Underhive Scum (and assorted other bits)

An odd assortment of items rolling off the Workbench this week...



As I've been promising - A Blackstone Fortress miniature. One. There will be others... soon. This is Dahyak Grekh, Kroot Mercenary.



These are actually Reaper Bones miniatures... but I thought I'd base them similar to other Blackstone Fortress minis and maybe pass them off as additional Ambull Borewyrm infestations...? Or just random space greeblies.



I did a fourth one on a Necromunda base to be a random under hive greeblie...



Also, I found the missing Frog Creature for Hellboy: The Board Game and finished it all up - so now they are ALL DONE! (Well, all the Core Box stuff... or, at least, the frog Creatures and enough other stuff to play all the scenarios in the core set.



Two more of my Imperial Fist 'veteran' scouts (I wrote about them in a previous posts - here and here - I think I'll need to do a full post just about these characters at some point..). These two are two of the earliest Marine Scouts GW released - and both of these I've had since they were released (though they were previously painted in tan and olive uniforms - I stripped them a few years back and repaired one's broken knife with an Eldar power sword.



Now I have a FULL Scout Squad. (well... sort of... Eldar Shuriken Catapults and Power Swords aren't part of the normal weapons Scouts are generally allowed to take... I guess if ever I put these on a table against someone who was fussy about these things, Id just call them as "counts as" bolter and scout knife, respectively.



All the Imperial Fists, so far... Probably almost enough for a Kill Team! I have a couple others I've started - but they've been shelved until I can get a few more pressing things finished up!



Another Space Marine Scout - this one is for the Tangermarines chapter.



Servo Skull - came in a load of bits, I think it's from a Militarum Tempestus Scions Command Squad (The commander can have one floating over his shoulder... I thought it would be fun to have a couple on their own - in the fluff they can wander about on their own carrying out... whatever their function is?)



It seemed like a good idea a the time. I wasn't sure what else I was going to use this guy for. It's a Reaper Bones miniature that I added a bolt gun to and put on a Sector Imperialis base to be a random Hive Scum...



An assortment of Scavvies and Plague Zombies. I put a rush on to finish these up as I thought they would be handy for Wrath & Glory this weekend - and am thinking I might to a re-run of the Karloth Valois scenario I ran last summer for ToonCon - except now I can use ACTUAL necromunda plague zombies instead of just random other zombies from my modern zombie collection.



Plague Zombies - actually two of them are from old GW Judge Dredd line... a few are carrying clubs - which seemed odd to me...? Where would they have found WOOD in the under hive... I tried to make a couple of them look like bound bundles of pipes and or wires.



Scavvies! I have a few more scavvies to join these... I thought, in addition to the Plague Zombies, karloth may have recruited a few Scavvies to his mob with promises of loot and vengeance against those uphive that would keep them down!



Karloth Valois and his mob of Plague Zombies and Scavvies!

Yeah, that's going to be a fun scenario to play - and it gives ME something to play (Valois and the Zombies!)



Coming Soon to Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Some more Blackstone Fortress stuff, I PROMISE!!!

(though there might be some more CHAOS stuff, as the date for Battleforce Recon 2020 has been announced and I've decided to field a Chaos Space Marine force - more on that soonish!)

Necromunda Re-Basing Project

Never say "Never!"

I have learned this all too well, so many times over.

I've never really been overly fond of plastic slotta bases - at least with metal figures. They were too light and I felt they made the over all model top heavy. I also thought they were a bit plinth-like - making scale creeping models even TALLER than older smaller models I had based on... well... other, thinner materials I've used throughout the years.

I've absolutely HATED black sides on bases. I especially hated them on plastic bases. Why, when one spent so much time making the top surface of the base so beautiful with a grassy scene or desert with scrub, would you paint the sides of a plastic base BLACK (instead of green or brown - to match the top of the base or your table terrain)!? As most plastic bases are black, it just looked to me like you forgot or couldn't be bothered to paint them. It looked unfinished and lazy. I also found the contrast jarring when looking at them on a finely manicured tabletop - especially in close-up photos.

So, this past week I decided to rebase all my Necromunda stuff (and a bunch of other skirmishy-rpg-sci-fi minis) on to plinth-like, plastic bases with black sides...

(Go on, laugh. I'll give you a moment...)

I think it all started when I decided the Genestealers and Terminators for Finnegan's Space Hulk game should be on bases - I mean they sort of had integral bases... but they were odd-shaped and in most cases not nearly large and stable enough to keep the dynamic miniatures upright under most conditions. So I picked up some 32mm Nectomunda bases to stick them all to. This required some considerable carving for most of the Terminators, and, in some cases, a bit of converting with green stuff. In the end I was pretty happy with the results.

Actually, now that I think about it... It may have been John's Stormcast Eternals that I painted for his Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire game that were the first cast, scenic bases I painted - that inspired me to try out the Necromunda bases for the Space Hulk figures (I also later painted some Sepulchral Guard and Ironskullsz Boyz for him.... and I'm STILL working on the Dwarf and Skaven lots... I should just NEVER say I'll paint stuff for other people... that IS a Never I really SHOULD learn to say!!!)

Last year I assembled and painted Drukhari Kill Team for Amanda. I wanted to make a dedicated Kill Team that stood out and looked a little different from the rest of the Drukhari. I also was starting to feel like my standard dirt bases with scrub or grass tufts would look more odd and out of place in an urban setting than an urban base would in and not-so-urban setting Kill Team might be played in (as there would likely, with the exception of the Death World Forest, still be structures of one kind or another). I had liked how the Terminators and Genestealers turned out and I just don't like putting plastic figures on metal washers (like I have, until now, done with all of my individually-mounted metal figures). So, I thought I'd try them on Necromunda bases. I was rather pleased with that result and, as an added bonus, because the bases ARE so tall, I could paint the names of each of the warriors on the back sides of the base, which I knew would help out Amanda immensely in identifying which model was which Wych.

I liked how they turned out so much, I did my own Adeptus Mechanicus Kill Team on necromunda bases. When I got to doing the Sicarian Ruststalkers and the Tech Priest Dominus commander, they didn't have 40mm necromunda bases (they do now!) so I broke down and picked up a set of sector mechanicus bases - which were even more detailed!

I've also helped paint a lot of Finnegan's Genestealer cultists (and the Magos)...

And so, along the way, I've gone from despising to grudgingly accepting to rather liking... and looking over my collection of Necromunda miniatures, all on their rather boring, generic dirt bases... well.. I decided they needed some "sprucing up" and I went out and bought some more Sector Mechanicus bases and some more Sector Imperialis bases and some more Necromunda bases - for a bit of diversity - and over the last week or so have been busy re-basing the lot of them... I tried to spend a bit more time on these to really make them "pop".

Is this all in accordance with The Plan...? Oh, HELL NO! But, then again, I DID include four weeks to "finish up" some Necromunda stuff... and I AM working on Necromunda stuff... so I'm not TOO far off. I just won't likely finish up the Van Saar and Orlock gangs as I'd originally hoped to (or the additional Escher gangers) - they can just be shifted to the Q1 plan for 2020!



Here are some of the ones I've finished up so far...



Okay, I also redid the entire Delaque gang...



...including two completely new gangers (well... new to me!)

I'll probably do a separate post with more detailed pictures of the Delaque Gangers - with some more background fluff...



I will point out that I made use of the thicker bases to add names to the backs of all my Delaque Gangers. I will likely do the same for all of my gangs.



A pair of Redemptionists. The Deacon is on a larger base because I just decided that all my champions would be on the larger bases.



Cawdor Gangers



Three mechanic/technician types from the Astopolis 2 Kickstarter.



A pair of Imperial Adepts.

 

An assortment of hive Scum

 

Old School, Rogue Trader Era Marine

 

Necromundan Guardsman (deserter now working as a Rogue Doc in the under hive).



Two more from the Astropolis Kickstarter - I'd use them as a Navigator and Guilder, respectively.

The ground detail on all of them is a bit exaggerated. In reality, those floors would be a workplace safety officers worst nightmare...

That's it for now. I have LOADS more in the works - some completed minis just being re-based. Some other gangers and scum and hangers-on that I hadn't finished but are getting new bases... that I might hopefully finish before I have to start in on the Hellboy part of The Plan...


Coming soon to Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog:

A brief look at October's games. (There weren't that many....)

The complete Delaque Gang in detail.

Other stuff...

Necromunda Odds and Ends, Baby 'Thulhu, and RE-Based War or 1812 Militia!?

A few other things rolling off the workbench this week (in addition to the re-based Lion Clan Army for Dragon Rampant)...



Four additions to the Necromunda collection. First (going from left to right of the picture) is some Hive Scum - another experiment with Contratst® paints (I think the miniature may have been from Kryomek...?). Next is a Rogue Doc - ostensibly for my Delaque gang (hence the dark trench coat) - y'know, if they ever get out of the negatives for Reputation and can hire a hanger-on. He has hair because she's just a hanger on and not a full gang member... She's got a medical bag slung over her shoulder (which you can't see in this pic). The figures is from Wargames Foundry. Next is an old Citadel Imperial Guard Medic. I thought he could be used as a Rogue Doc as well - did him in Old Necromunda regimental colours - figured he probably joined up, got all the kit and training and then deserted and fled to the under hive. Finally an old Citadel Necromunda Scavvy. the figure originally came with plastic arms which I do not have... so the arm with the knife is from a Drukhari wych and the shotgun is actually from a Warlord Games US marine plastic sprue a friend gave me.



Baby 'Thulhu - Awww! Idn't he Cyuuuuuute? I think it came in a pack of creepy familiars from Reaper miniatures...?



Finally some re-based 1812 militiamen. I modelled and cast and painted these almost eight years ago, and recently came to the realization that I am not likely to ever play with them on those big multi-figure bases.... I MIGHT actually get around to playing Dan MErcy's Rebels and Patriots, and, while there is no basing standard, and I COULD have just played that with them as is... I like playing Dan's games with individually based figures.

I'll likely do the same to all my Napoleonic figures at some point. I'm never going to have enough of them to play any serious big battle games. Might as well get some use out of them with a game I MIGHT actually play!!


Coming Soon to Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Um...?

More Necromunda stuff...?

Or....

More re-based Legends of the Five Rings armies for use with Dragon Rampant!