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Love the statues!!

Always did wonder about the Emperor on his throne of skulls........ er, I mean brass throne... Golden throne.

Some glamor shots



Never did a proper shot of the Sharp-Dressed Assassins but really I was looking at this...



Sundays at the Cathedral of our Lord of Eternal Suffering



Doesn't look a day over 30,000 really.

Some random works in progress and kit bashes before I finally open ShadowShackleSoulGauntletStorm or whatever it's called.

The one with the Arbites. You know what I mean.



With Cites of Sigmar coming I figure the remaining Empire kits are not long for this world so I picked up 5 more Outriders to make mounted Arbites. Now compatible with the new Codex!



So back in the day... there were these monasteries full of Warrior Monks in the mountains around around the city of Kyoto. And they had nothing to do all day but pray and kick ass, and whenever they felt the people weren't praying hard enough (or paying tithes to them, same difference really) they would come down from the mountains and kick ass.

So that's what I'm keeping in mind for my Acolytes. They live in the hills, and do nothing but mediate and kick ass all day. This being a sci-fantasy sort of world they also have psychic powers.



Oathmark Elf Light Infantry (for the cloaks and hood heads) with Frostgrave Wizard kits.



Man I love compatibility.



Frostgrave wizard+Skitarri bits gives me a weather beaten old bounty hunter. And any old bounty hunter must be a good one, or at least a lucky one. Same difference really.



And lastly some progress on the Zurg ship from Lightyear (note this is the SMALL one, there's also a huge 18" one out there). Need to figure out where to take this, I'm looking to make an Eldar ship that's hanging out in the space port and hoping no one notices.

It's Connie time again!

First off 2 destroyers.



The 1 nacelle Saladin class is from the Starfleet Technical Manual so I had to do one out of respect. I thought my over/under version was original but someone already thought of it (no surprising, it's an easy and obvious kit bash) so it's the Akula (Russian for Shark) class.

Blah blah blah, expanding Federation needed cheap and easy to produce ships giving rise to the Saladin and Akula classes. Not suitable to long-range missions they were mainly confined to patrols and defense duties inside Federation Space.




Picard has apparently been full of space ship spotter Easter Eggs including the Pioneer Class from Star Trek On Line.


So here's mine



Long range scout sort of thing.

So kits I regularly wish for are riot cops and security guards. No point in waiting though when we live in the Golden Age of Miniature Wargaming.

Some kitbashes of Stargrave Troopers and Oathmark infantry make some Riot Police.



Shields and cut down spears as batons.



Crew figures with cap heads from WGA cannon fodder.

Cool work, it think you've pretty much convinced me to get some Stargrave stuff for conversions...

I had a sudden desire to paint Star Wars stuff and picked up some of the old West End Games figures.



I think there's been some scale creep since then

So to the bits box to see what I can make. So far a plastic Necromancer/Emperor, some cloaked IG/Crimson Guard, storm troopers of course and an imposing armored dude. Not sure what color I'll paint him.

So, I'm wrapping up my time in Egypt and will move on to my next job this summer.

So I thought I'd announce my next destination in miniatures form. I call it:



Hydra... Bad!

Looking forward to a few years in India's Silicon Valley.

I can't believe you managed to find a way to say Hyderabad in miniature form xD

You kidding? I chose the assignment purely on its ability to be expressed in miniature form!

Some May the 4th kitbashes with more to come.

for the Emperors guard I would have gone for tau heads probably, but that´d be heresy of course

cool idea and good execution...

The guards were a quick kitbash and I'm not too happy with them. They'll be replaced...but first I have Imperial Storm Troopers to paint


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Some painted Acolytes and their leader (MTG Archangel IIRC)

Return of the Revenge of the Souvenir Shop Terrain Reloaded!



Cheap resin Pharaoh + skull bead that's been in my bits box at least 10 years...



And Emperor Zeus has a lil buddy.



Of course he'll need some Sphinxes to keep him safe.

Putting some old Tallarn loaders to work

Not sure if I should be impressed or frightened that my bitz box has 6 more loaders I can use for ordnance crews.



It would be easy to make a Nebelwerfer, out of bits, are they any good? Or is the cannon the way to go?

(Almost) Completed Inquisitor Palpatine and Librarian Vader



Packing everything away this week See y'all in a few months.

these are actually quite convincing conversions!!!

The joy of a 20 year + curated bitz box

yup... a good bitz box is q quality in itself... slight variation on the old Stalin quote

Packing up for the big move, some GSC stuff I did a while back.

Love these, a group would make for a hell of a diorama, some evil cult judgement being issued, to some poor captured arbities troopers!

Just saving a search

https://www.kallistra.co.uk/?page=22

Can't do much modelling till my shipments arrive in India, but I can still buy stuff!

Scale shot of the Jada HISS Tank toy.





https://www.amazon.com/G-I-Joe-H-I-S-S-Die-Cast-Destro/dp/B0BNWB7M15

Looks about right, I think the Faceless Oppressors will be getting an armor wing.

I've always felt there was a lot could be done with the H.I.S.S. vehicle; seeing it with your Mordian Iron Guard makes it look like a proper 'crowd control' police vehicle, complete with water cannon!

And yes, the absence of one's materials should never delay one contributing to the overall economic health of the wargaming and modeling industry.

Rock on!

 Meer_Cat wrote:


And yes, the absence of one's materials should never delay one contributing to the overall economic health of the wargaming and modeling industry.

Where would the economy be if we only bought what we could use?

Nah it was more FOMO who knows when they'll stop making these and they'll become rare collectors items. Some of the Lightyear toys are already up to the unfathomable price of $10!

It looks like one of the IG tank drivers will fit in the turret, not sure what to do about the BIG GLASS CANOPY on the front of the TANK though.

Just cover it in armor?

It would look nice "angularized" with some welded plates.

Repose some IG into sitting positions and make the front of the vehicle a two seater like with fighter jets.

There's a thought: especially if the treads separate from the body, you'd have a JUG-type close air support two-seater with the addition of some wings and the treads to use for a separate project. Or keep the treads on, make the cockpit a two-seater with a top gunner.... or armor it over and install a main gun, or rioter-containment-net-launching device (like a safari truck)..... or.....

Made a quick trip to Hong Kong and returned with spices and silks from the bustling bazaars of the exotic orient!




The Joy Toy action figures are well known but I've not seen of the mention of 'Scene in Box'

https://city-toys.com/product-category/figure-and-statue/sib-scene-in-box/

They're scaled for larger action figures but the set I got can pass for 28mm figures. Looking forward to assembling it.