Seb came across on Saturday and helped me get some more nomad figures prepped. Add in some painting time and things are coming along quite nicely. All things going to plan I should have the nomads finished long before the display game at Reveillie (!)
Which is good, as my brain is wandering about the setting we started building, coming up with all sorts of ideas... The heavily armed trade caravans of the Neu-Hanseatic League, wandering London Engineers seeking lost archeotech, scavengers, savage tribes, giant subterranean worms (tremors style), landships, mutated dwellers in long lost catacombes, the list keeps going on. From my perspective, I can see masses of scope for steampunkish post-apocalypse adventures, with heavy hints of Mortal Engines but with everything from Indiana Jones (archetechologist being chased through a ruined sewer system by misshapen troglodytes) to Beowulf (a nomad tribes camp is being plagued by a monster of prodigious capabilities and a wandering hero is in town to help) via His Dark Materials Trilogy (there's got to be space for a mercenary Texan aeronaut!?). And heavns know what Seb will come up with... (although he has already confessed to being heavily influenced by Darwins World)
Anyway, enough waffle. On to the WiPs!
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| From L: A scav/archeotechologist, nomad warrior, Carn Ikea Torsson, a selection of pack mules and part of a hunting dog. The building in the background will be the 'traders hut' in the display game... Yes, it does have a sofa and a washing machine outside it. No... I don't know why either! |
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| From L; Hunting dogs, light cannon 1 (Warlord Frame gun), light cannon 2 (Boot Hill 'come take it' gun), 2 part-converted Warlord gun crew (ECW Scots -> Northern Nomads) & a part built cart as scatter for the village in the display game. The gun crewman hunched over will be getting a slung shield and will have some GSing done on his coat. The chap leaning forward with the fuse needs some work done on his trousers, and may well get a belt... |
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| Assorted part painted Northern Nomads (Note: angry northern lady!) |
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| More assorted part painted nomads.... |
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| Close-up of Carn Ikea Torsson, my commander for the display game (Ancestral shotgun for the win!) |
Just finished weathering a 1:50th Solido BRDM and a 1:43rd 'Russian Diecast' Moskovitch....
From the left: HLBS, HLBS, GI, HLBS, GI Conversion, HLBS. Just a quick note to say that I have finally finished my PhD thesis, and that it has been submitted, so I will hopefully be back to getting hobbying done soon
Until a proper update, here are some views of the paint station, a few WiPs and some figures in need of basing...
