And Now For Something Completly...Orky

I felt the need to do something different, so I dug up this old Gorka Morka Ork and painted it. I tried to up the quality of the paint job.  Even though I am pleased with the end results, I am not 100% satisfied with them.  The skin tone could have been better and the eyes are  kind of "meh".

Even though I'd be considered a heretic by many GW fan-boys for various reasons, I still appreciate the quality of most of the GW minis.  This post proves that I am not 100% adverse to putting paint to brush on a GW fig.  Heck, I'd even field some on a table top; not using GW rules of course :-P

The Professor and Number 19

I present for your critique, the Professor and  Number 19.  The Professor is a genius at cybernetics, and has been refining the technology.  Number 19 is the culmination of all his work to date.  Human from the neck up, and even then; barely, Number 19 is the most extensive body conversion the Professor has done.  The Professor is sort of a Frankenstein figure, as he stand, fist clenched in triumph, as his creation walks.

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These minis are re-purposed Heroclix figs; I've been on kind of a spate of repainting lately, so look for more in the coming weeks.  The Professor is the Bruce Banner figure and Number 19 is the Pretty Boy figure.  The detail on both of them is really good and they painted up very well.  The bases are slotta base that I applied my diamond tread technique to.  I think I am going to repost the tutorial I did  on how to make it.

In the future, the only thing I would do different would be to strip the factory paint job off, in order to get crisper detail.  The loss, due to paint build up, isn't that bad on these two.  On a couple of others in the batch I bought, the loss is really bad.  To the point, that I need to go back and strip the primer I applied, as well as the factory job, in order to try and salvage them.

TEOTWAWKI - Blasted Ruins First Look

Here are the pieces from the last week's TEOTWAWKI post painted and ready for the table.
 

A simple corner piece

 

Multi-story piece with removable upper level.

Corner stairs piece

Someone doesn't have a very positive attitude

Someone, or something, created that hole in the foundation...

TEOTWAWKI - Blasted Ruins WIP, Pt 2

Prepped some more ruins for painting. These are actually the second batch I' readied for painting.  The others, which have previously been post on the Post Apoc Wargames Forum will be posted here on ZSS sometime in January.

The upper floor of this piece comes off, so that figures can be placed in the basement.  It's cramped so no large figures won't fit; making it a good defensive position, when hiding from big nasties.

TEOTWAWKI - My PA Project Gets A Hard Reboot.

I made the "mistake" of ordering some Post-Apoc figures from a company called Lead Adventure Miniatures.  I say it was a mistake, because when they arrived, and I was gob-smacked by how good they are.  They are so good that I decided to reboot my PA project, and build a new one around LAM's "The Last Project" minis.

The back ground will be reworked, giving it a much grittier, hard bitten flavor. The world will be much more devastated than what I envisioned in its predecessor.  Life will be harder and a lot cheaper.

The up side of all this is that there will be a lot less I will need to build.  All I need now is:

1. 4' x 6' mat of some sort
2. Enough ruined buildings to cover said 4' x 6' mat
3. Bits and bobs to fill empty space between ruins
4. 4 to 5 factions, with the possibility of more.
5. 4 to 8 vehicles

The good news is that some of the stuff I have already will work in the new setting; the Salvage Crew and some ruins I am building.  Also, good news for other PA enthusiasts is that I will be selling some of the finished minis I had collected for the now defunct original project.

I hope to have something gameble  by fall of 2012, so I can run a game at Fall Recurits in Lee's Summit, MO.

Stay tuned, between now an the end of the year, I will be posting items I have finished, and am going to keep for this new incarnation.  I'll be bringing together some old posts from other sources.  Come Jan. 1, 2012, it will be all new content.

15mm Sci Fi Battle Armor

I'm always on the look out for different and unique figs.  Figures that can be re-purposed, converted and given new life always catch my eye.  I was working on a MechWarrior inspired project (more on that later) and I ran across some singles that would fit perfectly into 15mm Sci-Fi.  They are the Salamander and Undine Battle Armor from the MechWarrior Age of Destruction release. 

The Salamander Battle Armor figs come one to a base. I just popped them off the clicky bases, glued them on US pennies, based them, gave them a black wash and picked out highlights.

Salamander Battle Armor

The Undine Battle Armor come 2 to a base.  I finished these off in the same manner as the ones above.

Undine Battle Armor

In the comparison pic, below, you can see their size compared to a Rebel Mini Policeman and a Peter Pig US Marine.  The Salamander suits are in a crouched over walking pose, giving this example the sense of being smaller than it is.

(L to R) Undine BA, Rebel Mini Policeman, Salamander BA, Peter Pig US Marine

All in all they fit the part, and can be gotten at excellent to reasonable prices, depending on how to procure them.  Both of them are still fairly available through online sources for about .49 cents each.  Buying them from people who are dumping their collections (like I did), you can purchase them for pennies apiece.