With quite a few things on the go I haven’t made much progress in any single direction, so instead of showing off one project, here’s a few…
First up are a couple of 15mm Trolls from Irregular Miniatures I’m using as 28mm Orcs. They’ve been on my desk for some time, and after falling back into my Super Simple Universal Skirmish Rules this past week, it made sense for me to finish off some of the warbands I was working on last time I was playing with those rules.
They’ll be paired up with some 54mm Orcs, that can be seen currently on Irregular’s site:
This little addition of course made me order more Irregular Miniatures to build another warband. So I’ll be adding some medieval witch hunters to go alongside my zombies, alien greys, fantasy Chinese, robots and orcs… it’s an odd game!
This week a friend of mine dropped off a bag of goodies, a couple of bags of Space Marines. Combining them with my old selection meant I’d somehow managed to gather an entire company (that’s roughly 100 marines):
I needed to strip a few before I got to repainting, so I ordered some Biostrip as I’d seen many old hammer hobbyists recommend it on YouTube.
Here’s what my test subjects began as:
The Biostrip itself isn’t too stinky, especially if you’ve stripped with Dettol before, and it feels like your dipping the models in a tub of PVA. once their dipped you let them sit for an hour, which is rather fast in this game.
Then after a scrub with a toothbrush under the kitchen tap all the paint came off. It’s a pretty effective product, not as effective as putting methylated spirits in an ultrasonic cleaner. However my ultrasonic after much abuse appears to have given up the machine spirit, and Biostrip was cheaper than ordering a new one.
As for painting my company, I’ve settled on the scheme below. Prime black, drybrush silver, contrast green the left arm, contrast the guns darker, then paint whatever details they might have. My marines are renegades so the details are pretty varied.
Finally here’s some train figures painted up:
Amazon claims they’re O Scale while also being 1/48th… which I don’t believe are exactly the same thing, but they were a fun little painting project while I tried out some Army Painter paints which I haven’t used before.
I’m imagining a game about civilians, maybe trying to survive various scenarios – zombies, alien invasions, Lovecraftian horrors, dinosaurs… whatever really… you don’t see many games where you’re completely outmatched and just need to survive.
Or I can get my slasher game off of the ground I never managed before:
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