Category Archives: Kings of War

Deathworld Fauna – Vote Now!

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While I haven’t posted in what feels like forever, it’s only been a little more than a week in actuality. I’ve finished quite a lot more random bits of scenery, somewhat following-up from my last post which dealt with a similar theme (at least in the pictures). I’ve just got to take some photos, and hopefully tomorrow will be the day!

In the meantime, I’ve been rooting around in my resin bits boxes for more stuff I can knock out quickly, and found these two little beasties. I must have had them for 10 years or more, and in all that time they’ve done nothing but sit inside a few boxes. Time for some paint, then. I figure I’ll treat them much like Bones critters and resin scenery, in that good enough will be good enough – but I’m just not sure on how to paint them yet. I figure I’ll post them here, and in a day or two I’ll have them based properly and can then knock them out reasonably quickly once I see what feedback and ideas people have.

Looks like these are also from Grendel – as so much of my old resin stuff is – These are two of the three critters from the Dungeon Crawlers kit. Giant Centipede and “Leech”. I kinda prefer my own names though. I don’t know where the third one of the trio has disappeared to. I’m sure I’ll find it one day.

Millipede and um.. some other kind of beastie.

This is also my first use of Polls on this thing, though it’s not why I’m writing this post. Naturally, I reserve the right to ignore any results or change my mind on how I paint these little buggers. I’ll also be taking feedback from Dakka and any other forums I post on into consideration besides the feedback here.

For the Yellow/Black and Black/Yellow, I’m thinking of a pattern inspired by this sort of thing, with the emphasis either on the yellow or the black.

Yellowjacket.

For the slimy green on Froggie, I’m thinking something like the out-of-focus bits of this pic:

Slimy Frog.

The red would be more akin to:

Shiny Red Frog

Assuming I finally get some photos taken tomorrow, I should have some more substantive posts up in a day or three.

Dark Elf Repeater Bolt Thrower & Secret Weapon Barriers

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Dark Elf Reaper Bolt ThrowersSo hey, I’ve been finishing stuff at a pretty decent rate so far this year. As part of that, I plan to put up everything I finish this year, no matter what it is. So here’s some of the most recent stuff:

Dark Elf Reaper Bolt Throwers

A pair of metal GW Dark Elf Repeater Bolt throwers. I got the pair cheap off eBay already assembled and primed, so the day after finishing the treeman last week, I decided to spray them with my two custom sprays that I got made for my DE/Twilight Kin – since I no longer play WHFB, I’m happily basing everything for Kings of War with it’s more relaxed basing options – so round 40mm bases from Proxie Models to the rescue. By the end of the day, they were all but finished. Of course, I need to do the crew sometime soon as well… I guess.

Secret Weapon Hesco Barriers

Secret Weapon Jersey Barriers

Over the Christmas-New Year period, I picked up a couple of sets of Secret Weapon Miniatures‘ “Bag O Crap”. Which is essentially miscasts and bits that don’t make their quality control standard. I’ve half-written a review of them, so I’ll save the detailed commentary for later, but suffice to say that a couple of other resin companies might want to take note of what Quality Control means. Puppetswar in particular.  These were done in Mid-Jan, but I didn’t get a chance to photograph them until now.

These painted up nice and fast, and (will) look good on the tabletop. I’ll probably need to buy a ton more of each, though… I went for a bright orange plastic that had both been sunbleached and dirtied up in use for the Jersey Barriers. Despite being pretty small and simple, I’m quite happy with how they turned out. These barriers will work nicely in everything from moderns to zombiepocalypse to 40k and everything in between.

Next up: More Zombies!