Monthly Archives: January 2021

Reaper Bones 44078: Giant Snake

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Reaper Bones 44078: Giant Snake, Julie Guthrie

I haven’t been blogging or doing as much following and reading as I’d like to. I just haven’t had enough time to keep on on my own blog, my own comments, your blogs and comments. So I’ve been dipping in and out when I can, but I have at least kept up with a bit of painting. Again – not as much as I’d like, but even my leisure time is being stretched a bit more than usual as Marouda and I managed to get hold of a pair of Xbox Series X – and so co-op gaming and painting have taken aa priority over blogging. I mean, I finished this one in the first few days of January, but it’s taken me almost three weeks to get my arse out to take the photos.

The model, then – Reaper’s Giant Snake from the last Bones campaign to deliver. Not the one still outstanding, obviously. This one is cast in the newer “black” version of their PVC (despite being cast in white) and was actually bloody nice to paint. No stickiness, no issues with spray priming, no issues with using whichever paints and mediums I wanted to, no issues with varnish. Now they need to make all of their Bones models in this stuff, including re-runs of the older sculpts.

Reaper Bones 44078: Giant Snake, Julie Guthrie

It’s been sitting around for ages, but I had gone so far as to glue ot to a base. So I did the thing where you see a model on your painting desk and decide to get it out of the way by painting it. I got it done over 2 days, mostly due to drying time for sand and washes and so forth. I googled the look of the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, as it’s got something that looks like a rattle at the end of the tail. Kinda hard to see in these pics, and I mean, it’d work as a generic green snake or whatever, but I sometimes like to use animals as an excuse to practise putting together natural patterns, even if not always pushing myself.

Reaper Bones 44078: Giant Snake, Julie Guthrie

As you can see here, it’s a pretty decent sized model. No idea where I’ll use it really. I guess it works for D&D/FRP games (as does almost any kind of animal) but I could also drop it into post-apoc games as the pulpy-irradiated giant version of the normal Earthly aminal! 😉

It’s also my next submission for Dave’s Paint What You Got Challenge. There’ll be a few more of them over the next few days assuming I can write up the posts. 😉

Last Night on Earth 10th Anniversary Edition: “Old Betsy”

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Last Night on Earth 10th Anniversary Edition: "Old Betsy"

My first completed model of 2021 is this delapidated old truck, known as “Old Betsy”. It’s one of the additional models over and beyond the basics that are exclusive to the 10th Anniversary Edition of LNoE, which I picked up late last year before passing my old copy of the base game to a friend. Now if only the cat hadn’t pissed on the 10th Anv. rulebook and a couple of expansion pack-in rule slips while I had them out for painting reference… (FUCK!)

Last Night on Earth 10th Anniversary Edition: "Old Betsy"

I had a bit of fun with this one, going to town with several methods of weathering to show flaked paint, old rust, dings and dents, dust and some dried mud and dirt where appropriate.

Last Night on Earth 10th Anniversary Edition: "Old Betsy"

As with the horde or Zombies I finally completed recently, Old Betsy can be used in a variety of games outside of LNoE. We recently played through the entire campaign of Zombicide Night of the Living Dead, and we used Old Betsy throughout in preference to the cardboard car chit in almost all of the scenarios (excepting the time or two we drove around like maniac Mad Max War Boys knocking over the Zombies – needing the placement spots on the car!)

Last Night on Earth 10th Anniversary Edition: "Old Betsy"

Obviously, aside from various Zombie-themed board games, Betsy can also work in any modern game, other zombie games and also quite a few post-apoc ones as well. It might even work in a game like Fallout with it’s retro stylings! As my first model of 2021 it is my submission to Ann’s First of the Year Painting Challenge – as well as falling in the window for Dave’s Paint What You Got Challenge.

Last Night on Earth 10th Anniversary Edition: "Old Betsy"

We’ll conclude with a scale shot, showing Sherriff Anderson, Billy and Jake next to Betsy, about to be swarmed by a horde of the living dead….