C.O.R.D. : Canadian Occult Response Department

[horridperson]

I posted the "first meeting" story on my blog http://horridvoidspace.blogspot.ca/2015/09/strange-aeons-canadian-heritage-minute.html#more

Hopefully it will work a little better than the outline I did on this post.  I still needs to be fleshed out to "work" and will probably end up retconned as things proceed but I putting it out there to get feedback and opinions anyway.  If you don't want to check it out here is the second King diary entry.

[grant]

They say Sir John A. started his gin obsession after seeing a fishman-thing whilst arriving in Charlottetown. He just couldn't deal without dousing his whiskers in pine-scented liquor after that. 

Well done!

[Legionnaire]

Fantastic fluff, really enjoy when people muck about and come up with backgrounds, preferably even before they've read the rulebook through!!! There's nothing like having a little bit of imagination running wild so will watch this thread  .

[obsidian3d]

Very cool. Looking forward to seeing your progress.

[horridperson]

@obsidian3d:
I hit a snag on my mail order.  Grrr RAFM.  I'm waiting on my 20s style models and have to play around with a couple of modern models I got through my regular mail order store.  I am going to get the test model done up and advance the imagined history into the modern age.  It seems like such a waste if my investigators really blow it and the world ends before the Great Depression .  Imagined realities permitting there is a CORD in the early 21st century.

Over the years it has waxed and waned at the "mercies" of government budgeting and other fell circumstances.  The first model will be an operator attached to COR Team 1 based at CFB Trenton, Ontario.

@Legionnaire:
 I'm terrible about reading rule books.  I read the Threshold timeline Uncle Mike provided, saw other players had invented their own agencies and closed the PDF .  I would have read more if it was a real book so I'll blame my lack of attention to details on technology.

[horridperson]

My wave of RAFM agents arrived  !  I still haven't got them started but I have a bones formless thing by reaper completed.  Because I hope to do a campaign in multiple time periods and need to reuse my lurkers across them I tried to keep the basing non specific.  Dirt is dirt over the course of 200 years or so.  I avoided priming as instructed and didn't find it took paint too badly.  The initial layer was finicky and applying washes seemed to make the paint rub off by times.  This caused a bit of hassle but for the price these models are a steal and unless I want superb detailing for a character model I think I'd opt for them frequently.

[Sterling Moose]

The Lighthouse..........................well almost 

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=83472.0

[Redmao]

This is awesome.
Great project.

[horridperson]

@Sterling Moose

That is a good match but dollhouse makers make wargame make look like charitable organizations  .  Luckily they post quite a few photos so I they present a reasonable, "how to" guide.  I'd like to build the Light House at some point and having that as a reference would be very helpful.  Thanks for sharing it.

[horridperson]

It seems eldritch powers are working against C.O.R.D. .  Due to time dilation with the mail service a modern agent arrived prior to the roaring 20s ones and got painted first.  I see modern agents as more overtly martial than their predecessors.  The hysteria surrounding terrorism within the geopolitical landscape has resulted in a more paramilitary field presence.  There are still researchers and specialists but for the most part they are archivists, academics and bureaucrats with desk jobs supporting ground operations.  ORTs (Occult Response Teams) are often drawn from persons with Canadian Military and Law Enforcement backgrounds. 

Can hardware conquer horror?  Cults and agents of the elder gods often hide their machinations beneath the cover of terrorism and insurgency.  In 2006 a "terror attack" struck the Light House.  Government press releases indicated that C.O.R.D. had been targeted by extremists as part of a broader campaign against all of Canada and it's institutions.  No mention was made of the plundering of the sites occult library.  There have been unsubstantiated reports of cultist action in the middle east who plunder ancient sites of ancient knowledge while allegedly destroying them.

The first agent is a Black Scorpion USMC model.  I gave him blue fatigues and black kit.  The rifle was a nice fit for a Canadian because it's a C7 down to the forward assist.  I chose his uniform colour because I wanted him to be versatile in games.  I figure he could be a PMC, RCMP ERT, or a Vault Security Officer in a This is Not a Test game.

   

[cutp]

thx for the accompanying fluff

I also like that u spent the time to base the formless thing...

[Legionnaire]

I avoided priming as instructed and didn't find it took paint too badly.  The initial layer was finicky and applying washes seemed to make the paint rub off by times.  This caused a bit of hassle but for the price these models are a steal and unless I want superb detailing for a character model I think I'd opt for them frequently.

I didn't prime mine either, but used almost undiluted paint which also is recommended, as I found on a previous model the normal diluted paint I use wouldn't stick, too much 'flow'. But again, I only do one layer anyways before Armypainter Quickshade. My Faceless Horror arrived in two pieces actually, so it took me a second or two to realise that it hadn't been broken in transport, it actually was supposed to be like that  and then I found it sooo much easier to paint the inside.

[horridperson]

@Legionnaire

cutp was able to paint his as two parts as well.  Mine was packaged as a single piece.  I fiddled with it a little to see if it would come apart because the sections were obvious but it was stuck together pretty good.  The interior detail suffered a little but for the most part it wasn't a bad one to paint as a complete model.

[horridperson]

I just finished my cult leader that arrived over the weekend from Uncle Mike.  He is the first model I completed from the starter.  He was fun to paint and had plenty of flat space so I could play around with a bit of free hand.  I thought about painting him with a particular cult in mind but it looks like I'll have to reverse engineer and built the cult around the color scheme.

Without a background I defaulted to red because it is a primal colour.  I bastardized some thelema symbology to decorate his cuffs and had some fun with the leopard cloak.  It seemed to spiral away from reality and ended up more in a John Blanche style than the realistic flat paint I had started it with.  I wanted an ashen faced, tired looking leader who had ruined himself with excess and foul habits.  I made him pale and tried to accentuate the sagging jowl with a highlights.  I stole the headress from a leader pictured on the SA facebook site which was an awesome paint job but veered away on the face because their looked youthful and vibrant.

[Grumbling Grognard]

Okay, this one is my favorite of your pics you have so far.  Very nice.

Scott