Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Student Becomes The Master

The Mongoose/Warlord line is hit and miss with sculpting and casting quality.
Some of the models are just so very nice, while others are not so great at all.

I think these provide a good example of the variety.




Judge Tutors are judges that have been badly wounded in the line of duty and have been offered positions at the academy, to teach cadets.
The Tutors were instrumental in overthrowing Chief Judge Cal, as he hadn't hypnotized them into blind obedience the way he did with most of the other judges.





The casting here is average, with some lines.  The sculpting is off.  His anatomy is a mixture of incredibly muscular and also frail.  The pockets on his belt have flaps or not, have buttons or not.  The bionic arm just sort of ends and it's not clear if that is a hand or claw or miscast.  The number of folds in his draping armor goes from four in the front right to a mysterious three once his shoulder is crossed, but this doesn't happen on the left shoulder.  There are other things I think make it not so great.






The female cadet (perhaps America Beeny), on the other hand, is a clean casting and decently sculpted.





My only complaint is that her badge should be a half-badge, but that's passable.






Judge cadets frequently go on patrols with judges to gain experience, or conduct investigations under a judge's tutelage as part of class assignments.



The entire Sector House, thus far.


Wednesday, May 18, 2016

I've Got the Powah!

We've been having fun playing Cthulhu Wars, lately.

Despite it's high cost, it's got a lot of appeal to us.  Fun game play and MINIATURES!

I started painting them and this will probably be a main focus for me for a while (once you start painting the miniatures for a board game, you are stuck following through with it).



These are the power/point markers that come in the game.  Each player gets two in the color of their faction.

They are meant to be piles of stones with a skull on top (perhaps grave markers of some kind?).
I painted these with the player colors in the cracks of the stones, the idea was to create a sense of otherworldly power emanating from the markers.  It's okay looking.  It gives a good indicator of which marker belongs to which player.




Saturday, May 14, 2016

Back to the Future

Let's move forward from the 19th century civilians and go back to more appropriate models.


Let's Rock







These models are from Aberrant, originally for their Rezolution game.





The models are appropriately bulky for SWAT-type cops.  They have well-detailed sculpting.





They are cast in a rigid pewter.  It is stiffer than I've encountered in most metal miniatures.





The models are broken up in such a way that it isn't easy to assemble them.  They needed filing, pinning and filling. 





This resulted in the odd posing.






The Team So Far





Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Pour Me Another Pint

More anachronistic civilians from Blue Moon's Romanian Villagers set. 




These were, like the other two from this set, fun to paint.





I think they are Naismith sculpts.





I am partial to miniatures like this that have "character".