Bones

 

Quar Crusader Specialists

There are three identical sprues.

When Nightmares Come - Tortured Souls

 At Salute this year I bought a box of Wargames Atlantic  Zombies. As I said earlier, I was not impressed by them but thought about using them as some ghostly entities.

So here I present some Tortured Souls.

Simple paint job - undercoat of Citadel Corax White, base Vallejo Flat Earth. Body Citadel Aethermatic Blue Contrast paint.

Anvil Zone Mercenaries

 Anvil Industries have recently released a Print on Demand range called Zone Mercenaries. with male and female figures.

They are equipped with reinforced armour, helmets and gas masks and AKM assault rifles.

The problem is, the weapons are rather large, partly due to the limits on the materials used for their normal resin ranges, but I suspect mainly to be in scale with their normal market of gamers who want something similar to but more interesting than 40K.

This is a bit of  problem as they do not look okay with my modern image type standard Empress figures' weapons.

However a plan emerged to use them as alternative figures for The Walking Dead: All Out War.

Size comparison between a female (left) and male (right) Zone Mercenary and TWD:AOW zombies.

Their weapons and equipment are a drop in replacement for The Commonwealth Trooper (you can probably build them using various existing equipment from the original range)

They are slightly shorter than the Commonwealth Trooper but look okay with the walkers and survivors.

To hide the height difference, I used Crooked Dice supplied slotted round bases and put a thin plastic card panel over the slot. It raises the head height slightly.

Commonwealth Trooper - The Walking Dead: All Out War

 With Mantic Games renewing The  Walking Dead: All Out War, the first faction they released was The Commonwealth.

The figures are in multi-part resin.

This Commonwealth trooper comes in three parts: body, gun and supporting hand ahead of the magazine, and head.

There are two identical bodies in the set, but two different heads, one bare-headed, the other in a helmet.

There is another two troopers with a different body.

The figures are supplied with the new Mantic round base (with magnet insert space) but I have chosen a slotted base from Crooked Dice.

Five Parsecs from Home: Tactics - Converted

 Another has joined the ranks of The Converted.

It wa only after I finished it that I realised it should have been a Light Machine Gun armed figure.

Five Parsecs from Home: Tactics - more Troopers

 More Troopers for Five Parsecs from Home: Tactics.

Weapons Teams have a personal side arm, plus whatever weapon the team has been assigned.

That means you need Troopers armed only with pistols.

This one is neglecting his team duties while dealing with a threat.

I think the arms are from the Mercenaries set.

Other Troopers are also only armed with pistols, such as this medic.

He has a variant helmet from the Mercenaries set (and a nasty mould line I had not noticed) and an arm with an ammo box, also from the Mercenaries set.

You maybe asking why there is no collective shot of these two figures?

Well, for reasons lost in the mists of time, I decided to base my figures for Rogue Stars on 30mm lipped bases. When Stargrave came out, I decided to continue doing so (having a number of figures actually painted and based on 30mm bases).

Unfortunately, I have run out of them at the moment, and, well, the two figures have been base sharing.

Anvil Autocannon

 I ordered an autocannon and the recently released British Space Force gun carriage from their Print on Demand range.

The 16mm diameter wheels, autocannon, ammo box and handles are in the usual Anvil resin. The gun carriage is printed in high resolution resin.

Spacegrave Trooper for scale.

I am not sure how to crew this weapon.

The options are use a kneeling Anvil figure (not sure about the particular theme) or fit electronic sights and servos together with Stargrave troopers with remote controls. 

Five Parsecs from Home: Tactics - Mini armies

 So the first three Converted for Five Parsecs from Home: Tactics

Two built from the parts in the Automatons sprue, and one built with bits from the Scavenger and Crew sprues with an Automaton head.

They face a trooper squad.

Hairfoot Jousting

 Osprey have just released Hairfoot Jousting, the game of Halfling (or Goblin) jousting.

Interestingly this book is the same format as the Modiphius books, smaller than the normal Osprey hardbacks.

It is actually two books back-to-back, the goblin version is in the back upside down.

Five Parsecs from Home: Tactics

 Modiphius has recently published a standalone large scale combat system, based on and compatible with Five Parsecs From Home.

Denizen Ventauran infantry

 Many moons ago there was a company called Denizen who had some very nice ranges of 25mm science Fiction figures. One of the ranges was the Ventaurans, which bore a striking resemblance to the Traveller Zhodani humans.

Many years have passed, and the new owner of the masters of the ranges wondered if they could be upscaled to the now more popular 28mm scale.

William Killian and a Stargrave Scavenger for scale.

A metal Stargrave Zombie and William Killian  for scale.

Stargrave: Death Vector and The Automatons

 Death Vector and The Automatons is not a post-punk band but the latest scenario book for Stargrave and the new multi-part multi-pose plastic figures to go with it.

The box is the standard size for Stargrave (and Frostgrave) figures and has four sprues each of which builds five figures. 

These are definitely of the "Resistance is Futile" school of robotized humanoids, complete with an assortment of slightly comical drills etc.

There are also three bugs per sprue, described in the book's bestiary section.