Mr Mangel - Attack Dogs - Mast Beasts - Folk Horror - Crooked Dice Children of the Fields

Adding a few more miniatures to the folk horror project I've been working on for a couple years now. These are from Crooked Dice's "Children of the Fields". 

 Attack Dogs 

 

 

Mr Mangel 

 

 

Mast Beasts 

 

 

Gabriel Hounds - Crooked Dice Children of the Fields

I painted up four odd looking "Gabriel Hounds" from Crooked Dice's 'Children of the Fields' folk horror range. Not sure what the story is with these critters.

 

 

Straw Children and Sixhorn - Folk Horror - Gardens of Hecate - Meridian Miniatures

I've been slowly plugging along on my long Folk Horror project. As always, I drew a couple packs at random from the storage box and ended up with a few models from the Folk Horror Kickstarters by Meridian Miniatures and Gardens of Hecate. The long term project involves painting all of the Folk Horror models from the two Kickstarters, all of the Crooked Dice "Children of the Fields" range, plus some things from Woodbine Design and Ainsty. 

Without further ado, here are the Sixhorn and the Straw Children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crooked Dice Bunker Entrance Terrain

Here's a couple of resin terrain pieces from Crooked Dice. I painted them up a few weeks ago- they've been sitting on my desk for nearly a year I think. I used Forgotten Chapters decals on the bunker door screens and one on the top of the escape hatch.  

Crooked Dice Night Terrors - 80s Personality Fantasy Characters

 Here are some miniatures I painted for Crooked Dice a few months ago, for their currently running "Night Terrors" Kickstarter campaign. Some fun stuff in this one! 

 Can you guess which 1980s personalities these pay homage to? 

Cultists - Crooked Dice Folk Horror

I've been painting for a couple of different companies for the last few months, with very little movement on my own projects. Recently, I managed to finish off a group of four cultists from Crooked Dice, hopefully we will see some more from the Folk Horror range soon.

Huntsmen - Crooked Dice - Children of the Fields

After a long hiatus from painting I have managed to complete a set of Huntsmen from Crooked Dice. 

I'm still working on things I primed in 2023, which is unheard of for me. After a few minor projects I will randomly draw the next two packs for the Folk Horror project. 

 

 

Doctor Who Miniatures - 3rd Doctor, Jo Grant, Cailleach, Pteradactyl

I'm still working on painting and photographing my "Primed in 2023" backlog. Here's a few Doctor Who miniatures from Black Tree and Crooked Dice.

Folk Horror Project - Crooked Dice - Strawman and Goat-Kin

 A few more contributions to the Folk Horror endeavor.

The Stawman, a hulking resin figure, fun and easy to paint.

And some Goat-kin. Decided to go for a range of color, sort of parallel to some 40K beastmen I did a couple years back.

Folk Horror Project - Crooked Dice - Some Are Islanders

Next up in the Folk Horror project is the 'Some Are Islanders' pack from Crooked Dice's Children of the Fields range. 

"What's the matter with you MacGregor, you call that dancing? Cut some capers, man! Use your bladder"

What has Little Lord Winterly found in the woods?

 

 

 Finally, a shot of the full pack of four.

Folk Horror Project - Crooked Dice - Children of the Fields - May Queens - Corn Dolls

I've had a large stash of 'Folk Horror' for about a year, comprised of miniatures from Ainsty, Crooked Dice, Midlam Miniatures/Woodbine, and Meridian/Gardens of Hecate. I've liked the film Wickerman for some time, and when I found out that Crooked Dice had a range loosely based on that genre, I decided to hunt for more.

I decided to make 'Folk Horror' my summer project, and while it is admittedly off to a slow start I have gotten somewhere.

I've been drawing packs at random- first up are some Crooked Dice 'Children of the Fields'.

 

First draw was the 'May Queens', one of my favorite packs from the range. I decided to paint Lady Winterly at the same time, as well as a girl I had 3D printed, from Tiny Furniture.

The next draw was a pack of 'Corn Dolls', crude animated scarecrows.

Up next, 'Some are Islanders'.

Colony 87 Waves 1 and 2

I really love the Colony 87 sci-fi range. I was a backer of the very first Kickstarter as well as the 'Return to Colony 87'. I was happy to see the range picked up and expanded by Crooked Dice.

Having painted all the figures, Crooked Dice approached me to paint another set for them- what I ended up doing was trading my painted set off... I knew I wasn't going to have time to paint another set up to standard by the date needed.

I really don't enjoy re-doing a project... so the replacement unpainted set took me a long time to get finished up.

To celebrate I decided to create an old-fashioned Rogue Trader era White Dwarf ad. Hopefully it looks legit! 

40K Adventurers - Astropaths - Astropath Choir - Orrery

Here's my final entry for the Rogue Trader '40k Adventurers' project I have been working towards all year- the Astropath Choir. I wanted to end on a high note and along with the Astropaths I produced an orrery to help them focus their prodigious psychic might.

The most important Astropaths to get done were the three old school ones- two from the Adventurers advert. I had previously painted the Talisman Timescape Astropath. I painted two many years ago, sometime in the 90s by the looks of the flocked bases. I didn't feel like paying out for unpainted ones so I ended up stripping the old paint. Here's what they used to look like:

 All of the official Games Workshop Astropaths. Talisman Timescape (1988), First 40k Flyer (1987), 40k Adventurers (1988), Forge World Hector Rex retinue (2009), Inquisitorial Acolyte (2002ish), 'Regimental Advisors' pack (2014ish).

Two females that sure look like Astropaths to me, one from Victoria Miniatures and the other from the 'Colony 87' range from Crooked Dice. The Victoria 'Astro Witch' has a prominent cog motif, so I decided she has some training in the ways of the Machine God. Certain mechanical devices that operate on a psychic level would require a psyker that also understands the machine spirit to some extent, so it seems logical to me that there would be some rare examples of cross-training beyond Techmarines. I painted a hem of gear teeth and a red eyewrap to symbolize her training in the mysterious ways of Mars.

The Colony 87 girl seems less orthodox- she doesn't have the traditional white staff and has somehow acquired a baby gyrinx.

The full choir.

I've been wanting to make a 40K orrery for a while now. I bought a Celestial Hurricanum several months ago and I have been ruminating on how to utilize it. About six weeks ago I chanced across an interesting articulated 3D printable orrery from Dragon's Rest and decided that was the way to go.

It took a few days to print all the parts, using a combination of copper filament and brown filament, with the idea that any handling would wear the edges and expose the copper. The copper filament is quite finicky to print and I had a lot of failures, but it seems to have worked out. I increased the diameter of two gears by .75mm (B and C) and the Z height on one (the Column D arm gear) to get better action. The orrery action is still slightly rickety (probably due to differing shrinkage rates on the PLA) but well within my acceptable range and I have to say this a sweet, sweet model. The plan is to motorize it once I can find a good 1 rpm low voltage motor.

I  replaced the original sun sphere with a dimensional Earth I found on Thingiverse. I also added two cherubs (old plastic Christmas ornaments) and a micro battleship I made, to represent the guardian role of the Imperial Navy and help 'grimdark' the orrery.

All in all I'm happy with the outcome of this sub-project, and the the 40K Adventurers overall. I ended up producing and painting a lot of related miniatures, maybe even more than the Adventurers themselves.

Lastly, a crappy video. Editing is a clearly a weak point of mine :)

Thanks for looking!