144artist Populates the Damocles Sector or Creating a System Agnostic Science Fiction Miniatures Collection

Very strange, I entered the text and photos to this blog entry.  After I hit Publish it all looked fine and now all but two photos are gone.  I have a sneaking suspicion that the server at work had something to do with it.  Oh well, I will just have to try again.

I finished my Ash Waste Stunties and their truck over the weekend.  Here are the final pictures.

I realized when I posted the finished figures I never posted the Work in Progress of the Ash Waste Stunties.  I am doing iso now out of a sense of completion.  The cargo carrier goes on the back of the truck and still needs lots of detail work.

I have finished painting the Ash waste Stunties that were 3D printed for me.  I think they look suitably grungy.  Their truck is coming along nicely but still needs more detail work, more weathering, and the last pieces all glued together.  As much as I like being able to remove the cargo container, I think the whole thing would be stronger if I glued it on.

A couple of my friends are really into 3D printing.  I am not really looking for another hobby and the more technology required the less interested I become.  Having said that, I do enjoy what they create and one printed out a squad of Space Dwarves, or Stunties, and a truck for them so we could play some Ash Wastes games.  As we are meeting at a convention in mid-February I want to get them done quickly.

The beginning of January saw my 59th birthday celebrated.  As I live in a small apartment my friends and I opted to meet in my Friendly Local Game Store to play Space Weirdos.  It was just an excuse to fill a table with pretty terrain and minis while hanging out with fun folk.  Bonus that I got to use all the Fungus Forests I’ve been making.  We never even finished the game as we had dinner reservations and had to clean up but we had a ball.

Three of my friends teamed up for a three way birthday day of gaming recently.  We played a number of things but the highlight for me was introducing more folks to Space Weirdos… oh, and using a lot of my terrain.  I tried to get the Black Site Studios Massage Parlor finished in time for the game.  I got all but the balcony details done beforehand so it is on the center of the table just lacking any handrails on the roofs.

We played a modified game with each player running one 20 point character armed with only a pistol and no armor.  It was based on Fortnight in that each of us was trying to eliminate the others while grabbing loot and gear while working our way toward the center of the table.  Every other turn the borders shrank, forcing players to keep moving or take damage.  Early kills could be “resurrected” in Medical Vans during the first four turns.  After that the vans were no longer in the play area. Loot fell where characters died but none of us moved in to grab said loot.  We were too busy trying to stay in cover while dodging the poison clouds that were shrinking the battlefield.

In the end four of us had kills under our belts but I had one more than the next closest so was declared the winner.

Between a game convention and a group birthday party, my friends and I were able to get in a number of in person minis games!  I can remember when that didn’t feel like such a monumental achievement but that is where we are now so I am just happy to have spent time with such good friends.  Bonus that we used a lot of my terrain.

I finished some more Northstar and Old School GW minis recently.  The GW minis have been in my collection since they were new in blister packs.  I love the alien/animal heads Northstar includes.  It makes me want to pick up a box of their Gnolls to make more dog soldiers.