Swamp Dragon

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I got this model as a freebee from Fenris Games. It is a bit different to my other models. It will serve as a Swamp or Water Dragon in my fantasy world. 

Painting this critter was fun. It was primed black and dry brushed grey. The model got a couple of green ink glazes. A heavy dry brushing of Mithril silver was applied followed by a thin brown wash. Another layer of green glaze was then applied. A very light dry brush of Mithril silver was then applied.

After that it was some details, odd bits of other greens added to the lower parts. The eyes started as white and got two red ink glazes. The cornea detail was added in orange and the pupil added in black.

In all it was a fun model to paint. Thank You Fenris Games.

Thank you for reading, 

Take Care Out There.

Whatthehellasaurus Rex

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Time to meet a new horror... 

Around the campfires, it is whispered that a fearsome monster lurks out in the Caustic Clump. A giant, armored, multi-legged monstrosity known as the Whatthehellasaurus Rex, or as some call it, "Hideitscoming."

The tales say that the creature's roar freezes the blood in your veins, and its extra legs allow it to easily run down its prey (usually you). Bullets just bounce off its hide. The monster's claws can tear through armor effortlessly. It is said to swallow its victims whole, but the lucky ones merely get bitten in half. No, I don't know how that one works either, surely the lucky ones don't encounter the Hideitscoming at all.

"Its behind me, isnt it?"

Is it a mutant or a beast natural to the world that survived the ages since the fall of the planet Corrosion? 

"I'm gunna need a bigger gun!"

No one around the campfires has actually seen the beast, heard it, or has any evidence of its existence. But almost everyone knows someone who knows someone else who might have seen or heard of it, or been eaten by it. But then, as so many folks never return from the wastelands, who can say of its real for sure? 

This model was inspired by a challenge over in the Billmakingstuff discord channel. In my usual fashion, I failed to finish it on time.The models was based on a toy Tyrannosaurus rex and a Allosaurus. In true mad scientist style I lopped the tail off the Tyrannosaurus and front off the Allosaurus, then I joined them together. Lots of putty filled the holes. The jaw was removed and lowered to give the Whatthehellasaurus Rex a much larger gob. I had to fix the teeth, add a tongue and extended the claws. I added blades from eva foam onto the back to make the six legged freak even more intimidating. 

Thanks for reading,

Take Care Out There.

Terrain Posters WIP 2

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I have made a little more progress on the posters. I have added some colour. 

That reminds me, I need to get a character figure kitbashed up for Milky.

These two were also drawn up and are in the middle of having colour added. 

Old Kosmik's "business":

https://mattblackgodsworld.blogspot.com/2022/08/kosmiks-sweat-lodge.html

Hopefully I can get some more drawn up soon. The ideas just keep coming. The side effect of world building I guess. 

Stay tuned and keep safe.

Terrain Posters WIP

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Yes, I am still alive. Things have been insanely busy since my last post. I have been hobbying but I life is keeping me busy too get to blogging. My usual issue is getting pictures organised. Hopefully I can catch up soon. 

Meanwhile, I have begun drawing up posters for my terrain. 

So far there is a advert for Big Milky Tours and Old Crustys Fungus Ale. The idea is to make posters that will fit frontier world and post apocalyptic models. 

Once these are cleaned up, some colour will be added. Maybe some aging. The plan is to scan these in and drop the image into a document file, shrinking the size to suit the scale. Hopefully this will hide just how bad the art is. 

Once printed and cut out, they will be glued to various models. One thing is that it has given me lots of ideas for more. Keep watching for futher progress.

Thanks for looking,

Take Care out there.

Fantasy hovels.

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Happy Easter time, if you celebrate it. 

Time to visit my fantasy hovels, they took long enough to finish. They began life as a cardboard box, a cerial packet and some scraps of blue foam.

Now they look like this. 

I added bases so I could add some extra ground work and little details. The bases are vinyl floor tyle. The windows are made from various cake and biscuit packets. 

The pitchforks and spear came from some spare GW fantasy zombie arms. I was surprised  just how easy it was to remove the arms and hands. 

The barrels came from a rendera barrel set. 

The rocks are from self adhesive tuft sets I have had laying about for years. 

The best thing about these models is that they are cheap to make.

Thanks for looking,

Take care out there.

Mutants

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A new pair of mutants to harrass the wastelands. 

Curtis over at Ramshackle Games is a good egg and always throws in an extra couple of figures (thank you Curtis). I always find them useful for conversions or trying out new or different paint styles.

Both figures were undercoated with white primer. The left figure was washed with my brown wash that I use for terrain (Brown acrylic paint, sepia ink, water and a couple of drops of washing up liquid). The models were painted with speed paints. 

I think the left hand brown washed figure has a warmer feel than the right hand figure. 

Thanks for reading, stay safe out there.

Thorgrim's Crew

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This crew of Dvarg are one of the many groups of refugees and survivors from the ORCS attack on their homeworld of Luxz VII. 

Luxz VII was located on the borders of GELF and Dvarg space. The hordes of ORCS invading, lead to the Dvarg King to order all his people to flee the world. Rather than lose the world to the hated ORCS, the King remained alone, deep beneath the surface of the planet. He activated a device that blew Luxz VII into little rocks destroying the ORCS hordes and the homeworld. It cemented his name in Dvarg legend and there is little doubt that the destruction of Luxz VII stopped a major ORCS incursion into Dvarg space.

The surviving Luxz VII Dvargs were spread across Dvarg space, the other worlds welcoming them with open arms. Some Luxz VII Dvargs scattered across Human Frontier space looking for work and oppotunites. 

Thorgrim's crew operate as a pirate raider prowling GELF space looking for ORCS or GROTS ships or settlements to raid. Revenge for the l9ss of their world is a high priorty for them. 

Bladun, Thorgrim, G4DLF (space werdio who gets everone into trouble) and Philly

Brawlyn, Gnori, Bommyr and Oywn.

Gloink, Bovver, Doric, Beefer, Kily and Oryn. 

Bill & Bilijo. Bill is a maintence and general maintenance robot the crew use for accessing derilict hulls. 

Many Dvarg worlds have small colonies of Halfer GELF's (Genetically Engineered Lifeforms) and Luxz VII was no exception. Bilijo jumped aboard Thorgrim's ship and is now hired as a cook and thief. Bilijo is successful as a thief as on the first wreck the crew cut into, he found a strange tech device on body. The device cloaks him from sight making him invisible to everything including electronic sensors. Bilijo has a clear resin version for the tabletop, but that has gone missing. *glares at the cats*

Thorgrim's crew are metal figures by Skull n Crown miniatures, Space Scrappers line.

Thanks for looking, stay safe out there

Starport Scum #13

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It's time for another installment of Star Port Scum. I can't believe we are up to the 13th episode. 

Dallas Shrimpton, the bounty hunter, comes from the frontier world of Wolfden. He hunts down people or GELFs for the right fee and really likes the "dead" part of 'Dead or Alive' bounty.

Fay Jaegir is an ex-military bounty hunter working wherever the contracts take her. Her military background has given her discipline and training, which helps her hunt down bounties.

Sly is a typical example of star port scum, born and raised in a space station, joined a lower decks gang and eventually skipped out as a stowaway. He now seeks employment as crew muscle. A little part of him fancies joining a pirate crew.

Sparkz is an augmented Cyborg. No one knows where he is from or how he became augmented. Like many 'borgs, once he had one augmentation, he needed more. Sparkz looks for work as a ship's technical officer; his augmentations give him an edge when dealing with technology and computers. 

Ted Cryptkey used to be a security crewman on an Outrim Confederacy warship. As one of the few to see the galaxy beyond the Outrim systems, he found himself (like other Spacers) treated with suspicion by those he left to defend. Cryptkey was unhappy stuck on the backward-looking planets, being treated with suspicion, and wanted to see more of the galaxy. He left on the first ship that visited (it was a bit of a wait) and now hangs around space ports looking to sign on to a crew. He doesn't care where he is going as long as it is beyond the Outrim systems.

All figures are metal, from the Pages range by BT3D.

Thanks for looking, take care out there.

Meet the Colonists #3

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This is the first of a batch of posts, catching up on the figures I finished last year. I am a fair bit behind with my blogging.

For now, get comfortable and get ready to meet the next bunch of colonists on the world of Corrosion. 

Mayor Minstum Leuien is a retired senior military officer from Brittannia quadrant. He wears the Mayor's hat of office (because someone robbed the chain and medallion) to show that he is the leader of the colony of Pusterom. Minstrum is armed with a exotic looking las pistol which was looted from the many piles of scrap across the world of Corrosion.

The figure is a Northstar Steampunk figure. The hat started life as a spare scrap of green stuff putty which I fashioned into a wizard's hat. It was just laying about and it seemed a good item to fit to Minstum. The shoulder eppulets are resin bits from Anvil Industries. I replaced the minsicule revolver with a dark eldar las pistol dug out of the bits box. He also gained a mantic Forge Father back pack.

Homer Caine is Pusterom's security leader and sherrif. He came to Corrsion after going AWOL from the Liberty Security Forces. His military background got him recruited by Minstrum as the town's securtiy boss and sherrif. The wanna be law man wears a fancy high tech helmet found in the scrap which gives him advantages targetting or locating hidden foes. Caine keeps an eye open for visiting bounty hunters as there is still a bounty on his head from Liberty.

The Homer Caine figure started life as a Northstar Steampunk figure. The eppultes are from Anvil Industries, the helmet is a spare Asterian Marionette Phantom head by Mantic. His weedy revolver was replaced by a plastic Void Viridian auto pistol. A sherriff's badge from Dead Mans Hand set was pinned to his chest. His whole ensable is finished off with a rather fashionable pair of grenades from a 40k Space Marine Scout.

Lenny Magnusson got lucky one day out in the Corrsion wastes, finding a fancy pants energy weapon on a rusting killbot. After dragging it back to Pusterom he spent a good while trying to find a way to use it. The solution was a bot targetting system, a battery and a back pack. Now, when out prospecting in the wastes, Lenny just zapps anything trying to mess with him.

The figure is a old OOP Warmachine mechanic. I added a backpack and scratch built the pack mounted energy weapon from beads, sequins and foam clay power lines.

Postie arrived on Corrsion and found he wasnt much good at salvaging. In the piles of junk he found an ancient postal trolly. To earn an living he started work courioring messages and packages across the town of Pusterom. It was amazing just how many folks didnt want to speak to each other in the town face to face. The Pusterom Postal Service was born. Postie keeps a pair of cats he saved from a crashed ship and they travel with him while he does his rounds. It is rumoured that at least one of the cats is a PSI Grynx cat.

The Postie figure and cart are unconverted resin figures by MEP Miniatures.

Thanks for looking, take care out there.

The End of January at last!

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It’s the end of January, so it’s time for a catch up.

I don’t know about you, but for me January this year feels like it was 4 months long. It’s been a busy month with one thing and another.

As you might have noticed, I still haven’t caught up with the blog posts from last year. I will get there. The half-written posts on my device are annoying me.

Hobby wise the fantasy bug is still gripping me. I assembled some Lasers and Blasters Fantasy villagers. The box has 60 figures which will flesh out my setting. There will be another post as soon as I get some of them painted.

I have also started some fantasy terrain, mainly village houses. These are made from corrugated cardboard.

The chimneys are made from some blue foam I had laying about from another project. Drinks stirrers and cereal packet card make up the beams and roof tiles respectivley.

The roof tiles took most of the week to cut up and assemble. I thought it would be a rather tedious task, but I found it strangely therapeutic.

Now, I have the fun parts left to do – the details. More terrain posts to follow.

Thanks for reading, take care out there.