The Sarkarians (Verrotwood Cult)

 

Sarkar the Divine


Before the death of the Gods, the small village tended to the docile orb weaving Sarkarian spiders living in the nearby Forest around the shrine of Sarkar, and harvesting the strong fibers of their webs for a light and very expensive cloth. It was a hard life, but they managed.

And then the Darkness came.

Suddenly the spiders weren’t so docile anymore. Several workers are attacked and killed, their poisend bodies used as nurseries. Even worse, the spiders started growing, and growing, from small hand sized spiders to the size of a Bull. When they started entering the village in search of food, a local harvester donned a suit made of the special cloth and approached the largest spider carrying an offering of fresh meat wrapped in strands of web, wafting in a cloud of incense, weaving it left to right, stomping his feet and mumbling rhymes praising Sarkar to himself.

The spider stopped as if hallucinated, bowed down, and took the offering placed in front of his monsterous jaws, and backed off back into the forest. Sarkar would be pleased, if only we appeased His children more His favour would surely return.

But now the animals have all been slaughtered and fresh meat must be aquired, so the villagers are flooding the Forest in search of more fresh meat. Animal or Human, Sarkar cares not. And with enough offerings, Sarkar will decend from the heavens to give plentyful bounty to her followers.

Well, they hope anyway. 

Pinetrees drying and ready for base primer and flocking

 Getting there.

Pining for the trees WIP

 Picked up a joblot of tufts last week and in it was a big bag of H0 scale pine trees. Use it or lose it, so started basing them up this weekend.

Will work fine as young ones for STALKER and regular pines for 15-20mm. And yes, my dinnertable is a right mess atm.

Pain is finally receding again though my skin is still FUBAR, but at least I have an interest in doing stuff again instead lying in bed doped up. Jay. 

Printing the night away.

 Sick as a dog, changed medications to another one that doesn't fuck up my liver and kidneys (as much), so 0 interest or energy to do anything untill my bodies accepts it (couple a weeks to 6 months max before it accepts it according to the paperwork. Also, jamming a autoinjector into myself is...interesting). So, printer goes BRRRR.

I bought some STL's from Multiverse who is quickly becoming my favourite creator. Currently on the plate is the tower for the Turbolaser, scaled down to 15mm, the turret is already finished. As is the Admin tower (on the right in the pic) and a free STL of a Repulsor cargo skiff, also scaled down to 15mm.

  When printing single part large items it gets a tad close to the plank that sores the dryers and spare filament, but such big prints are going to be exceptions. I've noticed I'm not having the best sleep due to all the varied and non repetetive noise it makes. If I ever get a new kitchen (somewhere in the next 5 years I think) I'll move the freezer out of the understairs cabinet and put the printer in there.

Comparing the set I bought from a friend to the print of the Imperial Hab unit, and it works just fine. Again scaled down to 15mm. 

 

Imperial Administrative Tower scaled down to 15mm, I need to make a blob with antenna's and a magnet ...using the originals scaled down isn't going to work, only 2 layers this will snap instantly.

A not Tatooine set of walls, again in 15mm

Cargo skiffs in 15mm x 3. Will make good scatter, need to find some stuff to put in the back and a tarp over it.

And why the hell not, print one in 28mm. Same idea, bigger scale.

For some reason I can't get the half round imperial roofs to print properly, the top part keeps getting small openings so I need to look at my printer settings for that. The flat ones print off fine so that is what I will use for now. 

Everything is now being printed at 0.08 layer beight after being scaled down to 53.6% of the original size. 

There will be more in 15mm and maybe a few in 28mm as well. 

Generic Cultists WIP

 Tonight we have a playtest for Verrotwood and I have grabed a few of my Frostgrave sprues to make 2 sets of 9 Cultists with the various loadouts as listed in the rulebook. No special conversions as these are meant to ge generic and to get used to the game, that can come later. 

 Both sets contain, from L to R:

• Generic Leader model with Heavy Blade (not needed in Verrotwood so can just double as a Heavy Blade Cultist)
• Crossbow
• Bow
• Pole (in this case a spear and a halberd)
• Heavy Blunted (A big hammer and a giant mace that I shaved the spikes off of)
• Light Blunted (a mace and a hammer)
• Heavy Blade (Identical curved blade)
• Light Blade (I gave them both 2 knives)
• Improvised (Meat chopper and a bone with a iron nail in it....you could argue the Meat chopper is a Light Blade but to me it feels more like something they grabbed from a better equipped kicthen of the Cook joining in )
  
  

Everyone has a pointy hat except the 2 Leader figures. They also have a slightly more exposed face and will get more time in the painting que. They are all from the Cultist and Cultist II box for Frostgrave, with the occasional part from other kits tossed in. I still need to do the basing, add pouches etc.

Colourwise....I just dunno. Lot's of washes to get them done, not a single conversion except a few weapons swaps already done. Either Dirty White, Dark Red or Dark Grey Black feels like a good colour....I just can't make my mind up yet. I will make another set of 9 or more with WW2 weapons, as I have plenty of spare sprues with Warlord Russian etc weapons, so I have options. I'm also looking at making 9 or so armed with muskets but I don't have any spare ones atm. I think. 

This way I'll end up with enough Cultists for Pulp, Silver Bajonet, Horror etc. 
 

In this case, they don't need or want them to be perfect. Better to have a decentish paintjob and get them to hit the table instead of languishing like some of my poor Stargrave figures are doing for years now. Then again, best laid plans and all that.... 

2nd set of graves

More graves for the graveyard. Again all Renedra Ltd but the fence around the double grave is from Noch. 

 

Quite a bit of room left in the box so I better keep this up.

 

 

Verrotwood: Vicious Terrain - Sacraficial Altar

 "Something awful happend here and now the ground itself is tainted with hatred"

If you do a melee attack within 3 inches of this terrain piece, you gain 1D10 attack dice.

Examples: Sacraficial rock, pile of bodies, etc.

 

I found this free STL ....somewhere?* I can't for the life find who made it, even when using the file name. I'm sure someone will someday tell me. Printed it off, used a saw to remove the badly printed goat skull that was there as sacrifice, sanded it smooth, coverd the gaping hole with some flatterend crumped paper and glued 4 Games Workshop skulls on top. To represent another team of 4 Cultists that had met a untimely end. Or timely, depending on your view.

*Edit: Apparently it is a Forest Shrine from this range Temple or Arba ....but I picked it up as a free STL, I think? It's not in my online receipts at any of the STL places. So I'm now showing off a pirated STL.....FML. I'll send a message to the creator. 

This was a experiment on how to paint printed stuff, as it is very different from the MDF I'm used to. Lot's of sponging too on this one to subdue the printlines a bit. Didn't quite work the way I wanted to, but done is done. Size wise it fits in nicely with some of my other shrines. 

So...the altar for He Who Ascends, The Allseeing Eye, or the Giant Spikey Boob*? Who knows, but it is done. 

*You may thank Modhail for this: "All hail the malignant mammary of magnificent magnitude!"

 

 

Stalker grave marker - proof of concept tester

 I grabbed a STL of a Orthodox cross yesterday and printed off at 2 sizes to see if it would print properly and if my idea would work for Stalker. The texture of my plate at the back gives that idea of really rough concrete, and the iron function on the front gives you the idea of exposed rebar, so yeah, this works.

Started and finished within 24 hours.....see, I can get shit done quick if I want to. (if only it was so easy but yeah....)

What lurks in the Jungle.... is finally bloody finished.

 Last post about these was Feb 2024, but now the lot is finished. The 2 busted ones are more overgrown, and the intact ones I want to be able to use in various surroundings, so I made sure not to go overboard. I think I succeeded.

As planned, these are for 15mm.....but a bit big now that they are done, so into my 28mm Pulp box they go. 

 

 And the tacky original as they came in tacky garish colours at 1 euro a piece back then (these days 1,50 euros each cause of course, inflation)

For 15mm I really need to find one half the size, or have 10 of em printed in resin at the proper size. And do it all over again.....

A dead scene

 First set of graves is done and tufted so they can go in the box, and I'll make a new batch in the near future. All Renadra in this one, with some minor mods by myself with card and chain. And a ton of tufts.

Stacking Game

 I saw a post last week from a fellow gamer that Uncle Alie had some nice pen box containers printed to look like shippin containers for roughly 2-ish euros a pop. I've been looking to replace the mish mash that is my resin, plastic and mdf collection of containers and find some good ones for Cyberpunk etc. 

So....

Some arrived damaged (jeez, packing these loose in a bag, how could they be damaged with such professional packaging <sarcasm off>) but it adds to their charm. Try finding a undamaged container in the yard, they might seem tough but they aren't that tough tbh. 

...takes me back to one of my first adult jobs, doing the Customs paperwork for containers full of cheese for export, checking the containers, seals, tags etc, and dirving back and forth between the Customs station for the plethora of stamps. So many stamps.....

Headstones galore!

 I grabbed a bag of Renedra tombstones and a old bag of flat plastic bases, bought ages ago for a long forgotten reason. A bit of cleanup, a bit of basing, and then a bit more focus on the 2 bigger graves, the last of those still needs a new coverstone from plasticcard that I want to smash up a bit. But that's for tomorrow. Also not a clue where the bag with resin tombstones from GSW ended up, but that will show up someday, I hope. I'll need loads eventually so working in batches like these suits me fine for now. 

They are multiplying!

 It's not that I need that many, but I was making a few anyway so just finishing before I move on to something else was the smarter move.

 

So....more spidies.  2 Big ones, 3 small ones, same scheme, roughly same basing style. 

 

Outdoor Shitcan - painted my first 3D homeprint

 This is what I bought this printer for. Printed this off in the morning, cleaned and based it in the afternoon and primed it in the evening. Painted it the next day while with my girls, then varnished, based etc.

I used this free file by Pietia Models: Village Toilet

Unlike a lot of other 3D files, this one really seems to work inside the strenth and weakeness of FDM. The way it is printed nicely hides the seam and the layers in the wooden planks. I did discard the roof as I like my normal method of using card more. Basically a 2 piece print at 0.2 layer height, and I did turn ironing on...that just looks better and doesn't cost that much extra time. 

I did the most basic of cleaning, a hard brush and a lighter to remove any thin fibres. Glued it to a base with Superglue, sanded it with my usual grit and some rocks. Cheapo primer and I let it dry and gas out over night. 

Quick paintjob in green, weathering, gloss varnish, matte varnish and various tufts and calling it done. Slides right in with my Stalker and Post Apoc scenery Hope you like!