Taking Aim

 Here is the second rifleman, Alain, and one of the coolest plastic minis I have seen yet.  The detailing is very crisp, with few mold lines and intuitive to assemble.  This mini was a joy to paint up.

 His base has the same greenstuff wood as the others as well as an edge and crystals.  To brighten things up I made the crystals glowing and green, I think it works out well.

 "swish"

 The pouch, knife and pistol are all separate pieces, and the worst part to deal with, which isn't that bad at all.

So Steamtown's law enforcement force grows, looking forward to having them on the table.  Who doesn't like shooting criminal magi?

Until next round.

Flesh Tearers - An Update From The Forge

 My painting mojo is back full time and I've been at my desk painting like an insane munky.  My recent posts have been a little short on marines, so I thought that a WIP update was in order (you guys deserve it!)

 On the Flesh Tearer front, I've been hammering out the second crusader.  The main hull is ready and she just needs a weapon fit.  There are a couple of fiddly bits, like the writing on the parchment, and I am hoping the death company x' look right.  Any c&c is welcome (and taken into careful consideration!)

 The top-down shots show off the saw blade best.  I traced two circles with pencil first so it would stay even, although it is difficult going over the side and such but I think it worked out.

 GW changed their red midtone, can you tell?  I'm not sure about fixing this issue, I could either darken the second one, or brighten the first.  Given their chapter, I think darkening it would be the better option.

Until next round!

Guild Deputy Francisco

 Here is the second mini in my Malifaux crew; Francisco Ortega.

 I transferred the colour scheme from the rifleman over with the exception of the shirt.  The unique and rare1 minis will have slight variations from the black trenchcoat and blue, but still tie together.

 He was a fun mini to paint, even though he is a one-dimensional sculpt.  The cast was pretty good, finely detailed as usual, with few mold lines.

Until next round, keep painting!

The Cash Clowns

 The Cash Clowns are a mercenary group who travel the galaxy hunting things for money.  They exist simultaneously in multiple universes (40k and nWo) but primarily in Brutal.  Brutal is a game being created by Swimming Eagle over at RHG, and the Cash Clowns are my contribution.

 Some of you might have seen their AI units, IKE and the Hound droids and the old reference to "Smiley Face Mercs".  I'm happy to say that this band of misfits is being realized.

 Left to right; average clown, Captain Radius, clown with huge chainsaw, and average clown.

 These minis, as many of you can tell, are based on Necromunda gangers (Cawdor and Retribution) with some additional armour made with greenstuff.  There are still six more waiting on the shelf.

 I tried to keep with a construction site theme to the colour pallet.  Deep reds with yellow contrasts and muted undertones.  Almost everyone gets a smiley face.

 As recommended on a previous post, some of my 40k terrain will get vandalized, which is a great idea.  There will also be an entry or two in the nWo Grmoire.

 In 40k, I'm sure I can use the henchman rules for organizing a squad and hire them out as an elite choice.

 You guessed it, ran out of words to say.....

Until next round.

Into the Breach!

 New year, new game, new faction.  This year at GottaCon the RHG gamers decided to leap into Malifaux.  Having a soft spot for trenchcoat-wearing gunslingers, the Guild seemed to be for me.  One of the main reasons for the choice to play Malifaux is the awesome/twisted minis, ad I almost chose Neverborn, but Steamtown needs a trigger-happy police force.

 The plastic riflemen was an essential, they made out of win, and the models are spectacular.  They are also really thin and detailed being closer to "real-scale" than GW or PP minis, which can cause some issues during assembly.  The wood base is sculpted from greenstuff (I was surprised how easy it was), and the rims match Steamtown's grey.

 This one is named Cuthbert, after a young gunslinger in the Dark Tower series.  Since all of my crew are either unique or rare, they will each be named in the same theme.

The game play is interesting, since it uses a deck of cards (instead of dice) and given that it is a skirmish game (less then ten minis).  Once I get a couple more games in I'll give you my thoughts.

Until next round.

Two Angry Piggies

Like the gators earlier, these two are a thank you present for an enemy of mine.  Since I have some awesome friends, I am placing a spy in each of their armies.  These pigs are going to my Khadorian friend Jordan.  Now there are claims of a "Year of the Pig" from his desk....

 The black-clad freak asked for some industrial themed pigs, as though they were going to go see Combichrist.

 Lots of black and some hazard stripes.  I went with  dark red hair to tie in with the Khador jacks and add a bit of colour.

And then there's the big pig....

 His snout was miscast, so I painted it scabbed over, poor guy smells bacon all the time now.

 Keeping a lot of area black sped up the painting and contrasts the skin tone well (imho).

Hope it made your eyeballs happy, until next round!

GottaCon - 2013

 Another GottaCon is over, and I'm going to declare it a resounding success!  As I was running some nWo sessions, I only played in the doubles and team tournaments  over at the WarmaHordes tables, here's a peek at the action...

 All three games in the doubles Kharchev and I faced double colossal lists.  Those things are hard to take down!  We did manage to win one game, via deathclock, on a tough roll!

 I definitely learned a few new tricks, like how the shooty army should go before the assault army, and how annoying stormwalls are in duplicate.

 Happily, the armies we played against were superb (the painted ones that is), and the majority of the players were very good sportsmen.

 Such pretty stormwalls, and so annoying!

 This caught my eye; an ork blimp...yaar!

 Took a pic of the demo armies, because I like pink circle....

 Yup, another sormwall.  This was during the team tournament, I was lucky to get beaten by some really awesome people.  The Ricalopians did manage to secure the team spirit award, cause we Ricalopians are awesome!  (in your face winners!)

 The Iron Arena got lots of play, nearly every time I walked by there was robots and monsters trashing each other on the metal floor.  This made that week of painting completely worth it!

 I did not enter anything in the paint competition, I wasn't happy with what was ready.  But there was some really nice minis in there, like this Deathjack.

 Blogger, why do you shuffle the pictures?

Gerald Moore took home the large model award with this superb minotaur, I spent at least an hour drooling at it.

I met a couple of bloggers and got recognized by some of the blog's followers which makes me feel like a famous person.  That's right, I'm a geekstar!

Until next round!