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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: tomcat51 on February 08, 2017, 02:25:22 PM
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I’ve never bothered with a hobby thread before, mostly due to my lack of photographic skills and facilities, but also down to my lack of ability to focus on any one project. However, after picking up Deadzone 2.0 and Rogue Stars, and realising that the minis’ can be used for both systems, I am inspired. Furthermore, as I’m planning to work on my pile of Sci-Fi minis, I’ve decided to dust off my Rogue Trader aspirations as well, combining it all into one glorious (ignominious?) project. With all that in mind, I have decided to chart my trials and tribulations here for your viewing pleasure (or disgust) in an effort to keep me motivated and on track. Kind comments are welcomed, even if they are lies, for I am shallow and fickle and in need of constant affirmation.
So, here goes; I present to you some slightly converted Space Hulk 2nd Edition Terminators in Deathwing livery. They will be used in a long planned Rogue Trader campaign, but could also double up as space cops or mech suited miners or something in Rogue Stars. Sorry for picture quality, this were taken on a phone camera, something I hope to remedy in future.
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A closer shot, so you can marvel at my painting skills, or recoil in disgust.
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Good idea about them being mining suits ,never thought of that.
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A closer shot, so you can marvel at my painting skills, or recoil in disgust.
Hehehe, no reason at all to recoil, they look good to me. I actually prefer a darker bone color for Deathwing, like you've used.
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Good idea about them being mining suits ,never thought of that.
If you ignore the skulls of course.
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Hehehe, no reason at all to recoil, they look good to me. I actually prefer a darker bone color for Deathwing, like you've used.
Thanks. The darker colour is what I'm used to as well, I prefer the warmer colours to the bone white some people paint them.
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A Dark Angel Tactical Squad that will be called in to defend and outpost in my planned campaign. I'm hoping to tinker with their stat line to make them more like the Marines in the fluff, with one squad of Marines fighting hundreds of enemy cultists. I don't have hundreds of cultists, I have about 35, but I plan to have dead models recycled in reinforcement waves, with the Marines holding back the enemy long enough for a squad of Arbites to escort some civilians off table.
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A closer view. Sorry, but the Dark Angel armour seems to eat light.
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And the final member of my Dark Angel force, a Snipety Snipe Snipe who is exceedingly good a sniping. He's called Captain Snipe, cos' 40k don't need no subtlety!
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I like where this thread is going. The scenery in the pictures, is it Mantic urban? I'm strongly considering blowing my PayPal funds on their stuff.
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I like where this thread is going. The scenery in the pictures, is it Mantic urban? I'm strongly considering blowing my PayPal funds on their stuff.
Mantic Battlezone, yes. I like the stuff; covers a table at a reasonable price and you can do as little or as much as you want to it. I've seen some amazing tables done with the stuff. I even played a game of Deadzone where some guy had built the interior of a sci-fi gentlemen's club, complete with stage and pole.
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All looking very good, well done - I shall enjoy seeing your progress on this! :)
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All looking very good, well done - I shall enjoy seeing your progress on this! :)
Thanks. I hope I can make progress and not get distracted by shiny things.
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I've been painting Dark Angels to recently. I like your termies especially the weathering on the armour good stuff.
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Mantic Battlezone, yes. I like the stuff; covers a table at a reasonable price and you can do as little or as much as you want to it. I've seen some amazing tables done with the stuff. I even played a game of Deadzone where some guy had built the interior of a sci-fi gentlemen's club, complete with stage and pole.
I don't suppose you have any pics of it?
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I don't suppose you have any pics of it?
I assume you mean the gentlemen's club and not my battlezones scenery? I managed to find some pics online. You can just about see the stage and the pole in one of the pictures. He did the entire thing in a few days apparently. I really liked the seedy, purple interior. I had to dive one of my Enforcers behind the bar for cover, it would have been rude not to.
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All looks good.
I like the minis, not as much as I liked your introductory text though. Made me chuckle it did.
What's next?
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All looks good.
I like the minis, not as much as I liked your introductory text though. Made me chuckle it did.
What's next?
Thank you, glad it amused you. I'm going to get some photos of my Deadzone minis next, and some Rogue Trader era miniatures I've painted, then its on to seeing if I can reduce Lead/Plastic mountain. Then, with any luck, I may post up a battle report or two.
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I really like the mining suit idea for the terminators. I have a couple of these plastic minis knocking about. I will take the guns (and skulls) off and add some heavy power tools/drills. Thanks so much for the inspiration!! ;)
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I really like the mining suit idea for the terminators. I have a couple of these plastic minis knocking about. I will take the guns (and skulls) off and add some heavy power tools/drills. Thanks so much for the inspiration!! ;)
No problem. If you can get hold of some chainfists I think they would look good as mining equipment. If you can get hold of a Terminator Apothecary arm also, it would double up as a pretty decent drill.
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I assume you mean the gentlemen's club and not my battlezones scenery? I managed to find some pics online. You can just about see the stage and the pole in one of the pictures. He did the entire thing in a few days apparently. I really liked the seedy, purple interior. I had to dive one of my Enforcers behind the bar for cover, it would have been rude not to.
The gentleman's club and your scenery as well!
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I've been at the painting table beavering away at some old school minis; these three are going to make up part of an Inquisitor's Retinue. On the left is Knives Chou, a Semi Sentient Servitor. He was a renowned serial killer who was captured and underwent the servitor process. Most of his personality is gone except for his killer instinct and love of blades. In the middle is Fil Mitshule, a power armour clad former Guardsman with a love for fire. Last of all, on the right is Bob, so called because no one can pronounce his real name. He is a wondering Eldar, tagging along with the retinue until he can figure out the incredibly complex and inefficient Imperial transport network and hitch a ride back to his Craftworld.
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Next are a couple of Rogue Trader era Space Marine in Crimson Fist livery. This Librarian and Medic (not apothecary, just a straight up battlefield medic) will head up a 20 man strong Crimson Fist Contingent I am currently painting up. I love the Crimson Fist colour scheme and think the deep red and dark blue goes well together.
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I thought I would also post my previously painted Deadzone minis, as I will be using them in Rogue Stars and Rogue Trader games. The Enforcers are wonderfully generic and would make great space cops, mercenaries, planetary defence force troopers or Arbites. The minis aren't great, but they are cheap, and can be rescued by a good paint job. I don't think I rescued them, but I made them presentable at least. As an aside, I actually like Mantic's background fluff for Warpath and Deadzone and wish they would spend more time developing the IP rather than flitting around on constant Kickstarters.
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Some Enforcer specialists.
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I've painted the Enforcers with close combat weapons in black, to make them look stealthy, like space ninjas. The Peacekeeper was painted more recently and I have gone with a very dark blue colour scheme to make it look more like a space cop. More Peacekeepers to follow once I've painted them.
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Next are the Plague. I like these minis, like the Enforcers they will do for any number of systems and settings. They are perfect zombie space mutants and will also pad out my Cultist ranks for my planned Rogue Trader campaign.
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These are more mature Plague creatures, their infections at a later stage. I'm not too keen on the smaller ones, but the big creature reminds me of the Mother in Gears of War.
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Some Plague Trooper specialists. I have about 8 more Plague troopers to paint up, as well as some more of the larger creatures; an Abomination and a Plague infected Terraton.
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The Rebs now. These are my favourite Deadzone faction, now made better with Deadzone 2.0. With the increased customisability of the army list you can pretty much add any model you want to your Rebs, from any figure range, and there should be something in the list to equip them, and something in the fluff to explain their presence. They are basically a rag tag band of humans and aliens who have come together to oppose the GCPS. Any Rogue Stars players looking for some aliens would do well to pick up some of these minis. I'm also planning to add some aliens from CP models to my Rebs to flesh out their ranks a bit more. Here we have a Terraton, the Rebel Commander and two generic human troopers.
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A couple of Grogans, a pair of drones and a duo of Yyndij.
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A rebel heavy weapon team and a Chovar Psychic. The Chovar can double up as some sort of Tyranid construct and has taken part in some Lovecraftian Pulp gaming too.
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Last few Rebs. The medic is my favourite, none combatant minis are always welcome for scenarios and stuff like that. I've never used him in a game of Deadzone.
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Nice work :)
One thing that your pics don't show is just how tiny and spindly some of those Rebs miniatures are. It was a surprise to me just how fragile some of them are.
At some point I must sort mine out but I am a bit apprehensive about damaging them... so cudos to you for getting through that and making something great :)
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Nice work :)
One thing that your pics don't show is just how tiny and spindly some of those Rebs miniatures are. It was a surprise to me just how fragile some of them are.
At some point I must sort mine out but I am a bit apprehensive about damaging them... so cudos to you for getting through that and making something great :)
Yup, there are a few bent and broken gun barrels, fingers and blades on them, but the bodies and limbs were sturdy enough. Glad you like them.
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Haven't made as much progress as intended on my Sci-fi projects, this Abomination from Fenris is the only thing I've finished in ages. Its the kind of miniature that could go into a number of settings from sci-fi to fantasy to Pulp and horror. I'll probably use it for all of those at some point. For some reason, whenever I look at this figure I imagine it saying something like 'Is it bad? I can't look, its bad right?'
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Very nice.
I especially liked the Terminators.
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Very nice.
I especially liked the Terminators.
Thanks :)
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I imagine it saying something like 'Is it bad? I can't look, its bad right?'
lol
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Great job on the DZ Rebs, very nice painting on them.
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Finally got my Genestealer Patriarch finished. Its obviously a better model than the original in a technical sense, but it doesn't have the same character and charm. The Old Patriarch sat on his throne, familiars by his side, was a great mini that really set the imagination afire. Oh well, things change.
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I've been distracted painting Anglo Danes but know I'm back on Sci-Fi. I'm putting an Enforcer force together for Warpath: Firefight. Not sure if I will go for the urban camo pattern on the entire force but I like how these have turned out; apart from the varnish mishap at the end (you will see that three of the squad are significantly paler than they should be; never varnish in low light conditions!)
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A dramatic, and somewhat unlikely pose!
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Some really great minis here, nice to see what can be done with these figures. Those shoulder transfers on the latest enforcers are oooooold school, man! They're like the first transfer set I ever dealt with all those years ago! I like that ;)
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Some really great minis here, nice to see what can be done with these figures. Those shoulder transfers on the latest enforcers are oooooold school, man! They're like the first transfer set I ever dealt with all those years ago! I like that ;)
Cheers. I can't believe the transfers still worked. I wish I hadn't ruined 3 of the Peacekeepers by over varnishing them. They still look ok, just washed out.