Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Fist Bumps







Both of these are from Aberrant.





The sarge, here, is a rather flat figure.





The radio operator is a more interesting model.







Looking over my collected SWAT-types, I feel like there could have been a better color scheme used.  I already have plans to do other Citi-Def models for different blocks (at least one other set), so I will explore a different color scheme for them when I get there.




Monday, September 4, 2017

Street Lieutenants






Wargame Foundry's Street Violence line offers a lot for the near future gamer looking to depict, well, street violence.  When it first came out I was still playing 40k and thinking I wish I had a need for these.




This ganger is dressed distinctively, if impractically.  She's well armed and comfortable in blowing away enemies on land and sea.





In contrast, this guy from Mongoose/Warlord looks more nervous than comfortable.





A low level psycher, I'm sure he wants to push his troubles away.




I am not quite sure where he found his outfit, but it was thrown away for a good reason.







Monday, August 14, 2017

Made Men







Wargames Foundry makes this guy.  I wanted to use him as a corporate/mafia enforcer, as they would be more likely to have the resources to obtain a grenade launcher.  His clothing suggests jeans or work pants, so I painted them black to look more 'dressy'.





He'll bring some serious firepower to whomever he is fighting for.





This next guy is a Blue Moon gangster/fed that I had laying around.





He works for that classic look and will fit in just fine with the other enforcers.



Monday, August 7, 2017

The Blob








The Great Cthulhu faction of Cthulhu Wars has two Shoggoths available to it as part of it collection of monsters.









These blobs with loads of 'eyes' are not the most exciting units to summon in the game, until you obtain their ability to eat your own units, giving them super strength.  The Great Cthulhu faction is a combat focused one.  Including some cultists or Deep Ones to accompany hungry Shoggoths is an inexpensive way to increase the combat strength of your forces.













This little guy is in trouble...












Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Ambi-shooters



When one pistol isn't quite enough...




This Hasslefree model is one of my favorites.  The look and feel of the model is quite good.




She means business.






This guy is another from Pulp Figures.





He's got a great pulpy, muscular action hero look to him.









With two guns and a big knife, he's ready for a fight.






Like all the Pulp Figures models in my collection, he has a definite plane to his pose.

Monday, July 17, 2017

Minding Their Own Business

Can't have enough civilians.




This merchant marine officer is from Pulp Figures and I have had him laying around with nothing to do, really.  Perhaps he is captain of a Black Atlantic steamer.






Like all of Bob Murch's models, he is sculpted to be easy to pain, but look good.
It's such a generic figure, he could fit in many different periods.






Grandpa, here, is another OOP Alpha civilian.





The sculptor of these tried to sculpt eyeballs on them.  It gives them an unusual look that I haven't seen anywhere else.










Sunday, July 16, 2017

Gift for a Fellow Fan

Being a Dredd fan in the U.S. is not always easy...  I am a late fan (since around 2013) and don't subscribe to 2000ad, preferring to read the collected works in graphic novel form.  There is an American publisher of the Complete Case Files, but for nearly all the other releases I rely on ordering from the U.K.

In particular, I've been picking up select copies of the Mega Collection from Hachette, but they are not available for sale in the U.S.

Long story long, I couldn't find an issue of the Mega Collection and asked the 2000ad community if they knew of a source I could order from.  That's when one of the members offered to pick up a copy and send it to me.  This was a very nice offer.

In return for the kindness, I wanted to send something to show I appreciated it and came up on the idea of painting up a Dredd as thanks.