Showing posts with label River Horse Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label River Horse Games. Show all posts

Monday, 10 July 2023

Terminator: Rise of the Resistance and Fall of Skynet

Continuing on with painting the rest of my Terminator collection it was time to start work on the board games; Rise of the Resistance and Fall of Skynet.

As most of the miniatures are replicas of or based on many of the resin miniatures I have already painted I thought I would try something a little different for the photos this time and attempt some staged action shots.


Though by no means perfect I think they manage to do a decent job of showing the miniatures off in a slightly more interested way and I may well play around with this concept in the future.


As for the miniatures themselves, they are very much board game miniatures.  Softer details and bendy plastic are the order of the day but once you get them painted up they don't look half bad and mix in with they plastic and resin miniatures of the skirmish game quite well (they are ever so slightly smaller in scale).


Now that the miniatures are painted the board games have been queued up as our next to play through after we finish up with our current Kingdom Death campaign.  Game play looks similar to Blackstone Fortress but hopefully more challenging.


With all of my Terminator miniatures now complete is time to move on, or should I say back to, another project and will the launch of the 10th edition of Warhammer 40k I can here the Black Legion calling!

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

Terminator Miniature Game: Expansion Minis

As I make my way through the rather large backlog of miniatures it was time to finish off Terminator: Genisys.  Love or hate the film it did produce a great range of miniatures and a game from River Horse Games.  I painted up all of the future war miniatures previously but hadn't touched 1984 onward (yet the most iconic characters are all present here).

For painting I used the technique I started with the Hellboy miniatures; a black prime with an over spray of gray and a dry brush of off white, then a mix of contrast/speed paints were used in conjunction with standard acrylic and metallic paints (so a spin on what is now universally know as slap chop).
I find that this way of painting still produces good results for tabletop standard while being faster to achieve than the traditional base coat/wash/highlight method.

Next up on the painting are the Terminator: Rise Of The Resistance miniatures seeing as I'm on a roll.

I'll be back...

T-800

T-800 rescuing a young Sarah Connor

Young Sarah being carried by a T-800

T-800 "I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle"

Pops

Older Pops on a hospital visit

That wasn't a teddy bear

Older Pops battle damaged

Pops fighting the T-3000

John T-3000 Connor

The duel

The duel

Sarah Connor with T-800 head

Sarah Connor

Sarah Connor

1984 Kyle Reese

1984 Cop

1984 Cop

1984 Cop

1984 Co... T-1000

T-72 Mobile Gun Platform

HK-8 Flying Drone

Skynet Spider Tank

Skynet Spider Tank

Wednesday, 1 July 2020

Highlander The Boardgame

A quick little project all done and dusted, Highlander The Boardgame.

I managed to get these done in four days thanks to contrast paints (yet again) though I was having some trouble with them.  The surface tension was all screwy, almost like I was trying to put them on a gloss varnish.  I've not had this before and hope it's the last time I do!

Some nice sculpts here from the film (and not from the film) but my favourite has to be Connor MacLeod, such an iconic image.