symphonicpoet
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Now that Asslessman has posted his SUPERB sensei and company I feel a little intimidated. My own sensei is . . . much much older and scruffier. I'm slowly growing into a half decent painter, but it was early days when I painted the core of his band. That said, some of my newer adventurers are some of my best work, so please bear with me.
Following my advance into all things short and stunted, I began to concentrate on my "characters." I think of these as the miniatures that don't really fit into any particular army. I'd picked up several way back when, and several more in trade for that eldar painting job. To be absolutely fair, there are a number of my marines that fall into this category. The assorted Grey Knights and Inquisitors tend to move fluidly back and forth between groupings of adventurers and Imperial forces (of the Mostly Marine sort.)
I've got my "characters" grouped roughly into a few small forces. The first and oldest extant band surrounds that Sensei. I picture him as a sort of Aragorn figure, a hidden king that will one day take his due after he topples the Dark Lords of Terra. (Known elsewhere as the High Lords of Terra, whom I envision as a sort of College of Cardinals surrounding the ambiguously dead Emperor. I am at times tempted to dispense with his greatness and simply let the cult electors chose new Emperors as the need arises. I tend to downplay the magic in my world quite a bit anyway. My own understanding of Oldhammer parses much closer to the Holy Roman Empire in space with lots and lots of messy around the edges.) Anyway . . . here's the old man and his longest suffering companions:
The Sensei Arrow du Motier Marquis de Proserpine, the scout Paul with the shuriken catapult, Inquisitor Maximilian with the power pool-cue, and the adventurer Duncan with the cloven boots and red power armor are all old paint, and it shows. I touched them up a little in the early days of the modern era, but that was before I learned to strip miniatures. Had I known I probably would have sent them to the baths. (I might still. These are important miniatures and deserve better paint than they have.) As it was, I just added a little on top of what I regarded as the worst offenses and left the rest alone. And then I varnished them with a gloss coat and Testors dull-coat lacquer. Someone told me that the gloss made the miniatures more durable. I have not found this to be the case and you can never really cover that crud properly. So I varnish much more lightly these days, and I cut straight to the Testors dull.
But the dwarven adventurer, halflings, dwarven banner bearer, masked thug (whom I have recently identified as EM4), and rocket man are all much newer paint. Some of them are even half decent.
The Pirate Goldberg Street rallied another group of adventurers about himself. (A rather shorter bunch who popped up in the Short, Squat, and Hale post, but who really more properly belong here.)
Other denizens of the Tartarus sector could easily find themselves in the Star Child's train. He's a fairly persuasive guy. There are of course a few Ogryn about, This fellow, being a friend of the halfling Froda, might well find himself in du Motier's Traveling Circus soon enough:
The sector is rife with pompous officials, arrogant nobles, and corrupt bureaucrats . . .
Musetta, on the left, makes a nice segway into my third organized group of adventurers, the Lace-Rock Gang:
They got into it with Goldberg Street a while back at the Graceful Ghost Mine. The tale is recorded in Once Upon a Gilsonite Mine. It was a rather chaotic affair that involved some uninvited guests crashing the party at the last minute and generally being a nuisance to everyone. (Especially Kitty Luong.)
There are, of course, further adventurers that haven't chosen to associate closely with any of the above groups yet. They may team up, but there's plenty of room for solos in the Tartarus Sector.
(You will note that PFC Bush survived her adventures in the Eldar Ruins. Where she got off to isn't clear, but she made it out.)
Apart from that, I also have a small motorcycle gang in the works:
If you're going to run an adventure on a Logans World like setting, you really need mines, bus caravans, and motorcycle gangs. I've got two out of three. I expect we can improvise the third for now, but I've got some suitable buses on the acquisition list so it should not long be necessary.
Anyway, that should be about all for now. There's a couple of other small groups that I'll post soonish, but the Imperials, Orks, Dwarves, and Adventurers constitute my largest groups of "Oldhammer"esque miniatures. Thanks for looking.
Following my advance into all things short and stunted, I began to concentrate on my "characters." I think of these as the miniatures that don't really fit into any particular army. I'd picked up several way back when, and several more in trade for that eldar painting job. To be absolutely fair, there are a number of my marines that fall into this category. The assorted Grey Knights and Inquisitors tend to move fluidly back and forth between groupings of adventurers and Imperial forces (of the Mostly Marine sort.)
I've got my "characters" grouped roughly into a few small forces. The first and oldest extant band surrounds that Sensei. I picture him as a sort of Aragorn figure, a hidden king that will one day take his due after he topples the Dark Lords of Terra. (Known elsewhere as the High Lords of Terra, whom I envision as a sort of College of Cardinals surrounding the ambiguously dead Emperor. I am at times tempted to dispense with his greatness and simply let the cult electors chose new Emperors as the need arises. I tend to downplay the magic in my world quite a bit anyway. My own understanding of Oldhammer parses much closer to the Holy Roman Empire in space with lots and lots of messy around the edges.) Anyway . . . here's the old man and his longest suffering companions:
The Sensei Arrow du Motier Marquis de Proserpine, the scout Paul with the shuriken catapult, Inquisitor Maximilian with the power pool-cue, and the adventurer Duncan with the cloven boots and red power armor are all old paint, and it shows. I touched them up a little in the early days of the modern era, but that was before I learned to strip miniatures. Had I known I probably would have sent them to the baths. (I might still. These are important miniatures and deserve better paint than they have.) As it was, I just added a little on top of what I regarded as the worst offenses and left the rest alone. And then I varnished them with a gloss coat and Testors dull-coat lacquer. Someone told me that the gloss made the miniatures more durable. I have not found this to be the case and you can never really cover that crud properly. So I varnish much more lightly these days, and I cut straight to the Testors dull.
But the dwarven adventurer, halflings, dwarven banner bearer, masked thug (whom I have recently identified as EM4), and rocket man are all much newer paint. Some of them are even half decent.
The Pirate Goldberg Street rallied another group of adventurers about himself. (A rather shorter bunch who popped up in the Short, Squat, and Hale post, but who really more properly belong here.)
Other denizens of the Tartarus sector could easily find themselves in the Star Child's train. He's a fairly persuasive guy. There are of course a few Ogryn about, This fellow, being a friend of the halfling Froda, might well find himself in du Motier's Traveling Circus soon enough:
The sector is rife with pompous officials, arrogant nobles, and corrupt bureaucrats . . .
Musetta, on the left, makes a nice segway into my third organized group of adventurers, the Lace-Rock Gang:
They got into it with Goldberg Street a while back at the Graceful Ghost Mine. The tale is recorded in Once Upon a Gilsonite Mine. It was a rather chaotic affair that involved some uninvited guests crashing the party at the last minute and generally being a nuisance to everyone. (Especially Kitty Luong.)
There are, of course, further adventurers that haven't chosen to associate closely with any of the above groups yet. They may team up, but there's plenty of room for solos in the Tartarus Sector.
(You will note that PFC Bush survived her adventures in the Eldar Ruins. Where she got off to isn't clear, but she made it out.)
Apart from that, I also have a small motorcycle gang in the works:
If you're going to run an adventure on a Logans World like setting, you really need mines, bus caravans, and motorcycle gangs. I've got two out of three. I expect we can improvise the third for now, but I've got some suitable buses on the acquisition list so it should not long be necessary.
Anyway, that should be about all for now. There's a couple of other small groups that I'll post soonish, but the Imperials, Orks, Dwarves, and Adventurers constitute my largest groups of "Oldhammer"esque miniatures. Thanks for looking.
2014 definitely was a good year for senseis.