Reaper Halfling Ranger and Dogs

 A quick project for a friend's new RP character.  A Reaper Halfling Ranger and St. Bernard companion.




These began life as Reaper's 02769: Woody, Halfling Ranger from the Dark Haven Legends Line and 77422: War Dog.

The guidance for Woody was to have some light blue in the shirt, non metal armor and a woodland consistent coat/cloak.

I went with a warm skin tone and auburn hair. I also carried the blue color out to the fetching of his arrows thinking the blue to be some sort of signature.









I added some freehand patterns to the coat to to help it read against the green but still have a woodsy feel.

The sword is simply done and might be revisited in case he happens to acquire a magic one!

The bases have a woodland theme... I had thought about cobblestone or an interior floor but.... hes a Ranger!









The animal companion is a St. Bernard so Iadded a quick little brandy cask.  Its an anachronism but should help with the illusion that this is a St. Bernard.  I did the chest-piece crimson but omitted the white cross emblem so I can add a symbol in when, and if, he gets some kind of distinguishing mark or brand. 













My initial take on the color ended up being a bit too yellow so I re-shaded to get a brown that is more in the St. Bernard spectrum.  Its on the lighter end of the color spectrum for them but at least its more identifiable as brown!

















He had a second dog and wanted it to be clearly a different dog so I went with a Rottweiler pattern which is practically the opposite of the St. Bernard.













This also has a crimson chest-piece but I'm not certain its intended to be at all related... so that might get adjusted later as well if there turns out to be a relation or a marking.  Otherwise red is a good color for an adversary!

 The two dogs together.

 Woody and the Dogs.  They are quite sturdy.. even massive... next to the slight Halfling.

 ... and a final look at Woody and the Dog.


Back to the Desk!

3D Printed Sci-Fi wheeled APC and wheeled ARV

 The Jailbirds got a couple of new vehicles this week but they, themselves, were out of reach for photos!  We'll make do with some of their potential adversaries like trusty Canoness Veridyan (GW).

The vehicles were 3D printed on a Snapmaker at high quality.  The files came from a Duncan "Shadow" Louca vehicle Kickstarter.

These continue the badlands nomad theme that is basically a Flesh Wash (Secret Weapon) over the standard Khaki workup.

 The wheels were painted Rubber (Secret Weapon) and the weathering was done with Secret Weapon technical paints.  Old Mud, Caked Dirt, Engine Metal, and Rust Shadow.

Rust Shadow makes an excellent liner and gives a "Borderlands" style shadow.  I think it will look really great with some other vehicles colors which I'll get into when I'm doing some of the civilian vehicles pressed into service by the caravan.

 Repo-Man! is a very vital vehicle for the Jailbirds.  Their gear is mostly second tier except for their bikes which are cutting edge.  The Jailbirds basically drag anything they can get off the field although they tend to focus on wheeled vehicles since they are easier to operate and maintain in their caravan lifestyle.

 The Jailbirds are much more organized and uniform that the typical "Mad Max-esque" Badlanders as they also form semi-regular military formations.  Basically they wear uniforms of a sort and their vehicles are identifiable as part of a regular, if somewhat eclectic, military unit.

 "Tailgater" with Mantic Star Saga marines and Forgeworld ripper swarms for scale.  I used magnets for the turret and for the hatches with the idea to optionally use Raging Heroes Ash, Tank Gunner as a vehicle commander.

 Repo-Man shown with Travelling merchant (Anvil Industries) or Trader Joe as he is known to the Jailbirds.

I saw some construction cranes the other day that had all the moving surfaces finished in a rubbery black color and thought that would be better than a shiny metal, attention attracting, surface.

A last look at Repo-Man with Raging Heroes Void Elves for scale.





















Last, I did basing and prep for a couple of Reaper minis for an RPG character.  A halfling Ranger, a couple of big dogs, and a triad of pups.  One of the dogs to be a Saint Bernard the other probably a Rottweiler or something similar to make the dogs easy to identify.

The Order of Vampire Hunters: Upyr and Burrowers plus 3D SF Vehicles and terrain WiPs

 The Upyr are vampire "Daywalkers" that are among the most dangerous of the vampire "trash mobs". While immune to sunlight effects and being, relatively, sturdy fighters they are not dangerous by themselves and can be dispatched by Pete and the Extractor just as any other vampire type.  Their main advantage is ignoring sunlight rooms in the lair and slowing down the Hunters especially when they arrive as a random spawn.

These were painted in the same way as the warriors but have a few extra layers of Sunny Flesh dry-brush and paler red wings.










Unfortunately they are uni-pose and since they will be stored in their formed plastic game tray I didn't want to do any physical modification.  Keeping in mind also that they are board game pieces I kept their paint schemes uniform for easy identification during play.

 The Burrowers were also painted similarly to the warriors with the but for the omission of the red wings.

















Like the Upyr these are cast in a single pose.










Moving into the 3D printed stuff there is a wheeled ARV (Armored Recovery Vehicle) that will join my Jailbirds Faction.  As motorized nomads and scavengers I think the ARV will be an important addition to their motley collection... so I may print up one or two more... can't leave loot on the battlefield!





This is another wheeled APC that the Jailbirds will press into service.  Its more boxy than their other vehicles and I can imagine that it was "liberated" from one of their many adversaries.

One of the benefits of these PLA prints is that they are easy to magnetize.  Since they are not a solid block of resin, or a hollow hard plastic cast, you can easily punch a magnet sized hole in the skin and the magnet will still be supported by the interior lattice structure.

The crane of the ARV and the turret of the APC are magnetized. 

I need to come up with names for these vehicles both as general type and as individuals.  Suggestions welcome! 

Finally some progress in the Kingdom Death inspired columns to replace the 2D cardboard terrain in the Kingdom Death Monster game.

I've been working on some marble-like effects and still want to narrow and define the black veining a bit before washing them and doing some final highlights.

Back to the desk!