Role Players

Continuing with my Judge Dredd cultists.  Unlike the red-robed guys (who are from North Star), these are from Mongoose/Warlord (although, now available from Rebel).

I can't help but think, with a little laugh, about the Chick Publications "Dark Dungeons", which tells the story of role players that get turned into Satanists by virtue of playing the game.  (It's a completely serious comic warning you that your soul is in jeopardy by playing games like this.)

These are "official" MC1 cultists, with elbow pads and rayguns.

The look of them actually works great for pulp sci-fi, from the retro-future rayguns, to the fins on their shoulders and elbow pads.

The barrel tip of this one's gun broke off.  Still looks good.

This Way Madness...

I finally got around to finishing up the Cthulhu Wars base set cultists.  The last six belong to Yellow Sign.

Twilight is pretty much the worse time to try to take pictures at my desk.

This makes the twenty-fourth CW cultist I've done.

I've already started on painting the monsters.

A rainbow of mayhem.

Firestarter

Liz Sherman is a pyrokine and a member of the B.P.R.D team.

This is a repainted, rebased figure from the Hero/HorrorClix set.

This guy is the last of my Northstar cultists, and he's my favorite of the bunch.

I think his curled mustache gives him an appropriate villainous look and there's something I've always liked about fezzes.

Feeling Blue

Continuing with painting the cultists from Cthulhu Wars, this time around it is the blue faction, Crawling Chaos.

Crawling Chaos has fast units, which means that the cultists here can travel around quickly.

With these getting done, I now have 18 of the 24 base game cultists finished.  Next up is Yellow Sign...

This Is Not The Demon You Are Looking For

Continuing on with Hellboy/BPRD and non-Cthulhu Wars cultists...


Following on from my previous post featuring Hellboy, here we have Baby Boy.

Cat hair base not included on original model.

This cute little guy is also a Clix figure that has been rebased and repainted.

Cloudy day, cluttered desk -- the poor lighting hides my painting sins

Continuing on with painting more cultists, this guy is from North Star.

When I first started painting these guys, I though they would be a breeze to go through.
Then I started painting Cthulhu Wars and... well... robed demon worshipers are only so exciting to paint for a short time.

A post-sacrifice brawl is a great way to wind down.

Green Team!

I'm not on a green kick, it is just coincidence I tell you.

I've finished the next batch of cultists for the Cthulhu Wars game.  This time it is for the green faction, Great Cthulhu.

In a previous blog post I  showed pictures of unpainted and painted green cultists. 

Reusing photos makes things so much easier!

Dark picture for the dark arts.

Here is a shot of the six of them together with the red, Black Goat cultists as a group.

X-Wings not included in Cthulhu Wars game

First Cultists

Last time, I posted pictures of the power markers I painted for each player for the game Cthulhu Wars.  This time, I finished painting the cultists of the Black Goat faction.

Unpainted Great Cthulhu cultist.

The models in the game are sculpted well and cast adequately.  They are made of a "board game" type plastic, sturdy but flexible and not the type of plastic I normally associate with miniatures wargaming models.

I had already painted all the Black Goat cultists before deciding that an unpainted example would be nice to show.

The models needed to be washed before painting to remove mold release agents.  There was some mold-slippage and flash.

"Come to the meeting," they said.  "There will be coffee and cake," they said.

Each faction of Cthulhu Wars has six acolyte cultists that provide the faction with its weakest, but most vital units.  Here, I've painted the Black Goat faction's cultists (the red faction in the game).

The shading on the robes was too subtle, I think.

The cultists of the faction are one of the primary means through which the faction will gain power (the currency of the game) and doom points (the victory points of the game).

Cause and effect.

Each cultist in play provides their faction with one point of power and each faction can have a maximum of six acolyte cultists.

Raise your hand if you are a servant of the dark gods.

Cultists are usually the only units that are able to control gates, which then provide more power points and doom points to the player.  This makes them the most important unit for most factions, despite being the weakest in terms of strength.  This forces players to want to protect their cultists, who would otherwise be victimized through combat or by being forcibly taken and sacrificed (for power) by other players.  Yes, you can capture and sacrifice other players' cultists to gain more power for yourself.

 

28mm Foundry miniature for size comparison.

The miniatures have been purposely made to be 28mm scale (for the most part), making them useful for playing miniatures games as well as their original intended purpose.

Super sneak preview - a green team Great Cthulhu cultist.

Right Hand of Doom

The Judge Dredd world is so open and uses many different settings and genres, it is one of the things that makes it such a good universe for gaming in.
There have been a good number of crossovers into the Judge Dredd world.  Although Hellboy isn't one of them, it seems like a natural enough fit.

My wife was kind enough to gift me the Horrorclix Hellboy/BPRD set.  The bases for the miniatures are not worth using, so I removed them from the clix bases they came with and have been rebasing them on more 'normal' miniature bases.

Hellboy had  to be my first repaint of the bunch, of course!

This cultist is another of the North Star models that came in a set for IHMN.

A Cult Above the Rest

Hooded cultists are a broadly useful miniature type that can be placed in just about any modern or sci-fiction setting with ease.

These are cultists from Northstar, part of the In Her Majesty's Name range, which is a Victorian-themed sci fi game.

They are well cast and sculpted.  Being mostly robes with feet, they are fast and easy to paint.