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Cold Front

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There is an icy wave coming over Pulp City, so get your warm coat ready!

I had the pleasure this week of painting a prototype of Cold Front, a future release by Kitbash Games. This big bad supreme with a freezing theme is a Blaster associated with two factions, Red Republik and Trinity Inc.

I tried to stick closely with the official colour scheme. It isn’t perfect, but I’m still quite pleased with the final results. I could probably have gone farther on the white highlights of the cooling tubing and icicles, but it already felt like a lot before the picture.

I also tried a new effect paint (AK Frost Effect), to make the frost around the boots. I like the look of it, but I’m not sure it fits that well with the comic style of the model. I’ll have to try it on some more realistic paint style next time.

 

Reinforcements for Arbonte

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In preparation of last week’s game, I painted some extra troops for both the Orphans and the Rocavivas. Like I mentioned in that post, I now want to get those two factions to a standard game size, so I cleaned a bunch of models for the first of those faction this week.

I have started painting some, concentrating first on filling up the the Scarabs and the Mantis. And since I got my camera out, I took some pictures of the Ants I painted last week too.

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Gnome Greenskeeper

Gnome Greenskeeper riding his piglet, with two gnomes on foot
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Fun little side project this week. Somebody in a local group chat mentioned the upcoming Hairfoot Jousting game coming out sometime in May. That reminded me of this cool little “cavalry” model I had primed and ready to paint: the amazing Gnome Greenskeeper, sculpted by Tom Mason. Tom is a really cool dude. I’ve been a fan of his sculpts since the Mercs days. He has been a big inspiration, and ressource, for my own sculpting with his tutorial video channel and online sculpting hangouts.

Back to the gnomes at hand. I painted a couple gnomes for Tom during his Kickstarter project, as previews. You can see them in the featured photo at the top. I still had a bunch more to paint, received after his successful campaign, including the Greenskeeper, that I had already prepared a while back. This little mounted fellow will be perfect to lead my jousters, or any other whimsical projects I get into. He was a blast to paint: bright colours fit so well on them, and the piglet offers a nice change in the palette.

Of Void and Sky

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I’m slowly adding variety to my Carnevale gangs. This time a couple models for the Doctors: a Doctor(ess) of the Firmament, and a Hollow(wo)man. The first one will give me a magic user other than my Leader, and the second one is a cheap support model that will help to fill up my Madmen willpower batteries.

The colour scheme is pretty much set for my Doctors now, so this part was pretty easy. The only thing I had to think about was the emptied glowing orbs on the Hollowman. The studio used a bright red for their orbs, that contrast well with the blue they used for the model with the Nexus orbs, like the Madmen. I used magenta for my own nexus orbs instead of blue. My first though was to use a bright green to get a good contrast, but that would have been too close to the teal of the straightjacket, so I went with orange instead. It doesn’t stand out that much, but I think it still looks good.

Doctor of the Firmament

Hollow(wo)man

And as usual, an action shot to close out the post, against some members of the Guild.

Combat scene between the Doctor of the Firmament and a Hollowman against members of the Guild

The children of Ptah

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I got interested in Wargods of Aegyptus by Crocodile Games a while back (that is a trend…). I traded a small lot used, and played a test game or two. Sadly, other projects got in the way, as well as a lack of interest in my gaming group, so it was put back in a box to wait for a better time.

This time has arrived! Other players in my local group have started collecting, in the past year, and my painting speed and focus have also gotten better. I painted a starter warband around the children of Ptah in the past month, of about a 1000 points. I got some more models that I will slowly add to it, but this give me a good core to  start playing and try out the game again.

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Some muscles for the Doctors

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With the henchmen and Doctoress done, I was only missing some muscles for my Doctors of the Ospedale before I could play them. So I painted a selection of Heroes to fill up my force. I’m really not sure they play well together, but that never stopped me from fielding models, as I usually go for look first.

However, with one of those being a Doctor of the Beasts, I couldn’t really use him without some claws and fur on the table, so I also painted a couple beasts also. I’ve bought some more of those terrible creatures, but they’ll wait for a later time, as I have enough to play now.

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Daugthers of the Jungle

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I started to paint my Rocavivas last year, to have an opposing force to my Orphans and finally try out Némesis. I was doing quite well early on, until everything stopped due to the flooding. Since my second batch of Rocavivas was already primed, I kept those on the side and didn’t pack them off to go in storage, to have something to work on in case I could get some free time.  I didn’t paint much during the cleaning and reconstruction, but when we had some quieter evenings, I worked a bit on them on a corner of the kitchen table.

Painting in a shared zone that I had to keep clear afterward wasn’t as effective as with a dedicated hobby zone, but it was that or nothing, so I made do. Even if it was shorter periods, because of the time required to set up and tear down after each session, it brought some peace of mind in an otherwise stressful period. I managed to paint all my second batch over a couple of months (which is long even for me), but I couldn’t finish them, as all my basing material and varnish were still in storage.

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Shattered Sword Reinforcements

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I’m slowly catching up on the few projects I tackled during the renovations. Somewhere in the early Fall, I had a game of Relic Knights with my buddy Paul. It made me realize that I still had a bunch of models for my Shattered Sword Paladins just zenithal primed in purple and put on temporary bases. They were  made them passable on the table, but it gave me the drive to finish them. Also, since I didn’t have my airbrush or any of my other primers, working on ready models was perfect.

The painting itself wasn’t difficult, but I had a hard time settling on a colour for Jeanne’s hair. I originally painted it blue, but when I decided to make the banners and ribbons blue also, it just got lost in all of it. I tried a blonde after that, like the artwork for the model, but it was too close to the NMM gold.  I’m quite happy with the final magenta result though.

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They are all mad under the light of the Rent

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I was able to sneak in some painting time last minute, just before the year ended, and get some henchmen done to add to my Doctors of the Ospedale for Carnevale. They are joining that poor Plague Doctoress that has stood alone for the whole year in the cabinet.

I finished a couple of Madmen, and a duo of Lab Assistants. To be honest, I’m not sure I’ll be using both of the latter at the same time, but I was already going, and it was simpler to just paint them together now than eventually come back to the second.

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Water under the bridge, and the floor…

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Well, as much as I pledged to post a bit more often this year, Mother Nature didn’t agree with it. Our area got a historic level of rain happen at the beginning of August, and our basement flooded because of that. Luckily, we didn’t lose much, but it has been a long process to empty it out, dry and clean everything, renovate, and slowly move stuff back. We are not fully settled back in yet, but it’s finally moving at a steady pace, and I got back most of my hobby setup.

One positive side of that event was that in doing the rebuilding, we managed to create a closed office room for my work and hobby. It’s small, but I have a zone of my own now, which I am quite happy about. It’s also quieter than the playroom I was sharing with the kids, which is another bonus.

While all this was happening, I didn’t get much hobby done or games played. I managed to paint a bit some slower nights, on the corner of the kitchen table, but it wasn’t the most efficient way to do it. Also, without most of my material on hand, nothing was really done, as I still needed to varnish those, and even find some missing bases. It was not the best time for me as a hobbyist, I must say.

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