Tuesday 6 January 2015

DavidB - 28mm Necromunda Gang: The RezDogs (85 Points)

Things are slowing down and picking up, depending on task or item. I have even more stuff piled on my table as I plucked out some sci-fi, hero and other bits since they will share the same colors. keeps the paint wastage to a minimum! My first foray in 15mm is off to a slow start. I use 3 colors for base, shade and highlight on my 28's but it seems a lot of adjustment is needed for the 15's! I even picked some simple ones to kick the tires on them. It seems they are anything but! The Oliphant is slowly being mended too. I have to find a new truck, go to drill and work overtime this week; so, I may miss a week in posting.

the RezDogs  trying to squeeze in for a group shot...or looking for trouble.


Up for your review are the last gang I ever made for Necromunda. I have every gang except for the pit slaves. The ones I like I have two or three different gangs. All of them are painted in either testor enamels or dosed in krylon crystal clear. Someday, I'll strip them down and repaint, my RezDogs were never completed and only four needed the simple green stripping. I do have a large Ratskin gang, but of anything that ever had struck me as a racial slur....I gotta admit that seeing a caricature of my ancestors in funky giant rat furs just never sat well with me. I don't usually rant on cigar store Indians, or athletic teams (my ancestors were great warriors, we just didn't figure out that whole lies and lawyers tactic till later!) ;) They just still seem a little demeaning to me, but that is only my opinion and not representative of the whole tribal nation.  As GW scrapped the line, I scooped up a whole bunch of Orlocks as they always had an Apache vibe to me, and were definitely more pleasing aesthetically. I always had the idea of forming them up with my Cadian forces where the gangers would serve double duty as Veteran Sgts, Veterans, and Command squad extras.


This was my initial lineup for the gang, a heavy with a plasma gun salvaged from the plastic orc set, an Orlock with bolter and power axe, and a hired gun who stepped in as my leader LaChota.


The third from the left is Two Johns who had an autogun replaced with a shotgun and I swapped the models slug pistol with a knife. He is a combat menace and pretty good infiltrator. 


I don't know where I placed my gang roster, but I usually give my marksmen and infiltrators lasguns. The gangers in brown jackets and vests were among the lot that had some color needing stripping or were doused in flatblack primer this summer past.


The juve selection. I found by accident that juves with plasma pistols are lethal to others and themselves, I also had a juve who acquired gunfighter while leveling up so another quick conversion for a dual pistol juve!


Big Bear was initially the left hand model with plasma gun and knife, I got the Cawdor model from a friend whose gang really messed him up. He is blind in one eye, has a lobochip, and horrible scars. he also can move and fire and has an amazing ballistic skill for a one eyed shooter. I was going to alter an Orlock model to portray his wounds, but the hooded Cawdor model kinda fit in and a hood would hide the ruined face. I gave him a jagged lighting bolt pointing towards his sightless eye. The spirits would help him with their sight! The plasma gunner is still in the gang  and used by Laughing Crow who picked up a skill that lets a "regular" ganger use special weapons. He had already picked up a powersword earlier and is really nasty in hand to hand, so the little knife had to leave and be replaced by the power sword. It's a count as knife in 40k games as his combat prowess is vastly reduced in the veteran squad he runs with!

Even before I finished painting them all I did put a lot of work in them. WYSIWYG is a mantra in Necromundia. It is not pleasant to miss a charge by your combat master on  a juve with a pistol by inches, only to find out it is the other gang's heavy who is toting a lascannon! OUCHIE! :)

So seventeen 28mm troops for Necromundia, and the Cadian 7th! :)
and yes the Rez Dogs are a riff of the Reservoir Dogs, but they don't have a Mr Pink! ;)

From Curt:This is a very cool gang David! I really like the facepaint and the red and blue you've gone with to visually tie this force together. I also appreciate the little narrative details, like the lightning bolt sigil over the gunner's sightless eye, that alludes to a deeper story. Great work!

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  1. You did a masterful job with these 15mm's. The brushwork is superb and all the extra freehand work is amazing. One would think you've been painting at this scale for years. Great work!

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    1. I actually wish they were 15's! But alas they are my comfort zone 28's. I'm still struggling with the 15mm cops I'm painting now, there is so much detail, I think I'm accenting them too much! I'll figure it out soon and hopefully before I have to go to drill!

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  2. These look so very good, the face paint especially makes them look a real mean team

    Ian

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    1. Thank you, Ian! They have garnered some noterity in my wargame group! Now with the distinctive warpaint, some of them may be singled out for retribution sniping! ;)

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  3. Necromunda was the best game GW EVER made. Then they scrapped it the fools. Very nice bunch of gangers heavies and juves. As an Orlock player I can agree with your comments about them. These really are sweet and I must now go and dust of my old stuff once more. But never forget Orlocks rule!

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    1. GW are famous for making good games (typically their specialist ones) and then scrapping them because they don't make a gazillion bucks immediately. Yet they refuse to let anyone else keep them alive properly. Morons.

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    2. Well said Millsy - Epic, Battlefleet Gothic, Warmaster...the list goes on. GW could crank out a lovely set of rules, and then just dump it. A pack of clowns.

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    3. Thanks Clint! I actually have three Orlock crews now that the Rez Dogs are completed!
      And I do agree with you all that it is a shame it all evaporated, but I still have all the rules, terrain, and models and we still play it! Lately it is only near Halloween and vs scaveys and plague zombies in a multiplayer free-for-all! ;)

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  4. That's a gracking game David and the backstory is superb. I like the way you've mixed in a couple of non-Orlocks and fitted them in so well.

    Like you I've painted up a bunch of Necro figures for use in 40K, in my case 20 Cawdor for use as IG Conscripts.

    You must have a massive collection and I'm curious why you avoided the Pit Slaves as they are a very interesting and colourful background and set of models...

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    1. Blimey, my typing gets worse every day. "gracking game" = "cracking gang" :-)

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    2. Thanks, Milsey! Without auto spell check, I'd 'sound' like an old backwoods, knuckle dragging, recon, Indian... Oh crap!!
      I do have a bunch of Nercomundia figures! I also have enough pitslaves to make a gang, but the pit slave boss and techno were two figures I never liked enough to buy. I'm still looking at my unused bits and plastics to maybe one day building some. For now the pit slaves are hired guns and close combat servitors in 40k! ;)

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  5. Very menacing David - lovely stuff :)

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  6. Very nice! The blue is lovely and the face paint and narrative really makes them a cut above.

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    1. Thank you! I painted their faces fully and used washes for the warpaint. Except for the white which wasn't thined down. I think the washes make it look better, and I don't have to highlight it! ;)

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  7. very colourful, look just the job

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  8. I liked the way built an painted your game I don't know a bolter from plasma cannon but reading and seeing the miniatures I feel like each one has his own story and is dangerous fellow in his own right.

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    1. Thank you,Adam! Probably the best thing about Necromundia is that the gangers get better( or worse) after every outing. I initially started with a Golliath gang that later evolved into another gang after deaths and exile.

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  9. Very cool! All the converting and modifying, the warpaint and back stories. All the extra work and painting really makes the whole gang a pleasure to look at and read about.

    Though I cannot for the life of me remember what gang I used to use back in the '90s!

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    1. Thank you, Roy! I think it's half the fun in converting them to suit the gangers equip( and wounds). I am almost ashamed to admit I enjoyed playing the Escher's!
      Nobody in my family can remember who bought me those multipose Airfix so long ago that started me on this dark path! ;)

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  10. Love these figures - very well done.

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  11. Great painting on these guys! It's nice to see those old models getting so much attention.

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    1. Thank you, Moiterei! In addition to seeing all of everyone else's work, the best thing about the challenge is reducing the the pile of neglect! My wife has lifted the edict of " No getting more stuff"! Thanks to Curt and the Challenge, I can buy one model for each finished in the Challenge! It's been a long while since I've been able to get my own stuff and not depend on gifts! ;)

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  12. Love Necromunda - both the game itself and the miniatures - and this is a brilliant spin. Much better than the Ratskins by far.

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    1. Thanks, David! Necromundia and GorkaMorka are two of my favorite games! Glad to know I'm not the only one who feels the Ratskins were not well thought out! ;)

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