Rise of Moloch – heroes

SMOG – The Rise of Moloch is another un-played miniatures boardgame in the collection, and I want to play with painted minis.

Drago, Walther Cavendish, Emma Swanson and Nanny Tin

I really like the minis for this game, as they are so full of character. A pleasure to paint, even if they take some time to finish.

With these done I have everything painted for the first scenario.

Rise of Moloch – Bobbies, flaming zombies and a damsel in distress

Been rather active with my Rise of Moloch miniatures.

These were rather easy to finish, and as they are horde-monsters and horde-allies I didn’t spend that much time on them. Not very happy about the flames, but they will do.

The damsel in distress is just that, and will need to be rescued in the first scenario.

Now I only need to finish the remaining heroes to have everything painted for the first scenario. They are prepped and ready for paint. I'm really looking forward to start playing.

2018 in the rearview mirror

A game of Dux Britanniarum in full swing. We use Lord of Rings figures and the heroic Free Men are getting squashed (mainly on my flank) in this Xmas-game with Laffe, Thomas and Koen.

Another year gone and even more minis painted.

I had a goal that the tin- and plastics-mountain would actually be smaller at the end of the year, so let’s see how that turned out (for an explanation on the idea and how I count see here)

A shoot-out with  the Fistful of Lead-rules at the Club.

The year in summary:

Bought

Well, my fingers sort of slipped on a couple of Kickstarters this year; Uboot (8 minis, as 1/72 figures counts as ½ a mini), Cthulhu – Death must Die (84 minis) and Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon (38). Minis from these do count, as I count models when they are actually bought. On top of that a box of 40 farmyard animals, a couple of tanks in different scales, a few airplanes, 44 Vikings and a handful of other minis.

234 models bought, far more than expected.

Being swamped at Zombicide: Black Death

Sold

I have really excavated the tin- and plastics-mountain this year. Stuff I know won’t be painted have been sold off or put in the For Sale-box at the club. With another hundred hitting the sales-box in December I’ve reached 285 minis.

Painted

All of the Mesozoic critters.

It’s been a modest year of painting, as I have just finished 139 minis. You’ve seen most of them here already. The year ended with the final dinosaurs from Tamiya’s excellent Mesozoic Creatures boxes (I got two) and a couple of random 28mm figures.

Finished in December: A Prospector from Brimstone and The Major from SMOG: Rise of Moloch (and I painted another 5 zombies for SMOG also, but no pics of those)

Terrain-wise it has been much better, with lots of different terrain finished, much of it 3D-printed.

A game of D&D in the printed dungeons.

So my goal was reached! I actually sold more minis than I bought and with the models painted I reached -190 models. Not bad at all.

3D-printer

I finally bought a new 3D-printer this fall, a Prusa i3 Mk3. It’s been printing mainly dungeon-pieces for my Dungeons & Dragons campaign, but also some scatter terrain and a couple of houses. You’ll see more on the dungeon soon.

One of the demo-games of What A Tanker we staged at Smashcon.

Well, I think that neatly sums up 2018. A good year in many respects, even though it was rather weak on painted minis.

So, what about 2019?

I will try to shrink the tin- and plastics-mountain even more, that’s for sure. Otherwise, I don’t know. We’ll see what happens.

I wish you all a very good 2019. Hope to see you all in this and other blogs, and maybe meet some of you in the flesh.

Thumb and Nail from Rise of Moloch

Everything is not 3D-printing now, even though that does take quite a bit of time.

Here’s the latest mini, Thumb and Nail from Smog: Rise of Moloch boardgame.

 

Another amazing, and unsettling, mini from that game.

I tried to paint them with inspiration from the card-art.

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

Rise of Moloch – Emerson and Tobias

Emerson and Tobias

Another couple of agents (=baddies) for The World of SMOG: Rise of Moloch.

These guys work as a team and if one dies, the other gets a bonus action.

Rise of Moloch – Killer Clowns

These are really disturbing. What is it with clowns that make them so creepy? I mean, clowns are creepy as they are, but these… Yuck!

They are part of the evil faction in Rise of Moloch, obviously, and really well done. How can you not like killer midget clowns?

There are like five each of the normal ones and 10 of the stretch-goal cyclers. I will of course need them for the game, but also for my little Pulp carnival. I need lots there J

These first ones were fun to paint, as it isn’t every day I use all these gaudy colours. The rest will hit the painting table rather soon.

I guess this is what they usually do...

Great fun, these!

Rise of Moloch – Hammersmiths

Hammersmiths - an Agent from the Rise of Moloch game. 

A fantastic mini full of character and rather creepy, as all Agents in that game.

She (they?) will probably see first use in my Pulp Alley amusement park.

Famous last words: "Howdy, ma'am! My, you're big!"

A varied bunch of pulp figures and another SMOG-mini + Gothcon

Wild West Wizard of Oz Tin Man from Reaper, another civilian from Blue Moon and their Slice of Americana box and finally a Neobedouin Shaman from RAFM

I guess these will be the final minis this month.

Shamock the Great from SMOG: Rise of Moloch

You’ll find me at Gothcon this weekend, demoing Chain of Command. Please come by and say hello if you're here. 

(This post should have gone live on Thursday, but I hit the wrong button. Just found out and posted it a bit out of ordinary sync)

Rise of Moloch – Titus

 

I got my big box of The World of SMOG: Rise of Moloch stuff from their Kickstarter a couple of weeks ago, and... those figures are just fantastic looking.

So, a bunch of them moved to the painting table to be washes, trimmed and prepped. The first batch will be some of the circus/carnival oriented ones, as I intend to use them in Pulp Alley, as baddies in the Sideshow of Horrors scenario from the Tomb of Serpents solo-campaign I have just started (AAR from the first game is coming shortly).

The very first finished mini is Titus, a very strong and very tough evildoer in the game. He will be equally tough and evil in Sideshow of Horrors.