Cactus Patch

 Having bought Dead Man's Hand, and previously Wild West Exodus, I needed some scenery.

At SELWG, I bought another pack of Dead Man's Hand Cacti and some Products For Wargamers MDF scatter terrain bases.

The edges ofmthe base were filed to a slope.

Some rocks were sculpted using Milliput and the bases removed from the cacti with a razor saw.

A mixture of granite ballast and Woodland Scenics fine Cinder Ballast was applied over PVA glue to texture the base. This was undercoated first with Halfords Grey Primer, then Citadel Zandri Dust spray.

The cacti were painted Army Painter Army Green, dry brushed with Citadel Nurgle Green and shaded with Citadel Coelian Greenshade. They were then dry brushed again with Citadel Nurgle Green and lightly with Citadel Terminatus Stone.

The base was then dry brushed with Citadel Terminatus Stone.

Gamer's Grass tufts were added to break up the open space.

Jesse James takes cover amongst the cacti.

Frank James also makes use of the cover.

More cacti here.

Other rules from SELWG 2021

At SELWG I bought Five Parsecs From Home, a set of solo play SF rules. 

The rules are designed to allow you to tell a story involving your band of rogues, roughens or heroes. Though it can be used just to fight battles, the main selling point is the campaign system. I will be discussing this more in a later post.

The other set of rules is Dead Mans Hand. This is a set of Wild West rules, and I bought them as the Greenhorn Set, including the rules, the markers and cards plus a box of ten plastic multi-part Gunslingers.

More on these rules in a later post.

Ghost Archipelago Tribals

 One of the plastic figure ranges produced for Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago was the Tribals. These are unarmoured and equipped with Stone Age weapons.

They will represent lower tech groups in SF games as well as for Oathmark in warmer climes.

Crooked Dice Treasure Piles - part one

So SELWG 2021 was my first opportunity to rummage through the new Crooked Dice Fantasy range.

They have a large selection of objective or treasure tokens, and this set is the Treasure Pile.

Each of the tokens has a number to identify it.

They are going to be glued to Renedra 25mm bases, so these photographs should allow me to match pile to number, just in case it is relevant.
 

I sometimes wonder why I keep buying them...

 At SELWG 2021 I bought the Sisters of Talliareum female paladins

Previously I had bought their Shield Maiden box (back in 2017), and not been impressed, so I am not sure why I bought these.

There are five sprues in the box - two of one kind and three of the other.

I have one partially assembled figure but I am finding it hard to summon the enthusiasm to finish it.

Armed Shuttle from Sammy Scenics

 At SELWG Sammy Scenics had a stand selling 3D printed vehicles and scenery.

One of the items (labelled Vando's Shuttle) caught my eye.

It comes in five parts - main hull, cockpit, scanner turret, dish back and dish.

There are print lines, and I have yet to work out what to do with them. I might try applying some fine "wet and dry" to smooth them out.

It looks like it will assemble into a nice (and sizeable) model. The body and cockpit are hollow so it is not too heavy.

It will make a nice centrepiece for Srgrave or Five Parsecs From Home games.

Wargames Atlantic Cannon Fodder

 Wargames Atlantic have recently released a box of thirty 28mm lightly armed and armoured troops labelled as Cannon Fodder.

They are sculpted to be suitable as Imperial Guard, Colonial Marines, Penal troops (bareheaded with explosive collars) or anyone else who is dressed in a boiler suit/coverall.

There are four different head types (helmet, kepi, hostile environment and bare head with collar)

They are slighter than the Stargrave miniatures and have one kneeling figure per sprue.

Cannon Fodder compared to Spacegrave Trooper.

And because it is a contractual obligation, compared with William Killian.