Strange Aeons: Cultist Suicide Bomber

SWMBO promised to pick up some black paint at lunchtime so hopefully tomorrow I can crack on with my Orc Highlanders, however I felt like painting something today so I decided to paint up this Strange Aeons Cultist Suicide Bomber which has been based and undercoated for yonks and I keep knocking off the workbench onto the floor, so it deserved a little love...

I went with an overall red look, not sure why, probably something to do with the old Laserburn Red Redemptionists, who knows? Not quite sure what I'll use him for but he was a straightforward paintjob and is done now.

Painting Target: 496/1000

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

Back in July I mentioned that I'd picked up a copy of Strange Aeons and with it a couple of Uncle Mike's resin Deep Ones. I painted them up pretty quickly at the time but never quite finished the bases until the other day when I remembered them so here they are. A pretty minimalist approach to the painting but I'm happy enough with them (though I may put a green wash over the grey/black to give the clothing a more damp look).

The workbench is currently covered in "dipped" Russkis drying. I've painted up some more of the Plastic Soldier figures and had a go at converting a few so hopefully I'll be able to post photos of these by the end of the week. The conversions have turned out pretty good which is pleasing as I wasn't sure how versatile the largely one piece castings would be for converting.

Going forward though I need to refocus on some 2mm scenery for a (currently) top secret VSF mini-project and my 6mm WWI if I am to get Elan reissued on time.

And With Strange Aeons Even Death May Die!!

Pleasant surprise arriving home from a day of mind-numbing meetings at work was a copy of Strange Aeons from Uncle Mike's Worldwide. They'd obviously taken the long route from Canada as Uncle Mike posted them on the 4th June...

I hadn't heard of the game (or company) until I read about it on Zac Belado's blog but it soon became clear that Strange Aeons was the set of rules I'd always fancied writing for years but never got round to... Essentially it is a miniatures skirmish version of the classic Call of Cthulhu RPG with characters either dying at the hands monstrous beasties or being driven insane by nightmarish creatures. I decided to avail myself of the "Seduction of Innocence" special offer, a set of the rules, first expansion and a half price set of figures (I went for the Fishmen as Shadow Over Innsmouth is my favourite Lovecraft tale).

I've only managed to give the rules a quick flick through but they read well and I like the idea of some small quick games on a small table. The Fishmen are really nice, even if they are resin and the expansion, whilst a bit thin, is worth getting as it contains lots of useful stuff. I now need to rummage through various boxes to find my old Grenadier Cthulhu miniatures but might knock off a small order to the likes of em-4.

Overall, this looks a lot of fun and whilst it's taken a while getting to Blighty, I'm very pleased and now off to gibber to myself in some dark corner... Ia ia, Cthulhu fhtagn!!! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!!! Ia!!!