Super Heroes and Not So Super Heroes

Last summer I was so fortunate to try some games of Super System from Four Colour Studios and I was instantly hooked. It really felt like a great set of rules, very free and open for anything you want to do. Cars were thrown, houses blown up and generally the entire city was devastated in the battle of Super Heroes against Super Villains.

So this year we are again doing some extraordinary mayhem with the Super System, so I have been painting a bit for the project and re-used some already painted models.

I must apologise for the strange colours on my photos, but I used a different lamp than usual when I took the photos, so they ended up looking strangely yellow all of them.

A mix of strange super heroes.

First up I already had Dr. Brain from Black Cat Bases and Mr. Muscle from Reaper (The two guys on the right of the photo above).

Then I found an old McDonalds toy, from Kung-Fu Panda, in a second hand store and after some greenstuff and paint I thought he would make a great super hero too.

My latest addition was the Golden Oldie super hero from Black Hat Miniatures, I decided to make him kind of senile, so I sculpted a strap for his cape and drilled a belly bottom for him, so he looks like he forgot to put on most of his costume. I think he ended up rather spiffy.

Dr. Brain, Golden Oldie, mr. Mucle.

Master Monkey.

I haven't settled on any names or super powers for any of these guys, so background and such is all work in progress, but the models are finished and ready to rumble.

Next up I thought I could use my Arashikage Ninjas, from my ongoing G.I. Joe project, as henchmen (I promise I will get back to my G.I. Joe project again soon).

Arashikage.

I have more super heroes, villains and henchmen in the making, among them is some Nazi villains and their henchmen of werewolves, kriegaffen and gasmasked troopers and I am almost done with my RAFM Cthulhu and his deep one henchmen.

On another note I was made aware that I was actually nominated for not two but three Liebster Awards. Suber from Old School Workshop also nominated me some time ago and I will get back to that later.

For now I am just happy that it seems like my blogging is back on track.

Finished Terrain Pieces

For some time I haven't painted all that much, I have had a lot of things to do, which is not gaming related and when I have had the time to paint I have mostly been working on a few terrain pieces or I have been painting stuff which has yet to be finished.

But I have been able to (almost) finish a few terrain pieces. These pieces have been really fun to work on and I think they ended up looking rather nice.

I will present them a bit backwards since I have previously shown WIP photos of the pieces I finished last.

First I present the Rogue Trader watchtower and solar power plant:

A Rogue Trader Inquisitor in front of an Imperial Outpost.

These two pieces go well with some bunkers I did last year and even though I added a GW Imperial Eagle to the tower I think they are generic enough to be used for any sci-fi setting
 

Detail on the backside of the tower.

There is still a bit more work to be done on these two pieces. I would like to add some numbers to the door of the tower and my old bunkers and such, but for now I save that for later.

To round off these two I have a few WIP photos, which might or might not interest some.

 

The tower upside down (it used to be a wooden vase).

Entrance and greenstuff added.

One of my Gyrinx' helping me out.

Tile adhesive added for texture.

 

Some of the usual chaos in our living room... Ehm my work area.

Sorry about the questionmarks in some of the pictures, but that is because I was working on a secret project at the same time. Since then the secret has been revealed and it turned out to be a statue which is designated for a fictitious city called Røvede, which we use a setting in our gaming group. It will probably go well with modern gaming, pulp and would be fine for sci-fi and much other too.

I hope you guys like it.

Founder of Røvede - Stein Bagger.

I didn't take many WIP pictures of this piece. Actually I only took pictures while working on the plinth after the statue was painted, so unless anyone really want to see those pictures I will just forget about those for now.

As most of you probably can guess, the statue is some souvenir I picked up in Belgium. I do think it is a bit silly, but that will fit fine with my gaming group, since most of the people I game with is rather silly too.

The miniatures in the picture is a mix of old GW, Black Cat Bases, RAFM and Reaper Miniatures.

And to finish up this update I have a picture of some of the upcoming terrain I am working on:

Lot of junk, to keep in the Rogue Trader theme.

Feral Cultist

Did I ever tell you that I love Black Cat Bases? No? Well I do. They have some of the best customer service I ever experienced and their catalogue just have so many different and awesome miniatures to chose from.

Granted, I wouldn't know what to use most of the stuff for, but does it matter? Sometimes it is just fun to browse through the vast number of oddeties and grap some random goodies to paint. They can always be tweaked into a setting later.

But there is of course also lot of stuff which I find very useful. Among this stuff is these Feral Cultist. I have had these lying around since last year sometime and I thought it was about time to give them some paint. They are sculpted by Moonfleet Miniatures, but is now a part of the Black Cat Bases catalogue.

I painted them up as dirty wasteland dwellers using a simple and easy colour scheme.

The cult gathers for a raid.

Armed with pulse rifles, an autogun and a jezail.

I still don't know exactly what these will be used for, but their potential is pretty big. From any wasteland setting, Necromunda underhive or post apocalyptic future. They will fit fine with most skirmish sci-fi settings we game these days.

Jokaero/Orangutan Gang

I have had a couple of Jokaero lying around unpainted for some time and finally thought I should finish them. I already had a small Jokaero/Orangutan gang, so the two new guys had a nice bunch to join already.

I tried using a little different pallette then what I used on the already painted guys.

New and old style Jokaero.

The complete gang!

The two guys in the back sporting huge guns are from Sgt Major Miniatures.

The big guy sitting down on the right is from Black Cat Bases.

I was told by the Sgt Major Guys that they would probably do some more armed Orangutan during 2013, but it was not on top of their to do list, so anyone interested in seing more Orangutans with guns should write them and tell them we need more!