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Plasticville USA: O Scale Water Tower #45978

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Plasticville USA: O Scale Water Tower #45978

Something else purchased awhile back for my Crisis Protocol games, we have some O Scale train terrain – apparently O Scale is roughly the same as 1:48, and I’ve seen people talk about using O Scale buildings and such for MCP. Since a lot of the better stuff either isn’t available here in Australia or is prohibitively expensive to purchase from the U.S., I picked up a few kits via Amazon that were affordable, although for way more than American shoppers. The first of these is this Water Tower. made of de-sprued HIPS plastic, this kit was simple to assemble, didn’t assemble properly anyway (that ladder is not straight) but such a background piece that I decided that IDGAF. I did texture the concrete by stippling with “AK Easy Cast” texture medium which helped a bit. Pretty simple job with a few layers of drybrushing and washing. I cut away the spout and added a couple of extra pipes made from sprue since I envision this piece being something I might just as easily stick on top of a building or amidst an Industrial sector as in a field since this thing can work reasonably well from any setting from WWII to Modern to Post-Apoc and Fallout-alikes – which is why I’m skipping any form of signage.

The Ariele and Tony Storch minis are here to provide us with scale for 32mm and 40mm. Size 3 for MCP, you reckon?

One more post to go for the February stuff and the final models for Dave Stone’s Paint what You Got challenge. Which this is also a submission for…

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Ariele Venturi & Sam Wood #Fembruary 2023

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Cthulhu: Death May Die Miniatures - Ariele Venturi & Sam Wood, Cthulhu Investigators

Something a little different again today – we have a pair of player character models from the Board Game Cthulhu: Death May Die. Ariele Venturi, a game hunter from Napoli, Italy; and Sam Wood, a farmer from Kansas. Death May Die is a board game that has some pretty strong positive reviews, so Marouda and I decided to pick it up and see if we liked it before the Pledge Manager for the second campaign closed. As it happened, the game was fun – though it’s also not easy – and the models are pretty alright. A mix of nice, clean details as with the Night of the Living Dead Zombicide models, while many of them have a bit of weird wonk to them as well – witness the size of Sam’s hat and thickness of his pitchfork(!) or the wonk of Ariele’s rifle – which in the artwork looks a bit like a SMLE and a bit like a Carcano and on the model just looks like “generic rifle”, and is rather different to the detailed artwork.

Cthulhu: Death May Die Miniatures - Ariele Venturi & Sam Wood, Cthulhu Investigators

Painting Sam’s shirt was a right pain in the arse, though his worn denim and Ariele’s outfit were a lot more enjoyable to paint. I’d hoped to complete another pair of figures from this game, but with the hot weekends over February it just didn’t happen. This weekend is looking much more pleasant, though we’re expecting a call from the AirCon guy at some point over the next few days – so it’ll be great to get it fixed, though it’ll also take up a bunch of time. Worth it, though!

Ariele is a #Fembruary model, and the pair of them are also models for Dave Stone’s Paint what You Got challenge. I’ve now got 2 more February posts to knock out in the next couple of days, then the rather modest February Round-Up shortly after that…