Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Murphy's law

Officer Murphy was one of Carnage's most dedicated officers until 'the incident'. Now his pursuit of justice is so single minded it is almost robotic earning him the nickname ... AndriodCop.

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Murphy is for the 'special missions' section of Officer Down.

Monday, 9 June 2014

All present and correct

As promised I've cleared a load of dwarves off my workbench. Firstly another rank of GW plastics.

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And then some BTD metals that I rather like.

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Looking in my dwarf army box it is actually beginning to look like I could have a serviceable army painted up with a bit more effort applied. I've been painting the occasional rank or two here and there for a while and it has all been adding up.

But this week's big painting item is some ponies from SLAP Miniatures. I bought these earlier in the year as I had promised to buy some if they ever went into production. I wasn't sure what to do with them but with my youngest daughter's 8th birthday coming up I decided to paint them up as a birthday present for her.

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I have put on two layers of varnish but even so I don't expect them to stay intact for long.

Thursday, 5 June 2014

The rat pack

I've been meaning to paint up the giant rats and rat swarms from the Reaper Bones kickstarter for a while as they are very handy in a lot of low level D&D adventures. This week I have been laid low with tonsillitis so I decided to paint something easy when I eventually felt up to it and here are the results:-

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Next up - something completely different! After that I will be finishing some dwarves who seem to have invaded my painting space. I think I dug them our when I was play testing Hellfire and Stone.

Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Bring out the big guns.

And here is the final faction for the game - the Russian Mafia. These heavies are a group of former Russian private military contractors who are exploring other wealth generating activities within Carnage. After years spend in war zones and other hazardous areas I guess they felt right at home down town.

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These are from The Assault Group's Russian Mafia range. It was a bit odd looking up from my painting desk and seeing these guys on the news with the crisis in Ukraine. Watching the news made me realise that I'd painted the AK74s and AKSU74s incorrectly so I had to go back and re-do them (and yes I did mean AK74 and not AK47 - I've learned more about firearms doing this project than I ever knew before).

Now I only have a few character miniatures left to complete for this phase of the project and I'm done. Of course I still have buildings to complete as well but overall I think I'm making good progress.

Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Gnome alone

Sorry, gnome pun intended.

Here is a quick paint job I slotted in yesterday. This is a Female Gnome from the Reaper Bones line or as we know her -Syradinkle Finewhistle a gnome thief in our current AD&D (2nd Ed) campaign.

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Elsewhere on the workbench the Russian Mafia types for OD are coming along too.

Thursday, 24 April 2014

Black and blue

Carnage PD has arrived in force ... well I've finished painting them anyway.

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And some more agents - this time with body armour and a couple of assault rifles.

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This means that I only have the Russian Mafia and some characters left and then the miniature painting side of the Office Down game will be complete (until I decide to reinforce one of the factions!). After that I will be free to finish assembling and painting the rest of the scenery.

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

No Such Agency

Yet more figures for Officer Down - this time some agents.

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Next up will probably either be some cops or some Russian Mafia types.