New spaceship for Stargrave

 I've painted up another of the Buzz Lightyear ships, this one is bigger and for the big bads, if I understand correctly (I haven't seen the film). The original plastic is very purple, so I kept some purple accents in the painted one, if nothing else any scratches will hopefully be less visible. A 28 mm Greedo works as my beautiful assistant.

Here come the space police

 For some reason I got into my head that I wanted some fezzed space police for my Stargrave games. These will probably work as unwanted attention, or for some special scenarios. The bodies are Wargames Atlantic cannon fodder, while the heads are from Warlord Games' handschar: Bosniak SS troops. I cut off the offensive eagle. The guy in the red hood is a bounty hunter I made from the SG Scavengers plastics.

 

Next we have some characters from Star Wars: Imperial Assault. They'll probably end up in Stargrave as well.

 

Here we have a monster (dark demon?) from Conan, and two old Reaper metals I bought for my chaos warrior army decades ago, but now will end up as Shadow Knights in Rangers of Shadow Deep. They're much more muted than my usual chaos warrior style.

I painted up an old heroquest rack, after replacing the cardboard legs with something of wood. Here are also to experimental haystacks, made from some cardboard tube stopper thingies (we bought a new vacuum machine recently) covered in static grass.

Across the Wastes

 

I've failed the last scenario (The Hole) in the Across the Wastes mission for Rangers of Shadow Deep a number of times, and the fourth time Joseph A McCullough (the author of the game) commented this:

Hmmm.... okay, suggestion. You've created quite a commotion with your attacks on the hole, which has caught the attention of some of the nomads who live in the Waste. Three of them approach you in the night and offer to help your fight against the Shadow Deep. If you've got a Gathering of Heroes, one of these will be a Firesword. If not, it's a tracker instead. One of the others is a swordsman and the last is an archer.

Since I'm silly I didn't just proxy those models, I built them, and here they are:

The statues in one of the pictures are chess pieces I cast from a Prince August mould I found cheep.

I haven't updated the blog in a while, here are some pieces that's been finished for a time. Here's some desert rocks. I also converted these skeleton archers with Prince August ghoul and skeleton bodies, since I had the old Wargames Factory arms, but dislike the flimsy bodies (mainly the legs). Oh, and a pile of corpses (yes, two is a pile!).

The pile is also made from the PA ghouls, a very flexible mould, I've used it for all sorts of projects. As soon as I need some dead/undead/diseased/tattered bodies I take a look at these. 

Here are some gaming pictures from Across the Wastes, now I just hope that those nomads can help me finally descend the hole into the Shadow Deep!

 

Space zombies and spaceships

Wow, it seems as if I haven't updated the blog in a long time, so time for a bit of a photo dump then. I've received a kickstarter from John Hodgson, a couple of books with backgrounds for miniature photography, so I've used those. For getting ready to play Quarantine 37 I've painted some space zombies, and started building some tyranids for the bugs.

Death Fields Cannon Fodder for the bodies, and Stargrave Scavengers for most of the arms and visible heads. The ones with closed helmets is my solution for the bloater zombies. I've also finished a couple of random crew members:

What did I finish more? Yeah, my Buzz Lightyear spaceships. 

More Rangers of Shadow Deep

 I'm still painting up figures for upcoming Rangers of Shadow Deep adventures, and I've started to play the Temple of Madness mission. First we have some mummies from the Conan boardgame. These should fit well as Sandhusks in Across the Wastes. I painted up ten of them, but have ten more if I ever see the need for an army of mummies.

Next we have some guardsmen, also from Conan. One of them has already joined my ranger, and the rest will be NPCs.

I needed one more gnoll archer, and since I use skaven for my gnolls I converted up a skaven slave with a sling. The hand is from GB's Dark Age Warriors set. It should fit in with the rest of my slingers, most of whom are old skaven metals.

I also made some doors and tents for different scenarios. The doors are metal from a Prince August mould, and set in their plaster wall moulds. 

The tents are made from old business cards folded in thirds, with triangular cardboard insets and then covered in old handkerchief cloth.

Here is a wall of fire for the Temple of Madness. It's just made from coloured card, costing 18 SEK, so what's that, £1.50?

We end with a bunch of gaming pictures, from Incinerator and Temple of Madness. I hope to play the final ToM scenario very soon.