Cosmic Horror by Spectre Miniatures

I am making the big move of retiring to Spain, so all my models and projects have now been packed up and are with the removals company.

Before packing away my models I did manage to get in a couple of practice games and this project will be the first thing unpacked once I arrive in Spain in a couple of weeks.

This is not really a battle report, but I wanted to share a few photos and thoughts.

The games were played using the playtest rules so somethings may have changed when the full game comes out.

The object of the game is to collect “fragments” (clues) from one of three sources.

Witness. Once interacted with and fragments collected is removed from board.

Minor Mythos location investigate to collect fragments determined by a dice roll.

Major Mythos location is where the real fun is as each time you investigate you turn over a Mythos card (at start of game each player selects 5 cards creating a deck of 10 which are shuffled, some scenarios may specify specific cards). Each card carries a story element and gives you a couple of paths to choose from.

See earlier posts regarding other gameplay elements.

Only took a couple of photos as we were learning the game. We played two games, once we learned the rules the gameplay was very intuitive and most importantly a lot of fun.

In the second game my Bureau were well ahead on the amount t of fragments collected until my auditor got greedy and was sacked into the void, dropping all of his fragments, to be collected by the despicable Cultists.

Sorry this is just a snapshot of the game as we were learning the rules. But I will end by saying we both thought this was a fantastic and fun game and we look forward to playing more games once i am in Spain (my opponent will be coming over for gaming holidays.

I have now completed the terrain board (almost!) amd painted a few more models

Sorry thete are no step by step photos of this but I was in a hurry to get this finished so I will try to share my process here

Step 1 Having smoothed out all the contours with polyfilla I made a brown mix of poster paints and pva glue and slapped it all over the board.

Step 2 Once dry, I coated the four corner flat areas in PVA glue, and using a sieve I sprinkled on Geeks Gaming Scenics base ready scrublands, this ensured I would be able to place scenic elements on these areas, this was left to dry

Step 3 I covered the rest of the board in PVA glue and then sprinkled on the complete scrub landscape mix all larger pebbles included. I actually run out part way through  so I then used a mix of other Geek Gaming Scenics base ready materials inc, city rubble and Mediterranean. This was left to dry.

Step 4 This next element was completely new to me, but I had seen it done on YouTube videos  so  I thought I would give it a go. I selected a range of different static grasses, and flocks as well as coloured and natural sands and semi randomly lightly sprinkled this on to the board by hand a pinchful at a time, every so often pausing to ascertain what I needed to add. Once I was satisfied with the spread of colours I sealed this layer on with many coats of Matt Varnish.

Step 5 final detailing. I cleaned up and finished pff the road service using dark washes and drybrushes with various tone of grey and brainmatter beige. I glued the wooden bridge in place an blended it into the road with a mix of base ready products. Followed  by a final coat of matt varnish.

I am really pleased how this turned out considering I had never tried this before.

I have just a few bits left to paint; the 4 policemen from Spectre Miniatures, 2 witches and 3 civillians plus a couple of tokens.

I will be trying the rules with a friend mid June, I will report back then.

More models completed today.

I had started the highlighting yesterday.

These are really lovely models and as can be seen from this post are fully compatible with most other 28mm ranges seen here with Copplestone figure but I also have Crooked Dice, Reaper, Rafm others, and one painted they all look perfect together.

After finishing what was shown earlier (about 12 figures) I will be waiting for the Kickstarter release for more models to paint. Though I still want to finish the board, and perhaps make some more scenic items.

I will start talking about the game and produce some battle reports in future posts.

First game scheduled for the 8th May.

Just a quick post. Today I have painted alot of the highlights on the Thralls and Cultists, should finish them off tomorrow.

I also did a few quick wins.

Thought I would share a few photos of what I have so far.

I will do close ups of the miniatures and who and what they are in following posts.

This is what I have left to paint.

The Spectre Miniatures:

Proxy models for entities/monsters and other character types:

I have now finished the house, this is all the terrain for this project apart from the game board (which I will do when I return from holiday in May).

My next posts will be for the wonderful Spectre Miniatures that I have painted up, I still have a few to finish off. Then I will publish my first ever game report, (after confirming that it is ok with Spectre miniatures).

I took a small break, but inspired again by my visit to SALUTE and chatting to Spectre and looking at the gorgeous miniatures in their display cabinet, I returned to this project. I have now completed all the modelling and painting and now just need to add foliage to the base.

I just need to add grass and foliage to the outside and this model os finished.

Once the terrain fest competition is announced I will expand this project out and add all the models I have painted from the initial release from Spectre Miniatures along with other older models that I have redone to act as proxies until kickstarter is fulfilled.

When I was thinking about what I had that I could use I remembered that I had an unfinished 2×2 coastal board. Smallest size games I play fit this board and again if I am careful can also be used in Cohors  Cthulhu.