15mm Fantasy: A Gothic Guest Star

Blue Moon offers an awesome 15mm/18mm Horror line. Exceptionally sculpted by Bob Naismith and Chris Hughes, many of them will work very well for 15mm fantasy games, and today's post shows that idea off.










There's a much larger Werewolf from this pack that I intend to paint up to add to this one. As I develop SoloSystem, I'll want the option to include multiples of the same type of monster in a given scenario.

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--Scott

15mm Fantasy: Part III

Managed to finish another Copplestone Northman--this time one with sword and shield. This guy also has a lovely wolf-skin cloak. Check him out:









These guys practically paint themselves, a credit to Mr. Copplestone's exceptional skills.

Tomorrow I will feature a Blue Moon 15mm Gothic Horror Werewolf miniature (also painted this morning), showing that you can take figures from different periods and use them in 15mm fantasy. He'll be pictured doing battle with today's featured mini.

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--Scott

SoloSystem!

Well, after knocking some basic rules together and trying them out, I think there's enough substance there to make a small skirmish game. As the title implies, this set of rules will be written with solo or cooperative play in mind. You'll be playing against the game!

I've never written a game like this before, so I am working things out as I go. I'm writing this with 15mm miniatures and a 90 cm x 90 cm (2' x 2') board in mind, but the usual caveat of changing measures from cm to inches will prevail and allow people to easily use 28mm scale stuff.

It's not Goalsystem. I wanted a break after writing two rulesets in the last 10 months. This one uses 2D6 for players and playing cards for the "game's" actions.

If you're interested in helping me with this set, let me know. Contact me at:

srpyle AT gmail DOT com


Thanks!

--Scott

15mm Fantasy: Part II

Another modest addition for today--the first figure from the Northmen pack from Copplestone's 15mm Fantasy range.









And a slightly better look at the scorpion, who is proving harder to photograph than Sasquatch!



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--Scott

15mm Fantasy: Part I

After spending all of last week painting 10 ships for Dreadfleet I needed a break. A palette cleanser if you will.

I've had three packs of Mark Copplestone's brilliant 15mm Fantasy figures sitting on my desk since just after Labor Day, and I decided it was high time to dig into them. Today's post represents a modest beginning. One figure and something for him to "play" with.

You see, the great thing about 15mm fantasy is the wide swath of monsters it opens up. A mere irritation to a 28mm hero becomes a behemoth to a 15mm champion. So I dipped into my D&D mini collection and did a quick re-paint on a medium scorpion. Instant menace!







And here he is facing off against the "giant" scorpion:







More characters and monsters later this week!

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--Scott

Dreadfleet: Comp Shots

As promised earlier this week, here are a couple of comp shots of the first two DF vessels I painted. Since completing these I have painted 6 more--just two left to go for Sunday! We'll see if I can do it! I'll try to take some pics Sunday.






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--Scott

Off the Shelf: Sci-Fi Dozer

A couple of years ago I picked up some Russian-made plastic sci-fi kits from a hobby store in the area, and I want to say that they're Zvezda kits, but I cannot be sure. With the boxes long gone and the many bits used on other projects, I definitely got my money's worth out of them.

Anyway, one piece was so good that I built and used it pretty much as is. It's a sci-fi mini-dozer or excavation vehicle. Below I've included some shots of it in a game of Savage Worlds I ran a while back:







The buildings you see above in the foreground were custom made by my buddy, Brian. Just excellent sci-fi "Western" styling on these. He even cast the window grates in resin himself.

Here's a closer look at one:



We were originally using these for 28mm Inquisitor and 40K skirmish games, hence the Imperial Eagles on the window grates. Here's one more shot of another of his buildings made in the same style:




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--Scott

Dreadfleet: The Black Kraken!

Leave it to the Chaos Dwarfs to provide what is for me the coolest piece in the Dreadfleet game--the Black Kraken! This mechanical squid can attack while submerged and wreak havoc on the enemy craft at the bowline. Looks good doing it, too.











Next post I'll show off a few comp shots of the Black Kraken and the Skabrus side by side.

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--Scott

Dreadfleet: The Skabrus!

I was lucky enough to be tasked with painting Phantom's store copy of Dreadfleet, so last night I knocked out the Skabrus, the Skaven ship that comes in the box. For those not in the know, Dreadfleet is Game Workshop's new limited edition boxed game. Hearkening back to their old Man'O'War days, DF offers a small scale naval game with all of the fantasy trimmings, and all in one tidy, fat box.

Anyway, the Skabrus is an undead leviathan crewed by some nasty undead Skaven!

Here's the pics!









Nothing fancy here, I simply followed the pics in the White Dwarf and tried to match them as best I could!

Anyway, I'll show off another vessel, my favorite, in my next post!

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--Scott

WFB Skaven: Hellpit Abomination Comp Shots

Here are some comp shots of my newly painted Hellpit Abomination:





This massive piece also possesses some amazing rules, and he is, shall we say, aggressively costed at 250 pts. You get plenty of bang for your buck with this guy!

Undead beware!

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--Scott

WFB Skaven: Hellpit Abomination!

In getting ready for the Halloween WFB events I'll be playing in, I've made a radical change in direction as to the army I will field. I'm returning to Skaven! My buddy Rico has decided he wants to do a small Chaos force, so it makes a lot more sense for me to team with him using Skaven rather than Dwarves.

Since I have 1400 pts. of rats already, I just need to freshen them up a bit. Enter the Hellpit Abomination! This massive plastic kit had been sitting unpainted at Phantom for a while, so I cajoled them into letting me have a go at it.

Here's my preliminary results (I may re-visit him and add further details):



As you can see above, I have him on a huge base. His base was missing when I got him, so I made one from styrene and guestimated the size. I think he looks pretty good, but it might be a tad large.







I did not consult a painted image and decided to just go my own way on how I would paint him. I included lots of earth tones--befitting a creature who began its life as a worm!





Tomorrow I will feature a couple of scale shots of the Hellpit Abom next to some normal Skaven and a Rat Ogre.

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--Scott

SuperFigs: Grannok-5

When I was in Chicago a few weeks back I hung out with my buddy, Jan (known as "Skip" in our comments section). Jan showed me his painting area, and I was wowed when I saw his version of Grannok-5, one of my top 5 favorite SuperFigs.

Jan was kind enough to send me a couple of pics of the finished version to share with folks here.





A talented artist across several mediums, Jan possesses a masterful eye for color, as evidenced with this paint job. Makes me want to bust out my own Grannok-5 and run some SuperSystem!

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--Scott

Off The Shelf: Murch Pulp

I painted these guys a few years back and I am still very happy with the results. I've got around 60 of these figures, many from Bob Murch's Pulp Figures line, but a few also from Old Glory's various lines. It's enough figures to populate a small Chinese village in the Pulp era.

Many will also work for Victorian games as well.











Thanks for visiting!

--Scott