Lockdown painting continues

These two badass ladies are from Bad Squiddo, where they are described as "Action Heroines", which seems pretty self-explanatory in a Ronseal way.

They look like classic hard-boiled crime fighters, the kind with a set of dodgy attitudes when it comes to following the rules. That pretty much says "hardcore TV crime-busting series" to me, and therefore makes them ideal for 7TV. Here is a rear view of them, possibly heading down a Mean Street in pursuit of a perp, after screaming to a halt in their 1971 Chevrolet Camaro and leaping energetically out of the vehicle.

I wanted to give them a beaten-up, tough, streetwise feel, so the colour palette I chose was muted and only used a few colours.

Anyway, they have to have names, don't they? 

So, meet our heroines, Mary Beth Lagney (with the blonde hairdo that needs her roots done) and Christine Casey, who NEVER takes off her mirror shades. They are former NYPD detectives who were kicked off the force for breaking the rules, using excessive methods and having a few too many suspects ending up deceased in suspicious circumstances. Now, the two are available to take on those dirty jobs where no questions are asked and getting the "right" result means they get paid handsomely, with no strings and no audit trail.

Women's Militia Lewis Gun team

A couple of years ago, I started to create a Women's Militia for VBCW, that might also work for Home Front imaginary scenarios for WW2. Once I'd done the original figures, here, I bought a Lewis Gun team from Ironclad Miniatures, and then put the figures away and forgot about them, mostly due to other things taking prominence in my To Do painting list.

Of course, I now have no excuses, because I have no painting deadlines that are more pressing, so I am painting things just because I want to paint them.

I've tried to keep them as similar as possible to the originals I painted back in 2017. I hope that I have succeeded. I even put them on 2cm bases, instead of the 2.5cm bases I use more frequently nowadays.

Aftermath post-apocalyptic Kickstarter figures

I backed this Kickstarter ages ago, and I've had the figures for a fair old while too.

The figures were inspired by the box art of the original 1980s game.

Now, I've never played the game, but I thought that the figures were nice, with a fair degree of retro cool about them, and I also thought that I'd be able to do something with them in other settings.

However, I wanted to give the male figure are much more classic 1930s space opera film appearance, so I decided on a red/gold colour scheme for him, because I saw him as being a character in Pulp games, using the Crooked Dice 7TV Pulp rules. The female figure also looks like someone who could happily sit within a 7TV world.

I am really please with the pair of them, nice crisp sculpts, no flash and great to paint.

I have vague ideas about maybe using the pair as time-travelling characters for sci fi pulp, with the male character being some kind of futuristic space lawman and the woman as a 20th century Earth scientist he has hooked up with on his journeys through the dimensions of the space time continuum. I've even got a name for him; Star Marshal Solarion.

A couple of figures from Bad Squiddo

Well, I've been working on a larger project, of which more in a later post, when I have some results to show people, but while I was prepping that stuff, I also took the time to complete these two.

They are from Bad Squiddo and are on the website, here. They are nice figures, clean and flash-free, as is generally the case with all things Squiddo, but are definitely on the small side compared with the Land Girls, although they are nicely proportioned and are of a similar size to some of my Crooked Dice minis.

They painted up really well and I am pretty pleased with them. I especially like the pilot on the left. The details on her flight jacket really pop out.

Covid-19 and the 2020 Lincombe Barn Tabletop Sale

As some people already know, the LBWS has an annual tabletop sale in May. As the sale organiser, I have already been preparing for this year, but as you can all imagine, events have overtaken us.

Therefore, the TTS planned for May 17th this year has been cancelled because of the risks to all our health from the Covid-19 pandemic.

I know that this is hardly an unexpected outcome, as pretty much all public wargaming activity is coming to a halt, but it is nevertheless a sad situation.

I am in the process of sorting out refunds for people who have already booked tables.

As no one knows how long this pandemic is likely to persist, it isn't really possible to think about rescheduling the TTS for a later date.

Anyway, I hope that you are all keeping well and avoiding infection by taking sensible precautions.

Good luck everyone.

Some more resin scenic bits and bobs.

Following on from the Fenris Games resin scenic items, here are a few more pieces for Horror and Pulp games. These are all from Crooked Dice. Once again, the intrepid archaeologist is only there for scale.

Here is the complete set; three monoliths, a statue of Cthulhu and a pile of skulls.

The monoliths have a lot of detail and therefore, here is a view of them from behind. Are those green things creepers growing from a crevice in the rocks, or might they be tentacles? Just don't get close enough to find out!

Next up, everyone's favourite tentacled abomination from the stars;

Now, here is a statue of some obscure amphibian deity on a blood-stained plinth;

Or is it just a statue? Might it be some kind of unknown inhabitant of the reefs and caves near one of those fishing villages where the locals have an odd, vaguely batrachian appearance? 

Here it is again, off of its plinth, showing the nice carved effects on the surface. This could be used stand-alone as a sacrificial altar.

Bad Squiddo Land Girls

I bought these five Bad Squiddo Land Girl figures ages ago, but, as is the way of things, they slipped down the list of Things To Paint. Now, with the completion of Annie's Women of WW2 Home Front Kickstarter, I felt that I really needed to get them painted.

Officially the Women's Land Army, the Land Girls freed up men to serve in the Armed Forces and the total number of women who either volunteered or were conscripted into the WLA was around 80,000.

These are really lovely Alan Marsh sculpts, quite chunky but very much in keeping with the majority of the Bad Squiddo range. Sizewise they are similar to the glorious Shieldmaidens, also sculpted by Alan Marsh. As usual with Bad Squiddo figures they are an absolute joy to paint.

I am now one small step nearer to my ambition of mounting a multiplayer "Went The Day Well?" game. Of course, they will also be perfect for Operation Sealion games and probably for VBCW games too.