Privateer Press just officially announced the sequel to Into the Storm, put up the cover, and a snippet.

http://privateerpress.com/out-of-the-storm-into-the-wild

It isn’t up on Amazon for preorder yet, but as soon as it is I’ll provide a link.  There will also be an audiobook on Audible, but I don’t know the release date for that yet.

For those of you who haven’t read Into the Storm, I wrote it so you don’t need to be familiar with the Warmachine game or universe to get into it. These books are a lot of fun to write.

I told you guys I painted a bunch of these this year.  🙂

Up next, Pan Oceania. Since these are high tech space Catholics, I went with more of a cool blue and teal on the armor. For the knights, white sashes and red crosses. For the regular troops teal and jade green to make the armor pop. The bases I went with a sandy grey/yellow that offsets the armor color.

Group pic. I’ve got a couple of their TAGs (big robots) but have not painted them yet.

So the rank and file troops get the jade shoulder pads. It off sets the blue/sapphire washes I use for the armor.

Now I start to get into the white cloaks and crosses for the SPACE POPE!

The glow effect is for the hacker. The pic on that one doesn’t really do the light effect justice.

I do love these sculpts. They do such a good job on the faces, with enough depth that a decent paint job can really make them pop. These are fairly new, and way easier to paint faces than some of Corvus Belli’s older models.

I haven’t done a Geeky Hobbies post for a while. Mostly because we had all those blog loading problems because of traffic and the big pictures didn’t help. But now MHN is on its own server so we should be good.

And I got a light box for Christmas. I’ve not put up any pictures of my Infinity minis. I’ve been on a scifi kick. I’ve only played this war game a handful of times, but I’ve been using these guys for a scifi RPG I’ve been running.

I’ll do other posts for each army, because I’ve painted a ton of these now. Up first, my Ariadna army. These guys are a sort of low tech, American, French, Russian, Scottish,  mix on a backwoods planet. So I went for a sort of GI Joe theme. I try to tie the whole army together by using a similar design on the base too. So basically Ariadna looks like Alabama. Red dirt, lots of plants. (that’s mostly real moss, foam flock, and white glue)

Oh yeah. And they have space werewolves. That’s Steve’s Writer Nerd Game Night character. His request? Idris Elba-Space Werewolf. As a GM, how could I possibly say no to that?

This link team was an experiment in camo patterns. These guys were speed painted in one night, probably two hours for the whole group (not counting zenithal priming, and green base coat from air brush, obviously) but the flecktarn effect still looks pretty good. I used little bits of blister foam to get the patterns. I think I might go back and clean these guys up with better armor and gun shading to do them justice.

These I took more time on. They’re Spetsnaz, so I had to do all those little stripes. The middle fig is actually from a different army, but I painted him up as Ariadna because he fit the RPG I’m running. That’s the infamous mobster Krasnov. 🙂 (i.e. my silliest bad accent RPG character)

and the back on these so you can get the full detail of all those darned little red free hand stars.

The guys above I took a little bit of time on. The armor on the left is actually all done with washes over zenithal priming and came out pretty neat. The R stands for Rocko. 🙂 BECAUSE THAT’S HOW WINNIN’ GETS DONE. Sorry. Writer Nerd Game Night inside joke.

Space Scots. Same camo flecktarn sponge pattern. Tartan stripes are a lot of work on somebody who is 28mm tall.

Briscard link team. Mountain troops, so I kind of wanted an alpine color vibe. Skipped the camo. The grays actually work really good on the table top.

And below, because I forgot to leave a space for words when I was posting these pics, a few misc, another pain the butt kilt on Space William Wallace there, but the shotgun girl came out really good. The rescue guy with the ax, I tried various color washes on the coat, but he came out kind of muddy.

The Portuguese smuggler (I kid you not) came out pretty good. The orange stripe is because that’s a wet suit under the armor. The Call of Duty skull mask on the next guy, meh… It didn’t come off the way I hoped. And then I’m not sure why the Russian armored guy pointing ended up with what looks like a Star Fleet logo on his shoulder, but it was one of the first minis I was experimenting on with this army and I wasn’t sure on free hand for them yet.

Above. A really big gun. You know that dude is going to end up on disability with back problems.

Below, the first minis I painted for this army, experimenting and looking for a scheme. Notice that the later ones had a lot more use of color. The problem with painting realistic camo patterns on a 28mm miniature is that from eyeball distance on a table, they just look muddy. You need more splashes of color than you would have in real life to give them some visual contrast and pop.

And of course, Vivian James, because Ariadna would totally be in GamerGate. The medic I’m kind of meh on the paint job. His face is smooshed.

And the group shot.

I saw an interview this morning. Fifteen minutes after reading this, I’d written a song in honor of Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame being added to the growing list of artists sick of bossy Social Justice Warriors. I present to you the song:

Bullets Are Scary So I’m Triggered But Butterfly Wings Are Okay (as long as they aren’t Sexist Butterflies)

Social Justice is a vampire, sent to drain
creative freedom, Twitter mobs go up in flames
What do artists get, for their pain ay ain?
Pajama boy desires! And blue haired games
Even though we know-I suppose we’ll show
If this doesn’t rhyme, it’s ‘cause you’re racist!
Duh duh duh duh dun
Despite all my rage I’m still just a land whale on Twitter!
Despite all my rage I’m still just a land whale on Twitter!
Once artistic freedom is lost it can never be saved
Despite all my rage I’m still just a land whale on Twitter!
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!
You gave in. Now we own you,
but can you fake it, for just one more Hugo?
And what do you want? To be left alone.
But what have you got?
When your books are lame
Even though social justice knows
you can’t win and it shows
a cold wind blows
DUN DUN DUN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!
Despite all my rage I’m still just a land whale on Twitter!
Despite all my rage I’m still just a land whale on Twitter!
Once artistic freedom is lost it can never be saved
Despite all my rage I’m still just a land whale on Twitter!
(Insert cool guitar Riff here!)
Tell me I’m the social justice one. Tell me there’s no free ones
Che Guevara is our favorite son
Tell me I’m the social justice one. Tell me there’s no Wrong Fun
And all the good reviews go to yoooooooouuuuuuuu
Despite all my rage I’m still just a land whale on Twitter
Despite all my rage I’m still just a land whale on Twitter
Once artistic freedom is lost it can never be saved
Despite all my rage I’m still just a land whale on TWIIIIIIITEEEER