PB and MT visited a few weeks back for a gaming weekend. In addition to the boardgames that we had planned we also wanted to get a game or two of the Judge Dredd Miniatures Game and In the Emperors Name played.
We set up the post apocalyptic shanty town of Standard Falls as shown above. Continue reading
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Not a big update today, but some cute stuff nonetheless I reckon. Continue reading
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Dual Wielding Nob and Boy with Kannon
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The prototype Town Sign. Still adequate for use, but I prefer the smaller one shown previously.
After assembly, painting and varnishing some tarting up of the pieces was the final thing left to do for this stage of the Standard Falls project. Lots of photos after the jump… Continue reading
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After assembling the elements of my post apocalyptic shanty town I sprayed most of the pieces black. I left the wooden signs unsprayed as I wanted to try painting them with washes and a little drybrushing and to leave the existing wooden colour show through a bit.
Sprayed Pardulon Shacks
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The vulture model to sit on the sign is in the post.
I warbled about getting my post apocalyptic town ready for gaming with just over a year ago. The setting and my conceptual plan are loosely detailed in that post.
I finally got around to working on the town itself over the last few weeks, only one year later than I intended… Continue reading
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Two items today: Necromunda Milliasaurs and some dog tents from Renedra.
I picked up the set of dog tents from the Renedra stand at Salute along with another item.
Although I already have three feral, teepee type tents painted up I wanted to have models that represented tents that might feasibly be moved around easily, either on a models back or on the saddle (animal or vehicle). Although the models dont take up a lot of space, they are cute little gaming props that help to create atmosphere.
The Mutie faction in Gorkamorka doesnt use forts, being more nomadic in their behaviour. The original (stupidly named) “Digganob” supplement for (the equally stupidly named) Gorkamorka came with a set of small cardboard tents to represent the Mutie encampment, but they were lost or squished in some house move or another over the years. These cute little plastics will be a durable and very serviceable replacement.
Painting the tents was fast. I didnt want to spend much time on them so I painted the pegs metallic (that suits the Gorkamorka setting better than wooden pegs and stopped the models from being 100% shades of brown) and then washed the entirety of the models with GW Gryphonne Sepia, twice. I then washed them again with GW Devlan Mud and finally painted some black ink into the door flap edges. Very quick but perfectly ok for what the models are.
The Milliasaurs are creepy crawlies from the GW Necromunda setting. Like my Ripper Jacks and Giant Rats, they were originally supplied as servants of Necromunda Wyrd Beastmasters, who could use them to do their amoral bidding.
I gave the Milliasaurs a quick drybrush followed by a coat of Tamiya Clear Red on the chitin areas. It gave a nice cockroach sort of look I think. I did a tiny bit of detailing on the teeth and spines too.
They are creepy looking figures. The guy rearing up would stand at about 150cm in real life, which would be a pretty appalling thing to find at the door of anyones tent I reckon.
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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…
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Some post apocalyptic wheels today. As two of these sat around with just a black spray coat on them for the last year or so, I got a kick out of getting them finished last weekend 🙂
Whilst painted to be suitable for use by any of my PA figures, these resin models from Ramshackle Games are primarily going to be used as the vehicles for my “Bigdogz” ork mob in the post-apocalyptic Gorkamorka setting.
The vehicles were each painted in straightforward single colour schemes. Largely this was to minimise confusion in game terms by aiding easy identification.
I was tempted to add some more rusty areas but I as I wanted the vehicles to look battered but serviceable, rather than disintegrating, I held back a bit.
As I wanted to use the vehicles for non-ork-centric games as well as GoMo, I avoided too much obviously ork styling, even going so far as to add some more traditional sci-fi trappings like bar-code licence plates. I like the implication that while these vehicles are obviously pretty rugged and heavily abused, that they exist in an environment that still has some more advanced tech, somewhere.
The weapons mounted on the vehicles are interchangeable mini turrets, attached by magnets. I made them from various gun parts that I had access to. Each weapon is mounted on a plastic disc which is glued to a washer. The washer then sticks to countersunk magnets on the vehicles. Simple but effective and convenient.
No. 7 above is a cute design I think. It looks rugged and reliable. Nothing fancy but able to take a pounding. If I were stuck in a mehcanised post apocalyptic wasteland I think that of the three vehicles here, this is the one that I would choose as most likely to extend my lifespan. The enclosed cab would help with radstorms, mutie marauders, ripperjack swarms and the like.
No 4 is a peculiar beast. Its a fun looking vehicle I think, but I think that I need to add “something” to the paint job: it is lacking a focal point. Its perfectly adequate for use as it is but there is something missing and I cant put my finger on what that missing thing is.
No 3 is my favourite of the three. Not as reliable as No 7, but streets ahead in terms of cool. Of these three vehicles, this is definitely the road warriors choice I reckon.
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