Starport Scum 7

Welcome back to another installment of Star Port Scum. 

Malice Stardeath is a fearsome sight hanging around the Space Ports looking for work as a gun for hire. Her metal armour, multi laser, animal skins and hair does a lot to create a atmosphere of fear. Malice is a mercenary from Wimera, a backwater world. It is said that Malice killed the creature with her bare hands (and teeth!). Anyone attempting to chat to Malice gets greeted by angry snarls. Malice is a very angry woman and no one wants to find out why. Rumour has it that she is a retired space pirate which is another reason Mailce struggles to find work. No one wants to risk a potential pirate on board. 

Malice is a Abra figure by Bad Squiddo games. 

Thanks for looking and take care out there.

Wing nut clan

Hello and welcome back to my blog. 

Wingnut was a officer in a enclave long ago. A mission into the wastelands showed her just how dispensable they were to the enclave’s masters. Bandits ambushed the patrol with Wingnut was the only survivor. Hunted by the bandits Wingnut tried to return home. She was bitter that they had been sent to their deaths and she intended to deal out some well aimed retribution on the enclave leaders. 

Wingnut - figure by Bad Squiddo Games

As she approached the Enclave lands she saw a ominous column of smoke in the distance. While her patrol was being massacred the bandits were attacking the enclave. Was the patrol sent out deliberately to weaken the enclave’s defences? A few bandits were left behind, stupidly drunk. Wingnut executed every one, torturing the last bandit to find the bandit base. 

After saying good bye to her dead friends and family Wingnut collected what supplies she could scrounge, mainly off the dead bandits and set off hell bent on revenge. 

Wingnut found the bandit’s base and observed from a distance trying to figure out a plan of attack. Tonight she would die and take some bandits with her. As luck would have it the bandits were still blind drunk after celebrating their victory. Wingnut walked straight in and she started firing. The drunk bandits attempted to fight back but it resulted in them taking even more casualties. 

Wingnut walked straight up to the Boss and challenged him to a fight to the death. The bandits laughed. The drunk boss proved to be easy pickings for the hardened warrior. As he fell by her hand Wingnut stepped back ready to face the onslaught but was shocked to see the remaining bandits on their knees. She was shocked to learn that she was now the bandit’s new leader. 

After a moments thought Wingnut realised that she had nothing left in the world and being a bandit leader wasn’t a bad gig. She changed her name to Wingnut (you didn’t think that was always her name did you?). She whipped the bandits into a better shape and started to take out the competition while raiding settlements. 

Wingnut Clan - Figures by Copplestone, TAG, Bad Squiddo and Oakbound Studios 

This also hits a couple more boxes in my Hobby Bingo. 

The TAG figure has been in the pile for years and that’s a complete gang painted.

Thanks for looking, take care out there.

The crew of the Wasteland Star

Hello Wastelander, welcome back to my blog. Pull up a crate and let me introduce the crew of the Wasteland Star.

The Wasteland Star is a crawler pulling a land train from the highly contaminated ruins of the Red Star (Neo Sov) “state”. These ruins are situated thousands of miles East of Rubbleborg & Brittannia City. 

One day pair of stalkers searching for loot were driven into a “highly dangerous” (forbidden) zone in the ruins by packs of mutant beasts and discovered something strange. A heavily guarded huge vehicle was moving slowly through the ruins. By the looks of it the vehicle was from the old times. It could haul huge amounts of cargo or people totally protected from the contaminated world it was moving through. The Stalkers shadowed the crawler to its base guarded by Red Star super troopers, who are genetically modified soldiers used to keep a grip on the ruins. 

Returning to the metro network beneath the city the Stalkers gathered a band of brothers (and one sister) from various stations and moved to discover the truth about the crawler. As they were lead to believe that they where the last ones alive in the world many questions came to mind. Where did this machine come from? Was there an outside world beyond the contaminated ruins? Was there more people out there besides them?  The mission wouldn’t be easy as the super troopers where highly trained and stronger than normal people. 

The initial storming of the station went well but the Red Star threw every asset they had at the station. The Stalkers took heavy losses and decided that the crawler was their only escape. In the they crawler headed out into the ruins with the Super troopers in hot pursuit in various vehicles. The Stalkers fought hard to keep the crawler clear of boarders and eventually they broke free of the ruins. 

After 100 miles they where certain that the Neo Sov forces where no longer in pursuit. Stopping at the remains of a old factory they worked hard to patch the crawler up. There they named it “Wasteland Star”.  Now they cannot return home as the Red Star will have a prices on their heads. Now free from the grip of the Red Star state they wander the wastelands looking for a suitable place that they can call home. 

The crew of the Wasteland star are Lead Adventure figures - Ruin Raiders and Stalkers. With one exception...this lady from Bad Squiddo games

She acts as a scout in the crew. 

The LAM figures paint up quickly and they have a good level of detail without being a pain in the eyeballs to paint. 

The background was inspired by the background behind the Metro Exodus computer game with a Mattblackgod’s world twist. The whole idea seems a good way for a group to explore the world. Who knows where they will end up? I may add more figures to the faction as time goes on (I have some half converted 40K Valhalla troops someplace that will fit). I am leaving naming the characters for now. Meanwhile I need to find or make a suitable vehicle(s) to use as a crawler or land train.  

That’s it for now....thanks for looking and stay safe out there.