Avatar by Gaslight! Tarok - Greater Knarloc conversion FINISHED! 06/05/2012

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

Hello all,

My big Gaslight project for 2012 is to refight the final battle from the film Avatar but done in Gaslight/VSF style!

The battle will instead be set on Venus and the Parrotmen will take the place of the Na'vee.

The "bad guys" will be played by a strange alliance of brits and Prussians.

The game will be a public participation game at the Melbourne Little Wars day in May.

So I have gone crazy on ebay and picked up a heap of Kroot, Knarloc and greater Knarlocs to make my Na'vee parrotmen.

I also picked up some GW High Elf dragon wings, tail bits etc off ebay so I can convert some knarloc into flying Knarloc for the flying creatures in the film.

I hope to post pictures soon.

Cheers

Fuzzy  

[rob_the_robgoblin]

That sounds awesome! Looking forward to some pictures.

[Ray Rivers]

Excellent!

Hope soon is real soon. 

Very interested in how you approach and make the flying creatures especially.

[CPalmer]

Yes, pictures please!

[surdu]

Hello all,

My big Gaslight project for 2012 is to refight the final battle from the film Avatar but done in Gaslight/VSF style!

The battle will instead be set on Venus and the Parrotmen will take the place of the Na'vee.

The "bad guys" will be played by a strange alliance of brits and Prussians.

The game will be a public participation game at the Melbourne Little Wars day in May.

Chris Palmer, one of the GASLIGHT authors has been running Venus games for a while.  In fact, we played one yesterday at club night.  See a picture here: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vJgsoK4K9h0/Tq77dCLCgRI/AAAAAAAABFw/Dk8LDg7JMv0/s1600/IMG_7961.JPG

Everyone concentrates on Mars, so the Venus games are an interesting diversion.

Buck Surdu

[gamer Mac]

Cool idea.
Looking forward to the progress pictures.

[Bullshott]

Chris Palmer, one of the GASLIGHT authors has been running Venus games for a while.  In fact, we played one yesterday at club night.  See a picture here: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vJgsoK4K9h0/Tq77dCLCgRI/AAAAAAAABFw/Dk8LDg7JMv0/s1600/IMG_7961.JPG

Everyone concentrates on Mars, so the Venus games are an interesting diversion.

Buck Surdu

Good to see the French holding their line. I've just finished my final unit of 3 Legion Extraterrestrial for Venus. Now I'm painting additional units to support them on the plains of Mars.

[Hat Guy]

I'll be keeping my Arabs shelved for this one, but would you be interested in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen making an appearance Fuzzy?

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

LOEG? No doubt  they will be defending the rights of the oppressed Na'vee parrot people

[The_Beast]

LOEG? No doubt  they will be defending the rights of the oppressed Na'vee parrot people

Sounds more like a job for the Magnificent Seven. ;->=

Really looking forward to this, as well. Never saw the movie, but the images I've seen suggest this should be of awesome scale.

Will there be steam conveyance walkers (exoskeletons)? Carrying big a** knives?

Now that I think on it, Venus is usually assumed to have thick jungles populated by large reptilians. Given the same actor is in both, you could always bleed in a bit of Terra Nova. 

Everyone concentrates on Mars, so the Venus games are an interesting diversion.

Fair's fair, Buck. Venusian Parrotmen have long been a staple of this list, along with Selenites, fishmen, Pelucidarans...

Now, the Venusian Amazons seemed fresh, ahem, to me.

It's horse-blindered thinkers such as myself who are totally focused on Martian flyers. 

Unless, if I ever get those GI Joe M.O.L.Es converted to a subterranean train...

And, the VSF terror fish...

And...

Doug

Edit: Aha! I've haven't considered Jovians!

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

Yes there will be aerial conveyances a plenty. Balloons, zeppelins, steam gyrocopters, aeronef and for the parrotmen, flying repitles and dirigibles.

and that's just the aerial forces! 


I'm painting some kroot troopers right now and hope to post pictures soon.

Cheers

Fuzzy.

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

The Navee Parrotmen warhost assembles!

The preparation for my display game at Little Wars 2012 in Melbourne continues.

The first troops off the paint table are the Parrotmen tribesmen. These will soon be joined by mounted parrotmen and flying Parrotmen!

The painting was quite simple. I undercoated them all with Army painter Crystal blue. Dry brushed the body with a lighter blue shade. I then painted all the equipment and then applied the strong tone army painter dip. After the matt varnish I flocked the bases and they're finished.




















I have also started work on the floating islands. They are painted but I'll put up some pictures once I have glued on vegetation etc.

Cheers

Fuzzy

[Sterling Moose]

Fantastic job!!

[Chairface]

Yes! Beautifully done!

[Bullshott]

Nice work on the parrottmen. Its funny how the concept has become a VSF wargames standard.

So now for the parrotmen quiz question : Who originally came up with the Parrottmen concept?