Tap's Workbench

[Lost Egg]

Well they look...weird. I love'em.

[Spinal Tap]

Please note that the flowery tablecloth is an cheap plasticky thing to cover our table when I'm working downstairs - my wife really took the piss when I bought it but it was very cheap.

Needed a little bit more terrain for my current of sci fi set in a space station so using an old game box measuring 18" x 12", some sci fi tiles printed and some waste card I've put together this to provide two rooms- great for storage too with all my Battlesystem walls and home made floors fitting in. All my scatter terrain is elsewhere. The doors and windows are magnetised; I may tiding them later but no-one can see the tape so it's unlikely!!

About 3 hours work which is not bad.


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[Pattus Magnus]

Excellent job! They look quite good, especially considering how quickly you put them together. 

[mikedemana]

That is a wonderful result from a few hours worth of work...wow! 

Mike Demana

[SgtSlag]

Fantastic!  I hope you share some photos of your results with Crooked Staff Terrain, who made the PDF's!  That is truly delightful terrain.  Makes me wish I could get back into Sci-Fi gaming again.  Haven't played Traveller since around 1982...  If I had more time, I would pick up TSR's Star Frontiers game, and run with it, but I barely have time for my fantasy games.  Cheers!

[hubbabubba]

I like that table cloth 

[hubbabubba]

But the terrain is also cool, like a homemade version of yhe GF9 sets.

[Spinal Tap]

Very productive week of building and kitbashing figures followed by a good weekend of painting.

Collection of different sci fi enemies put together from Stargrave, Frostgrave, Wargames Atlantic, Warlord Games and GW bits for my forthcoming game of Call Security by Dean of this parish.

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Wanted a Giant Snail and had a Wizards of the Coast Flail Snail in the box. Removed the head and greenstuffed him a new one. Just finished painting today.

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And for my Carnivorous Plants collection I grafted, glued and greensuffed these two.

Not got WIP pics of the smaller one but it's a Star Saga miniature with the sci-fi bits removed and replaced with leaves from a plastic plant.

Other is the head from the Flail Snail on a body made from a wooden bead, paperclips, glue, bicarbonate of soda and greenstuff.

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[mikedemana]

Those look great! I would love to see closeups of those miniatures, too...

Mike Demana

[has.been]

Good work on those.

[Spinal Tap]

Those look great! I would love to see closeups of those miniatures, too...

Mike Demana

Here you go Mike. Still just with my phone so not great, all just thrown together with speedpaints.

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[SgtSlag]

Here you go Mike. Still just with my phone so not great, all just thrown together with speedpaints.

   These look better than 90% of the painted figures I've seen over the past 32 years!   

SpeedPaints are a game changer, to be sure -- in a very good way!  There is no shame in using such an amazing painting tool to get finished miniatures on the tabletop.  My only issue with SpeedPaints is their high cost.  These figures' paint jobs may be, "thrown together," but they are quite good.  Their color palette goes well with the terrain color palette; SpeedPaints may do the majority of shading, but the painter still needs to compose the color scheme, applying the wonder paints properly and skillfully -- it still takes time, effort, and ability, in spite of what the nay-sayer's cry out.  I would be thrilled to game with those figures running around that terrain.  Really well done, all around.  Thank you for sharing.  Cheers!

[MaleGriffin]

Those are some great looking figures!
I'm late to the contrast paint party, but after watching lots of video reviews, I finally took the plunge and ordered Vallejo Xpress paints. I always thought "speed paints" looked washed out, but with the improved formulas, we now have very intense colors available. Your fantastic figures inspired this post. Well done!

[mikedemana]

Thanks for the closeups. I agree -- they do look very nice. I haven't jumped on the speed paint bandwagon for the simple reason that most of my gaming is skirmish. I don't mind taking a little extra time to paint my groups. Okay, I admit, the other reason is I am a cheapskate and buy craft paints... 

They DO give a nice effect, I agree!

Mike Demana

[Spinal Tap]

A while back I bought some cheap 54mm figures on a whim.

Finally got these giant centaurs painted and they'll do great for the more mobile wandering monsters in Sellswords and Spellslingers.

Will be painting up the minotaurs soon for more large foes.

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