Painters block seem to have been truly gone

The painting low I had this autumn seem to be gone (for good?), as I have cranked out a lot of minis the last month.

First these gangers for use in our club campaign of Street Wars. They are the Black Cobras gang from the same manufacturer, and has seen two battles so far. 

First game. The Black Cobras take on the Mollies, while trying to mug some pesky civilians. 

A Mollie lookout

The uncultured and rather racist Devil Outcasts join the fun. For the Black Cobras this turned into a two-front war, which you usually don't win. 

The cops stop eating donoughts and make an appearance. A Mollie is arrested, to the general merriment of two players.

The first was, ahem, a learning game for the gang (see above), but the second fight showed which gang of the four in that fight was the mightiest (the last roll of the last turn saw the Black Cobras go from a last place to the first. Truly heroic wasting of a knocked out enemy leader…)

Next we have some savages. The first two are Forest tribe women from Heroes of the Dark Age. Fantastic resin-figures but rather small at around 25 mm.

Then we have two taller heroes from Shadows of Brimstone, made of a horrible resin. In the background a portal from the same game, and a 3D-printed Kraken Idol from EC3D.

Last but not least is this rather diverse bunch. A serving woman from Wizkids, then a 3D-printed penguin from EC3D, a centaur (the best on the market in my opinion) from Heresy Miniatures, a 3D-printed zombie (I don’t remember the make, but I’m not too happy with it. Will have a higher resolution next time) and finally two giant rats from Reaper.

That’s it for now. Got a dozen or so Arabs nearly finished and lots more in the queue, both figures and buildings.

A mixed bag of painted minis

The last batch of minis painted this summer.

It’s a rather varied bunch, and some of them can and will be used in different settings.

Two useful 'heroes' from the Hillbilly Boys box from Black Scorpion. They will see action in Western settings, as well as pulp and even modern. I like this kind of really versatile minis.

A forest-tribe female from Heroes of the Dark Age. She'll be used in my upcoming solo-campaign of Paleo Diet. Just two more to finish and I can start that.

Two useful civilian kids, made by Wizkids, and a zombie, or part of one anyway, from Heresy Miniatures. The kids could also be used in several settings, and the zombie will work equally well in fantasy and modern settings.

Skellies

A couple of minis I had had half-finished in the tin-mountain for a time, a very long time for the foot-soldier…

The skeleton rider is mostly a Guardian on Horseback from Gamezone. That model is multipart and the skeleton guardian’s upper body, arms and weapons were a bit of a mess to get together. That effectively moved the model to the mountain for a long stay, until I had it out the other day and had a sprue of Mantic skeletons in front of me, too.

Some glue and green-stuff and I had married the upper body of a Mantic skeleton to the lower body of the rider. Really satisfied about that.

It was quickly painted and turned out rather well.

The foot soldier is an old GW skellie, from their Tomb Kings series. I have a couple already painted (10+ years ago) and this was mostly ready, just needed some details and a wash. Said and done. Half an hour's job and I had another mini ready for gaming.

A little end-note: If you're a Google+ follower then it is time to change the way you follow this (and other) blogs, as Google+ dies in early April. So it is time to either become an ordinary follower or follow by e-mail.

Zombie Wolfs for Zombicide: Black Plague

This is a record for me! 25 minis painted in less than two weeks.

We play quite a lot of Zombicide: Black Death at the club, and, as I had the Wulfsburg expansion in the plastics mountain, I thought it would be a good idea to get those zombie wolves painted so we could get started on these new scenarios.

In the box are 21 zombie wolfs, of three different casts, and one large wolf abomination. There are also four heroes, but I haven’t started on them yet.

I painted the wolfs in my tried and tested winter-wolf scheme, which is fast and looks good enough.

When I was at it, I also finished two wolf zombies from Reaper and a wolf from the Shadows of Brimstone game. The zombies were rather nice but the resin Brimstone wolf really wasn’t. Their resin is crap, unfortunately.

Anyway, I’m really satisfied with how this turned out. Lots of painted minis in a short time and they look all right. What’s not to like?

Zombicide – Ablobination

This Ablomination come from the Zombie Bosses box for Zombicide: Black Death.

It’s a large beast that attacks all heroes at range 0-1, making it very deadly. 

It will absolutely see action in our next game of Zombicide. I’m looking forward to something new.

Abigail from Rise of Moloch and an ordinary ghost

White… I always dread white. It’s bloody difficult to look convincingly white.

So I started with the ghost from Reaper. A white primer, Dark Tone wash and then heavy drybrushing with white.

It actually didn’t look too bad. Maybe white isn’t so difficult.

When I was half convinced that I could do a reasonable white I starter with Abigail Sutherland, one of the heroes of The World of SMOG: Rise of Moloch. She’s another stunning model, they all are.

I removed her from her internal base, cleaned up some mould-lines and repeated the ghost treatment and added colour here and there.

Ready for gaming with a ghost as a bonus.

original art from her card

Last minis from July – nun, ghoul and Atalanta

 

The last post of July will be on a couple of different minis finished in the last couple of days.

The nun, from Warlord Games and their Operation Sea Lion – Enemy Agents blister, looks stern but innocent enough… from the front.

But if you look at what she’s doing behind her back… She’ll be perfect in my Vatican-league in Pulp Alley, and will have the “Burst Fire” ability. Yes, I do have a thing for armed nuns…

The ghoul’s from Andy at Heresy Miniatures, and it is a great little mini, as always from Heresy. Gruesome.

Finally the first painted mini from Mythic Battles: Pantheon. Atalanta is one of five heroes in the base box, and a good enough figure. I wasn’t super excited by the mini so she stood half-finished on the painting table quite a long time.

Castle Ravenloft game all painted!

Everything painted and ready for a game.

So I painted the final figures for Castle Ravenloft boardgame at last! With that, it is all finished and it will be great fun to finally play a game with a fully painted set. 

The final, rather lame, figures - a dwarf cleric, elf wizard and finally the vampire, Count Stradh. This mini is such a lame arch nemesis. I certainly expected a more frightenigh and dynamic mini of this legenday foe. (Yes, I've DM:ed the original adventure. It was great, especially when when of the players said. "Hey, guys... I don't think we're the hunters here...")

The dracolich. Another not so great mini. It's huge but... well, it's done.

Human Rogue and Blazing Skeletons from Castle Ravenloft

I found Kat, Human Rogue, one of five heroes from the Castle Ravenloft boardgame, in the plastics-mountain the other day. 

In dark blue plastic she didn’t look much, but when I started to actually check her out it turned out that she’s a rather dynamic character.

Some paint and she turned out real well.

After that I collected the rest of the unpainted minis from that game, and they turned out to be just a handful. Might as well get them all painted so I have that game finished.

The first to be done were the blazing skeletons. They really looked like transparent blue blobs as they were, but with some paint they look much better.

Unpainted blazing skeleton (without integral base)

Now I only have four more heroes, a vampire and a howling hag, and the game is all painted.

Magical Portal from Zealot (and a ghost)

More stuff from the Zealot Kickstarter, this time a magic portal. It’s a four-piece kit, with two halves of the stone frame, the base and the translucent blue portal. It needs some green-stuffing, but nothing major.

I will use it as a portal between the planes in our Cthulhu-inspired Pulp Alley campaign at the club. I'm writing a scenario around it.

Stay tuned for some monstrous beings that might just be summoned through it during that game.

Finally a ghost, also from Zealot.

On the Painting Table and a Zombie Troll from Mantic

The painting table, rather clean and tidy for a change. Dust, pulp, fantasy and a Wild West gallows to be finished before any new major projects.

The side table full of more stuff to be finished. 3D-printed terrrain, more Wild West, submarines and a civilian airplane for pulp gaming.

I’ve decided to clean up on the painting table before I start any new projects, so you will see an assortment of different figures and buildings in the coming weeks. Seems I have started painting far too many minis and it’s time to just finish them.

I’ve also re-based all my Wild West figures on clear bases, readying them for Dead Man’s Hand at the club later this autumn. Before that I will finish all WIld West buildings I have, both the half-finished ones above and the 4Ground ones still unstarted.

Now to this mean undead, a zombie troll from Mantic. 

I got him from Thomas, who got him as part of the Dwarf King’s Quest kickstarter. He (the zombie troll, not Thomas) just stood there on the table, needing to get his nails painted, some tidying up here and there, and a wash (could actually apply to Thomas, too...). Easily done and another monster ready to battle unfortunate adventurers in Frostgrave/Open Combat/D&D/SoBH/Pulp Alley.