Necromunda Necromunda and Kill Team projects. Minis, terrain, etc.

[SHD_Umbra]

It always amazes me how much a miniature changes from a simple base coat to a finished model.

Here is my next project - a starter gang of Palatine Enforcers - with the base coat done.

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• Oct 7, 2020

I'm really looking forward to how these guys will look when they're finished.

 

[cainex1]

Looking good, still time to drill those barrels too.

 

[SHD_Umbra]

Gotta dig out my pin vice first.

 

[SHD_Umbra]

Subjugator Patrolman Pimento of the 99th Precinct is finished.

Test model complete. I think this is the colour scheme I'll be sticking with.

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• Oct 10, 2020

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• Oct 10, 2020

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• Oct 10, 2020

 

[SHD_Umbra]

I was digging through a few boxes of stuff in my spare room and came across some of my old Dead Space themed Tyranid proxy models I made back during 4th Edition Warhammer 40,000. Despite being over a decade old they still stand up as suitable for today's wargaming.

I built this guy using a couple of Genestealer torsos, an Ork skull, and a couple of random Tyranid spikes. The rest is sculpted from green stuff over a core of old sprue.

Included are some concept art pieces and screenshots from the game to show what I was trying to achieve.

I've rebased the mini on a Sector Mechanicum 65mm base which I'll paint and detail later.

I'll use it for Necromunda and Kill Team, I think, but I've no idea what to use it as.

I'll try and get some better photos in daylight.

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• Oct 19, 2020

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• Oct 19, 2020

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• Oct 19, 2020

 

[cainex1]

That looks like something straight out of Resident Evil, top quality beastie!

 

[Nuttowntau]

Awesome stuff; those corpse grinders are something else.

 

[SHD_Umbra]

Following on from yesterday's Dead Space 'Brute' miniature, today I present the Graverobber monster that was supposed to appear in the Dead Space Downfall animated movie, but ended up cut from the film.

I started sculpting this just after finishing the Brute, but then drifted away from Wargaming. I will be hoping to finish this mini and use it as a proxy Sumpcrok for my chaos tainted Goliath gang, or a chaos spawn in any Helot gang or cult kill team.

It's made from Kings of War zombie pieces and a lot of green stuff. The base is only temporary to allow me to sculpt the mini.

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• Oct 20, 2020

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• Oct 20, 2020

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• Oct 20, 2020

 

[cainex1]

That looks horrible (in the good way)

 

[Punktaku]

Impressive sculpting skills! The most I’ve ever made with GS is a mess....

 

[SHD_Umbra]

Impressive sculpting skills! The most I’ve ever made with GS is a mess....

Practice, the right tools, and knowing how different mixes of green stuff work for different outcomes. I'd recommend checking out YouTube for tutorials.

 

[SuboptimusPrime]

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• Oct 19, 2020

Well, now I'm having Ishimura flashbacks. Not a bad thing, mind, I loved Dead Space 1 and 2. Dead Space 3 was...well...the game itself was fun enough but very different from the other two, however the plot going downhill in quality after the first quarter to a "we have no real resolution for all this plot so rocks fall, everyone dies" ending really left the Franchise in ruins in my opinion. Typical EA trilogy, really.

But all that aside, really cool model, great use of bits. 10/10 would cut off limbs with industrial equipment followed by horrifying eye-stabbing quicktime event.

 

[SHD_Umbra]

Well, now I'm having Ishimura flashbacks. Not a bad thing, mind, I loved Dead Space 1 and 2. Dead Space 3 was...well...the game itself was fun enough but very different from the other two, however the plot going downhill in quality after the first quarter to a "we have no real resolution for all this plot so rocks fall, everyone dies" ending really left the Franchise in ruins in my opinion. Typical EA trilogy, really.

But all that aside, really cool model, great use of bits. 10/10 would cut off limbs with industrial equipment followed by horrifying eye-stabbing quicktime event.

It really is a shame, the team had a great plan for the 4th game that would have resolved the whole "Brethren Moon" crap and brought about a much more insidious threat than the necromorphs. One day, maybe they'll get to realise it.

 

[SHD_Umbra]

EDIT: DUPLICATE POST.

 

[SuboptimusPrime]

It really is a shame, the team had a great plan for the 4th game that would have resolved the whole "Brethren Moon" crap and brought about a much more insidious threat than the necromorphs. One day, maybe they'll get to realise it.

There were plans for a fourth game? Wow, that somehow makes it even worse. I'd love a Dead Space 4, but I'm not betting any money on that ever happening, the ending of the third game really feels like EA saying "we're done milking this franchise, everyone is dead, everything you did was pointless, go buy some other stuff we made".

But hey, maybe in 20 years they'll buy the rights back and make an indie version of Dead Space 4 in, dunno, full immersion VR or whatever we will have in a few decades.

 

[SHD_Umbra]

Today's Dead Space themed wargaming miniature is this 'Guardian' creature along with the 'Pod' creature it projects when attacked.

This is the Necromorph equivalent of a gun turret, as it cannot move. When it detects prey, it launches a pod from the sack on its stomach. The pod then sprouts a tentacle which it uses to fling bone shards at its target.

Stray too close to the Guardian and it will decapitate it's prey with one of its four squid like tentacles, which appear to me mutated from the hosts intestines.

The miniature is sculpted from green stuff over an old Necromunda bulkhead. The parts used for this are a severed head from a chaos space marine kit, and some tentacles from the chaos spawn kit.

I've not finished painting it yet, obviously.

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• Oct 20, 2020

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• Oct 20, 2020

 

[Punktaku]

When did you start that last mini? The current YakComp is for a bodyguard mini and the thing/person they protect.

 

[SHD_Umbra]

About.... 10 years ago.

 

[cainex1]

#Foresight

 

[SHD_Umbra]

#Foresight

Could I still enter it?