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Showing posts with label Wargames factory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wargames factory. Show all posts

22/10/2017

Not so happy citizens (Pt. 3)

I can't blame you if you forgot of these, it's been a time. I've finished the angry mob (here you can see the first batch, just in case), so they're finally ready to run some proper riots. As before, they've been but a quick, negligent paintjob, looking for setting a mob rather than greatly painted characters. heer you have them:

Just threw a stone
Toxic but falmboyant. I think he needs a feather on the helmet
A Servitor whose lobotomy went wrong, now he's back for vengeance
Really difficult to see through that helmet!
He really is a RT Ork fashion admirer
Moebius is in this season
I fear the Imperials, even those bearing gifts
Leaflets and propaganda!
Feeling a little big headed today

Grinny Mr. Longarms
The angry opera singer
I still don't know what he is, but doesn't look like someone to mess with
Terrible outfit for summertime, trust me
I'm just noticing I have to finish the chainsaw, D'oh!
Fashion in 40K can be a little startling, I give you that
For the last time, no, your damn car is not gonna be ready today
This Jedi is so oldschool he bears an axe instead of a lightsaber
This is a pacific demonstration, officer. This? No, not an axe, just my can opener
'Use, not abuse'. That's a thing I learned at Law School back in the day. I hadn'd room for a longer sentence in that sign!
So, finally, how do they all look when together?

'Oh, come on, it had to happen during my shift... Ehm, I mean, fall back, punks! I have you surrounded!'
I still have to build a couple of things for the scenario I have in mind, but I think this is all taking shape...

27/09/2017

Not so happy citizens (Pt. 2)

Rough row of days, but I'm painting the civvies as fast as I can. Let me show you what I have so far, almost half of the whole group.

You'll see, I'm favouring quick results over high resolution details. I just pretend to have a decent sized mob. I've used some really flashy colours (the Warhammer effect, you know), but as I was taking pics I realised I need a richer palette. Will take that into consideration for the next batch.
I also have a couple of signs, I wanted them to be on the cheesy side, no resemblance of any current political movement whatsoever. They of course are in Latin Gothic, as you could legitimately expect.

So let's see what we have!

Protester from the Red Era
Hipster protester. He rioted before it was cool
Round 1, fight!
No conversion, he was originally this angry
The adaptation of 'panem et circenses' (bread & circus) to the grimdark millenium
No, you're not supposed to drink that
Yup, he's going to the demonstration with his mug. No fucks were given that day
This one looks upset though
The Moebius connection
If you ever studied Latin at school you'll get it
Doctor Who taught me not to piss off a man with a fez
Come'ere, I'll talk you about this magic wand
Kind of Dragon Ball uniform, now that I think of it...
May I validate your ticket for this revolution?
This is as far as I've got for the moment. I have all the rest primed, so I hope I'll be throwing some paint at them anytime soon. I'm on it!

18/09/2017

Not so happy citizens (Pt. 1)

Here it is, the project I was talking about last week. Where to start...

I have a plan.

I have plans for running a Rogue Trader game in which a group of Arbites will try to contain an angry mob of citizens gone wild. They will try to overrun the Arbites and kidnap/kill/whatever the Governor, ransack the local market and show random general civil unrest. I have some ideas in mind for the rules and so.

But I needed an angry mob of citizens! Right, I have quite an extensive collection of civilians by now, but I wanted some specific protesters, not only bold adventurers. Numbers is what matters in this case, so I needed an unexpensive solution for hoarding a respectable amount of minis. My salvation came under the form of the Wargames Factory zombie survivors. The price/quality/(quantity) rate was just too good to let it go. So using that and some other bits I had (WHFB, 40K Skitarii...) I got all the greenstuff I had and begun to do silly things. Here you have them, in no particular order:

That's a Skitarius head upside down
Yep, GW heads are huge for models of actual humans
What's a boy without charming toys?
One of the very few minis with a firearm. Irrelevant however, this is going to be 40K...
Almost no GS needed, it gives all I need
Fancy hats are totally in this season
So are hispter hairdos
Is that a wrist walkman?
An angry servitor. His lobotomy didn't work and he recalls his former life. When he had arms and stuff
Pig Iron head on a Warhammer Fantasy body. Never can go wrong with this
Nothing is more Rogue Trader than that coat
I might paint that scarf Hufflepuff
Thats quite a sign. Not a clue of what will I write...
Angry metro ticket collector
I should have unpainted it but... welll, laziness, you get the concept
Opera singer or he reall wants you to look at his empty hand
Leaflets, propaganda, pamphlets
Whenever you see oversized stuff of any kind on a head, it's just a helmeted head from Bolt action
You revolt while I have my tea, I have a terrible cold
This one could take part in any current protest all over the world
Big head, big hands, big axe
More RT. Just because
Maybe the most incongruous of all these :D
Some kind of Merchant of 40K Venice
That's a Mortal Kombat pose
Yeah, OK, I like Moebius, what can I say
Maybe too much Moebius
Not sure if that's a helmet or his actual head
Speaking of heads...
Angry taxi driver marching against those Uber guys
These arms come from the WotC minis I used like a year ago (or more). Diogenes you say?
Angry Daft Punk Jedi bloke. Yes. Just because I can
You can see this group is highly incoherent eclectic. Inspiration has come from many places, from the City of Jedha from Rogue One (really nice designs for civvies there!) to actual pics from riots from here and there.
From quite a long time I considered purchasing the wonderful rioters by Offensive Miniatures, but in the end I took the cheap solution. The only thing that bothers me (well, 'bother', I'm talking about plastic toys) is the lack of females in the box. A mixed box (a male sprue and a female sprue) would have been just perfect. Anyway, though unexpensive, I think I'm not buying the ladies' box, my revolt will have to work with these. I have way more than enough for my scenario.

No clue of when will I be able to paint them, but it looks like the Arbites are going to have a rough day...