Ex-terminate!

 …wait, wrong franchise.

So, I watched the first Terminator movie while wrapping presents last week, and watched T2 while prepping veg on Christmas Eve, and so I dug out these minis to get my numbers up by the end of the year:

Terrible pictures, unfortunately, as I didn’t manage to get pictures dome while there was still natural light available. 

These were great fun to paint, and look great after just a base coat and a dark wash, let alone going back to add some scrubby highlights! I actually messaged a pal that I know has a Necron army asking if painting them was as much fun as this…

These were originally part of a bit lot of old Grenadier minis that I acquired many years ago (potentially the first time the Tally got absolutely wrecked) and were in pretty shaky shape - one guy had a missing arm, that I cunningly disguised as battle damage by the addition of some paperclip hydraulics, whereas another two were actually snapped off at the feet and needed some very careful drilling and pinning to get them back on their feet as it were.

Quite a few of them got skulls on their bases too, as one of the most iconic images from the franchise is the human skull being crushed by a robotic foot (and apparently the future is absolutely littered with them).

Theoretically I should have stuck these on 30mm bases, if I was going to use them with my post-apocalyptic survivors, but I went with 25mm rounds instead as they’re most likely to actually see play in Stargrave as generic robots. ‘Wait, Stargrave?’ I hear you ask - you’ll have to wait for a future post that talks about projects for next year…

Finishing these 8 brings the Tally to:

47 vs wait it’s been Christmas, I got the Barons War starter set:

Which is chock full of little knights and whatnot, so the Tally actuslly stands at:

47 vs 309 = -262

What’s next? At least 5 more finished minis before New Year’s Eve I hope to hit that Challenge!