Late War Germans, Rubble Junk, Cthulhu Adventurers, Mr. Green, and a Pinch of Citadel Fantasy

    Hello Distinguished Internet Viewer,

I've sloppily slapped together a bunch of a miniature goodness and took pictures.  As always everything  I paint looks shiney thanks to my stupid camera.

First up more boring late war Germans with machine guns.  Thank God there's only 24 rifleman and 4 heavy weapons teams left after these.

Germans carrying various ammo cans/drums.  I like to pretend they're lunch boxes.

Germans with rifles.

I've played Strange Aeons with friends and therefore decided to paint some old Grenadier brand Cthulhu adventurers.  THEY ARE NOT SHINEY IN REAL LIFE.    The second from the right, is maybe a Ral Partha Shadowrun model, the short trench coat with leggings and straps around the forearms are ridiculous.  Last is a Grenadier Innsmouth resident I believe, big mouth and a lack of decent nose.

the guy on the left brought a camera to a demon fight.  I actually use the same model camera for this blog.

Here's my first attempt at making brick road bases out of Milliput.  If you get drunk and squint they look really really good.

Here's a couple old Citadel models.  I forgot to look for a date stamp on the dwarf and I think the human is from their old D&D line.

Lastly some Sculpey clay rubbish:  a battered refrigerator, some garbage bags, a couple stuffed animals, and a couch.  The couch is looks small next to the bald man with dumb looking pistol and brief case, because he's a Mr. Green from my kids' Clue board game and he's about 32 mm high.  I repainted him so they won't catch on to my thievery.

"Mr. Green in the rubbish pile with bolt pistol."

Till next time, when I hope to have more dull gray Germans and rubbish.

love,
Baconfat

Early & Late War Germans, a Mummy, and some Manlets

Hello Fine Viewer,

More exciting WW1 miniatures for your viewing pleasure.

First are some Brigade Games early WW1 Germans.   They are from the BG-WIWG20 and 21 packs, Germans in greatcoats/Picklehaubs Advancing I and II.    Each pack is only $16 and you get eight easy to paint models.

They look very 40Kish admist all the rubble.

Next are some late war Brigade Games Germans.  One up front has a Bergmann SMG and the one in the back is lugging around a heavy MG08/15.

Here's a Mummy, from Reaper miniatures.  He's labeled Sethris of Adiri and sculpted by Bob Ridolfi.  

He's running from a little beetle.

A few months ago I tried sculpting furniture out of balsa wood, but recently tried Sculpey Clay.  I like the Sculpey much better, except for having to bake it for 20 minutes to make it hard.  Here's a few pieces; I would have shown you more but the rest are primed white and the photo didn't come out.  They're good enough for inclusion in rubble piles.

Some manlets for archers to hide behind.  The paint job is pretty bad, but good enough for pieces that won't be used very often or at all.  I horde siege equipment to the point that I don't think anyone has a model castle big enough to handle it all.

Next time, more Germans (only about 40 left to paint) and some old Grenadier Call of Cthulhu 6501 Adventurers.


love Baconfat

Empire Outriders

Hello,

I finished painting up a small unit of Empire Outriders.  They're the older metal out of production models from 1992.  Citadel only made these two poses, so a larger unit would look silly.  Not that those ridiculous guns aren't silly enough.  You may notice that most of them are missing their horse tails.  Due to my packing guy's extremely poor packing skills those poorly designed plastic horse tails have been broken off and lost in my bits box of doom.

And a few other minis, an old Ral Partha? dwarf with harquebus, two old wizards from the early 90's (I now have a bakers dozen in my Empire horde), a Talisman assassin from 1987, and a Great War late war German rifleman.

The wizard in the middle has found a mouse terd in his bowl of Cheerios!

Till next time, when I hope to have more heavy metal coated in colorful toxic chemicals.

love, Baconfat

Late War WW1 Germans

Hello,

Not alot to show you, but I did finish a few models.   It was too sunny to take great pictures.

First are some late war Germans, made by Great War Games.  Just a mish-mash of officer, weapons, and staff, as I have no idea what ruleset to play with them.

The foolish picture taker failed with the half ass blue background.

More Germans, with and without packs, that in both uniforms giving the unit some variation.

turd of a photographer has no sense of lighting

Lastly an ancient GW/Citadel Chaos wizard from the '80s painted quite mediocrely.   I should've dusted the flock dust off him before taking the pic, but the photographer is extremely lazy.

Till next time when I'll post some pics of out of production GW Empire Outriders and a few more wizards.  There's war WW1 Germans (early and late), six or seven Eldar dreadnaughts, post apocalyptic mutants, and a mumak in  the que.

Love and kisses,
Baconfat

Dacians, Empire Archers, Rogue Trader, and Terrain Progress

Hello,

Firstly are four Foundy Dacian bolt throwers.  Sadly there are only two crew options, but I can't complain as they were quite a bargain compared to the nicer but far more expensive Warlord Games models.

I've recently finished some more models from the lead mountain.  Second are some metal GW Empire archers, from the 80's and 90's.  My rather large Empire horde was previously archer free.

 And a couple old Bretonians (I have no desire to learn how to spell that correctly).  The guy on the right apparently needs a little touch up already.

Here are some ancient Rogue Trader/40K models.  A halfling from the Adventures line, a penitent (now called penal legion), a old inquisitor wearing an elaborate toilet bowl around his neck, and a model labeled "Punk"from the Adventurer range.  They a posing on a terrain bit I've been working on.

Here's a few ugly pieces of furniture I made out of balsa wood.  Hand crafting furniture is tiresome and the results are blah.  I'll be making an order from Ainsty Castings, so my post apocalyptic models have proper furniture to sit on between battles.

Here's the latest post apocalyptic building I've been working on.  The sunlight was so bright outside that it completely blurs out all the rubble.

Till next time, pleasant viewer, when I hope to have some WW1 Germans done and maybe a LOTR Mumak.

Love,

Baconfat

Rifles, Terrain Bits, a Couple Zombies, and Fame

Hello Fine Blog Aficionado,

I finished up a few models recently.  First are some old Foundry British Rifles painted to be in the 60th.  I didn't finish their officer in time for the photo shoot.  I believe they're Perry sculpts.

Here are a few repainted clix of the Joker (in a stupid hat) and the Mad Hatter (with a hand swap).  The Penguin and Kingpin were previously posted, but I wanted to see the gang together.  Hopefully I'll find some more minis in suits somewhere in my junk pile to enlarge this well dressed deformed gang.

Here's another British rifleman of unknown manufacturer.  Not a terrific sculpt.

My giant head will help me shoot my really short rifle

And a couple more Wargames Factory zombie Vixens.  I don't think I'll be painting anymore zombies for a while.

Lastly is a 25 year old Citadel Wizard (#26 from the 1988 Blue Catalog) in between some GW plastic LOTR bits.  Either a Perry or Aly Morrison sculpt.

He's got some sort of metal hand and an eye patch.

Oh, I forgot to mention earlier that Wargames Illustrated practically did an article on me, issue 306.  Well actually they probably ran out room and only included the one photo, in which they somehow cut out my beautiful face.

I'm not the bald man in suspenders.

Until next time, when I hope to have some Foundry Dacian Bolt Throwers and a small unit of Citadel Empire Archers done up.

Love Baconfat

Austrian Grenz and Hittite Archers

Hello,

Finished some more minis today, thanks to the long weekend.  First are some old Ral Partha Hittites.  They're actually Syrian Hyksos Archers working for the Hittites.  They're still sold by Iron Wind, but at a steep price of $2.50 each.

They've been sprayed with Army Painter Barbarian flesh, painted, then stained with different shades.  They only come in one pose, so I was hoping that the variation in skin tone would give units some more character.

Next are some Fronk Rank Grenz, mostly all AN67 and AN68 poses.  I didn't technically paint these myself.  I bought them used/painted in very poor condition.  All I did was straighten them all out, match paints for the numerous chips, wash, and base them.   The standard is missing because I can't remember were I put it.

Love, 

Baconfat