Depend-O-Bot

Tonight I finished my first "official" This Is Not A Test miniature from World's End Publishing, the Depend-O-Bot!

The Depend-O-Bot is a multi-purpose humanoid robot chassis that can be equipped for multiple different needs.  It is one of the standard commonly appearing robots of the This Is Not A Test game universe.

I really appreciate that This Is Not A Test is a system usable with any and all of my existing post-apocalyptic miniatures but at the same time they make some really cool stuff that I'm looking forward to painting as well.

I've currently got 6 more World's End models to get done this week and then I'm on hold until my Peacekeepers arrive in September (unless I break down and order more stuff before then).

My apocalypse is getting a bit robot-heavy so we're on to some mutants tomorrow.

-Jay

Mr Fixit-bot

I'm back and closer (always inching closer) to having a semi-permanent space for gaming and game related mayhem in my home.

I've actually gotten a fair bit of painting done over the past 3-4 week but I've been super-slack with taking pictures so hopefully I'll be able to post a bunch of stuff over the next week.

Tonight's contribution is a medi-bot from Aberrant Games Rezolution sci-fi minis game.  The truth is I haven't played Rezolution in years but I keep digging out their models to use for other games.  The medi-bot has been hauled out and re-purposed as a light duty construction robot for post-apocalyptic Fallout themed gaming.  Basically he's a Mr Handy if Mr Handy was less round and a bit more industrial.

My initial plan is to use Mr Fixit in games of This Is Not A Test if and when my mutants start adding members and if the long suffering Walter The Wobot shuffles off his mortal coil.

I have a second medi-bot that will actually be getting painted up as a medical robot but before I got around to him I got tons of awesome new figs (you'll be seeing over the next 10 days) that jumped the line ahead of it.

-Jay



 

Here come the Hoops!

For those of you who didn't thing the Gallus Gallus were enough Gamma World flavour in my post-apocalyptic games I've now added the Hoops!

The Hoops are basically mutant bunny-men that have appeared in every edition of Gamma World.  In more recent editions they have been presented as more feral and malicious than in their original background.

First up is Echo with his pistol

Then we have E.B. with his shotgun

And lastly Bugs with his rifle

Two of the Hoops should show up in my next game of This Is Not A Test and then I hope to get onto some Porkers (pig-men).

I'm running out of weird animal hybrid models to paint so unless any of you have any suggestions I'll probably move onto retro-sci-fi robots next.

-Jay

...the horde grows....

Last night/early this morning I got my next 7 Zombicide: Black Plague zombies done.

Not really much to say this time out, followed the same plan as last time and got all 7 of them done in about 90 minutes.

I have a few lingering projects done I need for some games in 10 days so I'm going to take a break from the horde for a few days and circle back to  some games and figures from a  few months ago.

-Jay

Yet another zombie horde begins assembling

A couple of months (wow, has it been that long?  I'm really falling behind on my painting!) ago I picked up Zombicide: Black Plague.  To be honest I picked it up with no intention of ever playing the game, it just seemed like a really good source of fantasy zombie models as well as some cool adventurers.

I've decided to paint the zombies in batches of 7.  That might seem like an odd number but the way the game comes packaged there are 7 or each pose in the game so it just kind of makes sense.  For my first batch I did one of the fairly straight-forward male zombie variants.

I'm pretty happy with how these turned out and I have to say for boardgame models the quality and the quality of the material seems really high.

At this point I'm planning on using these for my Ravenloft game (which starts tonight!) as well as loaning them out for a Frostgrave campaign day I may or may not be able to participate in.

In a perfect world I'll get a few more of these done this week.....so let's just see if the world is perfect.....

-Jay

Free mustache rides!

The third of Lucas McCabe's upstanding gentleman adventurers is now done!

The McCabe box came with three 'Wastrels' who are basically men of privilege who have wasted their gifts and now survive on the fringes of society while indulging in the occasional spot of ultra-violence.

In addition to the three Wastrels that came in the starter box I was able to use my 2015 Iron Painter winnings to get the Miss Anne Thrope miniature, so hopefully she will be showing up here tomorrow as well.

-Jay
 

I'm back again!

Hi all.

Wow, its been almost a full month since I posted last.  No tales of busyness or mayhem I just lost my painting mojo for a bit.  I hit one of those walls that's very similar to a new hobbyist trying to get started (I don't have time, I'm not going to finish, there's too much to do, etc) so I'm going to be easing my way back into the swing of things with a few easy wins.  Translation things I started but never quite finished and/or models that are fairly monochromatic.

First up is a Wastrel for Malifaux and/or Through The Breach.  I started running a Through The Breach adventure last year that featured all three Wastrel models fairly heavily but never got to any of the combat encounters they were needed for so they ended up on the perpetual back burner.  One got finished and the other two have been sitting half done for months.

This is the second of my three Wastrels but I have since acquired a fourth.

I'm not sure if this fig will see the table for Malifaux or Through The Breach first but either way he feels like a useful addition to the collection.

-Jay