Gamma World Player Characters

So this month I quickly painted up four minis to represent the characters in a Gamma World campaign I'm playing in.  After running games behind the DM screen for years now, I'm psyched to be playing again.  Here's the crew:

Golgotha is a "Giant" Android.  Giant in quotes because she could really use a slightly larger mini to represent her 8' height.  This figure is Reaper's "Incredible Woman" (50212) painted with mostly silver and gold metallic paints.

Next up is my character: Proty, who is a Gelatinous Electrokinetic.  This figure is Ganesha Games/Alternative Armies' "Plasmoid Exterminator" from their recent Project Simian X kickstarter.  (The mini was clearly intended to be a Star Frontiers Dralasite.  I have two more of them, which I might paint in the classic grey for that race at some point.)

Amadeus Redbutt is a Simian Mindbreaker, whose player described him as looking like an orangutan.  I used a miniature from Dreamblade called the "Rainforest Shaman." Dreamblade figures are notoriously tough to remove from their bases and I had to sculpt him a new rock stand on.

And the fourth character is Rybot, a Felinoid Android.  I used a Wildcat Heroclix figure and repainted him with some metallic silver accents and pink eyes.

Unrelated to the group, I also rebased a Heroclix Aleph, and then just added a couple washes, and repainted his eyes.  He makes a pretty good evil robot.

 That's it for now.  Happy New Year!

TAG Industries Chimps and Apes -Finished

Here are the Chimp and Ape miniatures, featured in my last two posts, now fully painted.  These have been in my collection for literally decades, so it's pretty nice to have them finally painted up.

 The Apes:  

The Chimps:

And because Allison of Painting Agency fame begged me to do it.....

I made a 2001 style monolith (out of green stuff and a piece of balsa wood) for these guys to run around.  Ha.

TAG Industries Chimps and Apes in Progress

Just an update on the Chimps and Apes featured in my last post.  In addition to basing the figures, I sculpted a club for the ape with a rock, and added a top half of a spear onto the chimp with a broken weapon.  I think the club will look good, the shaft of the spear might have gotten a little thicker than it should have been.

I then primed them in brown to make them a little faster to paint up.  Expect to see more soon.

TAG Industries Chimps and Apes

Unfortunately, I don't have any painted minis to show this month, but I thought I would share what I'm painting next: some apes and chimps from TAG Industries' Children of Fantasy Line.  These minis are from the early to mid 80s and have been in my collection and have remained unpainted since that time.  It would appear that they are fairly rare as I haven't found any pictures of them on the internet other than those on the Lost Minis Wiki, and some of those pictures, I provided.  (I know that at some point Raven's Forge Casting bought the TAG Industries lines but I'm not sure how many figures they produced and they appear to no longer exist.)  I'm also unsure how they were sold, but I'm assuming I purchased these as a set and not individually (or rather as a kid, talked my mom into buying for me. Ha.)

After years of sitting in my "lead mountain," I finally decided to paint these to use as a group of more war-like Pakuni for a Land of the Lost/Lost Civilization game.  I figured they would go well with the Sleestaks I recently painted.  They don't look all that much like the costumes/make-up from the show, but it won't matter, as I'll need something more threatening any way. You'll notice that the two figures on the ends have broken weapons that I will need to do something about.

Here's Chaka, a Pakuni, for comparison if you are unfamiliar with the show.

Chimp with Spear-that needs fixing.

Ape with Club

Chimp with Axe

Ape with Rock- and I am assuming he used to have club

Chimp with Club

Ape Beating Chest

Now to get these fixed up, based, and primed...