7TV Apocalypse - Crooked Dice

These days my blog is mostly for my own projects but every now and again I think it's worth posting some of the commission work I do, especially when in this case there's a little plug for Crooked Dice's latest Kickstarter. Not everybody's a Kickstarter fan so if that's the case just enjoy the pictures (hopefully).

7TV Apocalypse is the new themed game box from Crooked Dice and the Kickstarter has a bunch of models available representing all sorts of familiar characters. I've painted a good number of the new models and here are some of them.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1039850061/7tv-apocalypse-skirmish-rules-and-28mm-miniatures?ref=project_link&fbclid=IwAR0YYI_P2wRtNNxleLsjJoIpgkWU53jWiDl92dKW5SBeyzNSM8vPLTvCezY

More Crooked Dice

Guess who's forgotten all about his blog? Nothing new for anyone following me on Facebook but here's a few bits I did recently for Crooked Dice. To start with there's Mr Mangel who joins a few of the freaky sorts from earlier posts. All part the Children of the Fields 7TV cast.

And what appears to be the beginning of a post apoc range based on some familiar sculpts from a few years back. Wasteland Warriors.

Bit of a Mad Max vibe to them but I could also see them fitting in really well with all things Fallout. I really fancied painting a blue vault suit on one but stuck to the brief. Turned out I could have gone off script after all. Oh well.

Local miniatures for local people

A couple of new releases on the way from Crooked Dice and a perfect fit with the Hurdy Gurdy Man from a previous post. The Miller and his Wife. I see them more as shop keepers ;)

That's yer lot for this post.

Hello, Dave?

A quick post to show a couple of models I painted for Crooked Dice a few of weeks ago. There's the Hurdy Gurdy Man which in these 'enlightened' times seemed to confuse a couple of people on Facebook who weren't familiar with a certain British comedy series.

And my favourite, the Crow King.

Crooked Dice Time Lost Heroes

Just a quickie. I painted up a few new releases for Crooked Dice recently. These are their Time Lost Heroes and feature a Flying Ace, Fortune Hunter, Time Traveller and Jet Pack Hero. I wasn't initially sure what colours to paint the jet pack hero. All I knew was that it wasn't to be painted blue so of course I kept thinking of blue. My next thought was to go with red but I thought it might end up looking a bit too much like another model I did a while back. Finally went out on a limb and picked a very 50's comic book inspired colour scheme and it seemed to do the trick.

Crooked Dice Cops

Just a quickie! It is a school night after all so enough time to bang one out and get some shut eye.

A pair of Crooked Dice Hero Cops.

Pulp characters

In my last post I showed a couple of pulp models I'd been working on so here they are along with a few others. No prattling on, straight into the pics.

Three from Crooked Dice. Flamboyant Agent, Pandora King and the Despotic Dictator.

Next there's Golgo Satana and Dr Fang from Pulp Alley/Statuesque Miniatures.

Sticking with Statuesque there's Professor Felicity Poppington.

And finally a pair of cops from North Star from the Fistful of Kung Fu range.

I also managed to finish my Urban War shock marine! That bugger has been dragging on for quite some time largely because I just wasn't sure what I was doing with the paint scheme. Sometimes I look at a model and know exactly how I'd like to paint it, and other times I just draw a blank. I didn't help matters by adding three lots of freehand insignia. The shield wasn't actually that hard to paint in the end. I did pretty much copy the studio paint job though as I plumped for a unit number and then realised it needed something else so I added the band across the centre. It works though so I'm happy with it (I did partially repaint the number '1' the following day as it was 1mm off from the side and just seemed wrong). With this taking so long, starting another was quite daunting but I did do a bit of base work on one the other week. Might be done by Christmas... we'll see.

Got another job under way as well, this time some Foundry pirates. The first three are done bar basing and another seven are due to be done this week. Going for dark and drab colours here as that's what was requested so no stripey trousers or colourful head scarves.

I've also painted up a couple of armoured warriors from Otherworld Miniatures but the varnish is still wet on them so pics will have to wait until next time. That's me done for this post. :)