Catachan Devil
The creepy crawly kicking off my Alien Flora & Fauna project is a Reaper Frost Wyrm that I mined from COMs Reaper Bones mountain. I very quickly painted it to represent a classic death world predator from the Rogue Trader 40K era. Continue reading
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2013, 40K, Alien Flora & Fauna, Bones, Bug, Reaper Miniatures, Rogue Trader, Sci-fi | 16 Comments »
SQUEAL at giant mutant space rats!!!
Extra terrestrials and alien environments are a big draw for me in fiction and correspondingly so in my toy soldiers. I get a kick out of seeing my little guys beset by men-in-suit type aliens while wandering through slightly dodgy and unconvincing miniature sets that have a 1960s Star Trek feel to them. Creating my own geeky tiny film set like environment, complete with unlikely looking plants and bogus looking monsters is one of the main drivers in the hobby for me. Continue reading
Filed under: Influences, Miniatures, Project Brief | Tagged: 2013, Alien Flora & Fauna, Rogue Trader, Sci-fi | 14 Comments »
“Cheeeeese!”
I painted some Ramshackle Tentacle Brain models recently. I enjoyed painting the figures a lot and I liked the uncompromisingly daft pulp sci-fi look that they had, so I added some more brain and tentacle related models to the group to turn them into a larger skirmish sized force. Continue reading
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2013, 40K Skirmish, Alien Flora & Fauna, Bones, Brains, Cerebalite, CP Models, Reaper Miniatures, Sci-fi, Tenebrainian | 6 Comments »
These guys were assembled primarily for Necromunda games back in 1998, but I didnt get around to painting them until 2009. I finally went back to them to add just a little bit of detail and take some photos this year.
As all Electric Six fans living in the current pre-apocalyptic era know, only robots, cockroaches (and probably Lidl) will survive the upcoming Armageddon. Before you ask, zombies dont count as “surviving”.
My own in depth research has also revealed that there is a good possibility that mutant, dog-sized rodents will live on in the undercities and eventually spill in huge swarms onto the irradiated plains above. Probably.
In Necromunda the tribal native human “Ratskin” faction (which I will eventually get around to painting) survive in harmony with their destroyed environment. Part of this involves their nomadic lifestyle, with the Ratskin braves following the migrating swarms through the ruined industrial landscape.
Hi-freakin-larious in other words and way too good a gaming opportunity to miss. Cue the theme from “Rawhide”.
Denim clad Foundry punk Nancy objects to being used to demonstrate scale…
I put together the swarm from the rather cool mutant rats from Necromunda, a load of eighties giant rats from GW, a few of the plastic giant rats that were first seen in Warhammer Quest and a handful of the titchy rats that sat on the Heroquest furniture making a total of 31.
The best figures are easily the Necromunda guys visible in the first photo, although a couple of the larger metal Warhammer guys are cool too.
I have yet to get around to playing my “Rathide” cattle rustling scenario in the depth that I would like. I did run a prototype Rathide game of “Mutants and Death Ray Guns” testing the idea with MT back in 2009 though.
More post apocalyptic rat related miniatures are available at Megaminis HERE (post apoc ratmen) and at Black Cat Bases HERE (mounted post apoc ratmen). Those guys are on my (gigantic) shopping list…
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2009, 2011, Alien Flora & Fauna, Gorkamorka, Necromunda, Post Apocalyptic, Sci-fi | 4 Comments »
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