Blog Lord Agragax's Making and Painting Blog - More Steampunk glory, and something wicked this way comes!

You've been busy. Good work my friend. What kind of base are you going to give them?

 

Those are looking really good!

That's a cool concept. It looks pretty badass.

 

Thank you both

The basing will follow my normal Graveyard Earth/Steel Legion Drab plus grass, to reflect the English countryside the Martians are invading, but for these I also plan to add some bright red reindeer moss to serve as the Red Weed, the vegetation that gives Mars its red colouration in the lore of the War of the Worlds, so that it is creeping along behind the tripods, terraforming (or should that be mars-iforming?) Earth itself and consuming its vegetation, just as the Martians hunt down and consume its human inhabitants.

You should look up and listen to the original album with that cover art... it, along with the original Victorian novel that inspired it, remain cornerstones of the modern science-fiction genre. The vast majority of alien invasion stories can trace their ancestry in some way or form back to The War of the Worlds, which is still the original and best.

 

I must apologise for my extreme laziness in updating my blog. Work, life and hobby activities have kept me very busy of late. However, I am happy to update you all on the things I've been up to.

To start with, I had been intending to keep this chap a secret until I had got round to painting him, but as that will be a good long way away yet, I thought I'd introduce him to you now.

Meet the Sleeper in the Wood, my Jabberslythe conversion!






Built pretty much entirely from spares from my bitz box, and a while load of Green Stuff to keep it all together, and add some particularly unnerving fleshy texture to him . Not only was it extremely rewarding to get him right after taking a good long time planning how all the parts would go together, but he was also an unholy amount cheaper than the GW model... and looks a lot better I think

If you can name all the different kits I took bitz from to make him, I'll give you an extra like

 

And I have also been continuing to indulge in the Steampunk world of Armoured Clash - firstly through building and painting another decrepit and grimy house...





And on my Birthday I was very kindly gifted with an Introductory Set for the game (for the Crown... huzzah and hurrah!), so I have been putting together some of the official plastic models too, including a pair of Galahad Medium Tanks:


Along with some Horse Guard cavalry (Household Cavalry on robotic horses) and some Black Watch Dragoon walkers:


And have been able to confirm that my scratch-built creations scale very nicely with them:

 

Looking good!

 

Nice Jabberslythe!