The old Robot!

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I have had this 40K Blackstone Fortress Robot knocking about for a couple of years. My first problem was how to paint it. At first I was going to go for an ancient machine look with lots of rust as just another hazard of digging through the ruins.

Another idea was to assign it to a particular faction giving it a paint job suitable for the faction. Then I settled on painting a standard military colour so it can be used with what ever faction. The old bot sat in some bunker or cupboard forgotten until someone charges it up and press the KILL button.

This robot will be useful to supply some fire support to my Sci Fi factions and some of my post apocalyptic factions. 

Thanks for looking and stay safe out there.

Warriors of the Wild Galaxy - DCS corporation

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In the Wild Galaxy the more powerful Corporations have spread across the Galaxy. They are a power in their own right having their own armies to protect their assets. The Definintive Colony Systems (DCS) corporation is one such Corporation. 

DCS is the largest and most powerful corporation suppling everything from toothpaste to fully armed battle cruisers (crew not included). It has bases across Human Space trading in with most nations and frontier worlds. Many colonies have lots of DCS items as the corporation is the main galactic supplier of colonial equipment. DCS also owns its own worlds and controls an entire system near frontier space which is heavily defended by DCS’ own battle cruisers. 

On the world of Deljibelli DCS has a depot trading it’s wares with the locals and space crew traffic between the city of Urg Deljibelli and the space port. The Corporation security stops the depot from being looted and protects shipments from local criminals.

These figures are mantic GCPS figures that originally came from the Project Pandora box set. They were undercoated grey and given zenithal highlights. They were painted with Army Painter Speed Paints. These paints worked well with the figures and I had the base coats done in a couple of hours. A few bits of detail where added. This was a quick paint job. 

Thanks for looking.

Take care out there.

Starport Scum 5 - Mad Donna and her crew.

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Time for another look at the Starport Scum inhabiting the Wild Galaxy, this time Mad Donna and her crew.

Mad Donna’s name is infamous throughout human space for causing chaos and mayhem where ever she goes. She is wanted across the Galactic Blocks and nations. As a fugitive she seeks more adventure and mayhem on the independent and frontier worlds. 

Mad Donna is a old Necromunda figure/character. This figure was primed grey and painted using Army Painter Speed Paints. As you can see it has left the figure with a rather unhealthy pallor. My thoughts on the speed paints later on. 

Her crew of goons are (now OOP) Stontuim Dogs metal bad guys figures (sorry I can’t recall the name of this set) by Warlord games. I had these figures primed white sitting in the pile of shame and grabbed them to try the speed paints. 

I have tried the Army Painter Speed Paints on figures both primed in white and grey. White primer works best. Sometimes the paint needs more than one coat to get a nice colour. One issue with highly detailed figures is the paint can bleed into the detail or other areas which requires a touch up with white followed by the colour. Details will require normal paints as the speed paints are too thin to use for detail. I found it just as much work to get the details done as when painting with normal mini paints. It did speed up the painting of large groups of rank and file which I suppose is the speed paints purpose.

So in summary - speed paints work best on figures undercoated in white. It is best to use the paints on rank and file figures that have limited detail or it will take twice as long as normal paints. I dare say I will be experimenting more with the speed paints to try different effects.

Thanks for reading.

Take care out there.

New scatter terrain or objectives or whatever

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I got these bits from a pile of stuff my friend Xander gave me before he emigrated to Canada. They where all painted so I hauled them out and added a few touches.

No idea where these weird scary looking plants came from. They fit my plant men faction and Alien world jungle sets nicely. I dry brushed the plants with Coat d Arms Rotting flesh and then washed them with sepia ink. These touches really made the plants pop. 

A couple of Sci Fi crates. All I did with these was touch up some detail. These crates will make nice additions to my spaceport/cargo hold terrain.

Radioactive barrels. These glow in the dark containers got the filler caps and radiation symbols painted. 

Quick easy additions to my table. Thanks Xander. 

Thanks for looking, take care out there.

Kosmik’s Sweat Lodge

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Welcome to Kosmik’s Sweat Lodge. Hallucinations and stench guaranteed. Just pop in here to sweat and hallucinate your troubles away. Rhythmic bongo shamanic drum music supplied for extra. 

This model was a 3D printed building I picked up back in 2014 (Gah where did the time go?). I didn’t really vibe with the model at the time so it sat languishing in the hobby pile.

My main bugbear was the windows looking riveted on. Wracking my brains as to what I could use it for, the Sweat Lodge idea came to me. The model got a couple of coats of brown textured paint to help it fit in with my frontier world terrain and to also try and hide the hideous printer lines on the model. This was followed by a heavy white dry brush and a sepia ink wash. A final white drybrush followed. 

To finish it off, I dry brushed layers of dirt around the bottom of the model and added some extra weathering using weathering pencils. Lots of graffiti and decoration was added as I wanted the building to reflect the character of the owner, a strange character called Kosmik. 

A few posters where added printed off on my inkjet printer. These are mainly wanted posters. 

Just to keep people on their toes I decided to add a slightly more sinister looking bit of graffiti on the top roof/floor. 

Now all I need to do is find a figure for Kosmik. 

Thanks for looking.

Take Care out there.

Rubble pillars

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Life has been busy over the last few weeks and I have been approaching the hobby in a scatter gun manner. It’s important to keep the inspiration going as I flit to and from projects. This week I have managed to get a few of them over the finish line so expect a few posts in the next day or two.

I was opening a package a few weeks ago and found a couple of packing pieces of pink foam. Quickly I saw the potential to make some collapsed rubble pillars for my ruins. 

The bases are bits of scrap poster board left over from another project. After undercoating they coat a layer of textured paint. The pillars got painted light grey followed by a white dry brush and a sepia wash. The basing is my usual mixed pot of sand and bits. 

The finished models got some self adhesive grass tufts. have forgone the usual graffiti as I want these in my ancient crumbling ruins set. 

In all a quick and easy project costing only the glue, paint and tufts. I may at some future date return to these and add some rebar and other junk to them. But for now I am happy with them

Thanks for looking. 

Take care out there.