Introducing some important Characters: on the left is Daridra Udgāra who is the illegitimate daughter of Captain Nemo (or at least the real man who inspired the character?), in the middle is her highly capabable, even brilliant daughter Unamana, and on the right her rather irresolute son Ajusti.
And here are twelve of the crew of the JVS Naughtylust, the replacement of the Nautilus built under the direction of Unamana.
Another twelve crew in the underwater capable hard suits. All are armed with electronic weapons, the hard suit ones shooting balls that contain electric jolts that can be set on either stun or kill on impact.
The full twenty-seven currently painted Nemonauts. I have more if I decide I want to expand the crew.
I finished those during the LAF 'corrective downtime'.
I took a couple additional shots with two of the painted kongorillians to show scale:
I also painted all twelve of the piers seen earlier in this thread though the photo only shows some of them but the whole stack is painted - well, I started with a dark wood stain and then dry brushed on a total of eight colors:
New during the last week is this still in process port crane assembled from blocks of wood glued together with a few added bits, perhaps a bit 'crude' but it will work and if push comes to shove can use as is but, maybe, if I can find the part, will add some sort of traction to give the crane some limited mobility:
This next bit actually required some sawing of a few parts but again just some cobbled together bits of wood that I shall add some 'machinery' parts to since I plan to have them represent refrigerated warehouses for storing bananas - Banana Wars after all!
. Again, work in progress:
I also found another stash of wood bits that I am planning to use to create a processing building for Jitterbug Java, the coffee company. And then - in a stroke of brilliance - I've decided to also use to build a cacao processing facility! (Well, if you are a fellow chocoholic you'll agree there is some brilliance in the concept.
). No photos of that stuff yet.
Last bit of stuff I worked on during the down time was getting a start on my jungle trees which includes most of my 3D printed trees - still have some bamboo to work on, some undergrowth type pieces, and then I have to figure out how I want to do my 3D printed mangrove trees. All of the trees now have metal bases. I decided to base them all on individual bases for maximum versatility, some are multiple trees as printed on one base. Here is an overall shot of trees specifically set aside for jungle:
And one last photo to show just how big some of these trees will be in comparison to the figures, natives in this case. For those who need to know, the two tall and canopied trees are from Kobold, three more just showing their bases but not assembled with canopies yet:
So, very much more to work on in the now slightly less than two months before first scheduled pulp game - Fistful of Lead: Bigger Battles rules, of course.
04 September 2010, 02:36:48 PM