Massive Darkness 2: Chests – Again! (Chests and Pillars 3D Pack), GW(!) Munitorum Crates.

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Massive Darkness 2: Chests and Pillars 3D Pack

This post is a little out of sequence – not that it matters – especially this late. We’ve got some chests painted at the end of December (below, but missing one), as well as a whole ton of chests painted in January (above). The reason, obviously is because a mass of treasure chests from a miniatures boardgame is not the most interesting thing to post up on the internet. As with the previous batch of these, I’ve tried to vary them a bit, but also with that previous batch in mind, I’ve kept the colourful chests to just the “Special” chests – that is – the more squat/wider ones. Between these and the previous batch it should give me enough variety when needed as well as the ability to have “special” chests of whatever colour for whatever game.

Massive Darkness 2: Chests and Pillars 3D Pack

From counting the pillars I have (18!~) it seems like I bought three of these packs, which should mean I have 45 of the “normal” chests and then 12 of the “special” chests. Then again the Chests and Pillars pack was something from both MD1 and MD2, so I probably picked up at least one from each campaign – something I can easily imagine myself doing if I hadn’t started painting the ones from MD1 when the second campaign rolled around with no clue if I already had some – possibly they threw some in as KS extras? I dunno. I could check the KS invoices but I don’t care anymore at this point. I just hope I don’t stumble across another batch of chests or pillars in the future…

Games Workshop Citadel Munitorum Crates

Since this is a post full of boxes, here’s some more I did at the end of December – Some GW(!) crates, I believe these are from, the older set with the shipping palettes and some barrels, but I think they’re the same as the more recent Munitorum Armoured Container set with the shipping containers. I actually got these ones from eBay many years ago in a job lot with a bunch of other stuff, and they turned out to be pretty obvious recasts (along with about half of the rest of the purchase) – the result of that being that I cracked the shits with them and dumped them into a container until recently, when I found them again mixed in with some of these chests, and decided to just paint the things and get them done. Marouda helped with the brown chests and green chests applying base colour and washes but lost interest in finishing them, that’s how interesting they were (and how helpful she turned out to be!)

All of these were painted in the window for Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 24-25. I guess I need to get my arse to work posting the rest of December-January-February’s models up…

Mantic Games Mars Attacks Novas Vira Infantry (I think?) + Zombicide Stat Cards

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What, you might reasonably ask, the actual fuck are you doing painting shitty PVC Mantic Mars Attacks models? A very reasonable question, to be sure. The fact is that these models have been primed and sitting in one of my Zombicide Survivors tubs for a couple of years. Now that in current times I have found the character card generator for Zombicide, and these models all being reasonably simple – easy wins as it were – I decided to get them done back in December. High work stress time, so low-stakes models are the sort of thing I can get onto more easily.

Only two of these models are listed in the KS page as Novus Vira Infantry (whatever that is). The female and the guy rocking back on his toes. In the render, he’s leaning against a short wall but I guess they got rid of that for the production model without adjusting his feet or pose so he would look vaguely natural. I always felt that the inspiration for that model was John Matrix from Commando rather than Dutch Schaefer from Predator, so he got Arnie’s iconic 80’s “camo” paint across his face and arms. The other figure that I had a feel for was the female, so she got painted as inspired by PFC.Vasquez from Aliens, though those tight pants were never going to pass as fatigues, so she got tight jeans instead. The other two? I’m not sure if they’re also supposed to be Novus Vira, but probably. One is clearly the T-800 from T2, but he’s also comparatively very short.

Once again, Marouda and I sat down together for a little while to work out skills that fit the characters thematically without making them into killdozers.

We rewatched Commando to work out the skills for this character. I haven’t seen that film since at least the 90’s, when it was still fucking awesome. Watching it now it felt like almost a comedy it was so full of unrealistic silliness. Wow. Just…. wow.

This next figure is in military garb, but quite different to the US Military figures that came in the set, so I painted him in Desert Storm “choc-chip” 6-colour camo, since it’s something I always enjoy painting. I named him after Spike Jonzes’ character from Three Kings, which also gave us an excuse to rewatch that film. Which still holds up very nicely.

The last of the four got turned into Vasquez from Aliens. It’s the “tough chick” look and the bandanna, so now we’ve also got the well-known kick-ass latina for our games.

Ironically, the fact that these models now have Zombicide Survivor cards for us to use, they’ll probably get more table time than the most heroical heroes from all of the Warhamms!