Large Canvas - More Terrain

So I've been sitting on this post for nearly a year! Just never got around to finishing it up. It was quite a year for me however, so I completely forgive myself. Let's just finally get back to it... some new miniature terrain:

Note: I played around with some lighting and a background. I ended up ordering one more light for the setup. Hopefully this works better for improved photography!

Pirates with a Cause

If you haven't already seen it, Aidan from the Warfactory started selling some new STL models, the Ventolin Pirates. Absolutely fantastic models, who's proceeds are being used to help Ukraine. I couldn't pass these up these fan sculpts of a oldhammer original and rushed a few to the paint table:

Dusting off the Cobwebs

Hello fellow hobbyists! It's been a little bit since I posted. I ended up with a herniated disc that prevented me from... well life in general. Never fear, a wonderful medical team helped me get back to semi normal. Still working on the rest. 

So finally after weeks of collecting dust, I resumed some hobby projects! I picked a few easier ones off my desk, figures I had started while waiting for a larger group to dry. Thought it was better to ease into things after a hiatus. So lets get to it:

Industrial robot TR-7L is ambushed by wild beasts while attempting to recover some scrap.

A Few Unrelated Figures

No one is ever truly safe in the Locust Sector of space. Corruption is everywhere. So believe me when I say, sometimes when a bounty hunter has captured a member of the clergy... it may be for the greater good.

A couple of bounty hungers face off against some robots in the junk fields.

It's been a slow start to the 2023 paint year. Much of it do to a problem with my sciatic nerve... but you don't want to hear about that. You're here for these four miniatures I painted. 

When your buddy has a 3D printer...

So a buddy of mine I met through wargaming and have been friends with for decades now, got seriously into 3D printing. The benefit for me? I don't need to worry about it. I can just place an order with him. Then one day he was telling me about some prints that failed. I said "oh save them for me!"... and so we come to this:

Garbage? No a wonderful pile of junk to hide behind!

A wonderful pile of junk to wargame around!

Filling up the Battlefield

I finished up some terrain in August for the monthly piece of terrain challenge my buddy and I are working on. While it's finally getting posted in September; I assure you it was painted in August. All it needed was varnish, but rain and other projects kept it from finishing until now:

Did the ship ruin the building?

Rainy day painting - Various miniatures

The two mercenaries were hot on the trail of the Marquis de Maw. They didn't see themselves as bounty hunters, but a job is a job. Finally, they had him cornered. "It's all over Maw!". However in response they heard a laugh, as Marquis de Maw faded away. "Dammit! Just a damn hologram! I told you we weren't no hunters." The other grumbled as he put away his pistols and walked away. 

While I was painting the Eldar HQ units and the servo skull a few weeks back, I found myself waiting for paint to dry. Usually I have something to do around the house. However it was a wet, rainy weekend so I had extra time at the desk. So I grabbed a miniature off the primed shelf and got to work... then I added another and another... until I had finished 5 additional models! 

Not So Lost Cargo

Painted more shipping containers, and a piece of a ship's hull. Had some fun with some Tamiya masking tape and Army Painters Rust effects paint. IMHO the Tamiya tape is definitely worth the money for miniatures over painters tape. Rust paint worked great too! Not much more to say, so enjoy:

Did you know over 3000 shipping containers were lost at sea last year?

More photo's after the jump.

Setting a Scene

So I've been having a lot of fun painting lately, but mainly figures. When I was talking to my buddy he told me he's trying to work on at least one piece of terrain a month. That sounded like a good idea, so I worked it into my routine:

Ancient statue to some unknown race.

This ancient statue and these shipping crates have really nothing to do with each other, I just chose them to paint first.

A Couple of Spacers

In seedy dive bars across the sector a rumor is stirring. They whisper that several heroes of the Last War are banding together. There are all sorts of theories as to why, but they all have one thing in common: Hope.

A Salvage Company guard waves off a couple of Mercenaries.

A few weeks ago Axiom at Magpie and Old Lead painted two figures just because he felt like it. After finishing up the guardians I felt like painting more. I had these two figures sitting there... so I thought I'd follow suit.