Fishmen -- and hopefully an ongoing chronicle of frugal SA gaming.

[James Holloway]

I have been inspired to get back into Strange Aeons lately -- I'd been distracted by other projects -- so I've been painting up some of my new Bones and blowing the dust off some old ones. Here are a few models I have used / intend to use for Strange Aeons; I'm not a fantastic painter (or photographer), but I think these came out not badly! I'll try to update the thread fairly frequently. Today's critters are fishmen!


 








More information on how I painted these guys (simply!) will be up on the blog in the next few days -- see the link in my signature.

I'm quite excited about getting back into this game again -- I love collecting Mythos-y minis, but in CoC or ToC there isn't really a whole lot to do with them, you know?

[Cherno]

Very vibrant colros, I like it. These fellas seems prety big, no? The investigators will have a hard time dealing with those beasties

[Mason]

Nice colour choices, James.
I like these a lot.
 

[James Holloway]

Very vibrant colros, I like it. These fellas seems prety big, no? The investigators will have a hard time dealing with those beasties

Yes, they are very big -- definitely taller than your typical investigator. But then fishmen in the game are brutes.

[James Holloway]

OK, so here are some tombs. They're from Ziterdes, but I picked them up super-cheap (for like $3?) at a gaming flea market in California.

http://www.ziterdes.de/ziterdes/en/produkte/article_detail.php?we_objectID=1342703&catID=64&subcatID=66



Seen here with a Copplestone detective (also picked up on sale) and a Mantic zombie from the ol' sprue exchange. I'm quite pleased with the zombie!



A close-up on the door detail.

I washed the tombs, then hit 'em with old Halfords grey primer and followed it up with a couple of layers of different shades of grey paint, applied with both a drybrush and a sponge, just to vary it up a bit. I then picked out some of the gaps in black ink, and Bob's your uncle. I could have done more, but it'll do! Not bad for a couple of dollars and an hour or two.

[Mason]

Those tombs have come out a treat and the figures are pretty damn fine, too.
 

[Uncle Mike]

Great stuff! Love that ghoul, I will need to dig out mine...forgot how good they are.

[James Holloway]

Yeah, that one is very nice -- although some is better than others. Like the tombs, I just primed him grey, then drybrushed him up almost to pure white and applied colour with brown, black and purple washes before doing some spot colour on the eyes and the nails through him.

Of course, now that I look on him blown up to double size I can see that there are some mould lines and so on, but still.

[James Holloway]

More monsters!



Reaper Bones mini-Cthulhu.



And shoggoth.



Rebased Horrorclix ghost.



And Heroclix Anton Arcane.



GW plastic Chaos Spawn (such a useful kit).



An old Grenadier Fantasy Warriors model.



An Aberrant from White Wolf's ill-fated Trinity: Battleground line.



A Rafm Elder Thing.



And a Ghast, very clearly based on Tom Sullivan's classic illustration.



Frankenstein's monster is a Harlequin/BTD Dr Who miniature.



And this Deep One comes from Grenadier.

Some of these are very old paint jobs -- those Grenadier Deep Ones are figures I got in high school -- but I just wanted t show some of the diversity in the monster collection.

[krieghund]

That Ghast is splendid, is it an old Grenadier model ?

[James Holloway]

That Ghast is splendid, is it an old Grenadier model ?

Rafm, I believe.

[obsidian3d]

Your investigators are indeed screwed if this is the kind of thing they're going to be up against! As it should be... >