a few large gallows, which will help the Lawmen get the job done many times faster!

Of course, there's the Judgement heavy support which will be the Meals on Wheels approach to dealing out Justice.

Stay tuned!!!

A higher Standard...

Another fun standard bearer from Mierce Miniatures!

Obviously a lot smaller than the Minotaur and Rhino banners :-)

Still very fun, though!!

Cavalry charge

Staying in the historical realm, but switching eras, we call in the cavalry!

Whenever I paint these guys, all I can think of are LOTR Rohan horses.  I realize the same person sculpted both, but I keep expecting to see Eomer riding one of them!

It wouldn't take much to convert the saddles and make them work for LOTR...

These would also make excellent horses for my Khandish chariots!!

Form up!

CHARGE!

There will be some much bigger group shots soon.

So many, that it will require the big backdrop.

Stay tuned!

Flames of Fury

After realizing that I never posted the finished images of the Charging Stations, I remembered that the Flames of War Easy Eight needed to be photographed as well.

So, here it is!

I am looking forward to painting much more of this in 2015!!

My own personal force right now will be the 82nd Airborne.  Lots of jeeps, infantry and such.

Here's a size comparison with the Memoir '44 Shermans.

And now for a few different backdrops...

Stay tuned for more!!

Check out the size of that thing!

Sorry... couldn't resist that!

Here are some shots of those two massive rhinos from Mierce Miniatures.

I also wanted to see what the two different colors looked like next to each other.

A number of these colors have to fit into an overall army palette.

These ended up being all natural/earth tones.

It's been fun to continue to explore that color range... both on these guys and the Wild West Exodus figures.

Speaking of earth tones... now we see them on the Hangar 18 large backdrop.

It's amazing how different they look depending on the backdrop in question!

I have some shots of all six rhinos together on this backdrop that I will post later...

The human sized figure in this image is pretty hefty... about 30mm scale.  That gives you an idea about how freaking huge these bad boys are!

I hope you have been enjoying the Creature posts!!

Charging Your Batteries...

These are some images I have been meaning to post for some time now... but I kept forgetting!

I think most of you saw the work in progress post that showed how I made these charging stations for Wild West Exodus using leftover wood from the Burn In Designs jailhouse.

The rest of the materials were green stuff (for the cables) and matboard for the base.

I added a few more layers of paint here and there since you last saw them.

We had come up with some simple rules for using these in our games, although the situation has not come up yet.  I think it will be more likely if we both have the mass amounts of heavy supports that we are building towards.

It was a lot of fun to make these, and it took no time at all.  Just a few hours.

Most of the pieces from Burn In Designs were window shutters and the 'punch out' pieces that you would normally throw away.  I now have a large (and growing) collection of those!!!

I set up some fun scenic views with the charging stations, my Lawmen, and other pieces of terrain from Burn In Designs.  Stay tuned!!!