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.

A Mixed Update

I realise, that it has been some time since my last update. It is not because I haven't painted anything new or done anything miniature related, but I have been really busy lately. Playing live with my band, visiting Belgium with some of my family, sorting out general chaos and all such stuff.

But when I made this blog I decided that I would try and make at least one update each month. So I dug through my recent photos and found some stuff to share with you guys.

Mercenaries from Four A Miniatures which I recently painted.

These guys had been lying around for some time and I did'nt really know what to do with them. I ended up painting them in blue and white, so in the end I think they are now looking like some space police of some sorts. I like the models very much and I plan to get more stuff from Four A Miniatures in the future.

Fishmen, Rogue Trader Mercenary and the Matakishi Cat.

I was so lucky to get the pair of the Rogue Trader Fishmen from Wargames Foundry. They have only been available as a giveaway when they ran some Rogue Trader game weekends. They were a joy to paint and I think they turned out ok.

The Rogue Trader guy was just some dude I painted to try and paint some old school yellow. I am not 100% satisfied, but I think he has an ok rough and dirty look and will do fine as a space pirate or other scum.

The Matakishi Cat is from Matakishi's Tea House. What can I say? I just love that cat and Matakishi has been a good inspiration for a lot of my previous projects. I can recommend anyone to visit his homepage.

A Scale shot: C. P. Models, RT Marine, Four A, GW, Four A.

Besides that I have been working on a mixture of different project. I am constantly stripping old and second-hand miniatures, removing mold lines, greenstuffing, basing, base-coating and generally preparing miniatures, but there is not much fun in documenting that. But one bigger project, I have been doing for some time now, is my ongoing Spacelords Phagon army. I am not going to use it for Spacelords, since the rules are only in German, but I love to collect and paint the miniatures and we have been talking about trying out No Limits from Wargames Unlimited. 

Here is some WIP army shots.

Army shot, a bit out of date though.

So far I have all the Beastmen, Battle-Beasts and the PSI-Wolves. I am still looking for some of the Battleclones and I think I am missing one or two of the Walkers.

Below is some old pictures of some of the finished models.

Hopefully I will soon have some updated pictures of my Phagon army and maybe some battle reports to go with them. At least I am pretty sure this project will continue, since I really like the Metal Magic miniatures.

If you got the hots for the Phagons, they are now available at EM4 Miniatures. Unfortunately all the Spacelords miniatures haven't been re-released yet and it has been some time since last new re-release, but we are still some who hope to see the complete line brought back at some point.

Great Cthulhu With a Hot Glue Gun and Sci-Fi Terrain

Me and a couple of friends have been having a few get togethers for building a small residential neighbourhood for our miniature games. So far I haven't been helping much and mostly done other stuff instead. So this last time was of course no different.

Instead I began to assemble my RAFM Great Cthulhu, but the kit is rather old, the pieces doesn't fit very well together and it is generally just a nightmare to assemble. So I decided to use a mix of hot glue gun, super glue and greenstuff and went on with it.

Pieces have been cleaned and assembly has begun.

Work in progress.

And Cthulhu lives!

Somehow I managed to assemble him. But in the proces I also managed to glue myself to all sorts of stuff, burn myself on hot glue and stab my hands and fingers on all the spiky parts.

Next step will be to give him some greenstuff to correct the ugliest places of assembly and then give him some paint with the largest brush I can find!

And lately I have also been working a bit on expanding my collection of sci-fi terrain...

Noodles box and a watchtower in the making.

Some solar cell lamps ruined to make a small powerplant.

And some single deathworld cacti to add to the cacti fields.

Deep Ones (From the Deep)

Ever since I discovered H.P. Lovecraft I have always been facinated by the universe of the Cthulhu Mythos. I learned about Lovecraft through role playing games and one of the first games I really got into was "Call of Cthulhu", so it was no wonder that I eventually would get myself some Cthulhu monsters after getting into miniature gaming.

I remember as a child, when my dad and I went to town, we always had some regular shops to visit. A couple of record stores, some second hand book stores and then we had to visit Comix. Comix was an awesome place for me, the stuff of dreams, they had comic books, role playing games and most importantly they had miniatures! Lots of them! I had no idea what games all those wonderful minaitures were for, so to begin with I just picked a few that I liked and could efford.

One of the things I always had to see in the shop was their glas cabinet where they showcased painted miniatures. They all looked so great and much better than anything I had painted myself and the crown jewel in their collection was (in my eyes) their painted version of the RAFM Great Cthulhu!

Since those days I have gradually picked up a whole bunch of Cthulhu monsters, and related miniatures. But I haven't really been painting any of them since they did not really come in handy for any of the games I played. At some point I even bought that old Great Cthulhu model, but it still lies unassembled and unpainted in my cabinet.

But the other day I decided to get some paint on some of the old miniatures, and some of the stuff I had lying around was this "USX Modern Day Heroes" starter set. It includes 12 Deep Ones and 5 SWAT team members. It doesn't seem like the game is supported anymore, but I found some old scenarios on the RAFM forum and thought I could give it a try, and if it doesn't work out for me I do have a completely different approach to gaming these days, so I should have no problem about putting these Deep Ones to use with other rules and games.

Gaaaaahh....

I chose a rather fast and simple paint scheme, but I think they ended up looking good enough for me to be happy about it . Also, I must admit, that even though I spend far more time painting than gaming, I will probably never have the patience to become a really outstanding painter. So I always try to find a way to balance between the time I use and the result I get.

Hopefully I will get around to paint that Great Cthulhu model at some point, at least he will have a bit of company when he finally awakens.