Mystery Forgeworld mini

I tried to look this guy up on the Forgeworld site, but for the life of me, I could not find it!  I ran across some of the other command figures I have been working on, but no luck here.

I assume he is some sort of Astropath?

Anyway, more to come!

The Criminal Element

Here's the next batch of Prison Outbreak appropriate minis from Armorcast.

These guys are called High Tech Criminals, and with those masks, I think they would all count as tough.  Probably tough enough to put a shiv in a Zombie!

I remember when I was painting these guys that I tried to come up with as many colors as I could for prison jumpsuits!

Just imagine the names for theses characters... it would be an absolute riot.  Two face, Bad Rap, The Offender.  Ha!

No Mr. Nice Guys here... just trouble waiting to happen.  Of course, Zombie versions of these dudes would be even more hilarious.

I guess that none of these guys would need a chainsaw, fireaxe or crowbar to open doors.  A spoon, a blanket and some time is all that's needed.

So hang onto your wallets and look out behind you, because those Zombies are walking the line.

Some stuff for Prison Outbreak: Narcos

Going back through the archives, I discovered a ton of figures from Armorcast that could be very interesting for the new Prison Outbreak Zombicide game.

These guys are from Armorcast, and they are called Narcotics Officers.

They are 28 mm metal minis, and they are part of a series of convicts, officers and hostages.

Given the more 'shooty' nature of the Toxic City Mall, these guys would be perfect.

I have galleries of the other figures as well that I will post during the week.

Since Zombicide encourages you to make your own scenarios and such, having batches of figures such as these on hand will let you expand that creativity.

So, let's review this first set of officers!

Working from scratch

Bear with me folks!  Now that I have the new lighting setup, I am able to take groups shots and other similar pictures for the first time.  So, I am working my way through some of the older army minis... this time the Tainted Legions of Pharaoh Pseusenes.

Everything in these images was either scratch built of massively converted.  I know the long time viewers have seen some of the Tomb Kings stuff way back when, but it was so neat to see all of the scratch built stuff all in one place.

And, with the new Obelisk terrain no less.

I had lots of fun making everything here... the Colossus, Heirotitan, Screaming skull catapult, carrion, and so on.

A better shot of the Titan!

And the Colossus!  I have numerous step by step posts on these guys... sculpting, painting, and so on.

Sadly, all the catapult does is blow itself up, but making the sphinxes which hold the posts taught me how to make them for the display board.

More scenes like this to come.  I hope you don't mind!!!

A warped beginning

Using the new lighting, I was able to take some shots of an old terrain piece, one that was featured in a terrain building video.  It's the warp gate!

I had to redo this for the video, since there are some GW bits attached.  There was no way to remove them, so I built new ones.

If you look through the blog, you will be able to find some shots of this item in the final battle of a huge 4 part campaign.

This campaign involved secret maps, special characters, wargear, reinforcements, you name it.  The whole thing was all about control of this warp gate.

Rich had his Chaos marines, and I had my beloved Demonhunters.

After many hours, and lots of casualties, it came down to my unit of terminators vs what was left of a mix of marked units... Nurgle, Undivided, Slaneesh, etc.

Lots of crazy things happened, that's for sure.  The special character ended up killing a large number from each side.  You could not 'control' him.  He was only interested in the gate.  Whoever had 'control' of the gate is who he hung out with.

If he was threatened, he would use a psychic power to kill everything in a certain radius, no matter who it was.

I don't know how it would work with 6th edition.  It was 4th edition when we last played the scenarios.  Still, it would be fun to play on this thing again :-)

Once the new warp gate is painted, I will post those pics!

Then and Now...

OK, here is something that I used to do a lot back in the day.

That is, paint the same figure which I painted years before to see what kind of difference there was in appearance, time it took to paint, and so on.

The idea was, I could see what improvements there were in the technique over a given period of time.  Since time was also very critical in getting things done sooner rather than later, conserving time was just as crucial.

If a figure looked about the same, but took 25% less time to paint, that was also a huge win!

Long gaps between attempts would yield some shocking results.  I remember one of the first "Then and Now" projects not only had a huge visual result, but it took 3 days less to paint!

Most of you are familiar with the Celtos Fomorian Siren that I posted earlier this week.

  

However, unless you were looking at my Cool Mini or Not gallery in 2003, it is very likely you never saw this.  Circa early 2003:

This was probably done in 2010, so a 7 year gap.  I know it was probably a huge saving in time, but there were other advancements.  Photography and basing would be two of them!  I tried to keep the base as similar as possible to better estimate the effect.

This was also about the time that I was starting to do a lot more experimentation with various color combinations, such as the greenish brown hair with the purple flesh.

Give this a try yourself!  You might be very surprised.

Playing on a sloppy field.

Hey, this is a bit like playing on the Soldier Field turf on a given Sunday!  Nice and swampy.

Here is a color test figure for the Slime Bay Packers. Or Pustules, depending on how you see it.

I did not do any of the conversions on this team.  My role is strictly to add paint to them!

This first mini is a Pestigor... just about the only guy that can handle a ball.  However, I think that ball won't last long with that claw!