It has been a couple of weeks, but I'm painting again

Yes, I've not done much painting since my last post back on the 20th of August but I have had a lot going on, mainly having two elderly dogs who were ill at the same time (see below).

These are five more of the Bad Squiddo Ghosts of Gaia range. I have painted a number of these excellent figures before for my home-brewed Reivers Of The Outer Rim (ROTOR) science fiction skirmish rules and I felt the urge to paint a few more. I now have more of them than I'll ever need for a single ROTOR gang of fighters, but it does mean that I could field a number of different gangs for different games. Of these five, the ones I particularly like are the two central figures, the priestess/leader figure with the sword and the weird Psyker one, wrapped in bandages and wearing some kind of psychic amplifier device. The two on the right are a heavy weapons team and the figure on the left has a cybernetic prosthesis, so could happily be a cyborg in my rules.

Anyway, the doggies. They are two Westie sisters and they will be 14 at the end of October. Maisie has has a few niggling things happen recently, such as a Urinary Tract Infection, and Daisy has been generally fairly OK but a couple of weeks ago they both became ill at the same time, with stomach sicknesses. So, it was Vet time. As things transpired, while doing blood tests it was discovered that Maisie has developed canine diabetes, probably because of her age, which accounted, in hindsight for her UTI and some quite worrying weight loss since then. Daisy had a gastric infection and pancreatitis. They both spent a lot of time at the Vet on drips and general observation and Maisie had to spend a night at the overnight emergency service for extra electrolytes because of ketone build-up in her blood. Anyway, to avoid a TL:DR they are better again now, and Maisie is now on insulin injections twice-daily.

It was a very worrying time, though, but it is such a relief to see them getting their appetites back and being more their normal (a relative term where Westies are concerned) selves again

More Sci Fi figures! Ghosts of Gaia

My science fiction project is moving on at Warp Factor 3 (at least!). The latest figures I've finished are from the terrific Ghosts of Gaia range by Bad Squiddo.

These are gorgeous sculpts (as are all Bad Squiddo figures) and lovely clean casts too. As they are so nice, I have chosen to photograph them front and back.

The figure on the right of this group is "Raging Annie", a miniature depiction of the Mother of Peegs herself - for those who don't know, Annie Norman just loves her Guinea Pigs a.k.a Peegs - and in the second picture, you can see her Baggy The Dice Bag backpack. I particularly like the armoured figure on the left with two chain blades. I love the dynamic pose.

After the exuberant colour schemes I chose for the first group, the second group are a bit more stealthy-looking and are clearly the kind of women who will pop up and take a few potshots from heavy cover. I really like the stealth cloak on the right-hand figure. I chose a few misty colours, inspired by the odd camouflage patterns on World War One German fighter aircraft.

It is back to colour for the remaining four figures. These figures have a fantastic comic book quality about them, and that made me paint them so that they will stand out on the table. I thought that red would be a good choice for these two. 

and purple/violet shades for these two.

So, there we have it. Some more figures ready for play-testing my Sci Fi skirmish rules.

The Maze of Malcor - a Nickstarter

This is excellent news for all of us who want more female miniatures for our games.

As Annie says on her Facebook page;

The Maze of Malcor Nickstarter IS NOW LIVE - and excellent news for you all - you can join in the pre-order program through Bad Squiddo Games - woohoo!

This is the extra monsters and encounters from the book, as well as PLASTIC FEMALE SOLDIERS, more troop and wizard types (female!) and some fancy token things.

What does this mean?

Basically you just buy it like any normal pre-order system. It will ship early December. The "starter" element is that the more people join in, the more freebies you get on top of what you've bought.

Will Bad Squiddo totals count towards this total?

Yep, every penny of Malcor bucks will be counted up weekly and sent to North Star to add their counter.

Why Bad Squiddo though?

Because we're cool! You get to support North Star, Osprey AND Bad Squiddo if you come through us. Also, as the leading company in Believable Female Miniatures, you can add even more to your new female Frostgrave force while you are here.

So I can add anything else from the shop at the same time?

Hells yes, do it!

Any other questions - go for it. 

To find out more, and to order some terrific toys, just go HERE

I've already succumbed and ordered the lot, because it all looks so good I didn't want to miss out on anything.