The Deathly Darkly Necromancer

The mantra, I will get them finished and photographed by the end of the year! 

 

So Presenting the Dark from the last kickstarter, (The Dark, The Devout and the Heroic) These were the easiest to paint, though just took a while due to all of the waiting on all of the full miniature bits drying.

This lovely little band of mist ghasts and revenants is led by the dastardly albino ratnomancer and his dark assistant. We've not tried the rules out for them yet in our games of Burrows and Badgers as we've started onto the Warren Percy Affair so it'll be a while before that happens.

Next on the desk is the start of my Amberian Hussars, otherwise known as a Kislevite Warband for Mordheim from Heresylabs. Once I've got a bit of space cleared I'll probably add a couple of random mini's from the pile in for some variety.
 

Pikeman's Lament

Another catching up post almost, finished these a few days ago. Given it's 10mm I'm not zooming right in to see all of the issues. Well gone are my days of painting chapter badges onto 6mm Marines.

These are for Pikeman's Lament, two bases with a dice space to mark through casualties, full/half strength etc. This approximately 12 points so half an army for the rules, another 3 sets of these and I'm good for 2 forces.

Some Recce for the NSL

Got some Team Yankee Lynx Recon vehicles on sale a while back to use for my 15mm NSL platoon. 

Just need to keep an eye out for some tracked/wheeled APC's to finish off the full platoon, I'm thinking BMP, BRDM or maybe just some M113 types if I spot them cheap as still don't have rules to play them with.

SLA Industries Shivers

Anyone else remember SLA industries when it first came out as an RPG? Found out that they made a miniature game to go alongside it. Unfortunately found out about it round about the time they decided to  discontinue miniature manufacture. 

So I ended up getting some Shivers and Carrion from their end of line sale. Here are the Shivers, they took an age to get done but they're finished now.  I've got a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff waiting to be finished, 15mm recce tanks and electric fences. Some 10mm Command Stands for BKC and a bunch of Burrows and Badgers and TYW started.

Smaller scale from the backlog.

 So the smaller scale stuff getting cleared off the table ready for new projects.  First up 15mm security fences, I have another 3x Straight and corner sections to paint and assemble.

Dark Angel Terminators for my epic force.

That's the space cleared for next project, cleaning up SLA Industries Shivers so we'll see how that goes.

More Stargrave/Rogue Stars

I said before I had more Stargrave, Rogue Stars type aliens/captains/first mates etc to finish off. I got there eventually, they've been sat unfinished on the table for ages because I just couldn't get up the motivation to get them all finished off but got there eventually mostly because there was other stuff pushing that I actual want to get started on. 

So the cultists from the Stargrave Nickstarter mixed in with some of the arms and guns from Stargrave sets. These will fill out the space cultists I did for Rogue Stars to a full crew for Stargrave.

Force users from Ganesha games, took the longest time to get done but will make great mystics, psionics.

First batch of CP Models for captains etc. more below with one Hasslefree. I need to make a decision at some point about finishing off the basing whether I stick them onto the resin bases, but that will require cutting them off tabs and hoping I can get enough contact for the glue to stick.

A couple more smaller models and even some scenery finished off for the next post, then decision making time for what to start on next. SLA Industries, Burrows and Badgers, Ragnarock, or Epic Dark Angels.

Prydian Lances

So finally finished off the other lance (Platoon) for my Prydians, I've had them sitting around for a while, but with us trying out the Patrol Angis rules finally it became a thing to get them finished. 

Next for this I have a squad each of Khanate Legion and Maligs that I'd got for using in FireFight, but having read through the Khanate book I can use my Ikwen as Saurads and with the new Ikwen due to be released sometime this month, there will be more of them in the future maybe just not for a bit as the painting queue got dramatically bigger recently with the remainder of Stargrave, the last Burrows and Badgers kickstarter arriving and a bunch of Draugr as well.

Stargrave Crewfolk

So the reason this has taken so long is because I got about 40 resin bases which are all done, and here's the first 10 fitted up with models added, it's a mixture of Crew and Mercenaries which I got with 2 sprues of each after swaps.  I've gone for a grubby look with them as it's supposed to be an empire in ruins after a war. So muted colours and a dirty wash will do for now.  Once I've done some more to choose from including mainly a couple of Captain and first mate combinations I'll maybe come back and pick out some details to match.

I have a bunch of CP Models, some Psi knights from Ganesha games (via Alternative Armies) and a Hasslefree model that I need to do as well as the other 2 sprues at some point (some of which have been sitting around for a very long time).  I need to make a decision for the CP stuff whether to cut the slotta tabs off and glue them to the resin bases, I'll see how brave I'm feeling when I get there.

Achtung Cthulhu

So forgot about these ones, Achtung Cthulhu Black Suns, changed the armbands and epaulettes to a mustardy yellow colour to match my army of cultists (and because the normal red feels wrong) 

Got some Brits to do, Badgers Commandos and a couple of beasties as well which I'll get to eventually so I can use them in things like Stargrave or a more modern IHMN game.

Werewolves and Stargrave

So I backed a Kickstarter a long time ago for some werewolves, probably the worst experience I've had with a kickstarter but at the same time still better than some because they did actually arrive.  So it was really late arriving due to a variety of issues one of the main ones being that due to some of these issues delaying delivery and rising postal rates within the period of the delays meant that the creators hadn't gained enough money off the kickstarter to actually post everything. Something that some companies would be able to absorb, but not something for such a small company.

From 3d sculpting to miniature casting isn't the easiest and I think something I hope they'll learn from as even some of the more experienced sculptors I know have had to go back and adjust models because they wouldn't cast.  The assembly for some of the models was horrific mostly because the bits just didn't fit together correctly or there was huge gaps.  Anyways Here's the first 4 painted up. 

And finally here's a little bit of what else I've been working on. I have painted about 40 bases so far for Stargrave and made a start on some of the models (6 just need based, 10 assembled and undercoated, and 4 just undercoated) alongside a bunch of crates from 4Ground which are assembled but need the labels cut out and glued on. So there's lots almost there, but not close enough to photograph.

Epic Blood Angels

 It took a while, but I got them finished eventually. It's about 4,000pts of Blood Angels for Epic Armageddon. 

So these join the ranks of the Imperiam alongside my newly finished Inquisition/Ministorium force, Space Wolves and a lot of Imperial guard that really need to get tidied up properly.  That only leaves the Dark Angels to get finished off.

Some SciFi Adventurers

More Hasslefree, SciFi GID Alpha team for Rogue Stars and it's ilk.

And a more modern Bourne type spyfy from the last sale, hopefully I can pick up a few of the others at some point.

I'm almost thinking that I should go back to crappy lighting for my pictures so I can't see all the mistakes.

Burrows and Badgers

 Almost done, 5 more to go before the next kickstarter.

A couple more of the Hillfolk highlanders, shrew heroine and a Town Guardsmouse.

Last for this set is Kinlochshiels finest. Shinty or Burrowball as it might be called after testing.

Some older Barbarians

I'm not sure I took pictures of these ones, some are from the Frostgrave Barbarians I'm not sure where I picked up the sprue from, probably from a Nickstarter at some point.

These next few are all really old models, some of which may be recognisable.

The last batch are mostly from Bad Squiddo, dwarves and children fighting. With the one Dwarf Svala from Hasslefree.

 

I'm using these and the previous barbarians and my Middenheim warband together.

Female Adventurers (mostly)

So I got a bunch of models from the last Hasslefree sale at the really discounted prices but some of them were bits of sets so I'll need to pick up some of the others at some point.

Hurin and Yllsa, some of the barbarians, need to pick up a couple of more from this set.

Kalyna and Zetta are a couple more of the barbarians.

Kalee and Libby

Lady Glory and Sister Morrigan

The sisters Lenore and Gwen

Azura Halforc Shaman and Archmage Raisa

Grymm Squad

 So another 28mm Squad of infantry. This time it's the Grymm infantry from Hasslefree.

I like the models, I just wish that now that I've figured out lighting for taking pictures that I hadn't given that it shows up so many errors in my painting that I can't see by normal eyesight.

Either way, they look fine in person.

Halflings

So got the cloaked halflings from Midlam painted up and based maybe last week. This is unit 1 of my plan to make units for Dragon Rampant with whatever I still have to paint/tidy up.

Next up is a number of adventurers from Hasslefree that are primarily for Thud and Blunder/Mordheim type games but fit the bill nicely. I also have some SciFi and Burrows and Badgers finally nearing completion as well now that I've started getting back into my painting.

Ikwen Pics and Buildings built

So I finished basing the Ikwen a while back but never got round to taking pics, so that's now been done because I have also finished some buildings. Ikwen up first, this is just a small sample as they are the unlimited force for the games but I have about 2 platoons worth in total I think.

I purchased a set of 15mm pre painted buildings from 4Ground and despite them being an utter pita to put together.  (I think the instructions would be far better served starting with the smaller buildings and working their way up to the biggest fiddliest building as the last one.

They went together okay in the end, but I did make a couple of mistakes along the way, some of the bits are really small and the labeling on the cutout sheets isn't the easiest to read and I did end up having to pry some pieces apart before the glue dried because I'd misread the label or what it applied to. The example being those little vents/air con units that you can see are 7 pieces and should have been 8, but I didn't successfully get the last piece out of the sheets for any of them.

Regardless these are all for use with Tomorrow's war/ambush alley/Force on Force Asymmetric warfare, played on a 2'x2' board in 15mm. Brigades polish force vs the indigenous Ikwen. I've still got bits to make up scenery wise, but I have forest bits, buildings, and I want to finish off more barricades, fencing, junk piles etc.

So 15mm done for a bit. back to bigger things for a bit.