The last three members of the posse for Dracula's America are complete! These three guys are Terror-Cotta warriors from Pulp City. They couldn't have been any more perfect for my Shadow Empire in space posse. Once these guys arrived (barely a week ago) I immediately carved them up to make three variants. Two were given more eldar tech, while one was built straight from the kit. The masks are separate, which was a godsend, as I could make three individual faces. They have quite a lot of cool gubbins at the back too, which you can see here:
The blue gives a nice spot colour to an otherwise quite warm earthy palette. Plus it adds a bit of a mysterious arcane tech vibe, and matches the canisters worn by the cultists.
These three complete the posse, which is now ten strong. I can only have five starting out, but now I have enough minis to recruit up to a full strength posse. Yuss.
As I mentioned before, the three cultists act as controllers for the three Emperor's guard through stole- I mean recovered alien technology. This won't really have any effect in-game, but is a nice little story hook and goes someway to explaining all the shuriken weapons.
I have a sizable contingent of terracotta warriors painted for my Dragon Rampant army already, so the royal guard will serve as leaders or a unit in their own right.
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I have some ideas for objective markers for these guys, so I'll be adding a few little accessory bits to them here and there, but for now that's job done for LoPan's Wild West in space crew.
Oh, fantastic miniatures!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michal! I had great fun with them.
DeleteGlorious, the white masks and tech parts really fit with the whole thing which sounds incredible but it actually works. That's some real audace paying here.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mr Assless, I think I skirted the edge of pulling it off, but I'm really happy with how it all worked out.
DeleteYou never cease to amaze and surprise me :O
ReplyDeleteThanks Suber! These ones surprised me a little, but sure isn't that half the fun?
DeleteReally fun project from inception to completion! The Eldar/Chinese/Dragon Rampant combination is very unique indeed! Looking forward to what comes next. The face on the middle terra-cotta warrior is truly creepy.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot. Getting a posse together that would work for a sci-fi version of the Tong faction from Dracula’s America, while still sitting within my existing Big Trouble in Little China themed Dragon Rampant fantasy army demanded I make Miniatures I world never have considered otherwise. I rather enjoyed that whole process. I would happily expand the gang with a couple of more outlandish characters. What would a doc or preacher look like for this gang?
DeleteBrilliant Mr. S.
ReplyDeleteYour beautiful crockery men will be shattered in the most rootinest, tootinest ways possible THIS VERY EVENING!
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Thanks Cheetor. Indeed it was a most entertaining weekends gaming. I do recall Lo Pan taking out your leader in the last game with a rather dazzling trick shot while my clay coated robots hosed your ratskins with lead good and proper. Glory to the Shadow Empire!
DeleteExcellent looking band & lovely work on the figures!
ReplyDeleteThanks Terry!
DeleteInspired madness sir...
ReplyDeleteI love them...
All the best. Aly
Thanks Aly. I never thought I'd be painting robot terracotta warriors using stolen eldar technology. Isn't life grand?
DeleteThese are inspired. Such disparate elements pull together really nicely.
ReplyDeleteThanks Curis! I must have tried ten different arm combinations, but I'm very happy with the final result.
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