Central Casting

Sid, baby, I'm in a pinch! I've got this time travel movie coming up and I need a bunch of weirdos. No of course they don't have a script yet-just a treatment and some rap star they want to tie it in with! Yeah no kidding. Okay, this is what I've got.

I need a futuristic guy, but he has to look like he's from World War I. Yeah I have not idea how that is possible. German looking? That would be fantastic!



Now I need, like a giant robot pilot or something, but not one of those anime ones. More dark future and stuff. A claw hand? Yeah that will work.



Brilliant! Now I need some snipers, but they need to be big burly types; yeah real manly men! What? Those guys are perfect! Keep 'em away from Margaret if you know what I mean though-heh just kidding!




Now I need a doctor. Well not a medical doctor but a guy who calls himself that. No he isn't supposed to look like a doctor; just kind of a geeky dude. You know just the guy?



Now he needs a travelling partner. No not romantic but there will be some weird sexual tension there. A redhead? You are mind reader Sid!



Now they need a dog. Or a robot. But it has to be kind of late 70's/early 80's if you know what I mean. A robot dog? Frickin' genius!



Don't ever change Sid-you are a lifesaver! Now how are you on location scouting...


As usual, apologies for the crappy photos.

My One Miniature for April

I call this titan Grimlock for reasons that should be obvious.









Here it is side by side with an old Armorcast Titan for scale:


Construction:

I remember seeing one in the store an thinking it has to be pretty close in size to a Reaver Tiran. I decided it wouldn't take an insane amount of work to do. It took a few long nights figuring out how to anchor the arms to the main chassis and there is some internal work that I did not get shots of; it was very important that the arms not be flimsy or fall off easily.












"What a lovely charms bracelet!"
"It is made of the Emperor's Finest!"

Space Wolves

As part of my parenting requirements, I am painting up a Space Wolf army for my son.







The love of a father aside, I am also cheap so mainly it is the contents of Stormclaw and repurposing existing unused figures from my collection. And trades for painting. The scouts are from repurposing classic plastic scouts with leftover heads and weapons. The rest is from mixing and matching with Stromclaw stuff as well as Bjorn in a trade.

February Catchup

Been a hectic new year and I have a lot of posting to do.

Start with a boatload of Ultramarines:









Quite a bit of terrain:









A Hastily shot photo of Quonset huts for Ryan:


Some Cars for the LVO Glory Road Kill Team (or something like that-they were for a Ryan who definitely improved upon them after I was done):


A couple of Apothecaries for David:


And lastly some Space Wolves for my son:



Space Wolves are the short term priority followed by some contract Ultras and some orks. Or maybe Nids. Or AM. Plus more of my Ultras. Did I mention some Chaos? Well the year is young.

2015 Roundup

Bit of a slower year (and some data issues interfering with the count).

Nearest I can guess I am at:

Figures: 80
Vehicles: 23
Terrain Pieces: 35

It was a slower year due to work and other issues but I think next year is going to start off with a bang. More to follow soon!

Toys For Tots 2015 and Other Stuff

This year the theme army I signed up for is Necrons. to







In other projects, repainted some old figs


A Storm Talon for my Ultramarines:


And some more Faux Talons for David's Imperial Fists


Lastly, some forest/death world/jungle terrain. I need to paint the tops black to symbolize that it goes all the way up and add some lichen forest it out somewhat but at this stage it is functional.

Wait It's Been How Long?

Oops.

Okay where to begin.

Summer of Despair kind of petered out as I took on several projects for friends and the FLGS.

First thing was to knock out some stuff I've had assembled since last year:

Some resin control and medical panels from Antenocity's Workshop that I got as part of my Deadzone Kickstarter (the original one so that shows how long I've had these).



These guys I assembled back in 2014 I think and they sat around forever (sometimes the motivation is just not there!). They are the bodies for the troops that came in the Robogear boxed set (great conversion bits there) and Cadian heads and arms. I plan to use them as Inquisitorial Stormtroopers.



Knocked out a Contemptor for David:



The dumpster is from Reaper's Chronoscape line and was a delight to assemble and paint. Usually this sort of thing is in resin and as such more expensive. These are made from the same or similar plastic as their Bones line but is a little more rigid. I pre-ordered this as well as a police call box and a shipping container. If I like how the container looks and paints up, I may buy a few more as it would be very useful for warehouses, storage areas, ports, etc. and again much cheaper than other options for this sort of thing I have seen.

Put together this scratchbuild using a Republic Shuttle and parts leftover in his Fire Raptor:





I rebuilt a jacked up Skyshield from my FLGS and painted it. What you see is essentially the only usable parts left on the model. The stands were gone, the shields were gone. The tower was built using spare parts of mine and what was left on the sad, sad thing. I had to cut off all the areas where the shields connected. It was a lot of work but the revised version is pretty solid (in the physical sense; it is going to get banged up a lot at the store).



I got started on building ruins for the FLGS; it needs some work still and has gone to the back burner due to the upcoming Port Maw Narrative Apoc game up in San Antonio. More on that to follow.






And lastly knocked out another Talon for myself:



There is still more to come. I did some repaints of Inquisitorial and Rogue Trader era figures, some more Faux Talons for David (just need to paint the pilots-putting them together was the most challenging part), some giant trees for terrain, a ton of emplacements for David, but most importantly my contribution for this year's Toys for Tots; Necrons. With December being the deadline I promised they would go to the front of the list in November and as such have started assembly. I want them done no later than mid month.