The Age of Iron

Here's some paint on the latest steampunk style bases.

These were made by pressing sculpey into Happy Seppuku moulds, and by adding some sprues and plastic gears.

Normally I make the conduits the same color as the metal plates, but I wanted to try something a little bit different this time.

This was a fun set, and there are many more to come.  Those will be incorporating the leftover pieces from Burn In Designs kits.

The plastic gears are a fun element, and they look really interesting with a miniature on the base.  It gives you eye something to compare the figure with in terms of scale.

These bases were designed for miniatures with larger footprints.  That seems to be the case with a lot of the Z-Brush engineered miniatures.

I might still go back into these with some weathering powders, but that will wait until the weather would allow me to dullcoate those!

Stay tuned for many more of the Age of Iron bases!!!

Grant the Butcher?

Hideously scarred from the tragic fire which killed his family (the nefarious work of the Dark Council, most likely), General Grant takes the field once again.

Nothing will stop him in his quest for vengeance against the evil Dr. Carpathian.

One thing remains the same about Unconditional Surrender Grant, however... and that is the diusty private's coat which he still wears.

Charging into action in a Wild West town near you!!!

Rally 'round the flag

The two versions of Willa Shaw now in one place!

Mounted on her powerful Iron Horse, and on foot.

While she is on foot, she can get her soldiers to march at the double quick, making them a little less likely to fall prey to sneaking marauders.

On her Iron Horse, she can skillfully add to the firepower of the light support Iron Horses.

Don't let those long braids fool you, she's America's girl, and she's gonna put the hurt on you.

A real jet setter for the 19th century :-)

Either way, she is a very interesting character choice for a Union posse!

I want to combine Willa with Lucinda and Sierra.  Those two will lure the more randy opponents form their hideouts so that Willa's mounted troopers can rain down death from afar.

I'll let you know how that all works out in some battle reports, of course.

All for the Union!!

The Girl on Fire!

You have already seen the Willa Shaw on foot, but now we have an even deadlier version of Willa!

Mounted on her Iron Horse, she is set to wreak all kinds of havoc on the enemies of the Union.

The exhaust was a quandary for the longest time.  I just didn't know what to do with it.  Should it be simply a dust color?

I had red in one of the novels about red smoke from the Iron Horse, which made me think that some glowing smoke could be very fun.  That turned out to be quite true!!!

Time to lob some grenades!

We return to the Union with their own version of the UR Bots.  This guy has one heck of a gun, and lots of action points to use it!

He can also mess around with your obw RJ-1027 powered weapons with the Interference effect.

Those blue bellies sure do toss around some serious firepower!

Union Gal... at the double quick!

We return to the Wild West with Willa Shaw, a take no prisoners character for the Union faction.

She is very unique among Wild West Exodus characters right now, as she has two incarnations.  First, there is Willa Shaw on foot.  Her synergy with Union Hired hands to go get them to move a bit faster.  That can be very helpful if you have to reach those confounded Reb trenches!

There is also a version where she rides a special Iron Horse, with its own Light Support synergies.  That one is in progress!

Dressed to kill...

Here she is, the ultimate Spy Girl for the Union... Linda Loveless.

She is Jane Bond, luring you with her charms and tact, and then putting a cap in your face!

Of course she is dressed in the latest Paris fashions, and the only place in the Wild West you can get them is Wappelville!!

Madame Toussant's Chateau De La Mode is the epicenter of fine taste in clothing, and Linda can been seen there quite often.

She also knows her way around anything in the Union arsenal, which makes her particularly deadly.

She will be teaming up with the rest of the "Cloak and Dagger" Union crew... Pinkerton, Courtwright, and even Sierra Icarus.  Stay tuned to watch their exploits!!

Valves and pipes and rivets

The Tide of Iron continues with some large bases for my Union light supports.  These are for Iron Horses and a Locust.

They are made from a variety of materials... plasticard, left over pieces of Burn in Designs buildings, sprues, plastic gears, and even glue caps!

The red material is the Oxide Paste, as usual.  That was used to seal off a few gaps or crazy areas.

I even included a few shell casings and tiny rivets for some extra details.

I want my Union force to look highly mechanized, so every figure is on a base of this type.  I already showed the smaller bases in a previous set of posts using the Burn in Designs scraps.

I will be painting these up over the weekend, so pics coming soon!

A plague of Locusts!

Here we have one of the "heaviest" Light Supports in the Wild West Exodus game.

This is the Locust, and it is part of the Union faction.  What really separates it from the other light supports, such as Interceptors, Energy Beasts and so on, is that it can survive being out in the open (very high armor), and even dish out some nastiness with a ram attack.

Normally, you are shootin' and scootin' with a typical light support.  Not so with the Locust, as it is just too slow for such tactics.

However, this can be a mobile piece of terrain, which can not only cover some advancing hired hands with its large profile, but also keep some heads down with a flurry of firepower!

I had to keep reminding myself as I was painting this that it was a floating Light Support vehicle!  There were many times where I felt like I was painting a Doomsday or Judgement. :-)

However, I am sure my opinion will change as I get into painting those!!