The Bones Kickstarters have been getting steadily better. They have always been good value for money but the quality of the first Bones KS was very low. The sculpts were good but the Bones Material itself was poor. It was floppy, hydrophobic, and barely usable.
Bones II saw a large upgrade in quality. The hydrophobic properties of the material were well understood by this time and there seems to have been some change in the formula that both gave stiffness to the models and improve paint adhesion. Also structurally important sections of models, especially larger ones, were further stiffened with a type of hard plastic.
This shipping container is from the Bones II Kickstarter and in made of a hard plastic. Unlike the softer materials found in the furniture of products like Mantic's Star Saga this had zero warping and holds its shape. It required no clean up other than a wash.
I used blue masking tape to create some white spaces and sprayed the unprimed model with Krylon Camoflage Green. The Green area was then washed with Sewer Water (Secret Weapon).
Tape was removed and the White areas were painted directly with Graveyard Bone (Reaper) and the whole thing sealed with Krylon Clear Satin finish.
I then used some extra decals from Atenociti's Workshop's Fast Panda to create a supply chain for my favorite Undertown Fast Food Franchise!
After the decals were applied and solvaset into the textures I weathered the container with areas of Brown Rust (Secret Weapon), Engine Metal (Secret Weapon) and some targeted washes of Seraphim Sepia (GW). A few details were hand painted in and the thing sealed with Krylon Clear Satin.
The Techies from Star Saga wrapped up at the same time. The Star Saga miniatures have been surprisingly fun to paint. I think I like the classic sci-fi look of them... as contrasted with the Grimdark stuff I so frequently paint. Don't get me wrong! I loves me some Grimdark... but its really been fun stepping outside of it and still being firmly in sci-fi territory. I think Undertown will be seeing a lot of traffic from the miniatures of this range in future!
Some size comparisons. The container is pretty large so it can give full cover to some monsters and vehicles. As you can see this container has been vandalized by the Free Bruxx Network!
The Bruxx are a complex race of Uplifted Rats from the Serene Dawn RPG setting that I work on sporadically. I'll have to source some sci-fi Ratmen soon. I *may* have some here somewhere... but I'm always on the lookout for more great sculpts!
The container can fit a 5 model squad inside. I love models that have usable interior spaces. Too bad this one is full of Plague victims!
Here is the container flipped onto its side... ya never know right? So I weathered it a bit further to simulate forklift incidental damage, wear and tear from dragging etc...
Hopefully tomorrow will see the completion of some more Dark Souls minis and construction started on some ADMech, a peddlar to fleece the Jailbirds, and some Twisted Dickensians.
Build it!
Paint it!
Play it!
Cheers,
Swelter
