19 November 2023

November Minis


A little bit of a shift going on in ZeroTwentythreeLand.

As much as I've looked forward to it every year for the past five or six years, I am going to pass on this year's Old World Army Challenge. There's just too much in flux, and although I have melodramatically struggled the past few years in my monthly entries, 2023 was honestly very difficult and a bit of a let down for me. The OWAC is meant to be a challenge, but also fun. I also feel like I didn't keep up with everyone else's projects very much, which is usually half the enjoyment. I also feel that my current interests diverge from the "Oldhammer" canon.

I've mentioned in some of my recent entries, I will instead be pursuing my own monthly challenge in order to help push me over the edge for some sci-fi solo gaming, hence the Five Months From Painted Factions challenge. I am actually off to a really good start.


Per previous entries, the goal is to start playing some Five Parsecs solo games in my own "Alt Trader" sci-fit setting. To help facilitate that, I will try to frantically paint figures for some of the many factions in Five Parsecs, as well as some terrain each month to provide me with a decent table to actually plat some games!

Thus... I now have the Soulless faction completed. I forget who originally started these sculpts/range, but Heresy Miniature picked up the ones that were previously available, added a couple to the set and started casting them a year or more ago. I had two of the ten and the figures were exactly what I wanted. So I bought a couple packs from Heresy and finally got them painted. My own concept in my Five Parsecs/Alt Trader setting is that they are a former security team who got sick of the corporate shit and have gone off on their own.



Speaking of going off on their own, I painted this chaos renegade-ish figure from Satyr Arts. I liked the idea of a renegade sister from the merc. company I have (barely) started, so tried to keep a similar color scheme. Such a cool, old-school figure. Drew Williams (sculptor) always seems right on target with his "Oldhammer" sculpts. This one is a great tribute to one of the original RT figures.



Speaking of Oldhammer, this little orange guy will serve as a... I don't know. Little space blob sidekick?



Each month I will attempt to figure out and prep/paint some sort of terrain so I can actualy start playing some games!! Here's the latest, some barely modified segments from a "mini brands" type sphere, plus a cap from some feminine shaving cream with some miscellaneous plastic bits added on. Hopefully looks like some sort of small scale radiation harvester set-up or equally vague sci-fi-B.S. ;) 




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  1. The orange guy should be an objective. He probably poops the element used to power a spaceship.

    I really dig how your 'radiation harvesters' turned out. Do you have a picture of what the original trash (trash bash) was? Did you need to cut it, or just pull it apart?

    The satyr minis look really good. I've been a bit of a sucker for ordering his stuff, and then the next thing comes out and i want that too!

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    1. The radiation harvesters are segments of the spherical containers from "Mini Brands" toys. You unwrap the sphere, break open the five segments and find little toys (like doll accessory size) inside each one. Then Dad takes the plastic segments and painted then for his own "minis" :)

      I'm the same way with the Satyr stuff, but I have been resisting new purchases for at least a little while. (Last I bought were the Slann...)

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  2. I have had several of those same shaving cream caps kicking around for... er.. over 25 years? They do look the part though!

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