WiP Deadzone Plague

Evening guys,

The update is a bit later than promised mainly as I got distracted with farcry 4 and actually having a weekend to myself after the madness of the festive period at work.

Today I've just got a few more WiP plague conversions to show, been having some fun with these and as its a skirmish game I dont have to worry about doing loads of them.

First up we have a few additions to the one I posted in my last update:

I've added the start of oversized teeth jutting from his Jaw, given these are supposed to be constantly mutating I thought it would be fitting.

Next up we have a converted grenade launcher:

made from the barrel of a wargames factory sci-fi troopers grenade launcher and GS.

Finally a few assorted guys:

As I say they have been rather fun to work on so far, they are a bit slow burn given my current painting focus deadzone wise are my asterians.


In a final note, with the Horus Heresy Weekender approaching me and Nife have decided to enter the painting competition, now I know I have no chance in hell of winning but it will be a nice laugh. I'm entering just a single mini for it which will be a pyroclast. Just blocked the basic colours in so far:

Got 3 weeks to get him finished so wish me luck haha

Deadzone WiPs

Well its the first post of the new year, things are beginning to settle back down to normality now as the mad rush at work is gone. And I have time to actually spend on hobby stuff again.

I have a few Deadzone bits to show today, most notably my first finished Asterian model, as well a WiP Plague conversion.

First off here is the finished Asterian:

Rather pleased with him if I'm honest.Its a rather basic paint job but I intend to have a few passes over these guys adding a bit more detail each time (a technique which Nife uses and I shamelessly stole.)

For his gun I have tried to copy the style of the forerunner weapons from Halo 4 with the whole internal glow type thing.

I have another asterian nearing completion with a few more in various stages on the work bench:

Next up is little converting project, Its been a few months since I touched my sculpting stuff so figured I'd start to get back into the swing of things with a plague model.

I went in for Mantics Sci-fi mystery box at Christmas which contained a whole variety of bits including 2 plague stage 3s. Decided to give him some armour to represent a turned corporation trooper, using one of the torsos from the plague zombie sprues as reference. still a way to go on him:

Oddly enough I managed to snag a full Plague starter box on ebay for £10 so there will be more of them on the horizon. much like my enforcers I will be adding a bit more detail to each trooper.

My asterians are the only exception to this as i love the stock sculpts and can't really see anyway of adding anything to them especially given they are supposed to be robot remote controlled from afar.

Well thats it for now guys, I'm going to try get back into the swing of doing an update each Sunday so wish me luck haha

Belated Seasons Greatings

Afternoon guys,

Been a fair while since I last updated, to finish off what has been an already shite year I lost my Nan towards the end of November.

I haven't been much in the mood or mindset for the hobby since then combine that with the joy of working in retail at christmas time and my free time has taken a heavy blow.

I'm coming more around to wanting to return to working on some bits now the fact I got the 3rd edition Infinity Rule book plus the Deadzone zombie expansion bundle for christmas is giving me a bit of a kick of motivation.

Another thing that has given me a kick and is also the point of this post is the altogether awesome Christmas present I was sent by none other than my foul Danish Friend Rasmus ( he has recently started a blog so please go and check it out: paintandprocrastination). This year we agreed on exchanging gifts with me sending him an assortment of models plus some gaming mats.

In a cunningly thought our parcel box came the below all laid out on a deadzone mat:

Thats right he scratch built me an entire batch of Infinity terrain based off some he had already made for himself. My jaw hit the floor when I opened it, if I combine this with the stuff I already have scratch built plus my horde of deadzone terrain I think I happily have enough for a 4'x4' table.

To top it off he also sent me 2 knights of saint diago which are currently being built.


I hope to get back into the swing of posting come the new year, so I shall sign off now on the terrible year 2014 has been for me in real life and hope that 2015 brings something positive.

All the best to all of you who manage to read my babble and have a happy new year

We Come in peace

Afternoon guys,

Its been quiet in here the past Month, I haven't been up to much hobbywise in that time short of trying to get some Tau bits done in time for the Meet up(which happened last week)

Speaking of the meet up a great time was had by all, highlights included:

• Me winning only 1 game over 3 days.....
• Rictus's  single unit of Plague drones routing half my Tau force
• Nifes Wraith cannons killing my riptide with one hit
• Nifes Fire Dragons killing a commander and 3 crisis suits in 1 turn

The Tau didn't fair well at all this meet up, often failing moral checks and running or in the case of the commander and entourage deep striking in killing 4 dire avengers then all getting nuked by fire dragons. bad luck and dice rolls are to blame, I'll have revenge next time......

Whilst I was away however a box of goodies arrived, 1 year after I backed it my Mars attacks stuff is here. Much like a child at christmas I spent an afternoon going through the contents of the box.

I must say Mantic get better and better. Considering the models are primarily board game pieces and not true wargaming models the quality on them is fantastic. I have of course had to paint up a batch of martians, result are below:

They need some tidying up mainly an extra highlight to the face and some work on the boots/glooves
however I intend to have a final pass over them all when I've finished more of them. Because of this the clear domes aren't glued on yet.

I'm tackling another 5 martians next, then I will likely do the martian General Tor Character.

In other news I shall be in attendance at the Horus Heresy weekender again next year with the normal shady Characters of Nife and Rictus, this time we will even be accompanied by Grizz.

Last time we went me and Nife challenged ourselves to enter into the painting competition this year, so I will be putting together a single model and attempting to push my painting. Given the quality of the stuff there last time I know I have next to no chance of winning but it should be a laugh.