Black Friday - More Minis for the Mob - and finally some painted Enforcers

We've had some snow here in NW Nevada, so while the roads are a mess, it makes sense to stay home and assemble and paint minis.

The one problem with the plan is that the spray primer doesn't like the cold, but I was able to get some primed before it got too cold and wet.

On my project table this week, I have had some Spellcrow torsos that are cast with the arms and weapon.   On one hand, they are resin, require cyanocrylate glue, and are not that fun to work with.   On the other hand, I don't have to mess with gluing arms, and trying to make sure that the arms and weapons match up, and attach properly to the torso.  I also had the cyanolcrylate glue out to attach the variety of resin heads I have collected from various manufacturers (Anvil and Victoria, for sure, maybe others as well).
I have also been working on some space marine scouts, to get ready to play Lost Patrol.  Most of them didn't get primed before it got cold, so will appear in a later blog post, along with the dreadnoughts I have been working on.

This Space Marine scout has evidently been loaned out to the Praetorian Imperial Guard.  That, or he's been watching "Gunga Din", "The Man Who Would Be King", and "Zulu" again

A few more soldiers in turbans to flesh out the squad I completed earlier in the month.

Hey L-T!   I think you'd better check on that one guy in the rear rank - he looks kind of sketchy to me.

A Genestealer Cult brood brother tried to infiltrate the unit!

The blue beret is because I am a retired "Defender" - USAF Security Forces.

I finally got some of my Palanite Enforcers painted up.   I started out by going with the khaki trousers and green tops that the rest of my human army has, as the cops would be scooped up into the militia pretty quickly, but then decided to give them blue tops.

That militia unit called in a  report about a possible alien infiltration, better take a team and check it out.

I hope to get some more finished up and photographed before the end of the weekend.

As always, I hope that this inspires you to work towards your own hobby goals, and your feedback (especially encouragement) is welcome.

Hobby Therapy 11/17 More Human Minis and "Spring Turbans"

This week I decided to continue working on my varied, "mixmaster" human miniatures for science fiction gaming.

I did something that is completely unnatural to me - I repainted minis I had already painted!   You may want to ask how events led up to this tragic occurance, so I'll explain.   I am working with GW's new Contrast paints, and the primer color has a huge impact on the final product.   Some of the minis I painted last week were primed with the new Grey Seer primer, while others were primed with an older grey primer that is significantly darker (a "Codex Grey" level of darkness).   This caused the finished miniatures to look very different from each other, so I reprimed a batch of the darker minis, so they would fit in with the others.

Some of the minis I've been working on over the past  couple of weekends.

Also different was working with resin parts, since I usually avoid them.   I do not like to use super glue (sinus problems result), and prefer liquid plastic glues, or the old standby - Testor's model cement - so I prefer working with plastic kits if I'm doing any assembly.   I generally use Testor's when I need to do a bit of filling, but it also seems to work with most (but not all) of the resins, while it appears that plastic glue sometimes works to glue resin to plastic (but only temporarily).

My hobby table (aka "kitchen table") has developed a Bermuda Triangle effect - I keep losing items that I swear I was just working with.  Today I couldn't find my GW basing "sand", so used
"play sand" from the hardware store as my basing material.  This batch is much finer and regularly sized than the last batch of hardware store sand I used, so doesn't look as good - especially in the close up pictures. 

This is one of the minis I had to repaint.   Sisters of Faith body, Stormtrooper head, Cadian weapons.

Another Sisters of Faith body with other (resin) parts.

Another view of the last mini.

Another "mixmaster", stormtrooper body and head, arms from Victoria

Spiral Arm or Warlord legs, Cadian torso, Cadian and Raumjager arms...

Another repaint - Cadian body, Raumjager arms.

I wanted to try out one of the pith helmet heads I picked up...   This is an RJ body with GW arms, and is a color test for "pith helmet troops" - in case I dig out my Praetorian Guard minis and finally paint them.

I decided to do up some troops in turbans.  I went with pink to add some color.  Looking on the internet, a pink turban represents spring, or weddings.  Maybe this regiment comes from a planet where young men must serve in the military before getting married - so they wear "wedding turbans" with their uniforms.   I really hope that doesn't offend anyone.

Here's another look at those first three.

And three more...

And the last four to finish up that squad.  I suppose that a really great converter would have scraped together some kukri knives for them, instead of standard bayonets, but I'm not that great a modeller.

This Garn Warrior somehow managed to miss getting primed and painted with the rest of his brethren, due to being in a mixed mniniatures box.   I found him last week, while looking for some other things, so I added him to this week's project tray.  This is the first metal mini I've worked with in a while.   It may be the Warmachine style base, but does the basing material on this one look swampy to you?

This week's pictures contain minis or parts from:
GW (IG and other minis),
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-JP/Imperial-Guard-Cadian-Shock-Troops-2017

Wargames Atlantic (Raumjager),
https://wargamesatlantic.com/products/raumjager-infantry-box-set?variant=20081465917538

Victoria Miniatures (Heads, bodies, arms),
https://victoriaminiatures.com/

Anvil Industries (Heads, bodies, arms),
https://anvilindustry.co.uk/Regiments/Regiments-Range-Guide

Warlord (Beyond Antares minis),
https://www.warlordgames.com/gates-of-antares/

Spiral Arm Studios (Maelstrom minis),
https://www.maelstromsedge.com/medge/store.jsp

Dream Forge (Stormtroopers),
https://dreamforge-games.com/

Shieldwolf (Sisters of Faith),
http://www.shieldwolfminiatures.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=163

Khurasan (Garn),
http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/28mmscifi.html

and possibly one or two others.

As always, I hope this inspires you.   Also, your feedback is welcome, and will (hopefully) help motivate me to continue building and painting.

Hobby Therapy 11/9 Sci Fi Human troops

Kitbashed Sci-Fi humans.  I'm not happy with the signal light on the comms specialist yet.

Life has continued to steamroller along.   Seems like forever since I got out the cutters, glue, brushes and paints, but it's a three day weekend, so I felt like I could take some time for some hobby therapy.

This session continues with the previous project - working with humanoid figures from a variety of heroic 28mm science fiction ranges.

I kitbashed together some more minis, got them primed, and even painted a dozen of them.  My motivation this weekend was Wargames Atlantic's request that customers share pictures of some of their Raumjager builds.   I didn't do many straight RJ builds today, but RJ legs, torsos, heads, and weapons were used for a number of these builds.

A couple of leaders.  The running one is an Orlock from the current Necromunda line, while the other is a Raumjager with GW Cadian arms.

Another view of the leader with the power sword (and bionic arm).

A random GW fantasy mini (he's carrying an hourglass on his belt) with a Raumjager assault rifle, and a few extra bits next to an Orlock ganger with a Raumjager head.

A mixmaster mini with a Raumjager assault rifle and an Orlock ganger with a Cadian helmeted head.

A Necromunda Palanite Enforcer with some non-GW bitz ("Heresy!" - I'm sure) and what might actually be a straight RJ mini.

I decided to paint these differently than my "Brodie Helmet" themed Cadians, but not as Chaos or GSC Cultists.   I thought that the mix of standard IG and "off-brand" weaponry and equipment would work for a Planetary Defense Force or Imperial Citizens Militia.  I'm not building these to match a list, just playing around and kitbashing some minis to help me relax.

I went with the GW Grey Seer primer, and used GW contrast paints for the major work - Militarum Green for the smocks and LBE, Nazdreg Yellow for the trousers, and Black Templar for weapons and boots.

Probably the two most lackluster of the bunch.  The power fist didn't want to glue into position the way I was hoping it would.

Hope that this post inspires you to do some hobby therapy of your own.  And, as always, feedback is appreciated - particularly if it is positive and/or constructive.