World of Twilight: Engineer's Hut

Last month I picked up this lovely little resin hut from Fenris Games as they were having a sale to say goodbye to their old webstore. I had this piece pencilled in to get for a while and this tipped me over the edge to get it. It's designed for the World of Twilight setting but can get used in many others

Cast in one solid lump of resin it is a wonderfully detailed scenery item. There are pipes, barrels, wasp nests and all sorts of details just dotted all over it. A simple wash in soapy water and undercoat with black was all the preparation that was needed

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Of course, I still have plenty of Twilight figures to paint. I really must get focused..

15mm Desert Buildings

I made my annual visit to the Devizes wargame show a couple of weekends ago. Knowing that I have quite a lot of figures still to paint I made a ruling that I wouldn't buy any new ones. So instead, these 15mm desert buildings from The Scene caught my eye and I picked up the first three they do in the range

Quick and easy to paint with a basecoat followed by a couple of drybrush layers, the only details I needed to pick out were the roof hatches. Painting time including varnishing was only a couple of hours - result!

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2/8/2013 - Forgot to mention that the roofs lift out to allow access to the interiors. The floors are scribed a with large square pattern

Robot Santa

Arriving just a bit late for the festive season, here's another one of Armorcast's robot townies miniatures. Again obviously influenced by Futurama, this one is Robot Santa. A large figure, he comes in three parts (arms separate) with a 30mm base but I have pinned him to a 40mm resin base as it suits the size of the figure better

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Whilst I was putting some paint on him I quickly painted these resin tree stumps that also came from Armorcast, just to get them done & out of the way

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Now, back to the Firestorm Invasion painting ..

Gun Turrets

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I bought these turrets from Scotia Grendel a while ago but for some reason they sat gathering dust. Over the weekend I grabbed them and decided to paint them up at last. They were originally designed for use with he Kryomek game but will be useful in anything from modern 7TV games onwards seeing as they are armed with machine guns

The gun turrets themselves are loose and tend to fall off rather easily so I used some 3mm magnets to make them more stable and to allow them to turn and be removed if required

They were mainly painted with several of the old Games Workshop Foundation paint colours. I really liked those paints, I must buy one of the new 'base' ones and see how it compares. It's funny, I usually use Vallejo paints but for block painting those Foundation paints were really good

Next on the table, not sure, getting easily distracted at the moment :/

Clowning About

Digging through the pile of figures that still need painting, I came across a set of armed clowns I got from Black Cat Bases a while ago. These will be destined for use in 7TV games, one of the sample scenarios in the Summer Special supplement is based in a carnival with clowns involved

These clowns aren't your usual family friendly ones but seem more reminiscent of Pennywise the clown from the Stephen King story/film It. Picking the first one from the set that I liked the look of, I went for the first colour scheme that came to mind. Suitably scary I think...

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Whilst I was waiting for him to dry, I quickly painted up these power units from Fenris Games. They are designed for use with the Incursion weird WW2 boardgame but will be useful in tabletop miniature games as well

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Finally, if anyone is going to Colours at Newbury Racecourse this weekend, I'll be there on the Sunday. I'm helping out on the Spartan Games demo table, just look for the confused looking person :)

A Week In Paint

Despite no new posts for the last week, I have been busy with the brush & paints. Even though I have had the week off work I didn't really get to do any real painting until late on Tuesday

My real aim this week was to paint the remaining Bushido figures I have left. This was somewhat successful, with the six Bakemono goblins from the starter set plus one additional character Bakemono completed

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I have another group of three of these to paint, those are the ones that can be summoned in a game to increase the horde size. These really are lovely figures, full of character in their evil looking faces. The miniatures are a bit fiddly to put together, with separate arms, heads and add-on bits. Nothing some good adhesive can't deal with though

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This Bakemono is the only character one I have at the moment, Tra-Peng the hunter. You can just make out a man-trap that he has slung over his shoulder

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I have quite a bit of Games Workshop Lord of the Rings range, both painted & unpainted. Even though I haven't played a game in a few years I got the urge to paint some of them. These Gondor Fountain Guard are lovely figures and I wanted some when they were first released. On reading they are being replaced with Finecast  I decided to pick up these metal ones cheap off of eBay. I'll have to watch the films again now though!

Finally, I wanted to clear some scenery bits that needed doing. The Ainsty checkpoint was in need of painting as I glued it together previously. The wooden shed was something I added to the Warbases order a while back and went together quickly and some card tiles on the roof finished it off nicely. Finally, the shop I got from PMC on eBay. It comes prepainted with a cream brick colour that I gave a quick red drybrush to make it match my other UK buildings. The windows and sign were also painted to lift it ready for use

Scenery: Barricades

Getting myself back into the mood for painting, I decided to paint up some resin scenery pieces that have been sat on the side for a while. These were purchased for 'large scatter' for 7TV/Left4Dead zombie type games that are being planned. I have a large collection of this type of scenery and it always comes in useful

First up is a junk pile that comes from Black Cat Bases. It has a dumped fridge, sofa, wheelie bin and a pile of mattresses. I toyed with the idea of putting a tuft or two of grass on it but in the end I left it bare

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These are a pair of car wrecks that come from Foundations of War, via their eBay shop. Each contains a pair of wrecked cars with barrels, bricks and masonry scattered about. The first one has a pair of older cars whereas the second is definitely modern

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