It's beginning to look a lot like Fishmen...

I call this meeting of the Innsmouth Town Hall to order.

Fishfolk are a staple of HP Lovecrafts' The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and they are mentioned several times throughout the Monster Hunter International's story lines.  Originally, I had just a few of these fantastic little hybrids, but Crooked Dice has come out with plenty more, and they are just a blast to paint up.  

I really like the idea of a whole town of these folk, living anachronistically to the modern times, blissfully unaware and unwilling to meld with the modern world.  Have an intrepid adventurer pass through, and whamo, you have a whole fun gaming scenario.

The Honorable Mayor and Lady Remoloude

Acolyte Albacore and Father Chubb

Mr. Gorton, Capt. Mac Mackeral, and Beluga

The Pike family, Rock, Ma, Pa, and Gerald

The Original folk, Finn, Gil, Sticks, Mrs Gorton and Kermit.

 It's been recently brought to my attention that this 'faction' would work well in Dracula's America, a gaming system I am aware of but haven't paid too much attention to.  I've been checking it out, and it does look like a blast.  I realize I'm more of a painter than a gamer, and I'll most likely never play, but I love reading the fluff and flavor of the gaming books, and using it as inspiration to build units.

Hope you like them, they were certainly fun to work up.

More Zombies!!

 Hiya,  me again.

Just adding a few more finished King Zombie zombies to the done pile.

First up is a not so friendly k-9 and his handler.  The handler has a pretty horrific head shot he's dealing with.  You can see the puckered gun shot in his eye, but the backside of his head is...lets say, not healthy.

An officer takes a lunch break, while the flight paramedic wanders aimlessly.  I was just making all the zombies with white or yellow eyes, but adding pupils to the cop really made him look vicious.

 

 

 

Most of the First Responders in a group shot.  I'm betting they kinda wish they weren't the first responders to that last call.

 

  I think I only have a couple more of this set to paint, but it's been really good to paint these up after so long of seeing them languish on a shelf.  I've had fun playing with different skin tones, and the uniforms were fun to paint as well. 

Zombies!

 What good is a modern urban fantasy with out tons of zombies?  Whether they are fast ones, slow ones, mutants, brain infected, rage virused, or just good old fashioned walking dead they are certainly a mainstay of the genre.

Here are some of the King Zombie figures I've been working on lately.  I've had them around for some time, but my attention span is low.

They are seriously over the top and cartoony, but as I've mentioned before, fun and quick to paint up.

These were all from the First Responders set.  The first is a paramedic who decided his patient would make a better meal.

I get a bit of a Freddie Mercury vibe from him.

Next up are some Firefighters.  Each miniature has an integrated and sculpted base, so I just painted it as whatever it was sculpted as. I kinda like the variety.

Don't ask where the dalmation went.

The two on the end I painted some time ago, and now I finally add a few more of the SWAT team.  I used a blue to highlight the ones in the middle, and I like that it doesn't wash out the blacks as much as the other two do, with their grey highlights.

This is why Zombies aren't asked do to the YMCA dance.


I've got just a few more from this set left to do.   Here's a parting shot of a Fire Chief survivor (made by Griffin) holding off his work mates.

Oscar Nunez and Big Jim Murtowski turned on Chief Wendall Rice once before.  The first time was when he was promoted to Chief.  He let that slide as jealousy.  Tonight they turned in a different way, and now the Chief was all done with second chances.

Still alive!

Heya!

Not so sure why I've been away from my beloved little hobby for so long.  But, life does seem to get in the way sometime.

Anyhow, I've not abandoned my project and slowly but surely I've been getting more interested in renewing it.

I have been painting some older Grenadier miniatures, just to get the rust off.

These aren't strictly MHI monsters, but still fit nicely into the genre.


First up is a Lovecraftian beasties called Tsuggathua.  

The most erotic of demon poses.

He's a decent sized mini, and I envision him as some sort of bloated Bat Demon, looking for cultist to heap praise on him.  I've got a bunch of bats that I will eventually paint up to become his entourage.

Next is another Grenadier mini, called the "pit demon'.   Seems like he'd make a great antagonist to any group of Monster Hunters.  He's 'man sized' but with those claws and teeth, I'm sure he'll be more than a handful.

Rawr!

Onto the summoning gone bad, or good, if you are the evil type....

Do you have a moment to talk about my lord Cthulhu?

This one is actually two different models.  The summoning circle and the Protoplasm fellow.  I combined the two, and added some resin....er I mean Ectoplasm.   I'm sure it was a shock to the little cultist to have all those teeth come raging out.

Lastly is a WiP of a bunch of zombies I've had for a while.  They were made by a company called King Zombie.  I think they called the whole line Biohazard Miniatures.  This particular set was 'first responders'.  I've done a few of the SWAT team, but as you can see, there are quite a few more to work on.

They are cartoony, over the top, and strangely sculpted, but honestly they are fun to paint.  There can never be enough Zombies to fight:

Looks like an Unlock Character scene from a video game.

Hopefully I can keep the momentum moving forward and get some more painted.  

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Until next time!