Wash out...

Ok... it's time for everybody's favorite dinosaur enthusiast. This is from the Wayward Eight, the Wild West Exodus tribute to a certain show. :-)

He is called Hicks Kincade.

It's definitely a fun set of minis to paint!!

Meet the wife... Zarelda.

A ladies man, I see...

Chop chop

One more from Red Box Games!

I am not quite sure what the implement in his left hand is supposed to be, but it looks scary!

He has some buddies as well!

The lone Lawman...

Well, actually he's not!  He's another of five close combat hired hands from the Lawman box.

You get five each of the Pistol packing Hired Hands and the Long Range variety.  There are some benefits to having as many as ten of any one type of Hired Hand.  It helps you in your activation phase, as you activate three figures/units.  

You can carry out a gang action by having a whole group of a similar type move as one... within a 2 inch coherency, I believe.

Here he is with a few of his buddies!

A few more to go...

Some days the bear gets you

Here's a combination of Mierce miniatures and Red Box Games.

These group shots are always fun!

Now for the Marauders...

From ground level.

It's looking dangerous in the Northlands!!

Holier than thou

So, my first Holy Orders figure for Wild West Exodus!

He is Mimreg Zain, and he packs a wallop.

You remember the bases that I made at Gen Con in anticipation of these guys.  One of my intentions was to reflect the blue of the marble into the cloaks, which would be white.  These shots give you a sense of that...

I also had to reflect the blue onto the gold armor.  That meant lots of fun greens worked their way onto the various surfaces.  A nice contrast to the warmer, more reddish golds.

I look forward to doing more of these guys :-)  We shall see how they work in the context of the wider game, since they cost a ton of points.  Just about guaranteed to be outnumbered all the time.

That really grinds my gears

Our Wild West Exodus games are going to need a variety of terrain.  Rich has been making various elements, such as the water tower and the mesas.  We are in the process of creating the town buildings that we want.

Some of these pieces will be more steampunk in nature, as the WWX universe does have some very interesting power generation sources.

So it was time to gather up my collection of various junk and set down to making a power generator!

You can see leftover sprues, straws, pill containers, pink foam and more.

The new element for me was the plastic gears, fresh from Amazon!  Yes!

After I put the first few gears on, I realized that I could also use them on some of the pipes as valve shut offs.  I had to file the end that would be attached to the various tubes with a rounded file to make sure they would adhere more easily.

To make the container more like a boiler, I added a few simple pieces of polystyrene tubing to the sides.  This has worked very well in the past for other similar terrain pieces.

Getting there!

The top section will have some red glow, appropriate to the Lawmen/Union/Outlaw power sources.

After waiting for the glue to set up, I had to get some primer on this.

I decided to mix a few metallic colors into the primer to speed up the process.  I primed the area of the red glow as white as I could, so that the glow would be more intense.  The little round things attached to the main boiler will be pressure gauges!

I will probably fill those in with green stuff or a piece of plasticard.

It's all in the cards

Once I saw the special Decapitation ability of Doc Holliday, I couldn't resist making some tiny, blood soaked playing cards to scatter around the base.

He can slice off your head with the mere flick of the wrist, sending lethal playing cards with razor sharp edges.

I made these out of very thin plasticard, since I wanted them to be as stout as possible for positioning in the tree.  Of course, that meant painting both sides!

The cards are now sliced into individual pieces... and it was time to glue them to the base.

I started placing a few here and a few there...

I didn't want to cover up the entire base... nor did I want to cover up too much of the tiny cards that I had been laboriously painting!

I had envisioned a tree with bloody cards as leaves.  The hope was that the tree would allow me to do that, and that I had left enough forks in the tiny branches to hold them!

Once the leaves were in position, I painted the blood stains on them.

Now he's ready to 'deal' a little death. :-)