Hellboy, man and boy, ready

[Hammers]

If you recall my post a couple of weeks back in the Workbench forum:

http://forum.backofbeyond.de/viewtopic.php?t=3360

...they are now ready for the gaming table:

Li'l Hellboy as he was summoned at the old church ruin in East Bromwich..



Li'l Hellboy was taken to an airbase in New Mexico, where the the nuns of a nearby mission were put in charge of his christian upbringing...



From left to right, Sister Immaculada Conception with the +20 Conductors Baton of Deamon Slaying,
Sister Sagrada Trinidad with a +15 Pointer of Doom,
Sister Pisotee a los Infideles with the +30 Carpetbeater of Righteousness
and Sister Doris with the +20 Ruler of Diciplin.

While Hellboy, at times, was a difficult child...



..they somehow managed to wrangle him into the boys choire...



...and in time he time grew up to become quite a strapping lad...



...in which the nuns had managed to instill a proper sense of coming down hard on the unholy. (And not to use harsh profanities.)

[Lowtardog]

Love em, and the weapons of god are great

"From left to right, Sister Immaculada Conception with the +20 Conductors Baton of Deamon Slaying,
Sister Sagrada Trinidad with a +15 Pointer of Doom,
Sister Pisotee a los Infideles with the +30 Carpetbeater of Righteousness
and Sister Doris with the +20 Ruler of Diciplin."

Bagsy the Ruler

[Westfalia Chris]

I don´t really want to know why you have such an array of Catholic paraphenalia, right?

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Other than that, great painting. And that billard queue scares me. Really.

[Hammers]

I don´t really want to know why you have such an array of Catholic paraphenalia, right?

It's just that I never liked this Nuns With Guns theme which some people seem to go for. I draw the line at nuns with boxing gloves. Plus it's not a snooker cue, its a pointer. :-)

Thanks for the nice comments, folks.

[Lowtardog]

How did I miss the Choir  thats fantastic ::

[Plynkes]

That church sure is in need of renovation. There's grass growing around the choir stalls!

That is wonderful. I would never paint anything like that, as it would probably never get used in a game. Hang on, wait a minute. I built that daft aeroplane-engine-propelled railway car, didn't I? Maybe I'm not so different to you, when I get a bee in my bonnet about something.


You would think they'd say (in full Irish brogue): "Cover up thy nakedness, thou UNRULY WICKED CHILD! (Smack! Smack! Smack!)"

[Plynkes]

On a photo-editing technical matter, how'd you make those speech bubbles so nice and regular and snazzy? Pure skill, or do you have some nifty program that does it for you?

(One is always looking to improve the quality of one's online battle reports. While the spirit is willing, technical shortcomings often let down the finished product.)

[matakishi]

Fantastic work Hammerdhield  :love:

[Hammers]

That church sure is in need of renovation. There's grass growing around the choir stalls!

It's a HirsArt kit, "Not-Weathertop" which I have used for many LotR games. Works nicely as an all-purpose decripit old ruin (like East Bromwitch).

That is wonderful. I would never paint anything like that, as it would probably never get used in a game. Hang on, wait a minute. I built that daft aeroplane-engine-propelled railway car, didn't I? Maybe I'm not so different to you, when I get a bee in my bonnet about something.

Hmm, I have admittedly wasted my youth painting a lot of miniatures I have never used on the gaming board. But in this case I think most of them will see smoke of the wargaming table at at least a copule of occasions. Hellboy, obviously; Li'l Hellboy as an objective perhaps, and the nuns, apart from my silly weapon conversions, can be used in everything from Gothic Horror to SCW. The choir boys are certainly a folly of mine, but they do come off the choire stand and can be put in, say, a procession in the Gothic Horror scenario they were once intended for (bloody useles rules).

You would think they'd say (in full Irish brogue): "Cover up thy nakedness, thou UNRULY WICKED CHILD! (Smack! Smack! Smack!)"

I was thinking a Spanish Mission, but from now on sister Doris will be dedicatedly Irish and UNRULY WICKED CHILD! will be her "cri de guerre" as she bloodies her ruler in battle agains sin.

[Plynkes]

It's a HirsArt kit, "Not-Weathertop" which I have used for many LotR games. Works nicely as an all-purpose decripit old ruin (like East Bromwitch).

I meant the piece with the choir, actually.    Just fooling around. I guess that is an American choir from a Catholic school, and they are practising outdoors on what I'm given to understand Cousin Jonathan refers to as "the bleachers." If those really are choir stalls in a church then they definitely need to pass the plate around the congregation a little more.

Irish nuns turn up everywhere, and everyone knows they are the most vindictive nuns in creation. There is no reason why there couldn't be some making life miserable for the inhabitants of a Spanish mission.

[Hammers]

On a photo-editing technical matter, how'd you make those speech bubbles so nice and regular and snazzy? Pure skill, or do you have some nifty program that does it for you?

(One is always looking to improve the quality of one's online battle reports. While the spirit is willing, technical shortcomings often let down the finished product.)

The speech bubbles is a built in feature in Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0. It is not cheap software but I bought mine second hand.

The bubbles come in all sort of humorous-nebulous forms including this omnious shape, here used with the black background option for heightened effect:



But I am not sure you really need this, Plynkes. Bells and whistles like this may just distract from the true art at the core of your reports.

[Hammers]

I meant the piece with the choir, actually.

Of course you did! I wasn't careless, reading. And yes, I put them in outdoor bleechers for the sake of usability.

[Chairface]

I want pancakes!

Love the figs. How did you do the arm on little Hellboy?

[Prof.Witchheimer]

hammershield, I'm speechless, that choir, you've excelled yourself!

[Gluteus Maximus]

Absolutely wonderful, totally eccentric  & a little scary!

Where else could you see a miniature choir?

Only on Lead Adventures  ::