The Happy Spender: City Grounds from Miniature Scenery

I was planning to make my own modular street scenery with foamboard and plasticcard for a Dark Future setting when I stumbled upon the really awesome terrain from Miniature Scenery:

City Grounds

I love the look of the boards! I got myself 2 City Grounds sets. Each contains 20 modular square tiles that can be configured as desired. Here are a few examples I found on the web what 2 of these sets look like in action (shown here with additional terrain and miniatures from various manufactures):

I'm not 100% sure which paint theme I will choose for this. I really like the clean look of some Infinity boards but I think I might go for a gritty dystopian look. We will see. :)
(Image Credit: Master Class Terrain Painting)

Miniature Spotlight: Dark Eldar Succubus and Lhamaean

I'm almost done painting the Empire Greatswords. In the meantime here are two more miniatures painted by Elena for my Dark Eldar army:

Dark Eldar Succubus

Dark Eldar Lhamaean

And my new Dwarven Forge set should arrive tomorrow. When it does I will make a little setup with the Dark Eldar army because I want to play with my new toys because I want to see how they look in action and to get a feeling on how to use the new set. :)

Miniature Spotlight: Dark Eldar Reavers

I really like the Reavers. They look really cool and awesome. I magnetized the weapon options to make them interchangeable before I gave these as a commission to Elena who painted them up for me:

Miniature Spotlight: Raging Heroes Asharah as an Dark Eldar Archon

I received my latest batch of Dark Eldar miniatures from Elena which consists of 5 Hellions, 5 Scourges, 3 Reavers, a Lhamaean, a Succubus as well as Asharah from Raging Heroes as an Archon.

I'm in the process of photographing all the minis and uploading the images.  Heres the first one:

Asharah from Ragin Heroes as an Dark Eldar Archon

Miniature Spotlight: Mad Rex

I liked this miniature from the moment on I saw it over here at Plastic Legions (take a look, this blog is awesome!). The Mini (Rex, Dark Future Hero from Reaper Miniatures) is based on a Concrete Rubble Base from Dragon Forge and was painted by Duc with a few touch ups by me (base).

Miniature Spotlight: Jokers

I assembled and cleaned my Jokers fraction (Eden by Taban-Miniatures).  The Jokers are based upon  Urban Rubble Wasteland bases from Dragon Forge and Old Factory bases from Micro Art Studio.

They have a bear. A BEAR. Awesome. :D

On the Worktable: MicroArtStudios Catwalk Set Part I

I assembled two Catwalk Sets from Micro Art Studio a few days ago. I really like this stuff. It's big, it's versatile and it looks great! :)

On the Worktable: Hirst Arts Sci-Fi Arena WIP 1

"... a place where you needn't follow rules because none exist; the pits of the underworld."

                                                                                - Batiatus (Spartacus 1x04 - The Thing in the Pit)

I recently watched the first season of Spartacus again and decide to bring an gladiator element in my Cyberpunk setting of the DPC like the pit from the fourth episode. I envision it to be a very dark and gritty arena with blood stained walls, razor wire fences and many many more cool things.

I decided to go with Hirst Arts to build this and today I made a general overview of the floor setup:

Elements from 4 different molds were used for this setup:

Starship Deck Mold #270

Laboratory Floor Mold #271

Service Area Floor Mold #272

Pipeline Floor Mold #273

I will divide the floor in 4 parts for a better modularity of the setup:

Tomorrow I will base the tiles on 4 pieces of Styrofoam (10 mm / 0,39 inches). I also made the first of a set of columns for this setup:

Side A

Side B

The columns will be made in a way that they will connect with each other if desired and form a wall/new level etc. The cloum shown above has two different sides and is based on a 1 mm (0.4 inch)  MDF plate.

The Happy Spender: The Dark Eldar Madness Overload

 

I really like almost all of the new Dark Eldar models from Games Workshop. The models shown above are in my display cabinet right now and I bought a bunch of new models to accompany them in the near future:

 

Dark Eldar Hellions     ||     Dark Eldar Scourges

 

             Dark Eldar Reavers     ||     Dark Eldar Kabalite Warriors

 

 

Dark Eldar Lhamaean     ||     Dark Eldar Succubus

Asharah

The last one is obviously not from GW but from Raging Heroes but I think this girl will make a great addition to my army as an archont. It's not the first time I've found a cool mini to complement one of my armies. RH really makes cool stuff! :)

On the Worktable: Hirst Arts Sci-Fi Setup

I'm making progress with the casting of my Sci-Fi sets. I have my first floors and walls ready and I decided to make a little setup. Nothing is painted yet but I wanted to get a feel for the possibilities of the individual parts. And I got inspired by the upcoming holoboards from MicroArtStudio and decided to create my own. I made several different designs and this setup includes the first example.

The Happy Spender: Jokers and Bozos

Almost exactly 21 years ago, I was 12,  I bought myself a copy of the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game. I've been a gamer ever since. To be more exact: a gamemaster ever since. That's why Cyberpunk will always have a special place in my gamer heart. Now, two decades later, I'm working on my next big Cyberpunk campaign setting. I'm actually converting the 2020 setting to fit into my Dark Prophet Sci-Fi Campaign where the planet earth as we know it is actually a long time imperial science project regarding human cultural behavior. A short visit from the Orkz had long reaching consequences and let to the termination of the project and to the open  integration of the inhabitants of the planet earth into the Holy Galactic Empire. The cultural impact on Eden Prime (the imperial name for the Plant Earth) was disastrous, the world as we knew it collapsed and from that point on where pretty much in the Cyberpunk 2020 Setting along with all the other fun stuff that makes the Dark Prophet Chronicles what it is.

Why am I telling you this now? Because like my fantasy campaign the DPC Cyberpunk setting will include tabletop wargaming. And for some time now I'm searching for the perfect miniatures for a Cyberpunk gang that calls themselves the Bozos and now I've found them:

The Jokers from Taban-Miniatures are exactly what I need to bring these deadly clowns to life in my game. The miniatures arrived today which is perfect timing since the Urban Rubble Wasteland Bases from Dragon Forge arrived yesterday from the States and I think these will be the perfect bases for these wicked gangbangers.

Birthday Presents: Infinity Miniatures

Infinity has some awesome miniatures. From the moment I first saw them I knew I had to have them. And since my birthday was this month I was lucky enough to get some of them as gifts:

Motorized Troops 2

Métros

1st highlanders S.A.S.