Painting Over the Holidays

paklaat October 16, 2022

Hello Everyone,

It seems like every time I get a very rare week or so of vacation, I hit the painting table hard. Here are some things I completed over the holidays. This is just the infantry and doesn't include a truckton of Spaceships that I'll cover in the next post along with future plans.

Some Naval Crew From GW

These are from the Rogue Trader expansion to Kill Team. I like the figures, but I have to say they have more detail than I prefer. They took forever to complete. They will be useful in Sector Six posts, and there are 2 poses that are neutral enough to act as bodyguards for VIP's in future episodes.

49 Vor Union Infantry

I've owned these figures since sometime in the late 90's, and they have sadly remained entombed (except for a couple of false starts) at the bottom of the leadpile all this time.

For whatever reason I got the bug to paint some generic sci fi infantry, so I pulled them out and painted every single one in a few power sessions. Even the 4 extraneous Machine Gunners. I don't think I've ever done that before, because in the past, figures that don't fit a TOE have remained unpainted, and eternally in the leadpile. Now I feel like I should buy a few more (they are available) to round out a heavy weapons squad with those Machine Gunners.

I see these guys being used on any given side of a Sector Six episode as needed.

20 Frostgrave Gnolls

Not Sector Six related, but I have started a new campaign of Rangers of Shadow Deep with a couple of new gaming buddies, and the campaign requires some of these baddies.

I'd like to share that there's a sentimental component to painting these figures. Way back in the 80's with my friends who first introduced me to D&D, our DM, oddly, had about 2 dozen Gnolls as his generic bad guys (instead of Orcs like in all the magazines and sourcebooks). We fought those bastards off and on for the next 5 years until we all left for college.

I know these are new (and much more detailed) Gnolls, but I have to say, I'm looking forward to laying waste to my old nemeses again after all this time. :)

Next post I'll share my new spaceships and some thoughts and plans for my next Sector Six Campaign

Thanks for reading!