Finish it! - Bombshell Miniatures Minebots

 Started - Well, bought in this case, June 2015. When shipping from the USA was still affordable and not a spare (tariffed) kidney.

Thats 2 moves ago and 10 years of my life. Was about bloody time I painted these.

"IIyama-Kevill SH-17S are affordable small size service robots for all of your needs for your Interstellar craft. Equipped with 2 dexterious manipulators no small task is too great for them. Directly connected to your ships computers they will not shy away from any service issues that arise and handle these in a swift manner"

IIyama-Kevill commercial add

Kevin kicked the now smoking little droid, the 10-gauge slug having removed the large central eye and most of the upper part of the little body. Its shiny black casing went flying and crumpled into a corner with a bang. He looked over to Fran who was taping up the puncture in the left leg of her suit, where the droid has sliced right through the suit but missing her leg. While that was going on, the scanner started pinging again. 3 more little lights came running around the corner. Kevin racked in another round for a aimed shot at the nearest little shit. This was costing too much time.....

I tried to make them as multi use as possible. 28mm or 15mm, Pulp, Sci-Fi or Cyberpunk. 

White basecoat, several washes of Vallejo Dark Grey Wash and for the eyes I used 3 thinned Speedpaints (Blue, green and red). Decal from the Vo'Tann decalsheet from GW. Multiple coats of gloss varnish. 20mm magnetised round base. No damage.

I can't find the original models in the Bombshell Miniatures metal line, but you can get these as STL's now: Minebots

On one of them the antenna had snapped so I removed it from all 3. 

For now they will get blasted apart in Scrapjacks :)

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.

 

 

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.....

1929 Ford AA truck at the local car dealer

 Local cardealer (whose main business is Classic cars) has a nice one this week. 1929 Ford AA truck. Nice scheme to copy for a Pulp one in the future. 

The Ancient Cross

 I can't for the life of me remember who I bought this from. I thought Fenris Games but it is not in their collection. Maybe OOP? It comes with a base, but I left that off for a smaller one of 2 MDF bases stacked, sanded and gritted. A quick paintjob and some Tufts.

 Meant for Silver Bayonet, but works for many things, Pulp included. Makes a great Plot Point

 

 

And then this flew in...

 Had nice stroke of luck and found this for sale for a tenner in the next village over. Props are missing but I can fix this. Nice heavy diecast and perfect for 28mm Pulp. 

Now to look for better paintjobs than this weak horse piss advert it is carrying.

Yes, even more bleedin bricks...

....but now painted and finished. Well, the first ruin needs a bit more dust to tie it in, but that is for tomorrow. Done for today, and the scenery size reference is a Genestealer on a 32mm base.

What is better than 1 effigy? 3 effigies!

Not much to say here. 3x 15mm Eldritch statues from Copplestone, now sold by Northstar. Fun quick multi use scenery. Just some washes, 2 coats of gloss varnish and a good dusting.

Skulls! Skulls for the.....skullpile?

I picked up this resin skullpile at Figz 2018 a few months ago. 50 cents from one of the painters who was selling some no longer needed stuff. Based it on a rough plastic base and sanded it. Added a Ork and a Human skull, as I felt it was lacking skulls....(don't be silly).

Couple of washes, drybrushes and a bit of dust later.

And it fits in really nice with the efigy.

Question time. Does anyone recognise the skull pile? I have no idea if it is homemade, commercial or even recasted. Just curious.

50 Cent challenge: "I'm lovin' it!"

The return of the 50 cent painting challenge!

Also: The end of my painting dry-spell!

Jay!

<enough sillyness>

Last week there was a end of the school holiday childrens market, so toys galore. I picked up 2 cars for Gaslands, 1 Tractor for 20mm and this .....thing.

Someone, somewhere was "lovin' it" in a Happy Meal many, many moons ago. There is a spring inside so you can make the head pop-up. Well, the girl selling it asked 25 cents, and how could I resist something with so much potential?

After removing the top-bit from the heads-bit with a saw, and then cutting the spring inside I epoxied the top back on the rest of the .... thing. With a scrap bit of rough plasticcard for a base I grabbed the Milliput to fill in and clean up the screwholes and the slight gap on one side. I grabbed my still mint (and now no longer) Citadel skull box, put a few alien ones on one side and a few human ones on the other. Added sand to taste.

 

 

 Bring on the cheap discount automotive primer thats sticks to everything.

After that just a few washes, quite a bit of use of the dairdryer to speed things up and some powders to dust up the base.

And with that - Challenge completed! (...until the next one...)



For uses.....28mm scaled effigy....Congo? Any Pulp game? Something in Warhammer Quest? Let me know what you think.