Chrismas Wars: Scooby and the Gang WIP

I have been cleaning up and basing Scooby and the meddling teenagers, as I think they are just the kind of material that will go well with my Christmas Wars project (as well as for other, just as cheerful settings 😉 )

I am not gong to paint any of these, until I have finished the two Skeleton Horde units I am now building for God of Battles, but it never hurts to have some nice minis ready for the paint station!

Christmas Wars: Tintin and Terry WIP

I am now officially embarking on a new long-term project that I hope to have something playable ready for next December.

As mentioned in a previous post, I am painting some Christmas minis at the moment - and originally they were only intended for decoration purposes, but of course my intricate mind set about finding alternative uses.

And now I have settled on 'Christmas Wars', as a catch-all project for which I can paint whatever I fancy for fighting the good fight to save the holidays, or the sinister powers trying to ruin it.

And whom better to recruit for the forces of good that the eternal boy-scout, indomitable detective, and intrepid explorer, Tintin, and his trusty companion, Terry?

I have had this particular pack of Copplestone minis for quite a while, and this seemed like as good ans any occasion for digging it out, and get some paint slapped on this dynamic duo.

The plan is to paint one dedicated mini for this project each month, and then somehow shoehorn in a lot of the other stuff I paint (and have painted) for some games with the kids and my regular gaming buddies, come December and the holidays.

It will be 'One Game to Rule Them All', as it is 'everything goes as long as it is fun'.

I hope to add some themed minis to the collection (I have my eyes on the 'Storybook Wars' range from Victrory Force, but I need an economically viable way to get them), but my main goal is to 'activate' some of the minis I have painted for LAF Painting Clubs without any specific game in mind, and to get some of my extensive unpainted collection painted up and game with.

More Zombies.

Finished this second batch today. Bases are awful - the highlighting colour is too thinned down to use for a proper drybrush, so I may apply a Devlan Mud wash to get some definition back into the texture.

The blood looks a bit too much like wet red paint in this picture - not quite so much IRL.

The shamblers will - like everything else I do these days - serve multiple purposes; Pike & Shot AND Zombies. Dead walk Again, Ghouls for GoB28, zombies/ghouls/cannibals for WWWII, CROM!, Pulp Alley, Strange Aeons, and Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten, etc.

White Knight's Pulp Heroes.

Received these from @White Knigth today.

They'll have to sit in the painting queue for a while, though, as I don't have any imminent plans for them - I just had to get them before WK sold off the molds to someone.

I think I'll have to get some of Brigade Games' armed nuns to accompany the Red Nun, and the Super Soldier, and the fella in the bowler can easily be used for WWWII/Pulp - but the masked vigilante I don't know yet (I can't even decide which head to use - may have to get a second one...)

Shock Troops (Wargames Factory)

Well, don't really know how to label these. I have a lot of ideas: Imperial Guard for the W40K-universe (ItEN: Genestealer Cult, IG, Machine Cult Scitarii...), WWWII (obvious use, various types of unit), Warzone/Mutant Chronicles Bauhaus troops....

I'm looking forward to dig into the contents of this box, that's for sure!

And WF just released a Heavy Weapons box for these... hmmmm.....