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Here are a few of Simon’s Darkest Africa Adventurers.
The flash from the camera (as I was taking these pictures just before the game) has been rather harsh on them, they look a lot better in the flesh. Maybe I should read my own photography techniques!
Here is my Victorian Science Fiction Steam Tank from Ironclad Miniatures from a recent game.
Alongside them are some Foundry Darkest Africa miniatures from Simon’s collection.
We didn’t use the steam tank as a model in the game, merely as scenery.
I am thinking about how I can create rules for the steam tank for the Legends of the Old West rules. I have been looking at the tank rules in The Great War rules and I think that they could work with a little work. My main concern is that the weapons usually found in the old west probably weren’t able to do much damage to a VSF steam tank and therefore as well as rules for the steam tank, I also need to think about some steampunk weapons for those fighting against the steam tank.
Though I am sure an Elephant Gun might be able to do some damage…
See how the Steam Tank was painted. More photographs of the Steam Tank. See the Old West Miniatures Gallery.
Here are some of Simon’s Darkest Africa figures.
We used them in a recent game of Legends of the Old West where they were trounced by my posse of cowboys and robot mummies…
Though I was quite pleased how Emmet Gates turned out, I was less pleased with his base.
I first gave it a basecoat of Citadel Texture: Armageddon Dust. Once the paint was dry, I drybrushed with Citadel Layer: Ushabti Bone and then used some Citadel Mordheim Turf.
What I did note was that it didn’t quite cover the coin as well as I thought it would. So for my other Foundry models I decided to use a bit of green stuff to texture the base.
This will combined with the Citadel Texture make the base look more like a base and less like a coin.
Tally Ho! has been an idea of mine for many years now, and sadly hasn’t got very far.
The concept was based around the 1930s pulp fiction, combined with the best of the Indiana Jones films, a smattering of Darkest Africa and potentially some steampunk in there too.
Having finished my Victorian Science Fiction Steam Tank and Emmet Gates, I knew that I did need some more figures. Though I was still painting my Foundry Gunfighters, sorting through some boxes I found some Foundry Darkest Africa figures that I must have bought in the 1990s at some point.
I decided that I would try and paint these up, mainly for use with the Old West rules, but also to inspire me to revisit and think about the Tally Ho! rules and background.
I have four metal models from this range that I bought some time ago, not sure if that was the only ones I bought or if I have merely mislaid and lost the others…. I thought I had ten, but there are only four.
The first stage will be to clean the casting and base them. I will then be following this painting guide from Foundry.
Here are some more photographs of my Victorian Science Fiction Steam Tank from Ironclad Miniatures, with helping support from two Old West figures.
See how the Steam Tank was painted. More photographs of the Steam Tank. See the Old West Miniatures Gallery.
Having finished painting and basing Emmet Gates, here are some photographs of him in my desert scenery.
See the full workbench feature on Emmet Gates.
So now must finish the rest of the Old West figures from Foundry I have.
Having finished painting Emmet Gates, I started on the base.
I first gave it a basecoat of Citadel Texture: Armageddon Dust.
What I did note was that it didn’t quite cover the coin as well as I thought it would. So for my other Foundry models I will use a bit of green stuff to texture the base.
Once the paint was dry, I drybrushed with Citadel Layer: Ushabti Bone and then used some Citadel Mordheim Turf.
I finished painting the Emmet Gates model.
I gave the model a wash using Citadel Shade: Agrax Earthshade. This was to darken the base colours, add shadow and shade.
At this stage I could drybrush or highlight, but I quite like the finish at this time, so I think I will leave himas is. The next stage will be the base.