Something even more frivolous than usual today 🙂
Chimpanzee Hirsute Maglev Patrol
Officers Wilcox, Estrada, Baker and Poncherello from the
Chimpanzee Hirsute Maglev Patrol
are on the case. Continue reading
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2000AD, 2010, Judge Dredd, Monkey, Sci-fi | 9 Comments »
Dr Flint Leghorn
Dr Leghorns momma was one of the Standard Falls townsfolk but his pappy was a member of the Lab Rats tribe. This gave Flint a unique perspective on life in and around the town and the wastes around it. It has also contributed somewhat to his eccentric perspective.
Like Sir Reginald Beef Wellington O.B.E. (a close friend of the doctors), Leghorn doesnt live in the town itself but a couple of hours travel from it. Nonetheless his unusual combination of tribal and scientific medical knowledge means that he gets visited by a lot more townsfolk then one might expect.
"Ahm afraid that there aint nothing ah can do. That there leg done have to come off."
Dr Leghorn is a Copplestone Casting from their awesome “Wasteland Desperadoes” pack, like Beauford X. Tinction. Like every Copplestone sculpt that I have come across, it is of a very high standard. I rate Copplestone and Hasslefree miniatures right up at the top of the industry standard.
I had some problems with the flesh tones on this figure, mostly because I decided to “fix” some of it while pissed late on a Saturday night. After that less than successful evenings “work” the figure sat on my painting table for a few months while I painted other stuff, while I waited to find the enthusiasm to get painting it again.
Like the red stripes on Sir Reggie, I decided to try something that I hadnt done before on this figures trousers. After doing a little bit of research into leopard skin print online I managed to get the pattern painted to a level that I was happy with on the first attempt. Which was nice 🙂
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2010, Post Apocalyptic, Sci-fi, Standard Falls, Western | 3 Comments »
Dr Javad
Dr Javads plan has succeeded, although he had not planned to martyr himself just yet. That part was an accident.
The weaponised zombified test subjects contained in units Z7 and Z8 are already entering the first stages of reanimation and will soon strike against the infidels like the holy weapon of God.
Biological Weapons Containment (compromised)
Dr Javad is one eighth of my recent project to make zombie spawn points for my games. As zombies show up during games they will be placed in contact with one or more of these spawn markers.
Each marker is a very small diorama or collection of bits and pieces stuck to a 60mm base. Most of them are pretty similar in theme but I had a little more fun with a couple more. I think that this marker with Dr Javad is probably my favourite.
The concept is that the two blue boxes are some form of high-tech containment unit for the transport of zombies. These units are carried to their strategic destination by evil terrorist/corporate types. Subsequently the containment units are opened by some prearranged signal which can then release these disease vectors right in the heart of the infidels/testing areas.
The idea is mainly ripped off from Patient Zero, a cheesy book that I read recently (reviewed here on Dawn of the Lead). That book was in my opinion pretty trashy, although I enjoyed the non-fiction Zombie CSU (written by the same author and again reviewed here) significantly more. All the same, like a lot of hard-boiled pulp fiction, Patient Zero contained a lot of inspiration for gaming.
The story in Patient Zero is that nasty terrorist types have created the Sief al Din (Sword of the Faithful) virus and are planning to release it throughout the US. They used “big blue phone-booth-sized containers” to transport the zeds and that is what I tried to represent with the resin sci-fi crates from Fenris games.
Rather than just have a couple of the crates plonked on a base I decided to add a scientist to the base too. As everyone knows that when scientists try to play God that everything inevitably goes South, I used a Wargames Factory zombie that I got in a trade to represent the scientist in a zombified state.
I replaced the scientists hands with hands from a Mantic ghoul for a few reasons: the WF zeds hands are tiny and shit and the ghoul hands are gangly enough to be crudely bent into a position that they could hold the laptop that I made from plasticard scraps.
The laptop was added for fun and to show that the scientist is likely to have had something to do with the containment units, rather than simply shambling past them. The “hazardous” transfers plus the numbering and lettering Letraset help with the industrial scientific look I think.
Finally I painted a few of the recesses in the unit sides to look like status lights (Han Solo in carbonite anyone?). Again, as with all dealings with zombies where anyone thinks that they can control them, one of the status lights is in the red. Its only a matter of time…
Filed under: Miniatures, Terrain | Tagged: 2010, AR:SE, Zombie, Zombie of the Week | 8 Comments »
Sir Reginald Beef Wellington O.B.E.
Sir Reginald Beef Wellington OBE lives on the outskirts of Standard Falls, mostly keeping to himself. He has a few friends in the area, the most notable being Doctor Leghorn. His eccentric and slightly peculiar nature keeps him at arms length from most of the the towns inhabitants.
“Top hole! And rather spiffing too actually”.
Reggie is the first post-apocalyptic figure that I have painted for quite a while, probably over a decade. As a child of the ’80s when post-apocalyptic movies were particularly in vogue I will always have a soft spot for the sub-genre.
Reggie is a classic sculpt by Mark Copplestone currently for sale from EM4 as “0041 Gentleman Scavenger. Stunbrella. Bowler hat. Morningsuit (tattered)”. There is something about the “stiff upper lip” gas mask and torn morning suit look that is very appealing.
Most versions of the figure that I have seen are painted to look like the figure is wearing a formal suit, usually black. Just for a little variety I decided to paint Reggie in a “boating” jacket, for that Oxbridge look. The figure always reminds me a little of Mr Bland (from Bland and Brass) in the Rogue Trooper comics from the 80’s.
Since I painted and photographed the figure I have tidied up the stripes on the back of Reggies left arm. A few of them were a bit off. I also put a teeny bit of lichen on the rear of the base, but thats really hardly worth mentioning.
I have a lot of post-apoc stuff in the pipeline, so more inhabitants of post-apocalyptic Standard Falls will be showing up here as time goes by.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2010, EM4, Future Wars, Post Apocalyptic, Sci-fi, Standard Falls, Survivor | 4 Comments »
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