Happy Holidays!

If only there was a tank...

Last weekend was Thanksgiving here in the US, and I spent time with family.  I wanted to take a moment and extend holiday greetings to everyone who stops by the blog.  (Even you lurkers!)  This time of year, it's always a time for family and friends, and I count many of the fine folks I have met through my blog and online as friends.

To everyone, my best wishes for the coming year!  I hope it is a healthy and happy year for you all!

Now, there is still a few fun things for this posting.

Festive Christmas Village...

First our Christmas village setup.  It seems to have crossed over with Last Night on Earth.  Pesky zombies just won't stay in the game room...

Meets Last Night on Earth!

The village is a random mix of second hand ceramic buildings from unknown manufacturers.  The vehicles and villagers are Lemax (and some have appeared in my campaign.)  There are some figures from some really cheap manufacturer (found at the Dollar General store.)  My wife is a good sport and has gotten a good chuckle out of the display.  Looks like I get to keep it!

Beyond that, I have completed two minis for the campaign.  These will be Allens wife and daughter.  I don't recall if I had named them, but I have decided on Olivia for his wife and Maya for his daughter.

Maya and Olivia

Both minis are from Wargames Factory Apocalypse Survivors: The Women.  They are pretty much straight builds, Olivia has one hand throwing a grenade/pipe bomb and is armed with a SMG, she also has a bag of pipe bombs on her back (you'll have to trust me, my photo skillz are lacking!)  Maya is the little girl build from the sprue, with a helmet head (instead of the bow) and the pistol removed and replaced with a large knife.

One slight issue I have with the Wargames Factory figures is there are a few figures that are not very flexible in their builds.  The children (both men and women sets) have basically two heads, and the girl's heads are very specific (bow in hair or helmet.) They both also have only one set of arms that fit well, which requires some work if you want different weapons.  You can try some of the other heads, but I found they looked too big.


Hopefully Allen will get to see them shortly in the campaign...

Thanks Everyone!

First off, I want to thank everyone for their kind words, thoughts and prayers.  I really appreciate the sentiments of goodwill and sympathy.  It really helped buoy my spirits over the past couple of weeks.

I am not back 100%, as I have a TON of work to catch up on, and still have plenty of items to sort out and finalize.  The healing process has begun, and I am going to start gaming again when I have the chance.  At the very least, I will get some scenery and figs done, and get some of my projects posted.

To get started, I have a fig I had just started when everything went sideways.  It is a repaint/rebase of the Heroclix figure Domino (pictured shamelessly stolen from Coolstuffinc.com):

Domino - 027

I think the fig is in a cool pose, and I considered a full repaint as a survivor.  I like the black latex bodysuit look though, and just touched up the harness/holsters and the flesh tones.  I have her on a Secret Weapons base (Urban Streets) which I have started using more of for my figures.

Even in the grim zombie apocalypse...

There is still room for latex bodysuits.

She meets a new friend!

In addition to the new miniature, I also did a quick ruins project.  It is made from a "false front" toy building, and just some foamcore cuts and junk from the workbench.  I only spent a couple of hours on this, its meant more as a table filler, not a show piece.

Before

First weathering done

I skipped a bunch of painting and such (okay, I forgot to take many good pictures) and we'll move to the finished product:

Gene and Ben check out the station

Ben checks the message board

What a bunch of junk

Overhead view

I will resume the campaign soon, and start with batreps when I can.

Once again, thank you everyone, I really appreciate the support from everyone.  Hopefully things will return to normal soon.