I found some broken Clix in a box, laying conveniently next to a sprue of Perry medievals. Voila!
This latex-clad lady had a broken whip arm. It was replaced with a medieval plated arm, to channel a pulp Witchblade air. You can imagine her hunting undead or something with her blessed blade.
A missing gun - no problem! I chopped off both arms. The Perry stuff is amazing - the arms just slotted straight on with no adjustments needed. I might do something about the kabuki mask as it doesn't go with the medieval sword.
My favourite: a missing throwing knife ended up with both arms removed with the Perry medieval arms just dropping neatly on. I also had to replace the legs as they were snapped off at the ankle. She could play in pulp games like the others, but could also slot into a conventional fantasy game as well.
This model had snapped ankles; rather than try repairs, I lazily hid them by sticking her legs into a coffin. I swapped her sword and replaced the pistol with a Sten gun, so she channels a kinda
Bloodrayne vampire-fighting-Nazis.
Obviously these models are not fully "tidied up" but I've been having heaps of fun digging through my boxes looking for broken things to make "table worthy."
I also worked on getting Weird War II stuff based up and painted.
Some of the few AE:WW2 that are not weedy and out-of-scale.
Some Soviet Survivors from
West Wind's SOTR line. Remember the broken whip arm from the first picture? Yeah, I thought the commissar might use it to "encourage" his troops. The whippings will continue until morale improves, comrades!
The British use
space marines I mean, power armour to fight the Nazi undead hordes....
Ever since I decided on the "no new minis in a scale until I paint the old ones" and "tabletop standard not masterwork" policies my painting output has been a consistent two dozen or so a week.
I'm deliberately setting aside time to paint, as I want no unpainted minis. There's no reason to use the "army of silver and undercoat" - we all have
some time to paint
(I mean, think of the time the average person spends watching TV) we merely choose to do other things.
I am looking forward to see some of these guys in action on the blog some day.
ReplyDeleteI have that first miniature with the whip, it broke in exactly the same place by the looks of it, didn't even survive shipping.
ReplyDeleteHey, I tried joining your discussion group to no avail, wondering if you guys are still active on the game-design front (even just for a chat) and wondered if there was another way to get in touch?
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DeleteYes, the google group is generally much more active than the blog (as it does not rely on me - with 2 toddlers and coaching after work!)
I suppose if one was playing Doctor Who Cybermen, the "silver coat" army would be appropriate to the source material! :)
ReplyDeleteI need some kind of self-imposed programmed such as yours in order to get anything finished, but, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, I have nothing to declare but my indiscipline.
ReplyDeleteWith regard to the figure with the kabuki mask, rather than removing the mask or head, you might consider exchanging the weapon for a katana or small scythe (or, ideally, a pair of them). Of course, unless you're familiar with the comic character Kabuki, you'll have no idea what I'm talking about.