What's been on the painting table 2021 Part 2

Here's the the latest lot of painting/modelling I've been up to. I decided to get some more terrain built for future sci-fi/cyberpunk games.

These are two fast food outlets for Albion City. On the left is the homecooked style of the Albion Liberty Kitchen and on the right, for the more adventurous, the flavours of Multicultural Albion. Each has there own followers, the Alkies and Ma's boys.

A lot of the power within the city is provided by hydrogen produced with solar power. Very clean and efficient, but does tend to go with a big bang when shot at.

Finally some more storage tanks, but with a more industrial feel.

It's surprising what you can do with some coffee cartridges, large screw on lids, cotton reels and a bit of paint.

 

What's been on the painting table 2021 Part 1

Well I still haven't got the first Rangers of Shadow Deep scenario posted. My camera decided it didn't want to focus, either that ot my eyesight makes everything look blurry anyway. It is coming.

In the mean time I thought I'd post a few of the things I'd been painting recently. This is a batch of sci-fi figures I have had for quite a while, so I've put some paint on them with no particular game in mind yet, though I am looking at trying out Hardwired soon, as well as the anticipated Stargrave. After reading Red Player 1's blog I may have to dig out Laserburn again.

These are a mix of Critical Mass figures, now through Ral ParthaUK, and Laserburn figures from Alternative Armies.

The building was quickly scratch built from a coffee jar lid and some packers, as well as a hatch and fans I have bought in the past.

Again these are a mix of, I think, all Alternative Armies figures.

These are all the EM4 Mechas, with a 15mm figure shown for scale. I'll maybe have to read Osprey's Gamma Wolves now, or use them as small mecha/robots in 15mm scale

Preparation for First Rangers of Shadowdeep Game

 To get ready for a game of Rangers of Shadowdeep I had a bit of preparation work to do, to get the figures and terrain ready. Well, I've had about a year getting ready, but seem to have had a spurt of activity over the past couple of months.

First up are the boards to play the game on. As I'm going to be playing the game in 15mm, I've decided to change the inch measurements to centimetres.

During one of the brief interludes between lockdowns I managed to go to the local scrapstore in Hull. They sell a variety of both new art equipment and end of line bits & pieces and general useful looking bits. I ended up buying 8 hardfoam boards, roughly 59cm x 49cm and 0.5cm thick. At £1 each they seem good value.

Here's what the bare boards looked like.

I then covered the board with a Javis landscape mat. Although I have now learnt to glue it on in small strips, as otherwise it does tend to bend. I ended up having to break the glue under half the mat, so it would lay flat. I intend to make more of these boards, at least two of each, so that I can have a variety of terrain and larger boards if required.

I have started on one using Fablon, the sticky back plastic, but that hasn't gone well so far 😭.

Next up came the buildings, these are all from Timeline's Dark Ages set.

With the larger huts, the one on the right is from Timeline and the other I built with my daughter when she was studying the Vikings. It's made from balsa wood and fake fur.

Next up came the objective markers and general small terrain. All of which are from Alternative Armies. The statues are from there 15mm range, but just looked a bit too large.

Next up came the monsters I would need. I already had some zombies, they are modern day ones, but that shouldn't matter, I'll just not use the obvious modern ones. The giant rats are from the Reaper Bones collection. The Giant Spiders and Flies are from a job of plastic bugs on Amazon.

Finally come the characters for the ranger and his companions. They are from various manufacturers, Demonworld from Ral Partha UK, Copplestone from North Star Miniatures and Alternative Armies.

Hopefully all that is left now is to play the game this weekend.

First Post

 After much consideration I've decided to move most of my skirmish gaming from 28mm to 15mm, so I've been working on some 15mm terrain. These are a couple of buildings I've worked on for fantasy type games, mainly Frostgrave and Rangers of Shadowdeep, but could equally well be used for pulp style gaming.

They are both made from AB Military's foam bricks, which while a little fiddly with my fat fingers to construct, is very light.

The figure is a Demonworld ranger shown for scale.

I'll add more terrain as I get around to photographing it. I've also got a couple of Battle Reports from my first two solo games of last year.