Combined Atlanean Rifle Brigade

[Red Orc]

At least, the Dwarf contingent therefof (yes, these are the 'Low CARBs').



Casting his eye across proceedings from the top of Table Mountain (at a little-known point called Manilla Envelope Bluff) is Frigbard Jaegling, surrounded by officers and troops of Her Imperial Majesty's most loyal Morlock regiment.

OK so they're not quite finished but they're not going to change all that much - hopefully, just get a little tidier (I can see mistakes in the photos that are tiny in real life, at least to these tired old eyes).

Dwarf Adventurer on slotta-base is from GW, the others are from Old Glory's 'Dwarf Britannia' range.

More pics on my blog.

[Froggy the Great]

(yes, these are the 'Low CARBs').

May you be forgiven.

Heh.  Nicely done.

[Jonas]

Lovely 

[The_Beast]

You saw how I was pilloried for 'fantasy' when I suggested similar lads! 

My red coats never got their steam leviathan, but yours are made of steely stuff, and may not need any.

Well done, indeed!

Doug

Oh, low CARBs... Now I get it... 

[Red Orc]

I think 'VSF' can cope with some fantastical things; I'm very Steampunk myself, it needs airships and dinosaurs and mad inventors and Ruritania and Atlantis and Martians and aetheric weapons and preferably Time Travellers in Blue Boxes and Sherlock Holmes and sometimes Blasphemous Cyclopean and Eldritch Beings of No Human Aspect, if I can get away with it. Atlantean Morlocks (with beards) in the British Army? Yeah, why not?

But my rule is to try to make the 'crazy' things seem normal, so you can be a bit weirder with the 'normal' things.

Someone once gave me a tip about modelling alien plants - it was that you can have a plant that's a 'normal' shape but weird colours and it looks alien (like an orange-coloured twig for a martian tree, say); or you can have a plant that's a weird shape but normal colours and it looks alien (like brownish-grey dodecahedrons with little green bits); but if you have a plant that weird colours and a weird shape no-one will know what it is. Hmmm, some orange dodecahedrons... are they some kind of rock?

I try to stick to a similar principle with stuff like this. Dwarves in Pith helmets? Paint them as proper British Redcoats; everyone can see what they are.

Normal British Zulu Wars minis? Paint them green (maybe they're a Rifle Regiment?) and give their sergeant a Galvanic Projector - then they can be UNIT: 1891.

Every bit of weirdness I think should be balanced by enough bits of reality that you're not just totally making it up - otherwise, you might as well put bits of cotton wool down and say 'Professor McMad has invented an organised gas weapon... here are my troops, those large ones at the back are Gaseous Cavalry. And the things that look like upturned yoghurt pots are hovering cloud factories... no I don't know how they work'.

Obviously, one could do that, but how could anyone tell it was Victorian? That's where the red coats and Glengarries and Pickelhaube and whatnot come in. A few visual signals to tie it down. That's why if I ever get round to using my GW tanks and walkers in a game, I'm going to make damned sure they're all flying big British ensigns. Just so people know.

[Powered Armored Stooge]

They look quite spiffy!

Cant wait to see their xenos foes!

[Red Orc]

Their first foes might well be some pesky lizard-beings... who may in fact be Deep Ones, or maybe Venusian Parrotmen:



The lizard is from a game called 'Impact' I think, that I picked up from a charity shop. It had a bunch of plastic alien lizard warriors in it anyway. Thought they might make fun opponents.

Pictured with an Ironclad Brit painted by Majorsmith... who's a much better painter than I am!