Trollbot

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Ready to face another danger of space hulk exploring? 

During the early days of the old Earth Empire, space vessels were equipped with basic security bots to help protect vessel from hostile intruders (pirates, space bugs etc) and mutiny. These bots were nicknamed Trollbots due to their patrol patterns and habit of attacking crew not wearing their ID chips. 

Due to the complexity of space vessels back in the early days of humanity’s space expansion, vessels would often go missing. Meteorite strikes, systems failures, plague, space madness and incompetence were often the reasons for vessel loss. The Troll bots are sometimes still active on some of these ancient hulks, waking when their proximity alarms are tiggered. Salvage crews and explorers when exploring these ancient hulks often encounter the hulking shape of a Troll bot stomping out of the dark. 

Trollbots can also be found in the abandoned space stations and bases that litter the inner systems of human space. 

The Trollbot is a model of the same name from Skull n Crown's Space Scrappers line. It is a multipart resin kit. 

Looking at the pictures, I think I missed some edge highlights on the rear of the Trollbot carapace.

Thanks for looking,

Take Care out there.  

The Space Slug

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Today we take a look at a creature that has become a real pest. The Space Slug is a carnivorous alien creature found in the asteroids in the Blaagon V system. These creatures came as a nasty surprise to the asteroid miners. The Space Slugs can survive for incredibly long periods of time without sustenance and will cannibalise other Space Slugs to survive. 

In time the Space Slugs managed to migrate to other systems on vessles visiting the Blaagon V system. Despite being slow moving they have become a problem for Space ships and stations across human space. Space Slugs are responsible for several ships becoming lost and drifting hulks. They are a real danger to salvage crews and explorers. 

This was a Bill Making Stuff pateron challenge, to make something alien. My orignal idea had to be shelved as I didnt have the right components in the bits box. So I came to the idea of something slithery to prey upon unwary space crews. The Space Slug was an experiment in using EVA foam putty to make models. I found the EVA foam putty to be difficult to use for making the body. It took a long time to fully cure (several days) and didn't take textures well. In hindsight I think that greenstuff or milliput would have been a better choice. 

The eyes are made from wooden beads. The tentacles are made from EVA foam putty rolled around a wire former. I found that this makes good flexible tentacles. It could also be used for cables and pipes on models. The teeth are made from the tips of cocktail sticks. 

Thanks for looking and stay safe! 

 

Wasteland Mutants

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Time is flying by and I am getting way behind on my blogging. So here is a couple of figures I finished back in August to get the ball rolling. 

The Wastelands of Mattblackgod’s world are filled with strange weird mutants. Fixture is a random warrior who will happily fight alongside the Rustlords.

Fixture is from Ramshackle Games, and is a figure with the same name. 

This mutant is particularly disturbing. No one knows what it is or where it came from. 

This figure is the Toe Tickler by Ramshackle games. This figure was quite fun to paint.

I guess I now need to get taking some more pictures to get more posts written. 

Thanks for looking

Take care out there. 

August Hobby Tally

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September already eh? Where does the time go? It's time for my hobby Progress update for August. 

August had the usual stuff happening, plus some illness and cat sitting for a neighbour to keep me on my toes. I managed to get some Blog posts up. There is still some Blog posts waiting to get written up and posted. Although, I do need to get the pictures done too. 

I finished the Expedition Crawler for @billmakingstuff's transport challenge. I had a lot of fun building this beasty. 

This crawler needs some flatbed trailers. They shouldn't be too difficult to build. 

Here are the tallies so far:

Figures finished* = 0 (total 7) *Figures that needed bases finishing from 2024

Figures painted = 27 (total so far 110)

Figures reworked = 3 (total so far 9)

Vehicles finished = 1

Vehicles reworked = 0

Figures bought/arrived = 7 (total so far 66)

Vehicles bought = 0

Paint wise I managed a couple of Mantic Space Dwarf walkers, some Quar and random robot figures got paint thrown at them. There are also a few figures that are wip paint wise, they will hopefully turn up on next months figures. My current hobby plans for September are to knock some colonists together for Skirm and a Expedition team for Alien Zoology. 

I am still waiting on that Heresy order, I know he is a one man band but I am starting to wonder if I should chase him up. I ordered a further 7 metal figures inspired by the drawings in the old 40K book by BMT3D, including a novelty figure inspired by TV artist Bob Ross. These are usually limited runs so are worth collecting. 

I even managed to get a game of 5 parsecs in. The game campaign is getting me inspired to get more suitable terrain finished for Wreckage Station. The next 5PSFH game is planned, hopefully I will get it planned in the next couple of weeks. 

Thats all for now.

Thanks for reading and take care out there.