Gloomhaven

A friend asked me to paint his figures from Gloomhaven, which I take it is some kind of adventure game with figures that unlock as you go. Since the figures are all boxed up, there may be some spoilers below (sorry).

Overall, the figures were harder painting than I normally do. Each pose was unique (i.e., no one in standard fatigues or outfits). But there were some recurring elements that needed to be consistent. These were sometimes not apparent until I'd already painted them a different colour. 

Nobody ended up getting stripped, but a lot of paint blistered due to high-volume swearing! I also did not have the character cards, so I had to work from the images I could find online plus some guess work.

Overall, they turned out okay. The wash really pulled them together by popping the muted detail on some of the sculpts.

Happy they are done and not a complete embarrassment! Now back to some Star Wars.

Star Wars Legion rebel troopers

I ground my way through one of the rebel troopers expansion boxes for Star Wars Legion that I picked up.

There were seven figures and I painted them in a quasi-jungle scheme.

Nice figures and the official hints the cane with were pretty decent.

I have three more squads of these guys to do so I'll need to vary the uniforms a bit (maybe another jungle unit and then two with more arid fatigues? I also have three AT-RT walkers plus another Luke.

Star Wars Legion Rebel Troopers

A fellow nearby was selling a bunch of Star Wars Legion rebel figures on Facebook a few weeks back so I snagged them along with the paints he was using. 

The first group I did were some rebel fleet troopers and Luke from Bespin (which keeps autocorrecting to Bedpan).

These are pretty nice figures and painted up well enough, I think.

Up next: I have some more Star Wars cooking plus more Gloomhaven.

Miscellaneous fantasy

This week is a hodge-lodge of fantasy figures. First up are three Hogwarts figure Hagrid, McGonagall and Mad-Eye. These are some metal toys that I stripped last year. I have half a dozen left to paint. 

A friend also asked me to paint his Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion figures.

I've no idea what the deal is with this game but the figures are boxed individually. So I pulled them out, carefully recorded which went in which box, and have returned them.

I tried to make the mecha look like it had seem some stuff.

 

I have some Star Wars Legion figures on my table and another box of Gloomhaven to dig into.

Batoche battle site

I had a chance to stop at the Batoche settlement and battle site while I was on vacation this summer. Batoche is located about an hour’s drive northwest of Saskatoon.

The site is quite large with a few preserved buildings, including the church where Louis Riel proclaimed his second provisional government and a nearby rectory (with bullet holes from a gatling gun).

There are also a number of recreated rifle pits, a farm house that was burned and rebuilt, a cemetary. You can also walk to the site of the Canadian field camp and the view over the South Saskatchewan river is lovely.

There is an interpretative centre with artefacts. We opted to stay outside due to the pandemic so missed whatever content was here. Overall, a pretty visit with nice interpreters.

Last Night on Earth Part 2

This is the second set of going figures from Last Night on Earth. They are about 28mm tall but are thinner than most sculpts.

First up, we have Dr. Yamato the chemical engineer, Angela the cheerleader, Bear the biker, and Maria the bookworm. Dr. Yamato is one of only two non-white figures of the 35 that I painted up. I'm not sure what to make of that. Perhaps people of colour are generally too smart to try to fight zombies?

Next up is Nikki the bush pilot, Sam the diner cook, Kenney the boxboy (throwing cans of soup--maybe the funniest and best conceived pose of the lot), and Detective Winters.

Then we have Jake the drifter (a repeated character), Ed the lumber jack (I tried my best with the flannel), Amanda the prom queen, and Sally, a generic survivor and possible repeated character from an earlier set (why is she wearing pumps?).

The last of the humans are Sister Ophella, Alice the waitress, Sheriff Anderson (repeated character) and Agent Carter.

There was also a dog in the set (no name or card) so I painted it up like a basset hound (visually more interesting than other kinds of hounds) and stuck a tree on the base to give it some visual heft to match the others.

Overall, a fun set of character to paint. Now I need to get back to my to-paint pile for the Crimea.

Last night on Earth, Part 1

A friend gave me a bunch of figures from the boardgames Last Night on Earth to paint up. This is the first batch. I base the paint jobs on the game cards but the crds show portraits so I had to guess a bit the rest of each outfit. I see some of the bases need tidying before I return them. 

Above we have Billy (the sheriff's son with a flare gun and gas can), Becky the nurse (I may have mixed this figure up with a waitress--it was very hard to tell), Sally the high school sweetheart, and Jenny the farm girl,

Then Father Joseph, Deputy Taylor, Doc Brody, and Mr Hyde, the shop teacher with dynamite and a can of butane to light it with (great figure).

There is Johnny the quarterback, Jake Cartwright the drifter (one of a small number of duplicated figures, I assume from expansion pack), Jeb the mechanic (super happy with how his understated paint job came out), and Sheriff Anderson (another duplicated figure).

Finally, we have Stacy the TV reporter, Mr Goddard the chemistry teacher (hilariously carrying a fire extinguisher), Victor the escaped con and Jade the school outsider (again, happy with her paint job--dark but not too dark). Next week, I'll have the second batch of these fellow.