As many of you will know from Dave's wonderful Wargames sculptures blog, this month is Fembuary, now Dave those some great challenges like paint what you got.
Now while I'm not a great one for taking part in challenges, as I'm very much a do what the mood takes me hobbiest. It just so happens that I was painting up an Easher gang for Necromunda & for those of you who didn't know the Easher's are an all female gang, so now you see the connection with Fembuary 🙂
Now as these models where made up about a year or more ago it nice to finally have them painted up, so I guess you could say that I done two challenges in one go 👍
It's an odd thing & something I find happens with me quite a lot, in that I can dread the thought of painting models, especially GW ones as they have so much detail on them.
As it turned out, once I got going with these I managed to get through them fairly fast, at least but my standers that is 🙂 In the first picture above is the gang leader (on the right) & a champion, next is a specialist ganger, followed by 4 ganger, with the photo above been 3 juves.
After I'd made up my Easher gang I'd a few parts left over & as I'd a few female models that I'd got from Mantic cheap a couple of years back, I thought why not try & make up a few extra gangers. These are the ones in the picture above & while the 2 on the left I think fit in kind of OK with the rest of the gang, the one on the right doesn't, but can be used as what are called hive scum.
Next we come to the star of the show 😂 while looking at the models on the Mantic frame I noticed a model that would be the most unlikely one for Necromunda and thought to myself why not.
I'm not sure that flipflops are still a thing in the 41st M but you go with what you have right? Anyway I want to give a big thanks to Dave as I am now on holidays and without his challenge I know I wouldn't have got all these models painted up before I left.
As always my thanks for dropping in and if you'd care to leave a comment it would be welcomed 🙂
The whole gang looks excellent Frank, I like the uniform look you've gone for, it actually suits them really well, and the conversions you've done are superb, even the one you refer to as hive scum, could be a fresh initiate, who hasn't earned her gang colours yet.
ReplyDeleteAs for the flip flops , 40K has some truly archaic items in it, so why not flip flops ! LOL
Thanks Dave, I was really happy with how this gang turned out & as it will most likely be that anything I do Necromunda wise will be solo, using any of these models won't be a problem 🙂
DeleteGreat stuff Frank, well done 😀
ReplyDeleteIt's always a great feeling to get so many models completed in one go - so is that enough to play the game or do you have more you need to complete to be able to get to the table?
*white flip flops 😂*
Thanks Ivor, agree 100% on getting so many done at once & it's something that's unusual for me as I normally paint models in groups of 5.
DeleteYep,there's more than enough for to play a game with, as Necromunda is a game with a low model count but in campaign setting you could end up needing a few more models if wanted to keep everything wysiwyg.
In other matters, I see we done your lot a big favour yesterday 🙂 COYS
MATE!!! That was emotional!!! Never before was I more of a Spurs fan - they'd won it, they gifted the tie, and they won it again lol! Still a long way to go but it's certainly got a whole lot more interesting.
DeleteIt sure was Ivor & glad to have you in our corner even if was just for 90+ minutes 😂
DeleteWell done with this lot Frank, the conversionds fit in seamlessly with the original models.
ReplyDeleteI know well the problem with motivation, so well done getting these out of hiding and ready for the table-top.
Thanks Joe, any model I get painted is a win for me, so to get so many done at the same time is a big win 🙂
DeleteI like the last ones builders bottom :), crickey Frank I thought you'd given up posting and so I missed all this. Just about to catch up on what you're doing. I have some of the old lead echers figures that I bought 2nd hand, mostly still unpainted by me.
ReplyDeleteThese plastic figures look very complicated, well done for painting them.
Thanks John, time is my biggest problem these days mate as there's a big real life change on the horizon that I'm busy working towards so blogging will be very hit & miss for the rest of the year.
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