“Rainmaker” Class Ripper Suit
I have been painting greenskins over Xmas, with getting a force ready to play Deadzone being the main motivation. The first of these finished are these two heavily armoured “Ripper Suits” and two of the rank and file Commandos.
“Mauler” Class Ripper Suit
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The O.C.P. Patriots (Irish DreadBall Champions) play defence versus the Zegema Beach Zephyrs (UK & Ireland Ultimate DreadBall Champions) at Thomond Park at some designated point in the future.
I am the current Irish DreadBall Champion. Mantic supplied me with this prize pitch as a rather nifty functional trophy.
The rigid one piece polycarbonate/aluminium laminate (at least, thats what I think its made out of) arrived yesterday along with a large box of miniatures as a prize for my UK & Ireland Ultimate DreadBall win a couple of weeks ago. I havent had a chance to play a game on the pitch yet but I hope to remedy that over the Xmas break.
Of minor note is the inclusion of “Thomond Park” on the pitch (top right in the ropey photo above). Thomond Park is a significant Irish rugby stadium that also hosts the Irish DreadBall Nationals, amusingly enough. To continue the entertainment value of winning a “sporting” event at Thomond, I asked Mantic to make sure that the stadiums name featured on the pitch. I havent the slightest interest in rugby, but many of my regular opponents do, so it adds another level of amusement to me being the champ of a “sport” crowned at Thomond 🙂
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I traveled to Nottingham the weekend before last to go to the Mantic Open Day and play in – and win – a DreadBall competition. As I was in “The Lead Belt” I also squeezed in a couple of visits to other toy soldier places. A visual record composed of ropey phone-photos follows.
Lovely miniatures in Foundry Cabinets. They make me want to snap all of my paintbrushes.
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“I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar”.
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Epic / 6mm Blood Axe Stormboyz
“Raz” on the Lead Adventure Forum was working on some Epic Stormboyz, planning to add smoke plumes coming from the jump packs. I remembered that I had these guys packed away and decided to take a photo for reference. So I decided to put the photo up here. I think that they still look cool seventeen years later.
The photo is gigantic by the way, mostly because that way you can see the camo pattern that I painted on them back in 1997 🙂
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Zegema Beach Zephyrs
This bunch of dirty, cheatin’, skinny space-folk is my newly painted Asterian (space-elf) DreadBall team. As of last Saturday the Zephyrs are now the “UK & Ireland Ultimate DreadBall Champions” Continue reading
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L to R: Steel Warrior, Huscarl, Stormrage Veteran
I try to avoid going back to work on miniatures that are already based, varnished and photographed. Its hard to justify returning to acceptably finished items when I have so many other things waiting for paint.
I made an exception with this Huscarl, Steel Warrior and Stormrage Veteran though. Something about the plain old metal paint job on the hammers on these miniatures was bugging me. They were too fantasy looking and not science-fantasy enough, although I admit thats a pretty fine, almost non-existent line.
So I added some red glowing bits to the hammers. Rather than paint them glowing from within like lava as most ForgeFather heat hammers are done I painted a couple of bits of the weapons sort of like a red LED, like a lot of the techie trim on my Ursa Miner models. It also ties them to Dark Lord Prowse a little more, although that is more of a happy coincidence than anything else.
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Nameless Spawn
My first DreadBall Giant figure is this guy, a Nameless (as in the DreadBall/Warpath/Deadzone faction) Spawn that I finished over the weekend. He doesn’t have a proper name. Im leaning towards christening the big fella “Lester”.
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Lunar Industries Lampreys
My first finished DreadBall Season 3 team consists of these… things, a collection of sort of crustacean, sort of squid aliens collectively called the “Nameless”. Continue reading
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Dunger herd
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