River trolls

 

I bought three river trolls second hand that I painted for fun. I really like these river trolls miniatures.
They are ment to acompany my Forest Goblins collection that I really haven't played nearly enough games with to justify them but it is a neat excuse for a collection...

http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2020/02/fores-goblin-army-photodump.html

Yeah... who can resist a harry ass...

Armed convics

 

Yet again I have painted some of Wargames Atlantics "Cannon fodder", same as the previous hazmat guys.
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2022/01/hazmat-suits.html

But this time I painted them as armed convicts, still carrying their orange jumpsuits and with discipline collars.
I still dont like the models or the kit but I must admit that at least they start to grow on me.

At least I thought it was fun to paint these or the previous hazmat suited guys.

Hazmat suits

I bought a box of Wargames Atlantic minatures mostly for fun. Tossing them in ass npc:s or something in special scenarios but mostly just for the excuse just to build or paint something different.

The miniatures were 30 in a box, no bases but with lots of head options. Im really not inpressed by the miniatures, way to stiff boring poses. But I liked all the heads. With paint on them they look decent enought and they were rather fun to paint and that was what was most important.

Here are the first five built and painted as a hazmat suit.

UR-025

 

Ive painted UR-025 from Blackstone Fortress, the campaign boardgame from GW set in the 40k universe. I bought it of some dude that har bought the box and split the content and sold it seperatly. 

Its hinted at UR-025 is not an Imperial robot but rather a survivor from the men of Iron era long ago.

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/UR-025

I liked the miniature and thought it would be fun to paint something different. Colourwise I went for something alittle retro scifi. I wanted something like 60s-70th ish scifi.

The miniature might be used as sometkind of bodyguard in an imperial HQ squad or something like an npc in special scenarios.

But I bought it mostly for just to paint him.

Solar Auxilia Household Retinue Veletaris Storm Section with power axes

 

Yeah thats a long name for a unit...
I just added a dedicated unit representing a Household Retinue of Veletaris Storm Section with power axes to my Solar Auxilia.

These Veletaris is converted to look extra fancy to especially represent a Household Retinue unit.

Ive added the top parts from Napolenic helmets, French cuirassiers from plastic Perry miniatures.

They were given new fancy halberds by adding the top parts from plastic halberds from Fireforge Games to their regular power axes.
https://fireforge-games.com/weapons/301-halberds-type-2-24pcs.html

The sergeant or rather the Prime which is the correct title as well as one of his men are given new heads. As my Solar Auxilia is eastern-Europe themed I found some really nice looking cossack heads that would be perfect for my project.
https://puppetswar.eu/cossack-heads.html

And I added a pelt over one of the arms in greenstuff.

Im really happy how they turned out converting wise. They look really unique.

For painting I wanted to have a down to earth muted colours but still have some bling.
So muted, "boring" colours but with some metallics and some fancy helmets and nice weapons.
I wanted the power axes to really shine and tested a new technique, instead of my more regular enhanced nmm I went for a more electric edge idea. I didnt totally nail it but could be interesting to experiment further with this idea.

For the pelt I first thought about painting it like a leopardskin but my friend Johan told me to paint it like a stoat fur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoat
And I glad he mentioned it as I dont think Ive ever seen it on a miniature before.

Yeah this dude might not be totally sane but he looks like he can chop up some traitors atleast...

The Prime in all his glory, nice haircut, powerfist and a volkite