Texas Rangers.

I absolutely love all the 1:72 stuff from Elheim. Their models are always super interestingly posed, and they do a crazy variety of different models from pulp to scifi to modern (all the settings I enjoy most). Anyway, about a year ago I bought like... 100 figures off them and they've sat in the storage for ages, so I've decided to start painting my way through all the different sets I got my hands on. First of these is the Survivors - Law Men pack. I think these are supposed to be usable as "Sherrif" type characters in a zombie survival game. I'm using them more as a 4 person gang of hitmen for a modern day RPG. They're called the Texas Rangers. A crew of 4 hardbitten hitmen from Dallas Texas. If you need someone gone, or a problem just won't get solved, You call the Texas Rangers, and you give them a duffel bag full of 50s and the problem goes away. Left to Right in the picture below they are:
The Alamo Kid.
Chip Jensen
Lincoln
Lily Mascis.

Annoyingly, while varnishing these dudes (after taking these photos) I got a big blob of white on the coat of the dude with the AR15. So going to have to redo that :'(
As Always, comments and crit welcome, don't be shy :)

Mutie Rally!

These are probably the most fun vehicles I've made for Gaslands to date. Thought it would be really cool to do a bunch of mutant cars from the wastelands. The cars are covered in a kind of sentient, tentacle and exhaustpipe covered fungus that controls the vehicle it's covering and attacks wouldbe opponents. Not much done to the actual vehicles here. There's some light decal work to add a skull decal I made to all the cars and give them some uniformity. The mutants themselves are made from Greenstuff and just sculpted around the vehicle. The little dude with the MG in the back of the Pickup is originally a Caesar minis US marine, I cut off his head and carved away most of the torso to just leave the gun and legs, then modelled in the mutant over the top.

Performance Cars and Exotics

So, after doing loads of dusty and dirty cars for Gaslands, I started really wanting to do some cleaner custom vehicles. Basically doing cars that look like they were built to drive in a death rally, as opposed to a soccer mom's estate car modified into a deathwagon. With that, I came up with 2 gangs - the Kyoto Daggers, and the Aces. The Kyoto Dagger drive high performance exotic cars, their focus is on speed, but their cars pack some serious ordinance too. The Aces drive classic american muscle cars, tricked out with rockets and chainguns. The Key thing I was trying to achieve with these models was a cleaner look - no rust, much less dirt and for them to kind of feel more like "real" racing cars - like something you might seen in Nascar, or Rally. With that in mind, I had a shot at printing up my own waterslide decals. I can't take credit for any of the imagery, it's just logos and brand icons pulled from image searches, I've simply scaled them down (super feckin' small) in Photoshop and printed to waterslide paper. Really pleased with how these turned out in the end, it totally inspired me to go off and do more stuff with Waterslides, which I'll totally post up another day! Anyway, here they are :)

So that's the Kyoto Daggers, After painting so many minis that are supposed to be cobbled from many different parts and made up of different colours, it was super liberating to work on 2 cars and really only have 1 main colour - Poison Green. With the Aces, I decided to throw a new technique into the mix, and so while they again have a super limited (red/black/white) colour pallete, I thought I'd also have a go at doing some masking, to get my stripes and lines super crisp. It's my first time masking, and I think (for cleanness) I would deffo use the blue masking tape next time. With these I used hobby Store papery masking tape, and while it worked, there was some soak through that needed tidying up, and it had a habit of trying to rough up the edges.

Scream Roller

For a long while I wanted to make a Boss character for Gaslands. I had this (over scaled) steam roller sitting in a bits box for ages and finally decided to dedicate some time to making it into a cool Gaslands Vehicle. Initially, here's some WIP shots of the build.

And here's some of the final model.

Back in the Minis Game.

So, I haven't updated this blog in years, so I decided to re-purpose it for Minis painting instead of random game dev nonsense from 10 years ago. This blog will mainly be about painting/modding and messing around with 6mm, 1:72, 20mm minis, and probably a bit of board game design in there too. I have a bit of a backlog of posts to make, as I've been painting a lot and not posting them anywhere, so bear with me while things go up! First post today is gonna be some 20mm Gaslands Stuff. I've made a few different crews and sub-crews for GL, these dudes are all basically from the same crew- the KillBillies.

The backbone of the Kill Billies is it's trucks. This heavy crew of 3 bring rockets, a heavy MG and a flamer into the action. The models are all old Matchbox cars, figures range from the excellent S&S minis for vehicles, to modified Caesar Urban Resistors and German Special forces. Turrets are made from a stack of different little bits and bobs. The skulls are mainly Cromlech bitz.

Really pleased with this biker crew. I used the Italeri WW2 motorbikes as my base, the bikes themselves are customised with Ork bits to make them a little spikier! Turrets on the sidecars got new guns to make them a little beefier too. I headswapped all the riders from WW2 Germans to using DarkAlliance Cimerians and Caesar Urban Resistors, to make them look a little more like raiders. The gunners riding pillion on the backs of the bikes are custom built from Mounted Infantry legs with some random torsos. KillBilly Junktank WIP

JunkTank Complete:

TukTuk WIP (headswaps and greenstuff!)

TukTuk Finished

2CV Tank