Frostgrave with Stormcast and Reaper, and Steamforge Games

To mix things up after a long painting hiatus I bashed together some basic minis and then went with quick paintjobs.

The Stormcast line made a good little wizarding warband, no frills. I think I converted a few, specifically the crossbow was scratch built and the hands sculpted on.

The orcs are from Steamforge Games Epic Encounters range, I really wanted to love them but the mould lines are horrible to remove. That said they are solid sculpts and I tried out the army painter speedpaints on them, over a monochrome basecoat (black spray, grey drybrush, white drybrush).

The wolf and the troll are Reaper Bones, painted the same way as the orcs - monochrome basecoat with army painter speedpaints over the top.

Space Platform Security

 These are conversions based on the Tox Trooper scouts. There's a paint tutorial for them in the works.

Tox Trooper scout conversions

 

The heads are prototypes that I wanted to do a paint test on, so sticking them on the Tox Trooper scout miniatures seemed like a quick solution. 

It got a bit out of hand and turned into half a days sculpting, adding extra bits all over the place in grey putty.

New Sci-Fi soldier

 The Tox Troopers have been needing a target to shoot at for a while. I'll do a scale test print of this guy soon.

Heroic style Desert Rebels

 

Finally getting round to doing all my old smaller scale sculpts in chunky 'heroic style'. 

Not quite 100% replication but thematically close enough to the old desert rebels. More to follow, personal preference but I'm not keen on making 10 man strong units... 5 max for the time being.

Aether Pirates WIP

I'd really like to do a range of cog-punk space pirates ala Treasure Planet. One day. For now these two are a start.

Might be useful as Rogue Traders or Inquisitors for warhammer 40k players.

Few minor touch ups and details still to be added. Heads are separate.

Rusty Tox Troopers

This was a bit of an experiment and departure from my usual painting style. As such I struggled with the photo lighting - usually I just ramp up the exposure and brighten things a bit for webstore shots.

These are gaming paint jobs... so perhaps photographing them in amidst terrain at some point will improve them.

Cultist test colour scheme

 These are nice casts to paint up. 

The colour pallet is the same as the Tox Troopers, with the addition of dark purple for a uniform regal hint. Cultists like this are always self serving and vain... I'd imagine.

Hoping to make these available in store soon. Then as a treat, try out some head swaps and different colour schemes.

 

Cultist Casts

These are the test casts for the new addition to the Tox Trooper range. 

Not 100% happy with the head fittings, they needed a little filing and shaping to fit into the socket connector. Nothing major or unexpected, the shrinkage associated with RTV rubber and metal casting is never an exact science...  but I always try to be critical. I'm considering switching to plain single part minis in general.

Next up is the paint test - if they work out OK I'll make them available in the store in a week or 2.

Cultist mould

 Prep for the next mould in the Tox Trooper range:

• 5 with rifles
• 3 with swords
• 2 characters
• 9 separate heads

There's one little gap to fill in the mould so I might get a skeleton dolly in there for future projects.

Cultist sculpts (the silly hat brigade)

Here's some WIP shots for the continuing expansion of the Tox Troopers range. 

I had intended to park this line to focus on my mythology ranges, but one last mould for Q1 should round off the line.

The minis are single part, minus the heads, so I'll have more space in the mould to fill that's usually taken up by a rifle sprue (this might equate to 1 or 2 extra minis).

I wanted to avoid the usual tropes of hooded heads, gas masks, executioners masks etc. and went with a slightly amusing conical skull cap. That said, I'm already prepping alternative heads with the usual tropes.

This should prove to be a versatile squad - heroic scale versions of my Desert Insurgents spring to mind.

More to follow, I'm doing a mutant/scavvy squad next along with a few more characters.

New Tox trooper paint jobs - scouts

Finally finished these minis. They've passed the paint test (how easy and enjoyable are they to paint) so I'll order in stock and make them available in the webstore in the coming days.

In terms of what's next for the range, it's accessories. Making the torsos available on their own (the masters I used for sculpting the infantry) I can do arm variants - close combat weapons, heavy weapons, communications equipment, etc.etc.

I'd also like to do alternate head and weapon sprues... and with a brighter colour scheme make some good guys from the range.

However, plans are taking shape for a new heroic style sci-fi range using the man-at-arms torsos I recently released. More on that soon.

https://www.edinburghminiaturecompany.com

New Tox Trooper scouts, sentries and conversion parts

 Shots of the new metals, hopefully available in a few weeks from Edinburgh Miniature Company.

Heroic scale conversion parts

 Available in store now - heroic scale torsos suitable for Age of Sigmar/Warhammer Fantasy/40k

https://www.edinburghminiaturecompany.com/conversion-parts