When Nightmares Come and turn the world Upside Down - mass horror

In When Nightmares Come there are four levels of horror - three minion level and one boss type.

Vermin - dangerous to inexperienced Hunters, uses numbers to wear Hunters down.

Horde - more dangerous, but as Hunters gain experience (and upgraded toys) they become less of a threat.

Terror - Dangerous, encountered as Hunters get closer to the centre of the mystery

Atrocity - The Big Boss.

So I have completed two Terrors, two Hordes and three Vermin (left to right).
 

Kate is really not having a good time.

When Nightmares Come and turn the world Upside Down - Terror

These is the penultimate level of Dark Spawn - Terror.

They are more dangerous than Horde, but hopefully the Hunters have gained sufficient experience (and super-shiny toys) to face them.

These are Crooked Dice Creepers 1, two to a pack, each one comprising one body and one head (you can swap the heads between the bodies to produce four different figures).

Once assembled on Renedra 40mm circular bases, half a Zinge Industries Engineering brick was glued to the base and Woodland Scenics fine cinder ballast was applied using PVA. 

The figure was first undercoated with Citadel Chaos Black, then the base painted with Vallejo Flat Earth.
Citadel Rarkath Flesh was applied for the skin, with the mouth being Citadel Mephiston Red.

On the figure with the open mouth, the mouth area was dry brushed with Citadel Terminatus Stone.
The skin is then washed with Citadel Carronburg Crimson (including the mouth).

Kate faces off against a Terror.

When Nightmares Come and turn the world Upside Down - more Vermin

 At the end of last year I started assembling some Crooked Dice figures for When Nightmares Come.

The Vermin class figures are Crooked Dice Creeper Hounds.

Stumpy Shrieker from Crooked Dice

 Crooked Dice released a number of fungous based Dungeon Monsters a while back. Amongst the collection were Shriekers. Here is a painted Stumpy Shrieker.

The "figure" is based on a 25mm Renedra round base.

The puddle base was smoothed in using Milliput.

Woodland Scenics fine cinder ballast was applied over PVA as base ground cover.

The whole thing was undercoated with Citadel Chaos Black.

The ground was painted with Vallejo Flat Earth.

The body was painted with Citadel Rakarth Flesh.

The stem was washed with Citadel Agrax Earh Shade.

The cap, gills and band were washed with Citadel Druichi Purple.

The body and cap were drybrushed with Citadel Terminatus Stone.

I have another two to base and paint. Not sure what I am going to use them for.

Mantic Zombie Apocalypse bargain box: the Zombies

 After Mantic Games discontinued the licence for The Walking Dead: All Out War, they must have had a few Zombies left over.

They had a Summer sale in 2022 with a Zombie Apocalypse box comprising some random ex-TWD:AOW zombies plus some figures from their SF range and a hard plastic truck.

What I did not do was photograph them in sufficient detail to be able to reference what zombies were included.

I have made up for that.

Now I just need to identify the named zombies (the last two are from the Michonne set).

Fidwog Crown Milwer

Previously I had shown the Fidwog box and assembled and painted the tractor. 
Now here is the first painted Fidwog Crown Milwer, with Sketych Rifle.

Citadel Chaos Black spray undercoat.

Citadel Khorne Red coat.

Citadel Macragge Blue facings.

Citadel Dryad Bark webbing and boots.

Vallejo Black Grey metal work (gun, helmet, belt buckle and magazine).

 

With Tractor support.

Size comparison with a Crusader Rhyfler.

Fidwog infantry are suitably smaller.

Lucy - Secretarial Association Troubleshooter.

 The Secretarial Association provide secretarial services to many organisations in The City. In a place as lawless as this, Troubleshooting brings on a whole new meaning.

Gringo's 40 female VC figure.

Battletech - Urbanmech Lance pack

 Many years ago I started buying plastic kits from the anime series Super Dimension Fortress Macross. That was the start of a fascination with Mecha (my fascination with anime started with Marine Boy).

There are some examples elsewhere on the blog.

When FASA released Battledroids in 1984, with the distinctive image of a Destroid Tomahawk, it was a must buy.

I kept an interest in the game (rebranded as Battletech in 1985), buying a number of expansions over the years.

In recent years, the mechs have been released as pre-assembled resin models.

At Warfare 2023, I bought the Battlesuit Alpha game from Wiley Games, but did not have any suitable models (over the years the previous models have disappeared under the lead mountain range).

While in Orc's Nest in London I noticed the Battletech Urbanmech Lance. Now when they were initially released, Urbanmechs were a bit of a joke.

The box contains four different varieties of Urbanmech, and I thought they would make a good set of mechs to try Battlesuit Alpha.

The four mechs.

Left to right - Big autocannon and laser, Multiple rocket launcher and laser, three missile pods, medium autocannon and laser.

The one with the multiple rocket launcher is kneeling down.