Spodding

These guys have been staring at me for the past few months with their big dead eyes, pleading to be painted. I have around 50 Nazi zombies waiting for me to find the time to give them the attention they deserve. The zeds are for the game “Incursion” from Grindhouse Games (link there’s a down below) and, together with the power-armoured GIs from the Lucky 7th and some British MI13 operatives, form the bulk of my current painting backlog. So far I have 6 models painted out of a total of 68 for this game. Damn! Not even 10%.

Ok, guys, you’re up next!

Who wants to be first? Sarge? Ilsa? Or will it be Lt Murphy? This is my current mission in life, reduce this backlog to something more respectable, perhaps even zero!

PS, Welcome to ‘fuzzywauzzy’ – our latest follower.

I am actively working on two terrain projects at the moment, one is the Jurassic Reich table and the other is a 3D gaming table for a totally cool game called Incursion. I have some WIP shots elsewhere in the blog, but these are the latest pictures – hot off the camera.

My workbench is completely covered in mould(s)!

As a way of reducing the repetition and speeding up the building process for my Jurassic Reich and Incursion projects, I have made a number of master models and created moulds, so that I can repeatedly cast as many copies as I need.

In particular, I made a 7″ x 4″ section of random stone wall that I cast and use as cladding over a base made of foam or card stock. I also made moulds of a brick pillar, some steps, and several floor tiles for my 3D “Incursion” game table.

Guilty secret time…

As well as creating my own, I just bought two moulds from Hirst Arts for making terracotta roofs and cobblestones. Both of these are of the highest quality, but I think the cobblestones are too exaggerated and so I may not use it for this project.

So after years of sneering at people who use HirstArts moulds because they can’t scratch build their own terrain, I have fallen into their ranks. Oh the shame!

Pics to follow when I get near my camera.

The boxed mould is one that is still setting (takes a few hours). It holds some Incursion floor tile master models.

Took delivery of some more Incursion models: 3 APEs – the flamer, a grunt and Sarge, as well as the German Blitzhund and a stack of Sturmzombies (thanks Jim, excellent service above and beyond the call of duty). That just leaves Slugger Murphy and Ilsa and Otto von X from my collection. It’ll be interesting to see how these compare scale-wise with the Dogface GI figures from Eureka I’m planning to get – these and the wonderful US Paratroops from Offensive Miniatures (http://www.offensiveminiatures.com/index.asp).

Now to find some time to paint them!

Got some diamond plate today from Spectre Hobbies ( www.spectrehobbies.com ) and immediately set to work on some more floor tiles for Incursion. The two on the left are using the diamond plate, the one top right is using some stuff I got from a model railway store. Different patterns, but I like the Spectre stuff better – sharper definition and more more versatile I think. I’m kinda proud of the zombie hands poking through the vent there – my first attempt at sculpting hands. I wanted to do some basic tiles using the diamond plate for casting, and then make single specialised pieces like hatchways and maintenance panels, etc.

I made an interesting discovery about these tiles too – they are exactly the right size for the Dungeons and Dragons game too. That makes it even more tempting to try and turn them into a product for sale.

I have commenced a 3D table for a board game called Incursion from Grindhouse Games – http://www.incursiongame.com – it’s a tabletop miniatures game similar in concept to the classic Space Hulk, but based in the Secrets of the Third Reich world, with zombies, GIs in power armour and Nazi frauleinen in ‘combat lingerie.’

The picture below is of the first few tiles.

And this is from a few days later once I had a couple of wall sections built (not too happy with them to be honest).